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Please stay away from the rubber band tires. They look bad enough on a smaller pickup , on a vehicle this size you need some tire sidewall showing to make a balanced focal point. Otherwise, like on that yellow Pete, all you’ll see is a shiny wheel that looks like there’s no tire there. I used to...

I’m with Old Iron, next one I build will be a roller cam. Too many junk cores in the supply chain to chance getting a good one,and then the lifters might be bad as well.

I disagree, keep up with the news, and be prepared as much as you can be, but don’t let it overwhelm your life. When we go, either in the 82 Vette or the 47 Lincoln, we get a lot of the same age group people who are into the one or the other. I love it when kids like the 47, and blue hairs...

My thoughts: Buy something already running and driving, then personalize to your taste. You can get a lot more for your buck if you find something that someone is bailing out on. In most places the days of going to the wrecking yards and pulling out a project and a bunch of parts to build it are...

Yeah, I’d do like Tripper said and drill them out. They might break out without any trouble, and the might break where you don’t want them to!

15 year old thread! Valid question though. You can put a normal carb on that motor, but you may need a matching intake. You’ll need a DuraSpark I or II that isn’t computer controlled with the corresponding ignition box and wiring. You will be able to discard the computer since it won’t be...

After 7 years, I don’t think it’s going to sell to this market. Let’s face it, the odd Buick straight 8 isn’t exactly what most people are looking for. Not that it’s good or bad, just not a very big demand on a slow, heavy engine. If this were a Hemi or even dare I say a SBC, it would have...

Scratch that last post. We're not going afterall. Forecast is calling for rain Friday and Saturday. I may get caught out in a thunderstorm, but I'm not leaving on a 2 hour trip to a show and it already be raining here or there. Disappointed a bit, but you have to do what you have to do...

Funny that last years rant thread would pop back up! And the funny thing? My bad luck still holds! We had made plans and reservations a couple of months ago for the whole three day weekend. Then, three weeks ago or so, the facility that our grandson was at decided they were going to shut down...

Our last in county machine shop closed up a few years ago. Last set of heads that I had reworked I had to take them to Birmingham, 80 miles away. Don’t even know of a crank grinder in three connected counties. Luckily there is still a transmission builder about 30 miles away. But I suspect if it...

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Ok, we’re up to 31 members, most of which are from a recently closed Mustang and Ford board that we were all on. Even got one of the moderators from the HAMB, lol. Not a whole lot going on, but I expected that. Fakebook and the others have really hurt forums.

Some kind of vent bolt? Ford uses a similar deal on the old 8” & 9” rears, but not that big… Have tried McmasterCarr’s website?

Dang! How do you move that sucka? Forklift?

Congrats on the big 60 ! If Paul Harvey were still around yall would be in his hall of fame. 46 years here for me and the missus. I often said the reason we survived this long was that I was gone on the road most of the time, she couldn’t argue with me if I wasn’t home!

Back before the CDL (commercial driver license) , it was pretty common to get a drivers license from two or three different states, especially if you ran hard all the time. You get stopped, just pull out the one with the least amount of tickets on it! A guy who became a good friend later on had...

Well said Bob. That’s one thing that upsets me about another forum that I won’t name but we all know who it is…if anything other than living in a past era comes up, it’s quickly squashed. Even news about pending legislation is axed. Crawl in your comfy hole and everything will be fine. Not! I...

Looks spot on from here!

I kinda thought they got that design from some kindergartners….

Good write up! I remember unibilt points/condenser, they were just the ticket to change the points in a long hood car like a Monte Carlo where you had to reach a mile to the back with those tiny screws! I don’t remember them giving any problems back then, when the points wore out we tossed...