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Great looking old sprinter! Wondering if the “Heligas” is a misspelling of Hillegas - Hiram Hillegas was a well known sprint car manufacturer back...
Unless that’s what it takes to get it out on the road…. Better off driving it around having fun in a weird / neat old car than leaving it to rot....
Not sure I’ve ever looked at em both side by side before… A lot more differences that I would have guessed- but you can definitely see the...
Ab-so-friggin-lutely Bitchin
*SOLD* - thanks for lookin’
BTT
Old Dodge trucks need love too….
1959 Dodge Pickup project truck - HAS BEEN SOLD - 400 cu in Mopar Big Block, / Automatic / Holley Street Avenger 4bbl on a Weiand intake /...
A few years back a good friend of mine here in Iowa sold a 60 something caddy convertible project car. He’d realized he wasn’t going to ever get...
Have you tried "Hot Heads"? Their site has a bunch of old Hemi stuff & new stuff for old motors , mild to wild as the saying goes. The have a...
Another "Iowegian" keeping an eye on this for sure.... While I have a beautiful old Hotrod built in my head (several actually) & a few boxes of...
Nope- that'd be a flapjack distributor.... (Note to self - stop replying to Pancake Headed Rabbit Dist. threads on the H.A.M.B. At 3:45 in the AM...)
I blame Dad... his stories about his sports car rally racing adventures when he was in the army in TX - he had a '56 Austin Healey (& later a'57...
Thanks for all the great pic's & stories- Inspired me to keep the camera handy on the next trip instead of leaving it in the trunk. Heck, I might...
Got a couple- A few years back I had an "off topic" '66 Plymouth Barracuda that was that weird 60's greenish gold color. Guy walks around it a few...
Southern Culture On the Skids (or S.C.O.T.S) "Voodoo Cadillac" [MEDIA] Or almost anything by Little Charlie & the Nightcats [MEDIA] [MEDIA]
Been a while since any new logos were added.... from back when design meant something [ATTACH]
I believe this is my new favorite phrase.:D & goofy shtuff or no - I love the car!
They make great cruisers, & a decent conv. (of any brand) will always be in demand even in fairly rough shape. Overall, I've seen some very cool...
Thanks TRJ!
A couple more from chromeography.com : [ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH]
It also helps that cars then actually had names, not just random collections of letters & numbers.
Vintage Logos - Automotive & other commercial applications have a style & quality typography rarely seen these days. Recently I stumbled across a...
A while back "Big Mac" had a post about finding a cool old panel truck. I asked him if I could use it as a base for a t-shirt illustration for a...
Until I saw these I was leaning in the direction of no, but a vintage "Special" would be x-tra cool - & should be at least as "Hamb worthy" as...
Should be the same Mopar - Ford bolt pattern that was used for decades. Just need to find some Left Hand Thread lug nuts - or replace the studs...
Whew, Glad to see everyone back up & rollin down the interweb like normal. I actually had to do some extra work yesterday afternoon instead of...
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