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I agree, and it will be passed on to his grandson.
Just a hunch but I wonder if it was a failed exercise. It only lasted a short time and maybe it was as troublesome as all the servo-motors on the...
Oh! Pretty Woman
Not mine but I do have my FIL’s bench vise project that he made at Tilden Technical High School on Chicago’s south side in 1943. The students did...
Godspeed Tony Brock. Your grandfather sounds like he was a great guy and was friends with some of the pioneers of the sport.
For me the dislike began some time ago. Some good tech writers were fired, some had moved on and some were just plain dolts. And if that wasn’t...
I’m a non- subscriber but I’d like to comment anyway. They lost their way long ago, I thumbed through the latest issue at the supermarket the...
Uh, oh, you are absolutely correct, my reading comprehension of the information I posted was extremely poor. I should proofread what I post.
I imagine it means that it was ‘68 when he did his 656th set since the start of the business.
Next time you go there check to see if you can find a bin numbered V7 (or V something), I think that may have been a location, not a part number....
I think so too, but I wonder why the iron Saginaw four speed was used for the mock up.
What is the ‘glass sports car on the back of that Mack B Model? [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Harry Miller’s 45* six, you can see the inclined crankcase at the right, the centrifugal blower with its intercooler sticking up above...
When I started at EMD, GM’s locomotive division in 1971 there were still quite a few women there working as machine operators, armature winders,...
You older guys will remember the orange and black Dorman Products drawers that the old auto parts stores had. There were a lot of good fasteners,...
Fair enough, and as I said nothing compares to an OEM or Borgeson box.
Correct^ And looking at the top of the frame just to the front of the firewall you should see a star character followed by 18 and then the actual...
Lower photo, that’s a ‘57 El Dorado that got hit.
Gary Cagle on left, sponsor Chet Herbert on the right. Gary later had a killer Modified Roadster with a tiny 299” hemi, probably a DeSoto?
I try to be objective and not nitpick things but here’s what I see. I mean this to be constructive so don’t take my comments the wrong way....
Yes, it was a clever way to take some weight off the front of your ‘54 Ford gas class car that a ‘glass tilt front end wasn’t available for.
Two things to be aware of, first photo shows the serial number range for a ‘34 and the second shows the new font for the 1 and 9 characters that...
Godspeed Gene, you will live on in our memories and hearts. Not only very talented but also a caring, giving man from what I’ve learned from...
I had some doubts too but I googled Posies last night and that part number came back as being from them. I didn’t think they would stand for...
Very interesting, I’m not aware of any similar efforts here in the U.S. to set records like that.
Thanks for posting that, I always appreciate learning more ‘32 history.
Wow! An exceptional deal in this day and age. ^
Ford’s Iron Mountain plant. Henry had extensive lumber holdings on the UP, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Initially Iron Mountain made shipping...
Norm on the right with his brother Lenny, and Gary Dyer behind the wheel of Norm’s ‘64 car.
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