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One other thing I noticed that was probably not right - the original Ford Mustang type shifter was still there but the base-quadrant part had been...
It is certainly an original car Fred -I'm 100 per cent sure of that. Luckily, the changes made over the years are fully reversible. One other...
Terry - I looked the car over at the Wednesday night cruise in Glenwood the other evening and talked with Darrel quite a while. I pointed out to...
Yup - that's the first thing I thought of when I first saw him do it - maybe he sands off to enough depth to eliminate the Sharpie ink. LJ
I have a buddy that paints high-end restorations and he uses a Sharpie marker to scribble a bunch of lines on the area he's working on. Sounds...
There are multi-step (usually 2) brake dies made for rolling the edge of a sheet. At my previous employer we made thousands of feet of rolled...
Fred - looking at your pics, I think that starting with 220 grit would be a step backward. I would go right to the 600 to remove any scratches -...
As far as I know, the "pre-tension" in the spring is to keep the car from swaying side to side - eliminating the need for a panhard bar or some...
What's the backside look like? What are the bolt patterns available? Thanks!
Could this be the carb that Dennis Carpenter has been advertising as "COMING FALL 2009" ?? Catalog says 200 bucks apiece. His p/n is 8BA-9510-N...
Just to let you guys know - the builder is my nephew and is 15 years old - hoping to have the car drivable before he gets his license! I'm trying...
This isn't all that wierd, but I ordered a new '89 t-bird super-coupe and had it in my driveway for several months before I noticed that the body...
just recalled something else rich had mentioned when he built my car...the wheelbase is longer than a "standard" scotty fenn car. scotty had a...
I believe Rich told me he found the car in FLorida and he figured it was "home-brewed" from one of the "you-weld-it" kits. I don't remember my...
Rich Riddell, the fellow that restored the car, built a jig from this car and built several replicas. He built one for me using chrome moly for...
It's pretty much an Ackerman thing but there are plenty of modern cars running around with screwed up ackerman straight from the factory. Drag...
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