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think bill lived over in south gate
Jeff, thanks to your mom for taking these photos and a big thanks to you for posting them. My dad Hans Thomsen knew your dad well and they were...
Ford (Europe) used to have available an intake that had the two & three intake runners entering the plenum at the outside. 1 and 4 entered at the...
Dore Ford on Greenleaf uptown. Urich Motors at Greenleaf & the Blvd.
I remember them both. I used to live just the other side of the tracks on Mina Ave on inside corner just behind Ranchers Pie & Supply. That was...
I used to work the midnite shift at that shell station at the corner of whittier blvd & santa gertrudes
my son has a 53 chrysler town & country wagon, flathead 6. as you work on yours we would like to keep up to date on your progress as well as the...
amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
best recollection yet of those times on the Blvd. high # and a 1Y, out of cal hi in 69 married since
was this track along whittier blvd, west side between washington blvd & , well let's say penn st? or thereabouts? i recall my dad taking us boys...
you are correct. street rods was at the corner of ocean view & whittier-southeast corner.norm samuels ran it. i had a muffler shop just a...
i did the same on a car in owned back in the early 70's. i wouldn't want to screw in a steel shaft into the aluminum trans. properly secured the...
A 1960 Ford wagon, 3 on the tree. Aced the parallel parking segment! (much to the dismay of my Mom who didn't want me to drive at all)
i was turning my 2000 about 7000 and on the shift to 3rd the friction disc flew apart and took out EVERYTHING between the back of the block & the...
The Garlits place in Ocala, Florida is a top notch trip down memory lane. I highly recommend it to ANYONE even remotely inerested in the history...
garlits at lions and dick landy's 1st altered wheelbase dodge (at lions)and wild willie and the winged foot express (one arm draped over the side)...
I must agree. Friggin awesome.
was a WD for them in the 70's but not owned by Doug then. At that time the plant was over on Telegraph in Commerce (i think) just a bit west of...
that name rings a bell & i am sorry to hear that.
middle 60's thru middle 70's on Whittier Blvd
i met norm samuels sometime around 1974. he was bringing the occasional car into the shop to get some pipes / mufflers hung so he could sell the...
Bryan does yourdad still have that old mustang? I bent some pipes for it a a few decades ago!
i remember the Custom House fer sure!!!
when i was there it was Champion Muffler. Jack Lufkin owned it then I took it over for a while
now that you mention it, i think it was a guy named rich manuse (spelling?)
In my experience it was from '65 thru the early 70's. that was when i was active but the scene was happening , I'm sure, long before that. I...
i know john. haven't seen him for a looooooonnnnnnggggg time. good luck to you john!
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