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Welcome. Keep us posted on that truck.
[ QUOTE ] any one out there lost or owed money by boyd ? [img] [/ QUOTE ] Not really....it was more like he just wasted a lot of my company's...
[ QUOTE ] big woop. if it were mine I'd sell it to some dickless joe and buy an Ardun setup, you know, something with balls. Paul [/ QUOTE...
Hmmmmm, that's interesting. My girlfriend works for Edmunds.com, so she usually gets the lowdown on all those concepts. Haven't heard her mention...
Got nailed doing 90 in a 65 3 years ago. Cop cut me a break and wrote it up as 75. Did the online traffic school. Finished it up in about 2 hours,...
I don't know....that was their first issue. Plus they've got links on their website about people contributing articles and photos and what not, so...
I don't know much about this, because I'm no painter. My idea of a paint job (if I'm doing it myself) is to roll the car out in the middle of a...
Oh man...that sucks. I must have missed the post on that one. What happened? At least you can salavage it. I knew a guy with an 31 Ford that met...
I had the same problem. I bought a nylon block, (can get those from any GOOD hardware store) and ground a radius that matched the inside corner of...
Man....it sure is nice here in SoCal [img]
Nice, real nice. How about a close up of that flatty. I'd like to see what your running.
My pop is 63, went through 3 really bad marriages, 4 car wreaks, a year in jail, and fines up the ass all thanks to the bottle. Plus his 5 kids...
Good point there Satin. I knew a feller that had a 52 Merc. It was posted in a few different mags. The body was straight. Decent work. O.K. paint....
Here's a good site about that: http://www.pacificsun.ca/~alsch/electrolyticrust.html It won't matter how big your battery charger is. It only...
Sorry Gasser....I think you're SOL. The only other "easy" thing you could do is measure your intake, or the mounting holes in the head if you...
Check out this site. They sell NOS and used Buick parts. They have a 41 thru 42 Special/Super dual carb setup (I'm guessing that includes both the...
Not to step on your toes or anything there Scotch [img], but the 248 motors were actually introduced in 1937 and were continuously built until...
Man, what the shit is up with everyone getting thier vehicles ganked lately? Fuckin' sucks man.
I think I was the one that started the other thread a couple weeks back, but who knows? If you found one, chances are it's for the 320. I That...
And another to keep it up at the top. Can't say that I'll expect it to come rolling home, but the best of luck to you. I'd be pissed as all hell...
Did some church lose it's pipe organ for that, or what? Nice...real nice.
Another cheap and "period correct" method is chromate finishing. It's a thin acidic chemical conversion layer that bonds to the base material....
[ QUOTE ] Nickle is a sublayer in most chrome applications. The nickle provides the "shine". Chrome is applied over the nickle in order to protect...
The cat pissed on it?! Man... and I was going to bid on it too. Fuck!
Don't know if they have them back east, but over here in California, they have a discount grocery type of store called the .99 Cent store....
I don't know of any sites off hand that talk about custom manifold fabrication. It's such an easy set up though, that I can't imagine it being too...
What series do you have? If you have the smaller Special Engines, they're pretty hard to come by. As far as I know, there weren't any aftermarket...
Sat: Slept, got up, went to the junkyard for anything that could be used on the 52, yanked out a flasher unit, went home, installed flaser plug,...
Damn John, you're pretty handy with a keyboard. Thanks man!
Cool choice for the mil! I actually tossed around the idea of building a blown Buick 215 and putting that in my 52 Special. Looks like a fun project.
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