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Just did a search and found this post http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=697238&highlight=forging but not a lot of other content....
Been making some panels out of mild steel and overall 18ga or 20ga seems to work just fine. Now I'm ready to try some things in Aluminum and...
With all the cars being stolen lately I'm considering putting GPS trackers in some of my own and my customers cars. I did a search and didn't...
Going out to see an engine collection today, owner wants to sell, mostly later model ('60s/'70s and even 80s) stuff that is not very interesting...
Giving back to the HAMB community. Just saw this post http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=614350 About a Hamb member loosing...
Got these two in a parts deal some time ago. Copper headlight buckets, painted black with a mount on top for a round turnsignal. The mount...
Polls seem to be anonymous, so this seems to be a good way to go. Over the last few years I've hired several people to work in my...
The engine I'm currently building has a double shaft generator, the shaft runs all the way through the generator with the pulley on the front and...
Taking on a pretty big project here, and I have plenty of questions. The overall build is documented here:...
Searched and couldn't find this easily available. Did some research and some drawing and made the following, these are the standard dimensions...
Happy with my new project :D Just bought it, picking it up this weekend. Got it from a collector with a yard and a barn full of cars who...
Anyone have a good reference for a freight forwarding and clearing agent? Need to ship some cars. Amsterdam or Rotterdam, either port city in...
RETRY, still looking to hire. We just moved into our new 10,000 sqft building and are busier than ever before. We pretty much work on anything...
Need some education here. I've been looking for a model A for a while, today I got an email from a acquaintance of an acquaintance of a friend of...
Just moved into our new 10,000 sqft building and are looking to hire our first employee to work with the owners of the company. We pretty much...
Not sure this fits here, if the moderators don't think it does, please close. About 2 years ago as the stock market crashed we shut down our...
Yes, I did a search, but didn't find much usefull, except for this recent post http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=496527 What...
Question first: Anyone have any ideas how I can soak the valves in a flathead with the heads on to get them loose? OK, rest of the story is...
Just a rant.. but if you have any ideas, I'm all ears. OLD, rusty, crappy looking flathead.. clean bores, not cracked in the oil pan or mains...
All of us to one extend or the other are dreamers, some live to make those dreams come true others dream on. We dream when we take on a new...
Recently I bought a large collection of parts from a 30 year collector. I'm slowly sorting through it all. Amongst the items I bought is a late...
Found a very nice set of tires on Craigslist yesterday, WWW big and littles, like new, very cheap.. guy didn't like the look on his '32 5 window.....
Just bought a large parts collection and have something weird. Part of the deal are 2 Mercury 4" flathead 1951-up crankshafts, both of them are...
Just bought a whole collection of Ford parts. The only body pieces are these 2 fenders, the guy I bought them off thought they were '35 coupe...
About 6 weeks ago I bought an offtopic part, for an offtopic car through craigslist.. decent deal but nothing special. When I went to pick it up...
Found some excellent articles on using Zephyr brakes on Ford spindles and then a great tech archive article on the parts to use to rebuild Zephyr...
It's been almost a year, but I think it's time to start telling the Hamb family what we are doing. My son was never interested in cars, but now...
I've build quite a few cars, but never one that I was planning to race. Now I'm building two that will likely see some FUN track time, Texas Thaw...
Question for all the car business owners on here. What kind of business insurance do you have? need? I ran a car business for a while and...
Until about 18 months ago I ran a car modification/restoration/customization business here in the Dallas area, had more work then I could handle...
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