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The Le Sabre was far and away the most impressive show car any Detroit builder did. All the mechanicals are scratch built clean sheet of paper and...
Same here of course. Hot rodders who want to go around the corner are a pretty rare breed.
The Old Yellers were some of the most famous and successful Specials in old time road racing and the snobs were incensed over it. Balchowsky...
Porfy's tool was so famous even Smokey Yunick had to comment on on it (albeit with "no,I didn't see IT!" ) in his biography if memory serves. He...
You can get good paint work from SOME Maacos depending on who they have working there and your relationship with them. I had a Town Car painted...
Bad idea. Better idea: Charge the 6 volt battery from the 12 volt with a light bulb in series with the 12 volt source to control the current. An...
The market size is everything. But on the other hand a lot of the cost for the modern stuff is for California Exemption Orders and other...
Great stuff. Were these on Kodachrome?
There was no maybe about it. The circle trackers, the drag racers and hot rod builders and the circle trackers were like contiguous Balkan nations...
Curtis LeMay was an active promoter of road racing and the USAF made available Air Force Bases' runways and taxiways. When he retired the practice...
When it's raining like hell or 5 degrees or 110 out you will wish you'd left the points distributor in one piece so you could just swap it out....
http://www.modelaengine.com/ A little off the beaten path...it looks like a bunch of engineering students doing a thesis project. Apparently...
Some of these SOHC Fords are great little motors and some are pieces of shit. You have to know which is which but the upside is that they tend to...
I didn't know a flathead would run very well at 8.5:1 on any fuel but you learn something new every day. I don't think the stock A lower end will...
"Well, the last one I bought like that, I paid ten bucks, but it had a little crack I had to have welded by the aircraft place and they charged me...
This is an old belt driven machine probably made between 1900 and 1930 or so. Many "home shop machinists" (US terminology) or "model engineers"...
If you are a baseball fan there is an independent league team, the T-Bones ans they are worth seeing as well. Much better ball park experience...
Before the flood I had Mark Dees' Miller book. I think it was in there that he talks about how Meyer-Drake used only standard machine tools and...
Mary Kay cars have a pink now that might be close to what you want. It's a standard number.
That is probably true, but a four cam engine of equal displacement could certainly make more power. It would be a wider, taller engine and it...
It comes down to cost. Period. GM designed a four cam V8 for the Corvette, the famous ZR-1. I think they made a few thousand. Most seem to be...
I was in high school when the six wheel craze happened. This had a Cadillac with two turbos and I wanted it....it's an ugly car though, I realize...
My brother in law collects Citroens, He has five of them, well actually one is a Panhard. This is in Denver. I never owned one but we rode...
It would be to a restorer of some historic race car, particularly a road racer that is documented as having raced that way, but I never heard of...
Weller IRONS are in widespread use. The Metcal and the Hexacon are the Rolls Royce of soldering irons, Metcal with its RF supply box is a bulky...
That was still a non Indy driver and crew and an engine that never really did what it was Ferraris did, which is why they never put it in a road...
Whatever you do stay out of the Johnson County(KS) suburbs if you intend to do much welding, fabrication or painting or have stuff out of the...
Cummins later dismantled that engine at the factory and found out the crank had a bad crack. Had he not DNFed the engine would have grenaded....
Plane tickets aren't THAT expensive, come on out sometime. I plan on visiting Oz, NZ and Japan in the next couple of years. Just don't ask me...
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