Recent content by jmel

I'm currently running a little gutless 305 in my '27. Naturally, its gutless by my own doing as I wanted a wicked sounding engine and ended up putting way too much cam in it. Sounds mean as F***, but it really is gutless - all bark and no bite. With that being said, I have a 350 set aside...

Not done yet - but almost:

Ok, realistically - what does it cost to get a solid running hemi. I hear that its a rich mans game at that point, and know of people who have $15K+ into them. Without going crazy - what are we talking here? I'm not referring to the deal of a lifetime hemi's, and not talking about a gem of an...

Thanks for the comments everybody. You're making me feel a bit better about my purchase. I think it was the right move, but I get buyers remourse really easily. Its money that I should have spent towards other bills...but its something that the roadster "needed". Now I just gotta sell my...

Thanks!!! Good point for some previous pictures for comparison. Here's the car with the Rallys

Bought the ole lady some new tires/wheels this weekend. Was a hard decision, because nothing wrong with my old tires/wheels - other than the fact that they were rally style wheels and not exactly the style I wanted - hell my tires were only 6-8 months old, and the tires i bought were a bit more...

Surely you jest...

She's def a fair weather car...gets driven in 105 degrees and 30 degrees,.but if there is anything more than a 20 or 30% chance of rain, she stays in the garage. I've only been caught in one freak rain storm and that sucked ass. Was sunny when I left my house,.and was sunny when I got to my...

Thanks for the insight everybody...haven't scared me off, so I'm still happy...would like more life though. Luckily, his bigs that I'm also buying are period correct. Pie cut firestones 7.00-16's with 4" wide whites. I have wide white bias plys right now, but they are on 15 rally style...

I'm about to pull the trigger on a set of used tires/wheels from a friend. Among wheels/rings/disks that I'm completely in love with, they also include a set of MT Cheaters. I went over there to take some pictures so I could post an ad for him, but for fun, decided that I wanted to see one of...

I'm bad about welding while wearing jeans with frayed cuffs...have caught them on fire more than one time. Also changed my carb on my '27 last year...in the process, obviously spilled gas on the intake and threw a shop towel on it to help soak it up. In the process of hooking up the new...

SBC 350 w/ th350. Need to work on throw of gas pedal, as of now, its only pulling maybe 50% throttle when your foot is to the floor. I think i'll keep it as is for a while to keep the misses out of trouble. She might have too much fun burning up those purdy new wide whites with full power.

LOL. Well, there are a few things.that have to be addressed. For starters, I went to take her out to get dinner a few.minutes ago and she won't start. Drove it all weekend without issues. Wife is mad at me...thinks I broke her car. I haven't even driven it 2 miles since we got it, and I...

My wifes Ford Escape is getting a bit old and high on the miles, was about time to start thinking about replacing it. Wife decided that she wanted another Escape, but i didn't want to pay that much for a car. I strategically posed the question - wouldn't you rather have a sled? We can get a...

What is it? At first glance i thought it was a ford...but its not. Cowl is all wrong, so is the the rear. Not sure what it is.