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You lost me on that one. I believe we are talking about builds. "2. Projects - Essentially, this prefix is reserved for build threads."
I agree, those covers were really important. Without the covers, the sweeping curved look was gone. Pretty cool concept, appropriate for the times.
Yea, hard to beat Mick's old Merc/Datsun front end. But what happened? They must have run out of tweed, you know that dash should have been...
Amen 2! I think this might bring more old custom members back. After a while, you just got tired of comments like "the Matador is fugly", then...
Wow is right. It really looks smooth, very well done.
Good point on welding the fenders to the windshield posts. I had not thought of that because I didn't do that detail. I have the stock hood...
If you have to remove the front end, you just get your trusty 4" cutoff wheel and make a cut where your rocker panel is welded to your front...
the stock dip appears to be at the same spot where the "fat fender car" turns into a slab sided car. That little one in the back doesn't have a...
Yea, that's the one. Just waiting for a wild interior design with that wide open look. I never saw the front end pics, that's pretty wild, molded...
There's a four door Merc you guys did which might no be radical looking from the outside. But both of the doors on the side of the car opened and...
Maybe but I've had good luck with power M/C and those are big 11" diameter drums.
Heard someone mention those economy pieces before. I'm using "rear pieces" on my front fender, but they are pointed shaped, not squared off like...
People are erroneously swapping the upright and spindle together. You are correct this is wrong for the caster/kingpin motion. Imagine the axle...
Congrats, sounds like you are making good progress. I remember some film or something where they demonstrate how to park with the big steering...
I had an electric fan that you could flip the blade assembly around. To change from pusher to puller and vice versa.
Cool build pics, like the old hamb. You know what, I think there was a camera distortion on the early pics of the top chop. It doesn't look...
I had the same experience. My uncle had a few Mercs, almost new. When he drove into town 20 miles away he saw maybe 4 other cars on the road...
I'm understanding why everyone channeled their cars in those days.
I remember bringing in my kingpins to the machine shop at work. The shop foreman put it in one of those presses, where you press a button and you...
I think the 29 ford body is like a horseless carriage compared to the Lopez coupe. But that chassis, at least outwardly, doesn't look much...
Before the internet, I think if your car was in a car magazine that was one way. Another would be if it won top honors at a prestigious car show...
I couldn't open up that link. I remember now we're talking apples and oranges. The old thread was about a rod that was almost a daily driver. It...
I tried searching for the thread. I found some related threads but guess what, they all were talking about the company that supposedly pioneered...
They sure have developed billet wheels, that thin lip on the edge of the rim sure looks like stamped steel to me. butwhat do i know, don't keep...
Holly smokes, was that T bird buried half way in some dirt field??
The car looks good, especially the top. Looks like the last shop took and flattened the rear half of the roof, which it needed. You're doin a...
I've seen those brass ones, finished up as one continuous chromed piece, Looks really clean, no clips. I rebent my stainless per Steadman's...
As some of you are in sales and marketing, you know the public can be manipulated. So it's the fifties and we are "used to" squarish, fined,...
Ha Ha, I'm just guessing that's what you did, from staring at your pics. Yea, more lead the better, makes your car lower.
Nice work, I see you rotated the B pillar at the crease where the straight B pillar meets the rounded top of the main door. Nice and flat B...
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