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Only thing better than oven cleaner is more oven cleaner, it seems. No-Name-O spray-lye for a dollar a can ends up being a decent value. I've...
Good on ya. Found mine many years ago all bent up, a 390 so neglected and ill-maintained even after several days of vatting steel rods needed to...
Thanks, that actually works fine as I will be doing the assembly. Unfortunately the swing to Alamagordo is not in the cards. Like that place,...
Time was any town with a thousand folks would have at least one good shop...that was then. Most all the shops here went dirt-nap or switched to...
Thanks, Ron!
Cloudcroft, cool place, been through there a few times. When the weather is nutsy-hot everywhere else, it's nice there. Yes, R2, if you could...
Thanks, man.
Thanks, Terrible. I'll put them on the list.
Folks- got a '56 272 Y-Block to rebuild and out here in the boonies of W TX there are no good shops. Client occasionally travels to El Paso for...
That's the truth. Ma-a-a-an. Thanks for the kind words, Mister Ryan.
Sehr gut! Hope it served as a dandy shop rag- HAMB shirts are touted primarily for their absorbency.
You should also kick yourself for not stopping in Marathon as a real true Knowbody lives there.
Hello, Looking for a derelict but useful '59 Biscayne/Bel Air/Impala w/an intact front bumper/pan in West Texas- got one? If you're getting...
Eckler's are bums, full stop.
Yep- those clowns. Thought your problem was familiar. I'm working on a '59 Biscayne for a client, and dealt with Eckler's. What a slipshod...
I read a worthwhile account a day or so back of that very thing- a fellow robbed a rear wiper motor and control unit from a Jeep Cherokee and...
Negative, doggone it, even after obtaining parts to rebuild the fuel/vac pump, rebuilding the pump and replumbing the system, only to see the...
I like the way you think- the manual fakeout is hilarious. Distracto The Magician! First couple go-rounds I used Sil-Glide- the stuff is...
Evidently what she needs is to place glass shards under my eyelids. I'm to the point now where I can dis/reassemble a vacuum wiper motor in my...
Thanks, guys. I'll pass on the kind words to the old tub, it'll make her feel special. I think she will stay more-or-less stock- her garagemate...
[ATTACH] After yanking the doggone thing apart in early November- searching for a miss resulted in one Rocket motor disassembled and slowly...
Right-o. Thanks!
Rick's, thank you. I'm going to make a list. Crane is closer than Odessa which is nice. Joyflea, thanks, I'd like that. I haven't doped out...
Really? I'm 30 miles to your east in Marathon.
Howdy do, Got a Ford FE block that needs boring and cam bearings and at least one Olds 324 Rocket head with issues, but here in the sticks of the...
Hey Lucky, Ryan, Ray, Jeffrey, Miker, John, Tim and all you'un's: Thanks for the kind words. I'm still around, still getting little colored...
I remember reading these last year, and unless I'm mistaken these are not from high school students, but university students. I think that serves...
Man...Or Astro-Man.
Beautiful work, one and all. For Vaphead's new enterprise, Riley Automotive. you recognize the car. should be in T-shirt form soon. Acrylic...
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