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The round tuit. Cheers -- Gary The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.--Horace Greely
Trailer it to this show; just before either you or your dad decides to commit homicide, unload it and drive for a while so each of you can think...
Trucks, on PowerBlockTV, did such a section job on a '66 C-10. The start of that part of the project was in episode 10 of 2007, One-Half A C-10....
Cool build, my Limey friend. I'm always struck by the word "fettle" because even if you've never seen it before, or know its definition, it...
My teacher would call those 'tunnelled', not 'frenched'. She always was a pain in the ass. Cheers -- Gary Real joy comes not from ease or...
I found it curious that it wasn't on the calendar. Missing something on the H.A.M.B. is pretty easy because of the high traffic volume. Stuff...
Not on the calendar?
They're only original once. Fix what's broken (rust, etc). Freshen what's stale. Rod the original flattie. Paint and chrome if it fits your...
USAF '68-'88. Hardship tour HQ PACAF '76-'79. Sometimes it sucks to be me. Sometimes it doesn't. Cheers -- Gary
X2 (5? 7?) on the efi. That LT1 you useta have had a baby brother called the L99. It was externally identical to the LT1, even used the same...
5.13:1 rear gears on a street-driven car is pretty extreme. It appears you may have to spin it to 5K to drive 75 mph. A more rational final...
This probably won't help your issue about bracing/strengthening the spring mount piece, but have you considered 'sectioning' it longitudinally to...
in '61 or '62, my first car was a '49 Chevy. JC Whitney sold a floor shift kit for the 3 speed for less than $30, I feel sure (like I can...
1957 at the Patrick AFB BX. Picked up a little pages mag and the rest is history. I'm in the early stages of finally building my first hot rod....
I'm a little surprised no one has brought up the phenomenon of $40 115-piece drill bit sets (Titanium coated!) that are sold by all kinds of...
Hi Ryan, and Thommy! Makes sense that GM could engineer a right hand shift fork arrangement along with right hand steering gear etc. Nothing to...
Which brings up the question, now that I think of it, do RHD trannies have the shift levers on the right hand side? Can't imagine how they...
Ryan! Your steering wheel is on the wrong side! ;-) Seriously, I find it mildly interesting that the Aussie '52s apparently had real chrome...
8 volt battery! cool!
MPO is that a white frame would draw attention away from the more important stuff, i.e. running gear and body. I vote for old, traditional,...
Oops. Sorry. My bad. Apologies I see from your profile that it's an 'MS4' cam, which seems to be at least, 239/242 .649"/.610" 111° Some...
Woof. That's some cam you have there. Have you given us its specifications? Sounds like you've balanced the street/strip scale a couple...
Barnfind, Nice car. Mind sharing what tranny and rear gear you've got? Presume it's got a posi; otherwise you'll be taking 3 seconds to get out...
Beautiful work. Would you mind posting some pix of the intermediate steps between the tack-welded stage and the finish-ground stage? I.e., a pic...
Trav, I'm just a newbie here m'se'f but I've discovered that showing enthusiasm for rat rods is like saying something ugly about a guy's mother,...
Hey, all. Been lurking a good long while. I got interested in hot rods back in the late '50's when my dad was stationed at Patrick AFB, FL and I...
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