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Hello. No Pre-Slicing needed. I made the cutting edges from old chevy leaf spring. I think they are hardened steel. My first american car was -64...
Here is my homemade louver tool. I use it with hydraulic press (home made too). Also picture of my barbeque grill with louvers made by that tool....
Someone asked about shocks. Volvo 122S (amazon in europe) front shocks fit without modifications (as did those Saab springs also).
I searched spring gatalogs anf found Saab 900 turbo rearsprings( don't know how easily you find them on your country) that worked great for me as...
I guess i have to say yes. My Chevy on front and neighbours at the background. [IMG]
Yes they are radials, but too bad that they are so old, that soon I have to replace them with some other new tires.
[IMG] Ol´rockabilly
Í have done it too on my -57. I used saginav powersteering pump, similar which was used on most GM cars at least thru 80´s. Mine was from -69...
I just found these for very reasonable cost and tried them on my Chevy. They are 14x7 and I think they might be Keystones. Tight fit with front...
[IMG] [IMG] [IMG] Three different late 50´s/60´s style. Lowest is from couple a years ago, middle one with lancers and whitewalls is from this...
If you have picture of your dads car with those caps, I would appreciate it very much, if you could post it here.
Today at least here in Finland it seems to be harder and harder to score real finds at your local swap meet specially if your intrests are on hot...
[IMG] Very mild, but we are getting there.
[IMG] I would like to see this one with 2 1/2" wide whitewalls on black steelies with chrome wheelnuts and chrome bullet greasecaps(those last...
In this 40`s film there`s youngsters driving a fenderless hot rod roadster at 1:48 and behind it at side of the road there is another one with...
Thanks. that`s exactly what i was looking for. Maybe some lowering at rear and that could be the plan for nexr summer.
Let´s give this one some mild-kustom touch, would be nice to see it with whitewalls, -57 Caddy hubcaps, lakepipes and dummy spotlights.[IMG]
Thanks, I just noticed a picture of your -55 and when looking at it, it just makes me wondering, why people don´t build more trifives that way....
I have been driving this allmost every day at summertime now for 7 years, and some testdrives at winter too :)
I have owned that car since 2011. I had to do quite much rust repairing to it and lot of finishing to interior, windows, motor and so on... We...
Thanks for your kind words, is there any possibilities in there to find out old cars history(owners or something) by VIN number? Would be nice to...
Hello, I´m new member from Finland, been on this site several times, but have never registered, but better late, than never. Summertimes I drive...
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