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Well I hit a wall and have decided to go a different route with a different car for a different reason so the midget project is for sale. the midget was found in Springfield Mass and was originally a pre-war flat tail midget with a head blister added later. Its a manufactured stamped steel frame...

does anyone make a rebuild kit for the 37-39 v8-60 mechanical fuel pump? Paul

Here are some more progress pics from back in the Fall of 2013. A Re-cap of summer & Fall projects - I rebuilt & painting the front and rear axle's,fixed & painting the frame , set up and painted a mock up engine, fabricated an aluminum belly pan,fabricated the front engine mount and finished...

thanks guys! Bill I was trying for awhile to obtain pre-war gauges to do just what you said but finding ones that were the correct size,period & price never all added up. then I started looking for early SW gauges with the beveled glass- same deal basically. In the end I went with the duel...

on a lighter note, heres a few picks of my dash. almost done still need to polish it up.

Sad news! I took some time off of my midget restoration after thanksgiving to re-coup some cash & because it just gets to damm cold in the garage in winter. the last major project I did in november was to get the car on the wheels rolling with some new (used) slicks & I accomplished that...

Next I decided to rebuild the stock front spindles, they were still sealed & full of grease so all I did was clean ,inspect & repack the hubs, no problems there. I did need to install some new wheel studs so I did all 10 up front while I was at it. The old front I-beam & suspension was...

I had to make up a belly pan for the midget, normally they just used a belly pan for a floor (.060-.062” aluminum) but the previous owner had tacked in bent framing I presume to secure the belly pan too? I later found out that midgets used the belly pan as there floor but I decided to...

A few other odd ball pics (out of order)? original v8-60 oil pan before I skinned it of it's old starter cover, painted set up block (also the display block till I build the other engine). The frame was Swiss cheesed with holes from years of racing & bolting things on so I broke out the mig & a...

The next hurdle was to take the seized original rear apart to fix it + figure out a new drive shaft as the original one was now 4” too short along with the original t-tube. Getting the rear apart was no easy task but I did get it apart. I was all surface rusted the carrier was a homemade...

I decided I wanted the rear in it’s original “sprung over” location and cut out the rear cross member that the previous guy had moved & moved it back to its old spot with the addition of some new custom bent extensions since he cut the old ones off when he moved it back further into the chassis...

No that #2 car is my uncles, in the picture he is in the pits at Hatfield speeday 1957. after his crash the car was repaired by my grandfather & sold first locally & later the family was told the car was up in central ny area? Paul

GM -it had conventional belt driven system & cast covers, My uncles car ran an aftermarket cam gear cover and a crank driven water pump. My intent is to do the same either with an original used crank pump or a speedway motors knock off (just have to save up some mulla$$$) LOL I have been...

thanks for the good words. flatheadted - I guess you could, my rear section ,nose & center cowling is all aluminum. I have seen sheet metal flat tail midgets over on the Hamb site.

During my “on & off” build I was always looking to acquiring needed/missing parts for the midget. When I got the project it was missing one magnesium wheel. Just by dumb luck I found one on eBay & bought it, quickly. You see the 5 lug 12” magnesium midget wheels are super hard to find (one...