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    Texas Inspection Sticker Placement - 1962 ?

    Back in 65 I was stationed at Dyess AFB ib Abiline texas ,drivin my 56 fairlane north towards Oklahoma going back home to Missouri on leave ,a Hy patrol cop,passed me going the other way ,he turrened arround and stopped me for a invalid sticker,on pass side of car. His partner walked up to...
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    Special tool.

    The way I've been doing it for the past 50 + years on them *$@# clips is to make my own homemade tool . A 6" piece of thin stiff wire (like a coat hanger) with a short hook on one end bent a little more than 90* then 4-5" long then another bend (I usually make a loop for my finger). I slip a...
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    390 in a 57

    It's been a long time but when I dropped a FE (64 427 ) in my 57 Custom way back in summer of 67 I used the factory 6 cylinder linkage but had to modify the engine mount side . I used the 6 cyl ball and madeup the necessary bracket to mount it to engine, you might want to think about renforcing...
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