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Wound up taking 10 from Venice to San B and then 15 on up to Vegas. The '62 Bus chase vehicle gave up the first time just a few miles past...
I'm looking for any opinions on the best route to dive an old flathead Merc from the LA/Santa Monica area to VLV22 in Vegas in a couple of weeks....
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Set of factory caps from a 1953 Merc wagon build that we didn't use. Beautiful condition. Fit 15" steel wheels. $350 OBO more specific pics on...
well, try this one. Free stuff for '53 Merc https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/free-stuff-for-53-merc.1066084/ If that still doesn't...
I'll be cutting the floors out and scrapping the rest. Check the post for pics and let me know what you need....
[ATTACH] Whiskey bottle. There's always plenty of them laying around by the end of a build.
1953 Ford inline six from an F100 truck 215 punched out to 223 Total rebuild in 2007 Good long block, cracked head. Head is removed, engine is...
Every chance I get. I still work and commute during the week but when I'm home I don't watch tv or hunt or fish. My shop is my "happy place" I go...
Ok here's the deal. I picked up a 1953 Ford F100 with a total frame-off resto including full machine shop engine rebuild. It had been driven a few...
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Just had the same problem on another old car. Same scenario. What wound up being the problem for me was the clear filter. It was clogging with...
[ATTACH] 215 cam on the left, 223 cam on the right
I'm going through the woes of working on one now in a '53 F100. Be very careful with the cam. Mine had two totally flat lobes (< .250 lift) and my...
That doesn't look that hard to make. Tack weld a piece of angle iron the same length to keep your end links correctly oriented and then cut out...
Texas57, the Merc is a Monterey and the only real wood was around the decals on the sides and back. There wasn't any inside like the original...
Thanks for the info guthriesmith, I'll check out the okie HAMBers. I picked up the F-100 from a guy who had restored it back in '06 and drove it...
Hello all. I've been on the HAMB for a while but I just "discovered" this group. Good info on here. Currently working on a couple of Ford projects...
Damn! That color is nice, what is it?
Wow, that's commitment. Definitely looking good though. If you still fancy a cross country trip in a flathead Merc, I have just the one you need...
Damn that's clever.
Looks like a Whippet to me
Jagermeister bottle. Cheap, plentiful, and already green
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