guy was hauling this off Sunday. Flagged him over. He is cleaning up junk from a recently passed relative. Going to pick up a few more axles from him. He pulled the axle out of the pile and said he would take some Gatorade for it. Juice brakes and the hubs will turn a little. Should be worth the price. Looks like someone did a lift on it years ago, shortened the wishbones and tube. Added some shock mounts to the bones.
That’s the plan. He had some roached remains of a touring car on the pile. Not even good enough to make a pattern from. There may be a few good parts there. He said he has a front axle with the wide 5 bolt pattern he isn’t interested in. Turns out his nephew is in my shop class. Going to make sure nothing cool gets gone
It's a 46-48 rearend (anyone know when Ford started the panhard bar, was that in 46?). Looks like it was installed in a Model A by the looks of the added perches on the top side of the housings. And somebody turned the backing plates upside down for a dumb reason.
I was wondering the same thing. Good eye. Need to check if they mounted the wheel cylinders correctly The perch weld is advanced for the stuff I normally find around here
I bought a Columbia for $10 at a salvage yard closing one time. Had three rear ends sitting out by the street for $10 apiece, I said I’ll take the one on the end, because it had a bulge on one side. He said ok, I was so excited, I forgot to buy the other two! Bones
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