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I like Pertronix. It’s so easy, and I keep the points and condenser in the glove box, but in 23 years of operation, I’ve never had it fail. If...
Damn, that puts a smile on your face! Awesome find, make sure you get it home. I love wagons with 3 pedals!
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Apologies if this has been posted already...but cool stuff, early 60s. Second half has FEDs, stock cars, Indy:...
....square body Chevy truck were also in demand...just not as hot as the earlier metal.
I’m liking McSweeney’s green track T.
I was in Scottsdale for the auctions. I saw a fantastic 53 Chevy 2dr (not Bel Air), perfect paint and interior, hi end resto, gavel out at $16k....
1) Things are only worth what someone else is willing to pay for them. This is true of ALL markets. It is supply and demand. Everything will...
Yep, that guy lived life LARGE. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
I have digital subscriptions to Hot Rod and Car Craft predating Black Friday where TEN axed 22 titles. I travel a lot to places outside the US...
Thanks for sharing your family memories, they are great.
Satisfaction of having a complicated part completed and back together (or the whole car) after being scattered apart. To the act of engine...
I still like “If you’re spinnin, you ain’t winnin”. Rolls off the tongue.
Also forgot to ask, does the car go into overdrive above 28mph when you let off the throttle? If so, When at hiway speeds and you mash the...
The trans should not freewheel above 28mph, but rather BELOW 28mph. You should be able to compression brake above 28mph going down a hill...as...
Well said Larry. As a guy born in Ballard in the mid 60s, the change is awesome (not in a good way). I left for the Air Force in 1987. I came...
I love print media. Say what you like, but the birth of hot rodding and all these styles, tastes, and technology changes that happened from the...
Valve cover bolts are in the right place too. Probably an FE.
As a kid I watched my dad buy a beautiful ‘59 Rambler American from the original owner, a neighbor just up the street. Black 2dr with a orange 2...
Cool find. It’ll never be a stock ‘40 again, so might as well chop it and make a hot rod out of it. That would be a dangerous find 1.5 miles...
The first car with the name Cobra, including badging, etc, was built at Moon’s shop. This was the car that later got sent to the NY auto show and...
Agee, real hot rodders. The very first Cobra was built in Dean Moons shop. Dropping a modern V8 into a chassis that had never had one...
Yep, “easy out”. Used many, many times working at my dads production machine shop. Essentially had at least one a day! Almost always an exhaust...
Smokey Yunick: “the engine doesn’t know what name is on the outside.” I like 348/409s, and in their time they were terrors on the street. But...
I have a ‘65 Ford Country Sedan (Galaxie Wagon) that has a 390/3sp OD, R-11 unit. I bought the barn find car solely on the trans. I grew up...
Likely won’t be anyone like him at the top of a car company again. His work touched two of the most financially successful platforms ever in the...
‘32 Highboy Roadster (the wind in your hair) ‘55-57 Chevy 1/2 ton, v8 3 on the tree (daily driver and support vehicle) ‘65 Shelby GT350 (turns...
...And now back to our originally scheduled programming: “What’s with Corvette guys!?” Answer: They are compensating for a small appendage. And...
[ATTACH] What a great trip and experience! I’m probably late to recommend this, but it’s got a fabulous rt66 vibe and breakfasts: Emma Jean’s in...
Seattle area, early 1980s I think the end of the era. The Renton Loop was a great place. Seemed to enjoy hanging out with the bros the best....
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