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Make it a 2 door.. Eliminate the C pillar and move the B pillar back.. And maybe give a bit of a slant.. RustyPile
I couldn't agree more.. I get so amused when this subject comes up.. Unless you're doing a numbers matching restoration, it doesn't matter very...
You're both wrong.. All you need is a refrigerator.. RustyPile
I grew up around people with physical handicaps. My wife is so deaf that if a freight train pulled and parked beside her, she'd never hear a...
My Mom died when I was 19 years old.. My Dad left this earth 4 years later.. Neither of them got to see their grandchildren. My Dad didn't leave...
Back in the late '50s, early '60s, Tony Fasulo's Paint and Body Shop in Beaumont owned and sponsored a '57 Chevy C/Gas car. They ran regularly at...
I suspect one of those master cylinders is for the clutch... RustyPile
Sam Cunningham.. Engine builder extraordinair.. Record holding drag racer of national caliber.. My friend and mentor..
Looks like we have a spammer in our mist.. {EDIT} The spammer's membership has been revolked so I scrambled the link to his site..
Well it's good that you've found the problem.. I kinda doubted that you had a bearing clearance problem.. Most automotive machine shops know how...
You said you plastiguaged the bearings, but you didn't post the numbers.. You also stated you used 30w breakin oil.. If your clearances are on the...
All my projects start out as a .........
I never in my wildest dreams, thought that the car would be around as long as it has.. Shane was born the year I bought the car.. Ever since he's...
Absolutely right!!, if it had to be a hen... Seventeen minutes for a rooster, they run faster... RustyPile
That ain't all.. She was diagnosed with cancer while in her 40's.. Kicked it's raunchy ass straight into remission where it stayed. She taught me...
Check your inbox, I sent you a PM.. RustyPile
Him: How did you make that thing run so fast?? Me: I took a sharp knife and cut most of the slow off of it.... RustyPile
Our Nomad has been in the family for almost 44 years.. My father-in law, my wife, both my kids who are grown and have their own kids, and myself...
You guys nailed the engine.. Those old bad ass sbc 283 - 301s had that same "pu-TA-tu, pu-TA-tu, pu-TA-tu" sounding idle.. That distinct sound...
I raced dirt track race cars in the 60s and 70s.. I built a .040 over 327 in 1971 and raced it 2 seasons and then set it "under the bench" for a...
While I was in the military '64, '65, '66, three of my high school buddies were racing a 57 Pontiac at the local dirt tracks.. They wrote me...
Okay... Who moved the trailer?? RustyPile
Pie are round, cake are square..
The wife and I had just moved into our new house.. I was out in the garage building the frame for my new race car and the neighbor showed up.....
The neighbors quit loving you the day after you moved into that neighborhood. Mini choppers, go karts, and now a full race stock car engine - all...
Jeff, The stance is due more to "relaxed" front springs.. The car came originally with power steering, Air conditioning, a powerglide...
The car was originally a 283/powerglide.. It came originally with Treddlevac power brakes. At some time before I got the car, the brakes were...
A little more history about the car.. I come from a family with a lot of aunts and uncles on my mother's side of the family. My mother had...
My wife and I are equal partners in our business.. Been at it a little over 15 years.. The pays sucks but the benefits are out of this world.. We...
I lived in Austin from late 1985 'til mid '88 and I worked just down the street from Boot's shop.. I spent lots of lunch hours with the guy and he...
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