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I believe he and my father were sitting on the running boards of that car and chatting one day about the time my brother and I first met Tom. My brother and I had gone over their to pick up some parts and we took my father along as we knew he'd get a kick out of seeing Tom's facilities. My...

It's been a while since I posted and unfortunately this is not a happy post. I don't know if this was posted on this forum yet, but I did not find any mention in a search for it. I just learned that Tom Stewart, who had been working on vintage Fords for over 60 years died in a plane crash...

$525 for my dad's 32 Roadster 50's hot rod. That was around 1980. He said he just wanted what he paid for it - that was in 1955.

For the wrap on this, we opted to go with a VW banjo in ivory. It sets off nicely with the red paint. We'll track down a Ford emblem to put on the horn button. We welded a Grant style disconnect to the column. Mounting the wheel to the mating part of the disconnect required "oblonging" the 3...

A general question on the '40 wheel, most seem to be designed for a spline attach. Can the backs though be drilled for a 3 bolt attach?

I figured the feel would be different. My guess is the car is so light the turning will still be OK.

Here's a pic of the wheel. It is definitely 17" diameter measured on the outside of the hand grip. The car was built in the late 40's or early 50's. Question I guess is does the size go by the OD, ID, or in the middle. A 15" OD would be OK.

Thanks all for the replies. Tim to your replies, the car does still have the tapered shaft. However, we were considering modifying this to put in a quick disconnect for the wheel. The fact is the low boy style is tough to get into. Perhaps a 15" wheel would alleviate that. Looking at the 40...

It is a gorgeous wheel, but the cost is not in the budget. If I could pick up a ratty one for a few hundred it could work as the car is about half rat rod.

Here's another thread with a pic. There is effectively no interior yet. Just a couple 65 or so Mustang buckets. Some guy never paid for the work done on it at my grandfather's garage, so we appropriated the seats temporarily, that was about 1974. Now wish I had appropriated the whole Mustang...

For sure, budget is the issue. Had we thought about a different wheel on round one of this project, aka the 1970's, there was no end of the cool wheels we could have found in the junkyards for a couple bucks. Anyway, now we're talking what can we do for a couple hundred.

Well, the rebirth of our Dad's 32 low boy roadster continues. It is now even registered, plates and all. Let's just say that walking into the DMV with a 1955 transferable registration for a 32 Roadster leads to some interesting conversations. That aside, the engine still needs some tuning, but...

Flathead, Thank-you very much for that in depth description. It certainly covers it. On the propane issue, if you'll forgive the reference to a GM, the latter quadrajets, such as on my 80 vette were also supposed to have idle mixture set this way. But it was not for optimal idle. The method...

Thanks Bored. That certainly makes sense.

We're getting it back together with the carbs hopefully clear of leaking fuel. With the needle valves leaned in better it's idling much better. But we had only a short on period, i.e. never warmed up. Lousy weather of date. We'll keep on the path we're heading down. Not steps is let it warm up...

Solidaxle, Yes the jets were 45's. The engine sat for 40 years. It was fully torn down, baked, magnafluxed. Crank, cam (3/4 race), rods replaced with used but in spec stuff. Kept the 040 overbore pistons. New crank bearings, new valves, used in spec adjustable lifters. Rebuild guided by a guy...

Not yet. We pulled the tops to check where the fuel was cutting off. One was too high. So, given that we pulled the carbs to check them out in general. We found one gasket leaking. And since we had them at that level we opted to drop down to 43 jets and are waiting on them. Yeah, I know...

Just a wrap note on this thread. We installed 180 t'stats. We went to using some stainless tubing between the hose off the heads and into radiator. We just lest the t'stats bump up to the tubing. We did drill a 1/8" hole in each t'stat to allow some flow before than open and to give air an...

First drive in 40+ years

Ronnie, thanks for the reply. I did buy a uni-syn unit. So we can go with that. I just wasn't sure if there was some way to get close first and then use it. Thanks for clarifying that.