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Undamaged. Light rust on the back and a few spots on the front.

I have a pair of bumpers that came with our little '34 pickup hot rod, but will not ever use them. Undamaged, but with some surface rust. Will post on Swap Meet but no idea what they might be worth. There are none on Swap Meet and none on Ebay. Any suggestion regarding a fair but quick-sale...

Took the '41 coupe on a 300 mile out-and-back trip this past Saturday, almost all on Interstate 64. I ran 65 to 70 mph there and got 16 mpg. Engine temp went up from the usual thermostat 170 degrees to about 180, and 195 going over Afton mountain, a climb of about 1200 feet over 4 miles. Ran...

I was so pleased that replacing the coil fixed my loosing power for rpm over 3500, under load. And then on my way back home at about 40 MPH and 1500 rpm on lever ground i noticed a slight miss. It is persistent and annoying. Things to try: - put some Seafoam in the tank - run some MMO...

To replace the broken door glass on my '41 coupe, I am trying to remove the upholstery panel. Window frame came out with little trouble. I expected the usual fight with the door and crank handle pin removal. But this time I am stumped. The pin is frozen hard into the handle. Put the right...

When the window was rolled up after the Fourth of July parade, this is what we saw. I happened with the window rolled all the way down. Why? The door was not slammed any harder than the usual firm shove that it takes for the door to latch. I have purchased an OEM replacement glass for a '41...

With electric fuel pump through the mechanical pump, I am pretty sure it is not fuel starvation. Chevy valves from Flathead Jack, height and notch for flathead. Zephyr type valve springs from the 70's. Johnson lifters. So I am pretty sure it is not valve float. Recently rebuilt...

1941 Ford. You know those little cylindrical insulators that go around the screws that hold the horn ring to the horn attachment plate? The horn ring is supposed to be able to slide up and down on them a little bit as the horn is pressed against the spring and foam ring into contact with...

On a 59A/B block with Offy 425 heads and generator offset to the left/driver side, what fan belt might work? And where might I find one? Thinking about taking a cross-country trip and do not want to leave without a spare belt.

I have been helping a non-Barn friend with his '39 fire engine. Got it running but died when hot. It was the helmet coil, oozing tar. He would like to keep an original style coil and asked about the Dennis Carpenter reproduction 78-12024-A. This is a parade vehicle, so it just needs to...

Yes, I know that is a 1951 Studebaker Commander, not a Ford. It was the family car; beautiful, but would not pull the hat off of your head. Nonetheless, if you could get parts for that car like you can for early V8s, I would own one. To the lower left is my dog Widget. Just above Widget...

The rear cam bearing got installed back too far; about 1/16" into the hole where the fuel pump push rod drops onto the fuel pump lobe on the cam. Push rod is blocked. Engine is in the car working on an electric fuel pump, but I would like to have it go through the mechanical pump for...

The bars from the center horn button to the half-ring for the '41 Super Deluxe were too-thin pot metal, and virtually all of them are broken. After several attempts, I am convinced that there is no repair that will hold up against a panic smack on the horn ring. The '46 - '48 rings are...

Occasionally, becoming more often, when I go to open the driver's door on my coupe, the handle turns with some resistance, but slips and does not unlatch the door. If I push in on the door handle and turn, it engages and unlatches the door. Can there be slippage between the handle and shaft...

The throwout bearing was working quietly when I pulled the engine for rebuild a few years ago. Some of the available replacements were suspect at the time so I followed the "it ain't broke" rule. Now it is chirping when the clutch is depressed. It is going to have to get a lot worse for...

The spot welds on that hold the hood spring connecting bracket to the hood inner support structure broke loose on the driver side. It is a little awkward to get to, but I have the spot welds drilled out so it should not be too bad to weld back in place. The alignment pins take most of the load...

Occasionally when I turned the driver door handle down, it slipped and did not unlatch the door. If I pushed in on it and turned, it would work. That had me worried that I could end up locked out of the car if the passenger door was locked. A little homework on door handles revealed that...

In trying to find my intermittent headlight short circuit (blown fuses), I came upon a mystery. With every switch in the car off, my Ohmmeter showed about 500 Ohms from the battery to ground. On my 12v car, that would result in a current leak of 24 milliamps, with the car turned off. That...

My '41 coupe has one of the replacement headlight switches that has a fuse holder on top. Seems like a good idea, compared to the old circuit breakers. And the old style switches were a bear to remove because of the need to insert something into an impossible-to-find slot on the switch in...

This (first picture) break happened while loafing along at 35 mph. Just touched the throttle to catch up with traffic and "nothing". How is that possible? Every time I take the '41 our I floor it in second gear, just to be sure that the secondaries get some fresh fuel through them. That...