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Excellent details as always. Kinda surprised by the ugly looking welds on those period photos of the traction bars. Especially for a magazine car.
6K for an A engine is probably on the cheap side, I've heard quotes higher than that. There's tons of rebuilt A engines around that never got...
[ATTACH] A handful of other neat trinkets from the recent estate sale.
E&G kit, lowrider gold right there.
Ugh, that's even worse. Although, if it gets contentious, you might be able to just buy the small bits off of the car and leave the rest for the...
[ATTACH] Well, I mean, obviously his son wants to keep it, he's going to fix it up someday.
The spoked wheel thing does make sense, the guy did have a bunch of old bicycle/motorcycle style wheels in his garage.
Love the starburst clock. Would really like to see the desk but the pic link is dead.
Recently I bought some great old bodyworking tools from an estate auction (posted pics in the recent finds and buys thread) and one of the things...
The front end/grille design works better with the Plymouth front bumper in my opinion, the proportions are off without it. And I take back what...
It's just going to be a wallhanger for now. If the perfect use for it ever came up, I'd consider modifying it, but likely it'll just be a cool...
It's humongous, probably 3 feet tall in the center, although it would be easy to cut way down if a use for it ever came up.
There was a really good estate auction this week and I got a whole bunch of neat new shit. A couple old bodyworking tools [ATTACH] Some little...
For a long time, I thought those air tanks were super rare and I never saw any for sale out in the wild. Then suddenly they seemed like they were...
I don't mind offers, even low ones. Many are accepted, some are turned down flat, others are countered. It's a good way to gauge interest....
Super neat car. The grille positioning is very unique, should help ID it.
Chiseled the heads off of many rivets to free this monster from the side of a semi trailer this weekend, had to have it due to the meat-related...
Nice! Looking forward to seeing what it looks like with the spinner caps.
I think clear is a bad idea. Lots of potential to react with the paint with very little potential benefit. Would kinda spoil the originality too.
Also how I did mine and works excellent with the original drums. If you're not converting to disks the prop. valve is unnecessary.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Imagine my dismay when I found out my bangin' new system fits all cars except 1960-63 Ramblers! I wonder why.
I have two of those PM7 intakes, and both have a couple little blotches of paint left on them, so you can tell that they haven't been...
[ATTACH] '50-'52 Buick. They're prone to rot out on the bottom, so solid ones are kinda hard to find.
I love this car. I also remember when it got auctioned off a year or so ago and I was shocked at the sale price, especially after the top-notch...
White Wall Marvel! I have Universal Whitewall Tire Coating, Shur Wonder-White and Whiz Tyre-Wyte but I never heard of that one, will be on the...
Those wheels look pretty clean, gonna look nice on the car.
I assume you're putting disks on the front, and that's why you're using that proportioning valve? Glad to see you're still at it, congrats on the...
OK, that is WILD. Especially for what they cost. At least you were able to return them, but that's a lot of time spent monkeying around trying...
Hard to tell how deep that is from a picture, and without blasting first. I've had some stuff look way worse after blasting, and others much...
I think Cragars and thin line whitewalls can work but you need to have a bit more of a lowrider vibe to pull it off. I like what you've got, I...
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