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    38 Ford turn signals

    I don´t know about the laws in your location, but you could use your rear brake lamps to do the job, using an old switch ( Guide, and others ),that was added to the steering column back in the days. For the front the reflectors can be drilled to add an extra orange bulb, barely visibles with the...
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    Banjo Steering Wheel Question

    Hi, just fixed mine today. It´s a 39, each spacer have the three round dents and the two outer and center spokes have a V shape dent too. Drilled a 1,5 mm diameter ( sorry, i´m metric ) hole to each spacer dent aligned with the spokes ones and drived pins press fit to each. If your spokes...
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    Macs - Ecklers , delays ?

    I`ve placed orders to Mac`s two times, the first one in 2016 shipped to an hotel in New York( I was there to receive the parts) , and the second shipped to Argentina, and it took 10 days since the order to the arrival, never used the phone, just e-mails, and everything turns out OK, so no...
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    Nice Surprise !

    Nice, It looks like a Ford Van Gogh version! Congrats!
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    Need help finding a bearing-Not V8

    Torrington perhaps?
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    Another myth put out to pasture

    This is getting interesting, so...what about the storage of an engine block? If gravity can distort a crankshaft, can I think that a block in vertical position could suffer the same effect?
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    Filter or not to filter that is the question

    Hi, a question for 19Fordy; is that carb a holley 2300? I have one installed in my coupe, with a 239 ci. I barely started it a few times ( is still unfinished ) and I´ll glad to know what metering body and jets you have. Thanks in advance, Ricardo.
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    Profound Thank you to everyone who has helped me get my car on the road

    Hey, akivaus, have you ever talked to your wife for a while in a mall and suddenly noticed that she's not there anymore, and the person next to you is staring at you funny?. Well, it seems that happened again. ( just kidding, sorry ). Jeff, great car and great story
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    My flathead leaks oil gas and water, has no compression and I'm pleased

    Except for the compression issue, mine leaks oil, water and gas, without cutaways!
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    Photos from 'The Gathering'

    Brian, thanks for sharing. Ricardo.
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    Some classics from way south

    It´s a 1936 SS ( Jaguar ) 100.
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    Some classics from way south

    3 blowers Bentleys togeter in fact, check out again, even hard to see.
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    Some classics from way south

    Not Fords, but so beautiful that they deserves to be posted. The lines of late 20´s and 30´s just can´t be beaten.
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    Some classics from way south

    These are just a few of the beautiful classics cars (Early V8 Ford in this pics, I don´t want to be off topic) displayed at Autoclasica 2013, a great annual expo at Buenos Aires, with several rare machines hardly seen, at least in other countries around here
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    Coupe seat mounting holes

    Thanks for your replies, gonna help me to do the job once and right without the seat (still searching for a decent one), so I can bolt anything meanwhile,but using the right holes. Again, thanks for your time. Ricardo.
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