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This is really neat. I had something pretty close to that when I was 18, but it was a model A roadster missing the driver side door. Not...
"A hot rod with too much modern spice, loses it's traditional flavor." Been some 10 years since this was written and it still holds. Trouble is...
Observation from 16 years in the future. Photobucket seems to be the place where good pics of roadsters go to die. Just say'in.
Stsrting Over. Again! I drove down to San Bernardino last week to bring home a small machine tool that the seller didn't want to ship....
The coupe color is a little darker cranberry than the hard to find Rustoleum gloss cranberry in spray cans. Looks great combined with black on...
I'm already planning a 27T project waiting for my long overdue attention. I just got back from a 2 day run south to San Bernadino to pick up some...
I got to thinking about this 'cause I'm sitting on a low mileage stock Ford "H" flathead six motor and a nice 2 carb manifold setup. Not that I...
Thanks, Frozen Merc, for the tip on Brassworks. In a world of $200 Chinese radiators I kinda took a breath when I saw Braswork's prices. Then I...
Good ideas, Guys. Keep'em coming. I kinda like the idea of the ciculating pump system for getting the block clean. If the engine is still...
Cooling a fairly mild flathead in a 27T street roadster with a stock 27 grille shell looks like a challenge as summers get warmer. I'm starting a...
I just found this thread today. It's a while since I last logged in. Been an HO model railroader as well as a hot rodder most of my lifetime. If...
I went on the Coker tire website a little while ago. It's real slow and didn't respond to a lot of clicks. Right after I got off my antivirus...
In the old days I wouldn't doubt what you say. But in the last 20 years at Bonneville a lot has been learned about getting unblown gas flatheads...
$20K? Not so on most original heads. Although I guess an NOS set with all the paperwork may bring something like that. Make a nice museum...
mtkawboy -- I was pretty close to Doug King. I'm still trying to deal with his passing. Little story here about that spin........ That spin with...
Bruce -- 37 years ago I sold you a 32 5 window body. What ever happened to it? Ed Weldon 23.weldon at comcast.net
This year should be good. The word is the Salt is as good this year as it was bad last year and in the neighborhood of 500 entries are expected....
Kirk-- Thanks for the word from Mission Control. I think your community will OK my car. I planned this car back in 1975 with page 42 of the 1949...
Not yet road ready. Later this summer. Will try scanning an old pic I have. Some of you old timers around here may know the car from the 80's...
What exactly does "Billet" mean? There's a Billetproof meet in Antioch in Sept 2006. I'd like to take my roadster up there; but am not sure...
A 20+ year tradition-- I heard a story about a Utah Highway Patrol seeing a bright light on the Western Horizon some 25 miles away and his natural...
I'm Ed Weldon from Los Gatos, CA (some 34 years since I left NJ) All my old friends in New Jersey likely think I'm gone and swimming with dah...
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