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You can probably get another 20% of HP out of the stock heads with port matching, mild porting and 3 angle valve job. Later Chrysler products had...
Carnation milk is the best in the land Here I sit with a can in my hand No tits to pull, no hay to pitch Just punch a hole in the sonofabitch
I knew a guy who had 4 PBYs in his back yard. All gone now. One went to a museum in Campbellford, they may know where you can find some spare...
More on the subject of leather vs vinyl vs cloth Leather comes as hides, vinyl you can buy by the yard, usually 54" wide. If you want to use...
If my memory is correct Carbking said that for a time, Plymouth used Rochester carbs when they couldn't get Carters and these were a much better...
Early Rambler convertibles were made this way. They were one of the first unit construction cars (no frame) and this style of top required little...
Leather is going to cost at least 5X what vinyl will cost. My brother is an upholsterer, he did a love seat about the size of a car bench seat in...
Keep it a 4 door with the door handles shaved of course, but hook the top over the rear door like on an old Chrysler 5th Avenue. [ATTACH]
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Cut the roof down and build a new top Carson style but not removable. Frame with strips of steel, cover with padding and vinyl or canvas top. Like...
Beef up the body and frame before you start cutting. Then it won't flop around on you.
You know you are old when you wake up with your legs stiff and your dick limber.
Family car was a Triumph Mayflower soon to be replaced by a 1947 baby blue Ford coupe. I was 5 years old.
Could be a hundred things starting with 1) engine condition. Tune up starting with compression test. Bad compression and low oil pressure = worn...
I'm sure I have seen a round chrome cap in the plumbing department of the hardware store. Cost only a few bucks. Could be epoxied onto your modern...
I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight... I wish I was doing it with them - Fats Waller
Any oil filter is better than no oil filter. The optional filter for the Chevy six is a bypass type. They are just as effective as the full flow,...
Dean Moon had a 34 Ford coupe with a Studebaker V8 in the early fifties, not long after the Studey debuted. Drove the same car for many years...
The speed equipment industry got going in the 1920s with the building of race cars from Model T, Chevy, Dodge and Essex cars. Dropped axles and...
It should run well enough to at least pull itself on and off a trailer no matter how bad it is, if it ran before. You will need to sort out the...
The heaviest Chrysler products like Imperials, some station wagons and limousines.
Every auto electric shop has a box full of pulleys under the work bench. Your local shop should be able to fit one cheap.
Here in Ontario Canada our registrations were on pink slips like the one in California, in the fifties sixties and seventies. I thought it was...
You can buy corrugated plastic Coroplast sheets at any lumber yard, $34 for a 4X8 sheet . Cut out door panels and fasten them on with Velcro....
Little deuce coupe You don't know what I got (you don't know what I got) Little deuce coupe You don't know what I got Well, I'm not bragging babe,...
He is emphasizing the fact that he owns the car outright, does not owe the finance company.The registration document was wallet sized printed on...
Might be easier to swap out the whole front axle for one from a late model 1 ton truck or delivery van. If the springs are the same distance apart...
I'm the opposite of "puta350init" guy but in this case it might be the best answer.
Do you know what engine you have ? The 261 was available in 1954 in heavy trucks like yours. There is a chance it has one, or that a newer engine...
I changed a six cylinder pickup truck to V8 without changing the rear gears. It had a higher crusing speed and top speed because the short stroke...
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