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I started my '64 Fairlane a few days ago in like 25' weather. I noticed a large puddle of oil under it's original 260 V8 after the engine got...
has anyone ever pirated an early 1960s T-Bird 'swing-away" steering column into a custom or rod application? I get that it's essentially a...
those books were better than the Necronomicon for raising the dead or building Frankenstein :D. In 30 years of messing with old cars I have...
I have never heard a whole lot of stories (good, bad or indifferent) about "W" motors other than "409s were hell on push rods!". I know a bunch of...
[IMG] this is actually a scratch-made model of weathered truck from this set: http://ifun.ru/view/231304 I feel like it's French....?
I have exactly one bad contact in my '64 Fairlane's fuse block. one of the clips broke after almost five decades of use. has anyone ever replaced...
naw, not the dude with the garden claw and the weed-whacker but a straight-eight '28 model straight-eight seeee-dan! anyone in the HAMB world got...
is the park 'gear' in a Fordomatic pretty simple to repair? just a ratchet and pawl affair?
anyone can replace a panel but what's the absolutely most jacked/beat/whooped/warped panel you have ever saved? pics PLEASE!
do other that states that let you run a year of manufacture plate also require you to keep a modern tag as well? my '64 Oklahoma plate hangs...
one of the bolts that held my '64's sway bar brackets to the frame broke. I was able to drive the snapped bolt and fastener out of the hole and...
there's a Shirley Temple/Buck Rogers joke in there somewhere but I haven't had enough coffee to figure it out. there's a piece flat piece of...
other horrible aftermarket accessories? rubber hippie daisies? adhesive band aids for cars? what are your least favorite Cal Custom and JC...
where the whitewall doesn't sit so close to the rim edge? most of the ones I see are so close to the rim edge that the whitewall effect is almost...
I've only seen one beat-up, scratched-up original red crown valve cap in the 25+ years I've have attended swap meets, prowled salvage yards, etc....
[IMG] Boyd, circa 1984 [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] Boyd with a '54 Chevy he owned from circa 1997-2008 [IMG] Boyd and my kids, 2007....
and tell me where I need to rewire my '64's horn? [IMG] Years ago I needed to get the horn working and something had rotted so I re-routed a...
[IMG] I bought this thing at a sale today and was wondering what it is....? Model A......?
but kinda wanted something a little different from what everyone else has. I was browsing eGouge last night and found these little jewels. I made...
has anyone built or customized a set of hubcaps that they are just super proud of? post a pic if you did!
when I was kiddo buying car mags in the 1980s those dudes were always building cool feature cars. when the car world was awash (drowning) in...
both mounting bolts on the passenger side sway bar of my '64 Fairlane had been exposed to four decades + of battery acid and both snapped when I...
[IMG] I picked this stuff up at a local military surplus store and plan on using it for odd drilling/cooling chores on different projects....
A buddy of mine has been into cars since 1936 and was a Ford flathead guy until early 1955 when his hopped-up '51 Ford hardtop got passed by some...
A guy in OKC has a hard loaded '63 Ford Galaxie for sale. I don't need it but it's cheap so I called the number. As the guy rattled off the...
I can tell you the year of any Ford car I happen to see from 1932-76 and I know a Model T is pretty much a Model T unless it's a brass era T but...
I'm getting ready to re-install the coil springs on my '64 Fairlane but the insulators are worn smooth out (and paper-thin any way). Has anyone...
will probably bug ya'll with a few questions. my only HAMB friendly item is a '64 Fairlane that I owned my last two years of high school...
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