meviva
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Post by meviva on Dec 16, 2016 19:45:13 GMT -5
A few weeks ago we went to the Good Guys show in Scottsdale and most of the cars were driven in. There will be another Good Guys show in the spring, if we go we will drive it...but it's all freeway to get there, wouldn't want to take it on dirt roads though. I will probably drive it short distances around here every now and then just for fun.
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meviva
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Post by meviva on Dec 16, 2016 19:51:03 GMT -5
Wow!! That's cool and you are right he doesn't have one of those engines in his collection.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 16, 2016 19:55:55 GMT -5
Once you've driven it a few times, & see all of the heads you'll turn you'll be hooked. Your husband will have to pry the keys out of your fingers. Yours probably has modern suspension under it, & possibly power steering. It'll be easy to drive. Just like driving the family car. But it'll draw a lot more attention than the family car.
Mine still has the buggy spring suspension & original steering. It can be a handful on rough roads. But I'm an old goat who grew up with these cars. I wouldn't have mine any other way.
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Post by Pat on Dec 16, 2016 20:10:13 GMT -5
Both little cars are super cute! Yes, I always stare when they go by.
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Post by spiceman on Dec 16, 2016 20:33:50 GMT -5
Just a minute, a cool car and BIRDS don't go together. Bird stuff and paint doesn't go together either.
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meviva
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Post by meviva on Dec 16, 2016 20:58:29 GMT -5
Once you've driven it a few times, & see all of the heads you'll turn you'll be hooked. Your husband will have to pry the keys out of your fingers. Yours probably has modern suspension under it, & possibly power steering. It'll be easy to drive. Just like driving the family car. But it'll draw a lot more attention than the family car. Mine still has the buggy spring suspension & original steering. It can be a handful on rough roads. But I'm an old goat who grew up with these cars. I wouldn't have mine any other way. My husband has a 69 Chevelle that he did a lot of the work on. That's his favorite. Once I had to follow him when he was going to drop it off to get fuel injection installed and a lot of people stared at it. One guy was taking pictures of it with his phone while we were at a light. When the '34 was dropped off a few weeks ago, the driver had to unload it on the street outside of our neighborhood because our streets are too narrow. I drove it home about a quarter of a mile and it was not easy to steer. I think the only things we are going to do to it are add power steering and fuel injection. It has a carburetor, and it stinks up the garage something awful lol. I open the garage door a couple of times a day to air it out so it doesn't blow up. Lol. It makes me wonder what the air smelled like back in the 70's when all cars had carburetors. Gives me a headache. I think it's great that yours is original. It's fun seeing how the cars used to be. I don't think I have ever seen an engine like yours. I'm going to show it to my husband when he get home |
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meviva
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Post by meviva on Dec 16, 2016 21:00:30 GMT -5
Just a minute, a cool car and BIRDS don't go together. Bird stuff and paint doesn't go together either. Yea I agree. Good thing the bird was in the rock room and not the garage. The rocks and the birds get along just fine as long as the rocks behave.  |
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 16, 2016 21:48:02 GMT -5
Once you've driven it a few times, & see all of the heads you'll turn you'll be hooked. Your husband will have to pry the keys out of your fingers. Yours probably has modern suspension under it, & possibly power steering. It'll be easy to drive. Just like driving the family car. But it'll draw a lot more attention than the family car. Mine still has the buggy spring suspension & original steering. It can be a handful on rough roads. But I'm an old goat who grew up with these cars. I wouldn't have mine any other way. My husband has a 69 Chevelle that he did a lot of the work on. That's his favorite. Once I had to follow him when he was going to drop it off to get fuel injection installed and a lot of people stared at it. One guy was taking pictures of it with his phone while we were at a light. When the '34 was dropped off a few weeks ago, the driver had to unload it on the street outside of our neighborhood because our streets are too narrow. I drove it home about a quarter of a mile and it was not easy to steer. I think the only things we are going to do to it are add power steering and fuel injection. It has a carburetor, and it stinks up the garage something awful lol. I open the garage door a couple of times a day to air it out so it doesn't blow up. Lol. It makes me wonder what the air smelled like back in the 70's when all cars had carburetors. Gives me a headache. I think it's great that yours is original. It's fun seeing how the cars used to be. I don't think I have ever seen an engine like yours. I'm going to show it to my husband when he get home LOL. Mine is far from original. There are many modifications. IIt's built in the hot rod style of the 40"s & 50's with only a minor upgrade to a 12 volt system with turn signals. The original owner even had the frame work featured in Rod & Custom magazine a couple times. This takes a while to load, but your husband might enjoy the read. www.hotrod.com/articles/0708rc-boxing-the-frame/ and another on the hydraulic brakes & clutch. www.hotrod.com/articles/0811rc-hydraulic-brake-clutch-assembly-1930-ford-model-a/ |
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Post by meviva on Dec 16, 2016 22:09:02 GMT -5
Cool. I will show him the articles. Truth be told I don't know much about cars. I just know when I like them. He starts talking about the inner workings of the car and it just goes right over my head. All you hear me saying is uh huh, uh huh...lol.
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