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Like to see it come. Hate to see it go.
Small block Chevy is way prettier than a small block Ford, all else aside.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] My '05 V-star with some mild custom touches, and my dad on his '47 45ci Harley he bought in 1969
Be careful. Ramblers stick to you. I bought mine when I was 13. Still driving it at 47.
Motor Trend's car of the year.
Those rear sump pans and pickup tubes are pricey. Used or new.
The 327 will give you a little more wiggle room.
Ford fans are definitely more prejudiced than Chevy fans. When i drive my '67 Chevy truck i always get comments like 'that's a great old truck'....
you would have to channel the rear frame rails into the trunk compartment
Its fine.
Very tasteful.
A buddy of mine was painting a couple of cars a month in his in-laws' garage for about a year. In the middle of a job the sheriff's department...
Rolled-on Rustoleum about twenty years ago..... I would argue better than not doing anything at all [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
this is the first I have ever heard of spark plug installation with a torque wrench.
I would sell all my other cars and just drive this everywhere.
I have seen Jeep Liberty LS swaps that are mean and run down the track straight and there is the Geo Tracker SBC route.
Ford offered a rear-wheel drive/V8 conversion kit for their Focus econoboxes in the late 90s-early 2000s... Doesn't exactly fit your criteria...
Lost a younger buddy and major hot rodder, builder, painter,drag racer at 36 to colon cancer a few years ago. The last thing he had the strength...
Not what you're asking but.... I think the two piece looks so much better.
Show us a pic of the Patrol in the off topic forum!
I think the black wheels looked good. I always just run masking tape upwards around the outer edge of the rim and cover the rest of the tire with...
Who doesn't love a panel? It's a hot rod, its a truck, its a room. What else can match that versatility?
Why would a hearse have AC delete? Kind of goes against its cargo manifest....
Its a 3800 truck, pull a 3800 Buick out of an old LeSabre and drop it in there.
As much as i treasure the original i do not have the resources to play much in the pre-'65 sandbox as a rustbelt resident, so the off topic board...
that is not that much less work than a full rebuild in my mind to make it worth possibly wasting the effort. I would maybe be willing to check...
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I wanted to expand on my '75 F100 story a little. I was never much of a ford guy. About 12 years ago a guy I worked with told me his brother...
I am a chevy guy by birth but i own a ford truck that kind of fell in my lap. I have built engines for fords, plenty of chevies and one american...
When i do have to drill a flush-broken bolt out, i always use reverse drill bits.... Progressively increasing the bit size. Sometimes you get...
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