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‘26 touring body “Early” ‘26 touring, body only. Never restored and needs wood but decent overall. Western car with typical light rust but no major rust out or damage. Floor has been altered slightly to fit body over model A frame and clear rear crossmember. Send p.m. for more pics and info...

Search for the Northern California roadster/reliability run. I believe there’s an instagram just for it. It’s around 150 miles of great touring roads through wine country and along the sea coast every summer. Mostly early hotrods but many stockers participate. The pace is casual but it’s no...

I would think the length of the wire would be the more important factor. As stated the different types of insulation could change the number of windings necessary as could the diameter of the post, right? Maybe take apart a few and measure for an average length of wire and measure the diameter...

Im about to tackle my second one of those in recent years and considered making the wooden cab parts (admittedly the idea was to change the profile slightly instead of chopping the top) so it could be customized. After just a few minutes I realized the time involved would far exceed the number...

Re: YouTube Video Just Posted - Colorado 4 Houses Of Car Parts & Lot Of Cars For Sale I wonder if anyone any closer got a heads up about it or had a chance to buy everything and turned it down before it got cherry picked by guys from so far away. No offense to those guys, I would do the same...

I run two, a large and a small and almost everything goes in there. Saves a lot of time at the wire wheel as you can start the timer on the sonic and walk away while accomplishing other tasks. I have access to a large heated parts washer but those parts must be dried the second the timer goes...

Couple photos of how far up and behind the header panel the garnish piece has to fit… good luck and be glad yours is in better shape than this one! Anyone have pics or the measurements of the corner bracket that sits up there for the wood header and door frame? Thanks! Chris, in Boulder

I always crank my T and hand cranked my A a bunch, then one day it spun the crank backwards!?! Luckily I always crank left handed from 9 pm to 12 so just it shoved my hand out of the way. Knowing I had the timing correct I backed up and stared for a minute… Then I realized the steering column...

The whole cab is really just a big “box”, right? So, when I installed all new roof and body wood I had to keep all the corners pretty loose until both of those inner moldings would snuggle back in by “rocking” the whole windshield frame and the door openings back and forth. Then the header...

I’m currently building a hot rod big truck…. AA express on modified BB frame Bed and frame were rescued from a walnut farm in northern Ca. Three stake pockets, three hinge tailgate with no script, at least 100 feet long… Sectioned to remove damage and fit pickup. BB frame was also...

Get the column clamp at the box really tight! There is a possibility of the crank handle kicking back while hand starting if the column rotates on the housing and goes unnoticed! The spark lever, even all the way up will still have the timing advanced if the timing is set correctly and the...

I disassembled and sectioned a very rusty TT express bed for a hot rod and it was easy to see where the subframe and cross members matched the T frame rails and mounting holes. I imagine an AA bed would have a sub frame and cross members that match up to AA frame rails? I think also that AA beds...

Seems easy enough to plop an open cab on an AA? Could have been at the the dealer or at home. CCPU and open cab have the same footprint from cowl to back, no? Perhaps the term "roadster" implies a folding top, and no side glass, as opposed to "open cab", or fixed soft top and no side glass...

You could add a hand pump to pressurize the fuel tank only when and only as much as necessary. Requires some creative plumbing and a cap with no hole, and a relief valve somewhere but better than an electric pump over pressuring the system all the time. I would think a rich mixture would occur...

Someone save her! I wish my trucks’ hood fit that nicely. My hotrod 29 pickup with mustang running gear started that rough, with a tree growing through it! Perfect candidate for channeling and a roof chop and the chassis and block may still be useable to restorers…