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Those cars are a lot rarer than an A. And their owners have money and will spend it. It is common to exchange 54-62 Chevy sixes with full pressure oiling for the babbit pounders, swap transmissions, and make other changes to late prewar or early postwar Chevys, I know that. I know that if I...

Not anywhere in the Midwest, that's for sure. California hot rodding is the best documented because that's where all the media was done. The East Coast had hot rods but the media there were not very interested in them. It was seen as a declasse' activity. It was infra dig. Still, no Bettie...

Re: "WSJ" article "Henry Ford's Experiment to Build a Better Worker" He was a very smart man in some ways and quite stupid in others. He would not have a six cylinder engine because he built one with an incorrect crank layout and it shook badly and broke cranks. He also did not believe in...

If you have a counterweighted crank shouldn't the flywheel be lightened because you already have added reciprocating mass?

99 percent of these "traditional hot rods" are not traditional at all in terms of what actually was done back then. Most hot rods were very regional, people in a certain area usually did similar things. And the pictures we see in the old hot rod books and magazines and from Hollywood films are...

It might be a Hot Rod but probably not a Street Rod, although a street rod could have a flathead...with lots of chrome crap on it and an otherwise modern driveline. Then again it could just be a modified car. A lot of these did not have hot rod appearance modifications or any speed equipment...

Pretty much. Despite unemployment, car labor is skyrocketing because few people want to do hot or cold dirty work any more. And restored high dollar CCCA classics and exotics and pro built street rods are bringing stupid money and that's where the talent goes. And the only way to learn to do...

Apparently you are one of those people that think anything modified is a Street Rod. A Street Rod usually has a late model driveline and engine and is not like an old car. Usually built out of overpriced aftermarket parts entirely. I think he specifically wants an A with a flathead V8 in it...

The Edsel wasn't a bad car in any way and the styling wasn't all that bizarre by fifties standards. It was mostly an example of herd mentality, the meme got started that it was a dud and then no one would have a car that was the butt of jokes. It was a time of mass conformity, moreso than today.

Suppression resistors act to dampen the Q of the tuned circuit formed by the plug wire and capacitance to ground. In a metal bodied car solid core works fine with resistors so long as you have a good ground strap from the hood to the firewall or frame. Carbon core wires stink and should be...

That was the thinking. Fire was the big fear, no fuel cells, no Nomex. The expectation of safety was not there. What changed things was the expectation that if the carnage was not at least reduced auto racing would be outlawed or lawsuits would make insurance unavailable. Auto racing became...

I'm guessing a rural mail carrier might want a RHD car and I wonder if the USPS or private contractors bought them that way when new in the US. As to why someone would convert a car, in some countries only RHD cars are legal. That was the case in Australia, it was on the state rather than...

Does it have a Sears model number, three digits, a decimal and numbers after that?

Not necessarily. Tools improved a lot after WWII and the good ones made today, SO, Stahlwille, etc are as good as any in history. The old tools were often outrageously heavy and bulky and that matters a lot when you use them all the time.

No, very educational.