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Cordoba tan, tan leather interior, excellent running condition. Less than 2K miles on new Flathead City engine. Not hot-rodded, 1948 industrial block, .060 overbore, mild cam. Original aluminum intake with single '97 carb. All the reliability goodies, Haney coil. Alternator on original 6V...

1936 Phaeton, Cordoba tan, tan leather interior, excellent running condition. Less than 2K miles on new Flathead City engine. Not hot-rodded, 1948 industrial block, .060 overbore, mild cam. Original aluminum intake with single '97 carb. All the reliability goodies, Haney coil. Alternator on...

Here's a link to the Great Race home page: https://www.greatrace.com/ Lots of info and a very interesting event. This isn't really a race as it is held on public roads. I think there is a bit of fast running that happens. :) There is also some specific prep on the cars to do the accurate...

Comcast has been showing Torchy Blane movies lately. They are full of 30s and 40s cars in pristine condition. Just finished watching one where Torchy (Glenda Farrel) is driving a '34 or '35 roadster and the crooks are sporting a beautiful Packard roadster. Can't identify many of the...

I had a very good experience selling through Streetside Classics. They moved my Model A in a couple of weeks and the entire transaction was pain free. They are mostly in eastern US and you need to take the car to one of their showrooms. I'm in the Atlanta area. John

I painted a '48 Jeep CJ2 with tan (sand) color rustoleum and it came out fairly well and was a durable finish. No noticible change after a year or so, always garaged. Have since sold the Jeep so can't answer for longer than that. I did the hood with rattle cans and brushed the rest of the...

Picture of the one on my '36 Phaeton. Car built in August of '35, near as my research can tell.

Same result: with alternator and 6V fan there is enough current for everything, fan, ignition, headlights,fuel pump and brake lights. Mine is 14 inch fan mounted as pusher in front of radiator. Never found enough space to put it behind the radiator. The only downside is that the radiator must...

I have a replacement fuel pump that was purchased about 2 years ago from one of the old Ford suppliers ( don't recall which one). The pump has started leaking around the diaphragm, an active leak, so I'll be fixing it for sure. Does anyone have experience with this and is it perhaps caused by...

Something I do not have is a fan shroud. My fan is a stock 4 blade unit with the tips trimmed to avoid hitting the header tank. My problem is certainly fan oriented, just not moving enough air. As soon as I can speed up a little, the temp comes right down. The fan is pitched in thr right...

Those are good points. The intake is the same one that came with the car, but I don't have enough experience to tell if it is a stock original. It is aluminum and has a single 97. The engine has been replaced with a later model industrial block unit, 59 AB heads. Everything fits well with the...

Some have responded (thanks very much) to my radiator cap question, but here are some more. Does anyone know of a smaller than stock diameter pulley for the generator. This is the pulley that has the fan bolted to it. My objective here is to increase the rpm of the generator shaft and fan...

Steve, I have installed a Brassworks radiator my car. It fits the mounting holes and has more fin area than stock. The header tank is shaped approximately the same as stock, but doesn't have some of the small features such as stamped in ribs that are on the stock unit. My original...

I do have a pair of 165 thermostats in the outlets from the heads (59AB heads). If driven very briskly, these t'stats appear to be wide open, but of course they still have a relatively small flow area. This is in Georgia summertime 90-95 degrees. The problem may go away in the fall when it...