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My dad told me, what they did in the forties was: they took out the spider gears and ran a large thick wall tube through from one hub to the...
Isn't the axle the weak point ? If that tapered end ( key way slot) isn't kept tight enough that's where the failures occur. My dad once told me...
[ATTACH] Scallops should enhance the features that are already there, not distract from them
I think Milner's were Arrows, BLC are much bigger.
Congratulations. Your workmanship and the color combination is outstanding ! Just simply beautiful. I love your choice of oxblood and ivory.
Does your latch housing have that piece of spring steel that the latch bar has to compress as it passes over it to get to the closed position ?...
try these guys : https://www.brattons.com/ they had the extruded aluminum I used on my `32 5w.
Brookville makes them for the roadster, they are a little too long for a 5 window, but can be trimmed to shorten. at least the shape of the...
I brought back a `32 5 window body through that same crossing in 2006, with out any taxes involved, but that was before a passport was not even...
No, DR on the title doesn't mean deuce roadster, and besides that photo is of a three window. No genuine original `32 fords had that kind of...
It looks like the end of your axle is swelled out by somebody beating on it with a hammer, if that is the case you won't be able to thread on the...
Top Stitch Upholstery. Loves Park. IL Tina or Mark at 815-977-3209 They did a great job on my real leather `32 roadster seat. And they got it done...
Your third photo looks like the block has been "decked" and you can see who ever did that didn't bother to chamfer the stud holes. They may have...
yep, I'm getting the same distracting annoyance.
The `32 "B" or V8 rear trans mount with the rubber cast in place is available as a new reproduction. Try Third Gen. in Tennessee, phone them at...
Hello Alchemy, Are you sure about that? I have been able to edit ads, but never able to completely delete them. There are plenty of posts where...
Same thing happened to me with a 350 c.i. v8 that sat for many years, turned out to be the stuck oil pressure relief valve in the oil pump.
Here is a photo of a sketch showing the location, setting on a roadster door. If the drawing isn't clear, it's 1.9" down from the bottom edge of...
Yes, 7" X 20 3/4" this is the outside dimensions, the frame is about .680" wide
That handle is the same as a `30 or `31, they had the longer shank , for the inside handle to attach to . If it was a real model"A" version it...
`49 thru `53, with earlier heads
Frank Currie, long ago ? [ATTACH]
The Karl Orr car [ATTACH]
According to what I have read, there were 22,148 3 windows made , compared to 12,597 roadsters. Still a rare car.
I would be suspicious of anything Drake advertises as forged. A friend of mine bought a pair of his (supposedly) forged reproduction `32 v8 engine...
Fenton ignored the most popular use of those cast headers ( the flathead ford v8 in a `32 Ford) they made them to fit something else. I've seen...
Try Bratton's phone 800-255-1929 `32 didn't have one.
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