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Hi, Ryan or Kevin! Please let me know if this post/thread is inappropriate, needs recrafted, moved, whatever.:confused: Really a tech/'rod...
Okay, Packard V-8 gurus, I've read a bunch of disjointed info about Packard's final, long-delayed forray into V-8 territory. But I have not found...
Thomas Wolfe said "You Can't Go Home Again." And Foghat did a song called "Stranger in My Hometown." When I have a rare occasion to revisit the...
One thing EVERYBODY seems to agree on here is achieving the best possible gloss out of your paint AND how best to maintain it so it holds up for...
I know I can't be the only guy to puzzle over what to do about a cracked plastic steering wheel, aged so badly that it has chunks dropping out of...
Everybody, including me, was entranced by the recent build-thread of the "Hotrod Lincoln" V-12 :D. I've always been fascinated by the Zephyr &...
We all know hotrodding -- as we define hotrods -- pretty much cranked up after WWII, right? :D That's what I grew up being told. In recent...
Hi, guys. I've been watching the revival of an old thread where guys rae trying to remember TRULY EXTINCT :mad: American car makes. FIRST,...
Here's one for guys who dig Packard lines & have turned Packards into rods. :D I remember reading in a 1954 issue of Mechanix Illustrated about...
Dudes, today, I ran into a strange :eek: (for me) situation. Dissaembled, my P-Steering pump shows a rubber cog that (presumably) was engineered...
As we ALL know, rodding was once a pretty local/regional kind of passion/hobby :cool:. Now, the 'net connects ALL in the U.S. with rodders as far...
The '50s were a time like NO other! Horsepower, tech break-throughs, silly, short-lived GADGETS, plastics AND COLOR were all gimicks car...
When I was a kid, two people in our town owned King Midgets, but then they were invented & made in Athens, Ohio, only 25 miles from us....
I was pondering numerous photos of the 1957 DeSoto models. It's become very apparent to me that practically every model (except, maybe, the...
I once heard a first-hand story from a guy who helped his teenage buddy put a 331 Firepower into a '49 bathtub NASH! :eek: I thought what a WEIRD...
Okay, guys, I want to talk pre-1955 here:eek:, BACK when the GM, MOPAR, FORD OHV V-8s were MOSTLY still in newer cars and NOT readily available to...
Sure sems a lot of MYTH surrounds Preston Tucker and his abortive car of the future: the Tucker 48 :rolleyes:. I believe that the FACTS about...
Surely (Sherlock!:eek:), I can't be the only guy who ever had an early-'60s Studebaker and looked :rolleyes: under there and noticed the I-Beam...
Dudes, seems to me the Kaisers & Frazers shoudl be ripe pickings for rodding and/or customs. To date, all I've seen have been Henry Js done...
From the time I started to drive in 1967, I loved to haunt junk yards and the habit went on until the old-time junk yards rusted away, dried up...
Seriously:D, back in the early '70s when I had nothing to do in my spare time, except talk bullshit :cool: about cars and play with my new wife (I...
No, I mean REALLY BLOW UP an early Hemi? Here's the deal: These engines were built to be tough (the exception seemingly being osme of the VERY...
I hope you guys (and ladies, too) don't think I'm looney for this post! :confused::mad::p;):D Back in the late '60s and early '70s, Demo Derby...
Here's a hypothetical question, guys :confused: (better to plan things out before spending dough and busting knuckles, :eek: right?) Has...
It's a foregone conclusion that the 392 was THE ass-kicker among the early whales. :cool: And we all know that the Chrysler, DeSoto and Dodge...
I'm pretty new to the HAMB (Jimi'sHemi291), and I know I don't know how to navigate well yet, so bear with me. I'm not an all-around dumbass, just...
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