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Just bought a used starter for a Range Rover, to use on my'63 Olds 215 aluminum block engine in my '26 'T' Roaster hot rod I'm building. The stock starter was rather large in comparison to the space available, and the Rover starter is much smaller in diameter. I knew the Rover starter would...

It's very odd. The recent Studebaker Drivers rag has membership numbers for the last few years, broken out by states. Only a couple states have more members now than 4 years ago, and most states show a 5 to 10 percent drop in membership. So, if this is a good indication, one would expect that...

A couple weeks ago, I was at our local Model A parts supplier, "Rusty Lugs", (which by the way is a great place for us guys around the northwest to get parts in a hurry, as they have pretty good stock on most things, and the prices are quite reasonable). Anyway, I saw the MAFCA book "The Tudor...

For those of you unfamilure with Henrietta the rubber chicken, this is an award presented on model A tours in some clubs, when a breakdown occurs. (A rubber chicken is hung from the broken cars rear bumper.) It is sort of a play on the old proverbs, "Kick him when he is down", and "It's that...

Here is something to ponder regarding ignition coils: Lets say you have the high tension wire removed from your coil. Next let's say you open and close the points, causing the coil to trigger a spark. Where do you suppose that spark goes. It has no lead outside the coil for it to be able...

Does anyone know of adaptors that allow use of 21" wires on a Chevy hub. I'm planning to use S-10 disk hubs / brakes on an A, and the available adaptors from 4 3/4" to 5 1/2" bolt patterns don't account for the required support for the wire wheels. I know you can use the support plates, but...

It seems to me like something is missing here. There are really at least two schools of thought on "restoring" model As. (Well, maybe at least three.). There are actually a few guys out there who are interested in "restoring" to original. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING must be as it left...

I bought Elvira last fall, and it came with an FSI distributor installed. I'm playing with a Honda distributor project, so was checking out the FSI timing / advance before pulling it, and I discovered that whoever installed it, had set it at about 5 degrees after TDC, instead of the recommended...

I've modified a Honda distributor to fit Elvira, and in playing around with the timing, I noticed that my almost new HF dial back timing light reads about 40 degrees advance, when the Nurex timing tab shows 30 degrees (when dial back set to 0.) I then tried an old Chraftsman dial back, and it...