Junkyard trip netted me 3 more steering wheels for my collection, plus another big item that I'll show a pic of when I get it cleaned up. Very happy with these though, the Ford truck one I already had the horn ring for, was just looking for a 4 spoke wheel to put it on. Fairly rare to find.
While I was at the junkyard yesterday I also visited this recent deposit, a rather unhealthy looking '51 Mercury. That's what the one steering wheel was from, along with a few other bits I grabbed. I've never been happy with the sunken rear window in my chopped '53 Ford, (or any of the chop, really) and I have plans to redo the roof using a hardtop windshield and most of a Skyliner glasstop roof. I saw this 52-54 car using a '51 Merc rear window and I like this, the wraparound shape fits the body well but doesn't need to be sunken in. I figure I wouldn't have to lean one forward as much as this one either if I'm only cutting the top down to hardtop windshield height, which would avoid the filled gap this one has below the rear window. So I cut the window out with as much sheetmetal as I reasonably would ever use, I figure it's easier to trim some off than to add any back on. It was so covered in lichen that it looked like it had been tinted black. I cleaned it off somewhat before laying it over the top of my current roof. A little wide but clearly it can be made to work, I think this is going to be a much better solution. I did the cutting, and they charged me $200, I figured that was plenty fair. Usually, the '51 Merc rear window is the throwaway part of a chopped top, but I think it's going to work well for my car.
This is where it's going. Restoration guys can't have 'em all! Super nice original 6/Glide 210 DelRay. Now blown sbc, 350TH and a 9 inch.
Went to my Wife’s Uncle’s garage sale Friday morning. Picked up a small cardboard box with a few rusty wrenches and sockets in it . He said the tools belonged to his Dad . I have a question who manufactured this socket that reads None better ?
Art work has nothing to do with Boston. Looks like Sure Hits Inc. in the late 70's used it on all their releases.
Went back to Uncle Buddy’s this evening. I wanted a filing cabinet but he told me I had to take the desk also . lol he had put them in his home office in 1970 .
… and one of them wooden drawer cabinets with the Dewey cards in them …and laminated library cards, and book bags made from pillow slips. Coolest library by far. cheers, Harv
I picked this up today at our local car show. It’s going to the classifieds. It would be good for a banger project or a race of gentlemen car
Anyone with a Jahns book? Couldn’t find the part number in the book the guy bought the pistons from had Edit: Found this Came from a forged piston page in a catalogue. pistons have ,030. Box says 4” and .030 Probably have to measure to figure out what I got. There’s 2 sets of the 327 domes listed here. One 4” the other 4 1/16. Both are at the same place NOS
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