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Yes plates are old Helsinki-plates (capitol of Finland) Lights could be Sunbeam Imp tail lights... They were used in many finnish built cars...
Oh yes... Here is mine 63... [img]
Some progress.... [IMG]
OK! My guess was a right one... Thank you for that link. And thank you seb fontana. Any comment is a good comment. :)
Better now? I believe that steering gear stays unknown... [IMG]
Suspension is about 3" too high in that pic. Now links are connected and geometry is OK. I going to drop steering box lower, because I want to...
I´m going to use this Saginaw steering on my American Gasser. Do you HAMBers have any idea where it had been when it was new? It has casting...
Some progress... [IMG]
No Renault, but AMC V8 and some spices, like this... [IMG]
Now my friends, something happened at last... This Gasser of mine has slept more than a decade. I took it out... [IMG] Hauled it to my...
The ultimate way... https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MOldGxyJEQ4#t=342
And one less in Fin(k)land... :(
I have a Jeepster project going on... In Finland Jeepster is very rare. None were sold as new. My car came from US 1989 to Finland by a...
This is cool. How about windscreen and other windows? Do you have local supplier? If not, try Kuttilan Autolasi in Salo, Finland. They do most...
I have a russian GAZ-13 Chaika limo. Built 3100 between 1958-1981... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaika_(car)
Here is my friends 20 Willys Overland. It is his summertime daily driver. [IMG] Pic by sillu
That "dog house" is my sauna... What is a finn without his sauna? Almost dead... So building my sauna was the most important thing.
Yes, it is very satifying to get something back from the foundry. More it gives when casted thing is all done and and it is on its place....
Here is a 57 from Finland. My friend has made everything by himself. Got it on wheels last autumn just before snow and kicked it out of garage...
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Done something during holiday season... Bolt holes... [IMG] Testing... There are many "OK´s" and some things that needs adjustments... A...
Here are some of my older (HAMBer friendly) models... Rollin rice bowl [IMG] Merc [IMG] a finnish stock car Ford [IMG] rod [IMG]...
Machined... Just add bolt holes. [IMG]
Thank you of those kind words...:o More pics coming when machined. Trying to do bolt holes and testing during holidays... After that customizing...
Here it is. Oilpan #2 got it home today and it is now in machining shop. [IMG] [IMG]
I visited the "cast master" yesterday and left my pattern to him. If all happens as he promised, I´ll have something to do on Xmas time...
I just bought a pair of these 3,5x16" wheels for my Rambler Gasser project. I hope that some day I can use these farming machine wheels... My...
We do understand each other, no matter where we live in Finland. Local dialects can be quite different from "official" language... And finnish is...
"Google translation has a lot of difficulty with Finnish" Yes that´s true... I tested it and didn´t understand a word of it. I believe that most...
I hope that I can show you all phases of this project to the (bitter) end of it... But there are always some other projects and they´ll go...
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