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John, that sure does look like a starter to me...

And if they were anything like my bald-head ancestors, they did it all the hard way! Even after there were trucks and other machines to make it easier! I enjoyed the "Foods that built America" series. I've watched bits and pieces of others. Mass market entertainment, sure, but not like that lowest common denominator mess aimed at "car people". Wish I could restore a car in a week...

Vacuum drops under more throttle opening? Maybe distributor mechanical advance is sticking. Yes, Leland. Connect a vacuum gage to an intake manifold vacuum tap. Vacuum readings can tell a lot about an engine's health. At normal idle, vacuum should be fairly high (17-19" Hg) and steady. A simple and quick vacuum advance test is to remove distributor cap and suck on the vacuum tube to the advance diaphragm. If it moves, it's probably good.

Find one familiar with tractor and industrial engines. Lot of those have sleeved blocks.

That shade of metallic blue is notoriously hard to match on any carline. GM had a similar shade of blue in the 70s and the 73-77 Oldsmobile Service Guilds and Technical Bulletins are full of "solutions" to correctly match touched-up areas and collision repairs. Apparently as little as 3psi difference in air pressure at the gun would throw that color off shade.

First, join National Antique Olds Club www.antiqueolds.org and start a "parts wanted" ad. Then research what GM cars were built on the same platform and look there. I think Pontiac and possibly Chevrolet or Buick used the same Fisher Body shell as your '37.

Well put.

No doubt due to dealer service tech complaints. I find it interesting that Gulf Oil Co. Type A is specifically recommended for Ultramatic.

I want to know where Joe P found that wonderful toy!😎

Invariably, anytime a statute has a punitive fine attached, raising revenue is part of the deal. If one government entity succeeds at it, the rest will take notice. Similar to Dr Pavlov's renowned slobbering dogs.

That info was not in the original post made yesterday, if you're inferring we didn't read it.

🙂 Along with the old-style flex tubes that conveniently screw right on in place of the pushbutton fumble tubes. Amazing how a "water can" spout works so nicely!

Oh I hate those things... fortunately there ARE solutions. I spill more fuel fooling with those than they save with emissions. Needed a fuel can several years back and bought one as it was all that was available. When the first fill was empty it went in the share shed at the local trash collection site. That was before I knew the "solution" was available.

Double indemnity? 🙂

My uncle put a set of 500s on a 72 Torino Squire in mid-70s. He still had the car when he died in 2010, and never paid for another set of tires for it in all that time. I was supposed to get that wagon but it was verbal, nothing in writing, and my cousin sold it to one of the down-and-out sad stories she tends to attract for ONE DOLLAR- just enough to make the sale legal. Last I saw that once-proud wagon, the guy was living in it and it looked like warmed-over hell. I'd have given her a dollar for it and shown it in HPOF- yes, it was that nice.

Look for a Sams Photofacts for this model. Same thing most radio repairmen used when these units were contemporary.

Good lord I hope not!🙀 A great uncle ran a country store from around 1910 till his 1947 death, and had one of those tall glass gravity feed pumps out front. Those probably weren't the safest either. His daughter inherited the house and the store building. In 1968, she came out one morning to find the pump gone. Its mounting bolts had been torched from its concrete pad.

www.toronado.org www.classicoldsmobile.com There should be interest there. Is either car a GT?

No, but I do expect the fresh chrome to not flake and peel off in 6 months. Saw that happen on a BB-plated 69 Hurst/Olds rear bumper and a 56 BelAir taillight assembly.

The large metal tube should go to the car's power brake booster. Is what you have circled a wire or a very small tube? Tubes that small generally are a vacuum source for heater and air conditioning controls.

That explains why I couldn't find my favorite brand of pepper grinder last week! All the grocer had was what I call pepper dust- that flavorless mess that makes you sneeze. Really, with half the fast-food joint dining rooms in the country still closed, there ought to be an abundance of pepper instead of a shortage. Basing that on fact that they give you only one or two measly packets of pepper in a take-out or drive-thru order. I didn't really pay much attention because I flat refuse to use them, but wonder how last week's gas "crisis" affected drive-thru restaurant business? The numbers are there that, without the expense of maintaining dining rooms and restrooms, Chick-Fil-A's profits are way up. I love me a CFA sammitch, but if they regress to a drive-thru-only business model, I have eaten my last one.

The great thing about 65-66 Ford bumpers is that they are an utterly simple design and as such are easy to replate. Based on friends' experiences, I have reservations about the current quality of Bumper Boyz work. My go-to has always been Tri-City Plating in Elizabethton TN. Depending on where Bob is, he may find a competent plater closer than CA or TN.

Bob, if you don't have a chrome money jar or drawer, might be time to start one! Learned that trick from an old car mentor many years ago. He also told me when he started eating lunch at his desk the chrome fund really took off.

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