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Just found a '38 Ford Panel. Complete. I like it.
Would actually be a good time to pull the heads. Lots of reasons. To see if it really is a Merc engine, or a Ford engine with Merc heads. To get a...
Exactly, because these DeSoto cars were made ONLY to make Mercs better.
You have to find something to do with that 276 "Baby Hemi" after you steal the grille and splash pan out of the '53 DeSoto for your Merc. Hey, I...
It's The American way. :cool:
I thought the '39 Packard 4-Door I bought at a garage sale in 2002 was a good deal at $3,500.00...........rather have a MERC anyday!!!
Just try and imagine a '49-'51 Merc without skirts. It's like a day without sunshine.
As far as I know, Mor-Drop Axle Company is alive and well in Oakland, California. Try the 510 Area code. Owners name was Marty.
Bob Falfa: Hey, you know a guy around here with a piss yellow deuce coupe, supposed to be hot stuff? Kind of a cross between piss yellow and puke...
All well and good, but the 327 would be my choice. 1.94 "Fuelie" heads. Shorter stroke and while they may be hard to find, '68 327 cranks have...
It has just been a good discussion about an old thread, but people should review every now and then. Keeps the mind sharp. Reminds me of the 3...
If the right looking woman ask you to help her find Crisco for her car motor, you would help her find it....:)
Would have sounded funny. Harley-Davidson Engine Cycle. Thinking that the difference back then was the engine was associated with steam engine....
The guy that taught me to hammer weld was about 2 days older than dirt. I had bought a '34 Ford 3-Window that someone had put a pick up box in...
You have to admit here, that if a great looking woman came into the parts house and asked you to help her find "motor oil" you would be more than...
Your Pop taught you well.
You just can't believe everything that you read in a catalog but there are some good pictures. It has been my experience on all 5 pairs of '51...
I think I will have V8 Bob answer this one. If my memory serves me at all Studebaker was a lot like American Motors. Used parts from where ever...
Never spent a lot of time under the pick-up trucks, they had the wrong engine. Stroke was too short in those flattys or I was busy grabbing the...
What? Not trying to confuse the issue but the hard to find late '51 Merc bell housing was cast iron and used the Ford and Merc 4 bolt...
21A to 8BA they ain't dead yet.
Late 1951 Merc bell housings are the ones you are talking about. I found a few back in the day and were most common with the O/D transmission...
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