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Get some white letter tires and use a grinder to carefully grind or sand down to the white, it is already there on raised white wall tires. It is...
A quality shop will give you quality chrome that does not need to be treated in any way. Waxing your chrome every time you wax your car and drying...
Here is a slideshow of our Half Fast Wagon in progress. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5saVbHh4kmc
We just made a panel wagon out of a '58 Ford Country Sedan Wagon and I have good glass for the rear sides from than. I suspect they are the same....
I traded out some stuff for unknown condition flat heads I sold them all for $300 each and got about $500 in trade for the '48 merc engine. I am...
Not me, I only have 20 or so unfinished cars. I do have a few that my wife would consider unfinished, we can't quite get to an agreement about...
I made an aquaintance with an employee at a Central Texas Crusher. He will give me a call when a customer brings him a car that has to have the...
Not sure this one counts just yet, but it is a Mercury. Can't help that is looks a LOT like a Ford. There is a cruel difference between a '48 and...
You can braze to pot metal. The trick is to remove all the active iron. I use an electrolysis process that I use for rust removal. First I wash...
Got the engine and it is interesting. We are going to clean it up and see what it will need, but it seems to be buildable. Now I need to figure...
We are building a 58 Ford Sedan Delivery from a 58 Country Sedan Wagon. We are building it to drive and want power steering. I have some PS parts...
Well, I'm no expert (hope to be one day) but here is a hand made body that I would think anybody would be interested in building. Yes, it was a...
That sounds like a good time and a great cause. Looking forward to seeing the new digs.
You know, it's odd, but all of my old project cars have a bill of sale dated September 2006....... If you purchased the car before October of 2006...
We just had to butcher a rear drum on a '53 Imperial so that we could remove it. We learned something and would like to learn a bit more. First...
I am working on building out a property to become an automotive hobby shop. This is modeled on the kind of hobby shop that you may be familiar...
Hi I am a car hobbiest in Austin, Texas. I have a shop full of cars and need to learn about focus. I guess that I can't die until all these...
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