Recent content by shortyforty

WOW, thats a picture of same truck I clipped out of our local newspaper back in 1989

I had this 39 cab and picked up a 78 Datsun B620 truck frame ten years ago for $100. I liked the fact it has disk brakes and I can set the ride hight up or down a couple inches with the torsion bar suspension. Has a 53 Merc setting in it. Its in the back of the barn and I haven't touched it much...

Here's ours. It's all stock right now. Plan to lower it and put in a 302 with AOD soon, the 223 has a bad valve guide and can't drive it since last summer.

Last week I was watching an old episode of "Emergency!" on TV and caught this on Video tape. The guys were called to a repair shop were a young kid had a tire blow up on him. In the background was what looks like the Milner coupe. The show was 1976, season 6 episode 8 "Captain Hook"

if you are converted to 12 volts are you running a Generator or Atenator? Altenators can generate more electrical noise that might interfere. Or the electrical noise from the coil spark if you have a bad ground in the system. Also could just have a bad meter. Try it on another vehicle and see if...

I have a couple Edlebrocks and when they sit for a long time (with gas in the bowl) they tend to get clogged from the gas (15% ethanol) varnishing up. I don't seem to have that problem with the two Holleys on the other cars.

Are you running a 6 volt battery and is the digital gauge a 12 volt?

Not very elegant, but a model A PU on a tri 5 chevy frame

Sometimes the gloves can be a bad thing. A couple years ago my neighbor was mig welding some small peices clamped in the vise and had his gloves on. The wire got to the end of the peice and the hot wire went right through the glove into his finger. It only hurt for a second until a couple days...

We haven't gone for a couple years now. Read in one of the local cruisin' papers that he stiffed them for all the advertising they posted in the paper. I guess there is no limit to years of vehicles. Did get to meet some of the pioneers of the car world over the years there though.

My take on this is it will mostly get rid of the clunker front wheel drive cars. Most people who have older cars have them because they can't pay for a new one, even if they get 4K for clunker, they will still have to make the payment for the new one. These are hard times and low/middle income...

I think Rod and Custom mag did an article on this a while back. I'll have to paw through back issues and see what was there.

The worst is the 94 Jimmy that I still have for backup transportation. The best was my 65 Mustang convertible I paid $100 for in '73 while I was rebuilding my 65 GTO. I beat the crap out of that 289 3 speed and it just kept going and going until I sold it for $25 for gas money to drive the goat...

I remember that stuff when I was a kid, they sold it for decoration for Christmas Trees.

This adapter is suppose to work both ways. Don't know anythig about it but it gives the bolt hole locations in the specs. http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Manual-Transmission-Adapters,810.html