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Lunched a 427 Ford in my 63 Galaxie way back when. I was working at a Ford dealer back then and a buddy (who also worked there) had a 68 Torino...
[ATTACH] 61 Top loader 4sp. Currently installing a FE 427. 57 avatar had a Yblock 292 5sp
Not a car but had that happen to me. Had a Honda VT1100 years ago and every time I changed oil and filter the oring would stick to the engine. Of...
Years ago when I 1st started learning the car repair business (late 60's) l looked down the shop and there were 4 guys there looking over a new...
I worked on my yblock 3x2's for a month until I had it running like it should. Ended up doing like Desotot for most of it. I think one of the keys...
I'm working on a 60 Ford Courier that I needed all the trim clips for it. I looked in my 60-64 Ford parts book where they have an illustration of...
40 Ford coupe. IMHO the best looking car ever made.
It has a later model SBF camshaft in it.
Here's another pic of the system. Bad thing was they used to plug up due to lack of maintenance.[ATTACH]
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Sweet ride!
I think early Falcon buckets would fit nice. Score one of those small consoles from a Falcon for it to complete the look.
I leave the brake systems on my cars with what they came with. I just make sure they're working good. The one car I considered changing was my 38...
I spend half my time looking for stuff I just set down somewhere and the other half picking up things I've dropped.
Currently working on a 60 Ford Courier.
Edge of a flat file works good also.
Short list would be a 40 Ford coupe and a 56 Meteor Crown Vic like I had in the 60's. But looking at some of the posted pics I could expand it...
Not car guys but, Gordie Howe, AL Kaline, Ernie Harwell, Denny McClain. Did I mention I'm from Detroit. And of course I know who Maurice (Rocket)...
When I lived in MI. I had plenty of mouse troubles. Tired all the above remedies. Electronic devices, Irish Spring, peppermint oil. Nothing worked...
Grew up in Detroit and the story we always heard was the lions in the crest were a connection to the Detroit Lions football team that the Ford...
That's me too. I have a hose reel but it's a pain to roll it all out to reach something outside. So I plugged in another hose to it. Back to...
The proportion of the top to the rest of the car is just perfect IMHO. There's a guy here that has a 29 Dodge coupe about in the same condition....
I picked up a bunch of those type of switch over a couple years because I was too cheap to spend 300$ on a new one. Mine always had the same...
I'll just throw this out there for information. Years ago when I first started they brought an old car in that obviously had been sitting a while....
Picked up a 79 Ranchero 351m years ago that had that type of vibration, Didn't drive it much so it wasn't on my list of things to do. When I...
Back in the 70's when a customer couldn't afford a new or rebuilt engine to replace their worn out one we would install a used one to get them...
Sold, pending payment.
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Be 72 next month. Takes me twice as long or more to do anything on my cars now. Spend most of my time picking up something I dropped or looking...
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