Today, I got both front brakes on the old 41 Poncho of mine and ran it around the neighborhood a bit. The rear main seal on the old flathead 6 leaks REAL bad! I was hoping a little running time may help re-seal it again but it aappears to leak ever worser! I pulled it back in the garage and tried one of my new e-bay 48 pontiac [with Bob Drake '50 gl*** lenses] tailights. I like it better than the stocker square 41 lights, myself. What do youse think?
cool. you should french em in about 1/2-3/4 inch. that'd look sweeeet! got any suggestions for my 47 Chev as far as T-lights go???
It's gonna take a little filing and grinding to get the tailight's bezel to conform to the 41 car but I think I can do it ok. The hole for the 41 light will need some filling too. Sorry about the funny brown caste in the photo. I think the camera batteries are getting a little long in the tooth. Here's a close-up
That's what I was thinking....why would a company put a square tailight in a round car? Looks completely outa place IMHO... I guess they thought so too in '48.Here's a photo of my old 48 Torpedo back with my lil brother sitting on it eating a nice peanut better samich...
I had a Torpedo back just like that in the 80's!!! But my younger brother had a 1/4 barrel with a faulty tapper explode in the back seat!!! Would've preffered my brother if he had the Sandwich instead! Mark
Definitely the round ones Rocky. They flow better with the lines of the car...like was mentioned before. I also think a set would look good on Mikes '47 if he frenched 'em in a little bit.
French them, but instead of tunneling them in, weld a ring of round stock out around them and build a little lip of the body out to them.
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