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Flathead valve seat micrometer......after grinding the valve seats and the sealing surface of the valve it would give you the dimension necessary...
A friendly reminder to all our southern friends.......to afford trouble with Canada Customs, leave your hand guns at home. Canada in general and...
Make sure the liner is captured by the set screw in the diffuser-that is the little brass piece that screws into the goose neck then the tip...
I swear a bunch of you guys must wear at least 2 condoms before you leave the house-you never know!! So tell me if a rumble seat is so dangerous...
Hey Dennis. on the topic of Vancouver area roadster pickups-do you know any history of Lenny McKay's first hot rod? Lenny bought it in about 1963,...
My memory was Ensign was Pacific Chrysler before that I'm not sure. Mazda across from Ensign was a Plymouth dealer (Olsen Lumsten Motors) and...
If you email me (don_miller@telus.net) I can put you in touch with John Beddington the guy that redid the Cal Morrow/Darryl Foster coupe as...
There is nothing wrong with 4 pin Mopar modules, they are as reliable as ANY oem electronic ignition. The most common no start failure other than...
Kevin, I think there's a better chance of our gov't repealing our income tax laws than them funding anything so unpolitically correct as anything...
There is also Stogrin Rd. up there-Mike Stogrin was the original builder of Van Isle.
Didn't Jack have a white '65 Falcon that he ran at Boundry Bay or is oldtimers setting in?
Rory, I would almost quarantee that Dave Wren redlighted in the final to Joniec, I think he has every final at a national his whole career-if you...
The curve on Kilmalu is further down from Telegraph, it could be in a direct line from the hill, I'll look on google again. Saratoga is around...
Trust me it is highly unlikely that any Van Isle reunion would be at Western Speedway there is WAY WAY tomuch bad blood there forty five years...
Butch there is a clearing in the trees just off of Telegraph rd, The name Sangster doesn't ring a bell, but then it has been forty odd years...
And did you know that Jerry Ruth ran his fuel car down the San Cobble cowtrail. Alot of you guys probably have driveways wider.
Van Isle was on the south side of the hiway as you come up the hill out of Mill Bay, as I recall the road was Killmalo. Houses are there now. If...
I was always a Chrysler guy so I didn't pay much attention to much else, but I do remember a black 55/56 T-Bird with a cammer, I can only remember...
Was the Black Bird the one running the SOHC motor?
I was told he sold the car to Dave Wren, who I believe was the original owner, then Lyle, then Jim, back to Dave, sold, repurchased then sold...
Isherwood was still living in Port Alberni, owned the Dave Wren/Lyle Kidd '63 max wedge car when he bought Dave's car.
Kevin does your grandfather's dragster still have the writing inside the front nose? And of course you guy's know that Sowles hemi car is now Jim...
Correct-most of those pictures were taken at Western Speedway in Victoria BC
The two cars in the first picture would have been owned by Ron Ford (Ocean Park Ford-was a Coca Cola quy in Nanaimo at the time) can't remember...
You might try to google John Dutton Photography in Cranbrook BC-he took a load of pictures back in the 60's and 70's
Most of you guys must be too young ! How about Jerry Verhual (sp) Al Swindahl, Rolla Volstedt, Bert Cammak, the Austin family, a load of...
Wonder how I missed this post? Some interesting stories about the Chuckwagon--the twice motored did only use the front motor 'cause he couldn't...
Grip-on is owned by snap-on (purchased in about 1998) Along with the c clamp versions they also make a killer tool for spot welding pinch welds....
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