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The Le Sabre was far and away the most impressive show car any Detroit builder did. All the mechanicals are scratch built clean sheet of paper and...
Same here of course. Hot rodders who want to go around the corner are a pretty rare breed.
The Old Yellers were some of the most famous and successful Specials in old time road racing and the snobs were incensed over it. Balchowsky...
Porfy's tool was so famous even Smokey Yunick had to comment on on it (albeit with "no,I didn't see IT!" ) in his biography if memory serves. He...
You can get good paint work from SOME Maacos depending on who they have working there and your relationship with them. I had a Town Car painted...
Bad idea. Better idea: Charge the 6 volt battery from the 12 volt with a light bulb in series with the 12 volt source to control the current. An...
The market size is everything. But on the other hand a lot of the cost for the modern stuff is for California Exemption Orders and other...
Great stuff. Were these on Kodachrome?
There was no maybe about it. The circle trackers, the drag racers and hot rod builders and the circle trackers were like contiguous Balkan nations...
Curtis LeMay was an active promoter of road racing and the USAF made available Air Force Bases' runways and taxiways. When he retired the practice...
When it's raining like hell or 5 degrees or 110 out you will wish you'd left the points distributor in one piece so you could just swap it out....
http://www.modelaengine.com/ A little off the beaten path...it looks like a bunch of engineering students doing a thesis project. Apparently...
Some of these SOHC Fords are great little motors and some are pieces of shit. You have to know which is which but the upside is that they tend to...
I didn't know a flathead would run very well at 8.5:1 on any fuel but you learn something new every day. I don't think the stock A lower end will...
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