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So I got this 34 Chevy Master coupe that doesn't have a gas tank. The only tanks I can find for a 34 say they don't fit the Master. I can't find...
I just got a 34 Chevy Master 5W coupe that's partially finished. I have several 60's cars but this is my first street rod and I don't where to...
I have a few, I was pretty young when we started going to George Rays in Paragould. I remember when a guy with a 60 El Camino out ran my uncles 67...
I spent 20 years as a 462.
I used to work with a guy who had lost part of his finger because he held it over the cap and some solvent got blown into a cut. It got infected...
We've been married 27 years and my wife went with me the last 10 of my Air Force career. While we were in Germany, we spent at least one weekend a...
Here's our old 65, it was bought new by my father-in-laws cousin. Her ex-husband was trying to turn it into a drag car and ran out of money. They...
I have a 53 F-600 with a Mercury flathead and 4 speed; I'd like to use the motor in my 28 sedan. Will the bell housing work with any other...
We have a 63 Impala bench seat car with a 409 and 4 speed, it's been almost finished for 10 years. I have a 65 C-80 tractor with the original 409,...
I know the thread is for vehicles you've actually owned but I'm a tax payer, so I owned it, right?
Mach 1+ straight up in an F-15D over Denmark in 1989. It was an incentive ride but I got to steer during some barrel rolls.
Just got back from the Capaha swap meet at Cape. It was damn cold at 6:00, I was done at 8:30 and it was still 21°. Didn't buy anything except a...
Let's try again, I had the picture in the giant economy size version.
We always go to the swap meet at Cape Girardeau that weekend, been going for nearly 20 years. A lot of times we don't buy much but the Saturday is...
Here's our old 55, my wife bought it a few years ago when I was out of town. it has a small block 400 with a 4 speed. Don't hate, we got rid of...
I work for the company that owns "the last lead smelter in the U.S." It's true that the smelter at Herculaneum, Mo. is closing but that isn't...
I learned to drive and shift a John Deere 440 log skidder, it didn't have a synchronized trans so it was tough to learn. I took my drivers test in...
I'd always heard that the sphinx's nose was shot off during WII; if this is from 1850, it makes that story just another legend.
I have a few, a 65 C-80 Chevy tractor with the original 409, 5 speed, 2 spd axle and air brakes; a 63 Impala bench seat 340 hp 409, 4 speed and a...
I forgot to mention, I also have a restored 65 C-80 trailer truck with the original 409, 5 speed and air brakes.
Here is the 65 short bed we built for my wife; 350, 700r4, lowered 4" in back & 3" in front. It has a 72 front cross member with disc brakes, the...
Retired Air Force (1975-95) bomb loader, spent Desert Shield and Storm on Diego Garcia as the NCOIC of the B-52 weapons shop. Mearl
Some 60's cars like the L-79 327 used a line off of the oil fill tube as one end of the PCV system. If you set it up that way, you could keep the...
This frame had already been used in a Model A coupe, so it has small block mounts and the cross member set up. It was also a high boy so it had a...
I guess I'll cop out and run a small block chevy. I have a Mercury flathead but I don't want to spend the money on it, I have too many projects...
I bought a frame for my 28 sedan last weekend and I'm looking for what I want to do with it.I want to make a traditional, fendered street rod....
If you do manage to get the piece of the easy out out, you can get the stud out by drilling all the way through it, then use a torch and cut the...
Can you use a stock Model A front spring with an aftermarket dropped axle?
Oops, sorry about the rat rod thing. I just meant that it's more acceptable now to not have a $5000 dollar paint job and a chrome chassis. I'm not...
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