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Projects Building an Upstate NY Track Roadster or the should I really start another project? Thread

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Robert J. Palmer, Nov 25, 2022.

  1. I am taking them to work tomorrow (Monday 08-18-25) to finish getting the spring bolts/bushings out and to have them run through the shot blaster.
     
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  2. Robert, say hello to Dan Hanke for me. I haven't seen Dan in quite some time. He is a good person.
     
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  3. I will, I need to see him about flyers for next year's show.
     
  4. panhead_pete
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    Loving this build, what was the original front axle you had planned to use before swapping?

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    Last edited: Aug 19, 2025
  5. Thanks, I am going back to using the 39 Ford axle with the springhead wishbones and a suicide front crossmember wide 5 hubs and no brakes. I have a pair of wide car hubs with removeable hubs (which I removed) the are sand blasted and primed.

    I sold the Plymouth axle to my friend Ben. He has a 33 Plymouth coupe (which he almost completely rebuilt since he bought it. I had a 302 Ford) with a wavy axle that was poorly rebuilt and damaged when he bought the car.
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  6. I decided to skip the A.C.O.T show at Accord to work on some projects.
    I got the driveshaft off the 35 rear, as I pulled the Torque Tube I thought "I am the first person since 1935 to see this driveshaft!"
    Does anyone else think about that kind of stuff when they are working on old cars?

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    All cleaned up I just need to cut and knock the splines out and it is ready to become a 261 Chevy header/exhaust!
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  7. I found the top two photos on the Fonda Speedway Museum's Facebook page, Note the Timken floater with35/36 Ford wishbones...


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    ....and a track roadster at Clearview Speedway in South Westerlo NY....
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    1952...
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    ...Today....
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    Clearview Speedway in relation to the state capital Albany.
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