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Ran the numbers on a Pontiac engine I found, from my grandfather's gas station. I thought it was a 389, as my uncle had a '63 Bonneville he...
I found the Tom Monroe book "How To Rebuild Ford Small Block Engines" very helpful when I was doing the 289 in my '67 Galaxie.....the 260 really...
Time to clean out the garage & get rid of some stuff... Any value to a 389 4 bbl out of a '63 Bonneville? Or should I just take what the yard will...
The tag on the front door frame says axle code 2....is that the 3.56? If so, would going down to a 3.00 even be worth the time & expense? How many...
Thinking of lowering my axle ratio, to bring my revs down a little on the highway. I have a 1958 Custom 500, with the 223 six & a...
When it comes to paint strippers, or other chemicals, always look for the skull & crossbones on the can, that's your symbol for quality....
I forgot if it was this group, or another old car group I visit, but a while back, somebody was talking about some kind of clear stuff that you...
Thanks....found one at the Vintage Power Wagons site...45 bucks...
My first car was a '60 Falcon, my grandfather bought it new...had a 144 with 3 speed stick...slow, but it did everything it was supposed to do,...
My dad was a CPA, and he had a client that owned an aircraft parts company. The EPA was out to make an example of this guy, because of the plating...
My dad had a '53 Customline 2 dr sedan, with the V-8 & a 3 speed...was by far his favorite car, and he's owned a few Mercedes, so that really says...
Well, turns out Budget36 was right about my starter problem, my ring gear's chewed up & missing some teeth, so the starter wasn't spinni g the...
Thought the Bendix unit was the assembly that slid in & out....at least that's the impression I get when I look the part up on eBay....
Yeah, kinda thinking that's the starting point.....never thought about the something crawling in & dying angle, I know there were mice in my dad's...
Time to actually get off my ass & make my '48 Dodge road worthy again....Hit the button, and all I get is a whirring noise, so I'm guessing the...
Seems Like whenever I bought a car that wasn't a Ford, the FoMoCo gods threw a whammy at me.....Of course, the problem was, if it wasn't a Ford,...
Thanks for all the input! The engine's going into another Crown Vic, so clearance issues, etc. don't concern me. I'm mostly concerned with the...
Very basic quaestion here...I have a choice of 2 donor engines, they're both Ford 302s. One's a low mileage runner out of an '84 Crown Vic, with...
I've been thinking of pulling off Long Island and heading down to Virginia...Still gets cold, but not as cold as it does here. I don't think I'd...
I make die-cast metal figures for winter villages and model railroads. You may have seen our stuff in the Vermont Country Store catalog. If you...
AMEN TO THAT!! Interesting to note that with all these "improvements" that are designed to make driving both safer and easier, people are getting...
Outside of overdrives and changing out the rear, any ideas on what can be done to make an oldie more highway friendly? I'm speaking in general...
"Some folks might be surprised where the components for the US made stuff comes from. Even Cat is using Chinese sourced materials these days"...
Do you also get the same "That thing's a barge" and "God, it's huge" that I do? I don't know about you, but to me, these things aren't big, it's...
I'm a big believer in KISS...There's so few stock looking pre-war rides left that the way to stand out now is not to do anything to it! To make it...
I'm not arguing the point that is costs a boatload to put on a show, I guess mostly I stopped doing them because they stopped being fun and turned...
Move to Cuba...Nice & warm, loads of old cars, good cigars, no knuckle heads in the white house to deal with and thongs all over the place! Of...
NICE!! It's so refreshing to see a kid today that's into classic iron instead of hopping up another rice burner (now THOSE things P me off!) I...
Yeah, I pretty much gave up on the actual shows and just stick to "cruise ins" now. There used to be one cruise night here on Long Island that was...
"and who pays $100/hr for labor."........Dude, you should come over to New York, that's who pays 100 an hour! Our local Mercedes clown is getting...
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