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What makes me smile? Any story with a plastic floating hippo. :p
EasyRods offers a Merc grille surround as an option with his ;49 Ford kit. Give'em a call.
Couldn't you just braze up the holes?
Dickie Harrell tried running radial tires. That's what caused his fatal accident.
Many,many years (decades?) ago,Sanyo offered an AM/FM stereo replacement radio that fit in that round opening. Good Luck finding one now. But,Hey!...
That's a 512 High Tower block.
I spent an evening with Ed Roth at his 1st Rat Fink Reunion,held at Hollywood Cars of the Stars,which was co-incidentally my 30th birthday. I went...
Chet LeBaron also built a 2-speed driveshaft that was before my time,but I heard old-timers talking about it.
A high tower block is recognizable by the casting under the distributor . Also called a 512 block,they were more accurate castings that could be...
That's a high tower block. Nice!
Just my opinion,but the koolest steering wheels on the planet come from PearlCraft in Australia. You ship them your wheel and they work their...
AM will work with almost anything. FM likes a 31" one-piece mast pointed straight up. not sideways under the dash.
It's waaay cool! What is written on the valve covers?
I'm retired now,but I did hotrod radios for decades. Easy/cheap deal: Get an aftermarket 31" one piece antenna (Fords work great). Slip a length...
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