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I put the ball in the seller's court to call me. No more vague messages through eBay. I'll update if he calls. With Christmas coming up I need to watch my vacation hours. I might drive out on a weekend to look at it, but my holiday schedule of family visits kind of makes that difficult, too...
If you don't sign in, regardless of being a gold member, you don't see any PMs or references to your user name.
...and the "new posts/recent posts" has no way of knowing if there are any.
I still have some of her insignia.
I also have a surplus store (back when they actually sold surplus) Korean era Army Air Corps flight cap.
Dang, I just realized I forgot collecting "vintage militaria".
...and "counterfeit (illegal sales promo)" and oddball currency.
My street car weighs 3885 with me. Runs 11.0's. 4.30 gear with homemade leaf springs using the leaf pac on the stock main leaf from a Hemi GTX. 10.5x28 M/T. Never spins. Now has 9 way adjustables on rear making it quicker in 60ft, 1.53.
Doug
1- Push buttons are "super cool".
2- A gear vendors OD will allow you to keep it and likely be less of an installation issue than a trans with built in OD.
3- I believe a FABO member installed a more modern OD trans (A999?) in a duster with few mods.
4- Lockup converter?
5- Pre 1968, a 2.94...
I'm currently running 10.5x28 mickeys that need replacing, with 10x28 hoosiers ready to go.
If I were you.... I'd try the Mickey Pro Bracket Radials (slicks, not drag radials)
10.5x28, or 10.5x29.5, depending on room and gear. X5 compound.
As much as a love the look of those "8 lug" wheels...
...even in the late 1970's/early 80's is wasn't super easy to find them.
My mom's first car was a 59 bonneville, around 1975.
Kind of an odd idea having the brake drum be an integral part of the wheel.
Probably good for heat dissipation.
Yeah, that's a huge issue.
I finally narrowed my scope to 1948 PRR.
Xenia line ran near my house.
More readily available prototype correct models.
Can run steam (including some real oddballs and some from other roads) and almost all available first gen diesels (again including some real...