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I was a friend of Cottons back in the late 60s early70s when he was building his cars in a one car shop at home in Barrington. We both were...
I was working on a fuel dragster in the winter of 62/ 63 & the owner put it into the car show at the shrine auditorium in downtown L/A. They...
Yes that is correct one side took the brake force but on a track car especially on dirt tracks one wheel on the front axle takes most of the...
The back story of the Novi is as interesting as the cars themselves. Henry Ford was a racing fan & liked the idea of a v8 car in the 500. He & Lou...
Competition coupe & sedan class started out as a class that was wider open than altered class & pretty much allowed anything goes as long as the...
What killed the gas class & all the other heads up racing was the lack of cars due to the extreme cost to reward. If you were drag racing back...
And that was the beginning of the end for sprint cars being the stepping stone for championship & Indy car careers. I grew up in the Midwest & was...
very nice work. Your tutorioal is great.
Well said vonDyck, well said.
you might want to go to the Spitzer racing web site & see how they build their Bantam bodies for altered's. I have built many chassis for these...
Just to add from "The Miller dynasty" Gerard Kirchhoff did the body for the Chancllor out of aluminum. The car was scraped in 1939 after several...
You probably knew when you asked opinions here they would be all over the place. Do you have the tools & equipment & skills to finish the car the...
Made a die for punching those louvers that Silnes did. They are smaller than other louvers but turn out really nice. WAW
This is just a joke thread I hope!
Josh you found top center not top dead center. Top dead center would be the mid point between where the indicator stopped moving & where it began...
They were in different states. That's not a smart allic answer because that made a difference. El mirage really was where hot rodding began & it...
You might want to post where you are . There are many folks here that would help you get started if you live in their neighborhood.
Oil in jet engines is for cooling not much for lubricating. When the jet engines were first introduced they used a 10 wt petroleum oil. The...
The primary reason to go to the effort making front wheel drive is the same today as it was in the 1920s. To put as much weight on the driving...
If you are going to chop up a frame the way you propose you are better off just buying what you want.
Over the years since I started building cars in the 50s ive used parts that then were just parts & are now called traditional. I think that you...
Its hard now days for young folks to do anything automobile related. There are not many things in junk yards to build with & having the tools &...
their is more to the oil story. Fengler the chief steward had stated the day before the race that any car laying down oil would be black flagged...
I taught TIG welding for years & always told folks they weren't welders until they burned themselves. Usually didn't take to long.
Where are those engines a dime a dozen?
Google"jcrivets". There is plenty of info on all types of rivets. If you want to use solid rivets they come in several alloys. I would stick with...
That was a pretty serious body shop. I grew up in a body shop & in todays world cars that were rebuilt there would be scraped today. Frame...
There are several ways to do this but be fore warned it will not be cheap. You can have a round steel bar of a alloy of your choice cut or turned...
I knew your dad back in the 60s when you lived in Barrington. We were both building cars then & he started on his rear engine car. Always enjoyed...
In the early 60s We lived on western ave at 104th & it was on the final approach & when the fog came in it sounded like the planes were landing on...
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