The Jalopy Journal
my final thought on this!!! we have so many modern trans availabe these days I wont have a problem using one.
glad to see our rods getting print, they deserve it. Also many old timers still around, we need them.
AMAZING!!!! THIS JUST BLOWS ME AWAY!! I knew Benny well,, watched them work on that 34. We were classmates at Riverside Poly High and oh what...
I recently fired up my 39 Century can verify that a Herbert street cam and chopping the flywheel works, along with the dual carbs. Also my old...
Bobwops post----- what an improvement!!!! Drove the car tonight and just loved it. The four tube type shocks certainly improved both ride and...
I have seen in a post somewhere, a picture showing a extended plate welded or brazed to the bottom of the 248\263 bellhousing, giving enough...
'OLDGEAR DAYS' some info I got was 37 Buick big trans have only 1 sycro, 38 has 2. Dont kno if there was a midterm change or not. 37/38 gears...
ooops! well I,m gonna blame CRS. HAMBERS,, BEWARE old guys know lotta old stuff, but they dont always get it down right. thanx F&J. so with...
Had a good talk with Vern, but he overloaded me when i asked my flathead questions, we had some funny flatty stories, good guy, I need to buy his...
I'v changed my outlook on hi revving Buick strait 8's after seeing Blakes, and Dutwielers Century's. as they sound like big block V 8's. Blake's...
Basically, when I started to get into the transmission swaps in 50's and were in the era of big overhead valve engines against weak drivelines. We...
bak in the day the guys that really knew about hopping up rods were racing, and nubees like me were watching, and we figured the bigger the...
Yeah, good lookin, truck, I had Dads ol' 47 Dodge thru hi school, got it up to 95 beating a 48 Olds 98.
Oh how I longed for a Lasalle, trans, and 57 ford 9 inch, for my 265 powered deuce. Dvy 1958
Gads ! I,m having flash backs to 1958 when I rebuilt my 56, 265 at jr. collage auto shop. I bored it to 283, bought a set of 10 1/2 to one,...
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bak agin I had a Buick selector shift that wedas modified with a Ford floorshift top operating Buick innerds. Also I saw one of those one arm...
first saw his 40' pix when I picked up the magazine article in '57. talked to him a few times at good guys in SD where he signed his book for me....
Dad, drove us to L.A. in our straight 8 39' Pontiac business coupe in June of '44, all the way from Chicago, on route 66. Thats where I saw my...
Well, if you can find 39 Century 3:90 gears or complete rear end, grab it. also there was a 3:61 gear option for 39 Centuries, but those gears are...
just talkin to my buddy who has a bunch of 27-28 Chevy parts he wants to sell. several 28 heads, many other stuff both NOS and used, almost...
Save yer stock brakes and they will become rarebrakes!
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