Recent content by rustywrench

Study of recent hurricane and gasoline issues, among countless others, have proved the existence of a new chemical element. A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element has been named 'Governmentium.'...

thanks guys. its still early tuesday and i still dont know exactly whats going on. you know how hospitals are. i feel like a mushroom, i'm in the dark and being fed a bunch of s##t. last night they woke me up every hour to take blood or blood pressure or poke me in some way. i know i'm a very...

another nod for the box which is looking good. i too like the holes, pete

as i write this from room 104, memorial hospital, york pa, i'm thinking it coulda been alot worse, but still a drag. all last week my left elbow was hurting like h$ll. i knew i hadn't hurt it, but it kept getting worse. i finally drove myself here saturday morning at 1AM. well it turns out i'd...

gotta love finding old tin. thats gotta be a very dry climate. around here that stuff would have returned to the earth by now. the "finds" around here almost always involve a barn or shed.

my 37 packard will run under 10.90 if i put my big motor in it. it'll probably run high 9's. so calling a 10.90 rat rod the fastest is like anything called the fastest, biggest, whatever. theres always another that'll beat it.

still a good torque monster if the price is right. for further reference its very easy to tell an "FE" engine at a glance. all of them, 352 360 390 428 etc have an intake manifold that goes under the valve covers about an inch or so. if you can take the intake off without removing the valve...

i gotta agree on the car show thingy. i dont do car shows well. the car is a 69 custom s that i owned and raced from 1994 tp 1998 when i sold the car. i had the chance to buy it back, rolling a few months ago. so of course i did, since id regretted selling it deeply. i put an olds motor from my...

nope. it has an olds 464 in it (.040 over) 455. i have the poncho motor for it but it wasn't finished in time so i put the olds in it to go racing. i thrashed from 6am to midnight for 3 straight days to get it ready.

not a bad day at all........ www.beaversprings.com i'm the big ugly guy with the red and black 69 pontiac custom s (not tempest) lol.

great old truck

i just couldnt resist posting it when i found it. our younger crowd may not understand it but we old fogeys do.

one thing is for certain, in your and your sons hands it'll be one cool car someday. it couldnt have found better hands to end up in. keep us posted don. pete.

i'll be at the showdown, i live 5 minutes away.