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Especially with the whitewalls!

Why did you have to go and mention Scotty Kilmer??! You just ruined a perfectly good day with that mental image!

Re: Frame spread with F150 ****** in stock A Frame Who came up with this nonsense??!

Re: Frame spread with F150 ****** in stock A Frame Well, my Model A had a ******, but not two trannies!

Re: Frame spread with F150 ****** in stock A Frame Hmmm, let me try something: Trans Transmission ****** Transmit Transforms Transcending Transom

Re: Frame spread with F150 ****** in stock A Frame Is there now some sort of brainless censor idiot turned loose...

Re: Frame spread with F150 ****** in stock A Frame What's with the stupid stars all of a sudden?!

Re: Frame spread with F150 ****** in stock A Frame Did you mean an F150 ******?

Before getting carried away with inner tube details, you need to find a source of genuine 1929 air to fill those tubes! Otherwise, your restoration efforts will fall short!

The slogan to use is: "Adapt and Overcome!" Scrounge some iron from that scrap pile behind the garage and commence fabricating! "Don't buy it, make it!"

Forget all the vacuum voodoo hocus-pocus! Set the timing to the factory marks with a timing light, following the factory method. Mark the distributor base and the block (or head) with a center punch. These dots will serve as a reference point for your experimenting. You can move the distributor...

In the mid-50's 32's were still cheap. Someone could have bought it to go dirt track racing, in which case it would have a short life! In the early '60's I often went to a 1/2 mile dirt track in southern Minnesota. One of the top drivers always had a pristine '32 coupe. If it got wrecked, he...

None of which will keep it from running! Engines in this condition used to be driven cross country! Gas stations and parts stores used to sell "re-refined" oil for cheap. You just added oil as needed and kept going. If a spark plug fouled, you scraped it out with a pocket knife, etc. and kept...

This is fact!! Anyone who thinks a "40,000 volt" coil always puts out 40,000 volts at every spark needs to copy this and put it on the shop refrigerator!

Could you do a hybrid project? That is, design a head that bolts to a standard Model A or B block (bolt pattern, lifter location, water pump, etc. all in stock locations) and uses modern port shapes and sizes, valves, rocker arms and attaching hardware?