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Railtons are interesting, Hudson 8 running gear with a British body, they’re as quick as a Bentley from the period [ATTACH]
Wet sand (say 1500 grit) with a block followed by polish, be gentle. Take it steady and you’ll be fine, way less chance of damaging the paint than...
Bushes pressed in [ATTACH]
Inserts welded into both arms to take the single round rear Mercury/Galaxie bush. I went for the rear instead of the front Galaxie bush as it...
Cant find a Vignale pic, but here is a what I think is a 250 Pininfarina Special at Bonneville in '59...
You can get converters to run any gauge with any sender, I did think that your range would be outside of the parameters they work at but this one...
Are you sure you’ve got those readings right? Fuel senders are usually in the couple of hundred ohms range.
Are you using the correct in port?
N2630 [IMG] From the Petersen Archive...
From the NY Times 26th August 1959: Thompson set a single way record for an American of 332.809 on 25 August...
View master windows too.
The timing stand pic says “EX219” on it, the article says they only ran it on 8-10 September and then it rained on the 12th. Which backs up your...
Can’t help directly with the Goodyear shoot but according to this article the MG team arrived in Wendover and ran EX219 on 8th September but Phil...
They were Lambert Discs if I remember correctly and were standard fit on Imperials for a few years. They’re not like the Dunlop style disc brakes...
Wasn’t British Leyland in 1959, it was British Motor Corporation that was later bought by Leyland. British Pathe has loads of news reels;...
Make a great race car hauler.
How it’d have looked originally [ATTACH]
I think that’s an aftermarket crash box gearset from the likes of Doug Nash, Liberty etc. in a T10 case I believe the Super Brute was an all...
Great write up, the wet pic is fab. When you out next @ukgav ?
@T. Turtle great result on the inspection. You can start using it more now
If what you say is true, go find a lawyer and process it through legal means. Coming on here with hearsay and accusations of theft won’t do your...
I think it’s actually brown/maroon paint.
Same colour as the body.
Cosworth GAA, OHC conversion of the Ford V6. Used in Group 2 Capris. [ATTACH]
Decided to get on with hopefully the last bit that’s causing the woolly front end, lower arm bushes. The Merc ones are silly money so copying...
I’d go with the liner. I’m unlucky and everytime I go for what seems the cheaper option (like using the second block) it turns out more expensive!!!
It’s either oil or material, Comp are reasonably trustworthy I think. I wonder how hard the tip is. Can you scratch the top of the valve?
Who made the rockers?
The longer bolt goes in the pedestal that has the oil feed, the hole for it in the head is deeper as the top is chamfered and has the oil feed...
Ive circuit raced vintage cars with mechanical brakes and they can be very good, I have no issue driving them on the road. Their problems are...
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