Recent content by old car guy

Dear Jeery I can imagine the emotional toil that’s going on with you and the missus . What can any of us unaffected do to help you? It’s un believable how quick ones life can change and go into the toilet so quickly. One advantage to starting over is you have made the big purge and will be...

Just a ignorant question. Why if the lower pipe diameter is to small couldn’t you you a muffler tailpipe expander to increase the diameter or size of the pipe with out much difficulty. I use to do on other radiators when the size was off. I can’t see why it would be any different just because...

When you get Home and start to feel human again . Don’t and I repeat don’t try to play Superman and lift anything other than the dr gave instructions for. Give it a little time to heal . And your be as good as new again with no future issues . If you try to do other than what your dr. told you...

Wishing your Dad and all of the family a speedy recovery to this disease. Have been thru it with a whole slew of my family. And now it’s attached itself to my older brother. But with some luck and i f it’s caught early your Dad can and should see a significant cancer free period of time to...

Tim welcome to the Barn. One suggestion is to buy the best that you can afford. In the long run you will be money ahead. And get a club member or members in your area to go With you to help on the purchase of your garage baby. And another thing to remember is when you sell the house all you...

Burner yep the cars were indeed cheap in the late thirties. in reality they were cheap into the middle to late seventies. I wish I could go back to that time frame and buy buy buy. Even the higher end collector cars were not bringing the high end money till the early eighties.

Help full hint on the pressure washing to keep the mess to a minimum. Take a pallet ant take a old sheet and tack on top of it. Take any old plywood and make a box with a lid to go over the top . Drill some large hole saw type holes around at different locations on top and sides. Spray away...

Never got the meet the man . But did get to know him thru the posts he made. Sad but it’s what ii coming to all of us. I have a great friend and he has collected for over fifty years and he has decided to start liquidation of his collections. I have talked to him about it for quite awhile and...

The oven cleaner will do the trick. But be mindful when you are brushing it ,to wear a long sleeve shirt and gloves and most importantly good eye protection. That stuff will burn like hades. And forget it if you get into your eyes. Cleaning the parts is great. but not at the expense of your...

Take a long straight coat hanger and dig around as deep as you can go. Then take a good vacuum and seal off any place the air is escaping and start sucking . You will be amazed at what comes out. You really lucky that they do a dance in the cylinder bores. Let us know what you find when it’s...

To the best of my memory they were a stocking sku in our stores. I worked at three different locations. The years were 1964 to 1971 Wished I could go back and get some of the parts that we sold then for the prices we sold them for. Even with the pricing allowance for today’s inflationary...

Sold many of them back in the day from good old Western Auto.if memory is any where near correct they were ei29 or 39cents .

In the middle nineties I bought. Out a relatively small Ford dealership that had been operating since the early twenty model T days. No cars but a boat load of nos parts. Lots of unusual sheeet metal complete roof assembly’s fenders doors gets etc and a pair of nos short blocks with out the...

Your best solution would to be use 40 foot storage shipping containers . Fill them up and then have them hauled to your new location . I did this in the early 80 ties and again when I moved again in 2002.it was the best solution for me. Just remember there are weight limits for over the road...

Many years ago when I was in my 20ties the wife and I met a older gentleman sitting on the Veranda of the hotel we were vacationing at. He was just taking a break and worked their as a watchman just to have something to do. While the conversation was going he made mention did we see the old car...