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There it is! Never heard of Falcon Knight before. Thanks a bunch for the info! Now I'm off to try and find the rest of the car.
So I dug this grill shell out of an old trash heap and I was curious to what it might be. I've done plenty of searching through google images of...
Then the body. Used a brush to paint the inside and the bottom because I learned from my mistakes :) [ATTACH] Then I loaded it in a pickup and...
Then was the fun part, time to make things fancy. Engine went gold, chassis went black. Made one hell of a mess painting the chassis...
As you can see on the above pictures, I cannibalized some original 1950 exhaust manifolds to make junk headers. I mostly made them to check...
I've been plugging away at the roadster far more than my sedan, summer is almost here for convertible season! The pitman arm was touching the...
Thanks for the tip. Is there anything specific that has to be done before/ during break in? I've heard special oil to help break in the cam and an...
My goal is to have the little RPU running first, just in time for summer. The sedan will follow shortly after, so it may go without updates for a...
I had a few days off work so I hooked up a 4 link suspension system to keep the 9" in line. Having the body separate from the frame was taking up...
Some tires showed up! Running firestone 6.40-15s up front and 8.20-15 in the rear. Wide whites of course! We decided to get big tires on the rear...
Thanks for the picture and info! I've been puzzling and puzzling now my puzzler is sore, with this new found info I'll puzzle some more!
My apologies, I haven't been active here for a while, so all my progress seems to be packed in bunches. Below the door on the ex-phaeton was an...
Put the body back on and managed to get my hands on a 1950 ford f-1 steering box. Upon further research I found most people shorten the sector...
Next thing up on the list was getting the engine/trans mounted. I bought a sheet of 1/8" sheet metal and plasma cut my pre made template out x4....
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