Recent content by Pete2125

That would be great. Thankfully they must have done away with that rule because when I relocated to FL, I didn't have to retake the test. I do remember when I took my drivers test in NJ I took it in a manual transmission car. The instructor got in, looked at me and said, "If you stall once...

My Dad and I used our licence plates. His starts with KTY so he calls her Katie. Mine was IK so I call him Ike.

That's not even a Model A anymore... On a different note, can they even see out the windshield?

These guys do the painted wood grain. They have a video of doing a Model A dash panel right on their main page. http://woodgraining.com/

There is a place in Florida that has all the tools to reproduce the wood grain. I have the same problem, someone painted all my town sedans trim black... I'm eventually going to bring it here. Check them out on the web. http://woodgraining.com/

Thanks CabrioletDon. Yes its a lot of work. We did it on my dads coupe a few years ago but we had a new one that he had bought 40 years ago. Unfortunaly I'm not so luck to have one laying around... I've attached a pic of my damaged one and a pic of the car my dad and I restored. When they...

Great information! Thanks, everyone!

Check the hight of the hole against the dam where the valve tapet is. There was a dam where that hole is that let oil flow to the timing gear, however it became popular in the 70's to smash the dam out with a hammer to allow more oil flow to the timing gears. While most peolpe that did this...

Thanks, for everyones advise so far. I would have welded it but like I said there is a large chunk of steel missing. I do mean missing, gone, vanished. Probably 2"x2" and the missing piece has a radius on it so it would be difficult to fabricate. If that's the road I have to go down, I will...

SO... My radiator was leaking and I started to take it out to get re-cored. After I took the shroud off I found that the front frame crossmember was cracked where the front spring and crank bracket mount. There is actually a chunk of the steel missing... Anyone have any suggestions on where I...

When done correctly, the car will stop very quickly. My Dad and I completely redid the brakes on his coupe (as per the instuctions in the "Restorer" don't remember the issue number) and that car stops on a dime. There is a LOT to mechanical brakes that effects stopping distance. To name just...

Thanks everybody for the help and info. I just posted a nice reply that somehow got lost in the ether and didn't show up.:mad: I'm coming off a 14 hour day so I'm not going to rewrite it now. Anyway I fgound all your comments and posts very helpful.:)

Hello everyone. New member here looking for some windshield wiper advise. Let me apologize in advance for what may be a lengthy post. For info purposes I just bought a 1930 Fordor Sedan, briggs body, early '30 has the oval speedo. Well this car didn't have a windshield wiper installed on it...