Zimm63

C'mon now, getting those trees in there is a lot of work. Worth big $$.

I built this rig some years ago, and it works well. The cross beams are 2 X 4 1/4 wall steel. The lift pads are placed to be in the correct spots when all is adjusted properly. Finally, the cross beams are locked into the arms with lift pad extenders. It took some work with various sizes of holes saws to make. Is it easy to put the car on? Not really, it requires a fair bit of crawling around. But, I can lift the car with confidence that it is supported to the point that an arm cannot kick out and it won't kill me. Thats worth some crawling around in my book.

Do you still need an air cleaner? I have one from a 427 corvette with a quadrajet. Not sure if it was 68 or 69, but think 69. I may actually know where it is, and don't recall it being rusty. Let me know, and I can drag it out. Hasn't been on a car since about 1979.

Nothing screams flip more than pictures of the car on a trailer.

Shame to lose guys like Dick. He was a great resource all the way back to the ROA mail list days. Always enjoyed his posts. RIP, and condolences to his family.

Wonder why a motor with 67K needed a rebuild? Or was a liquid overhaul perhaps?

Gotta love a Woody. Gotta have a bag o cash too.

Very nice indeed. Apparently the old car business has been berry berry good to Matt lately. Glad things are going well. Now, about that #%Q^ Lincoln.

Best line I have seen in an add for a while. (1) Marketplace - 1945 Willys MB Jeep | Facebook

Best line I have seen in an add for a while. (1) Marketplace - 1945 Willys MB Jeep | Facebook

Tom- can you expand on your "one wire system" What is it, how does it work, and do you need the distributor sent to you in order to install it?

Peach of a fella that one, eh. Clearly, he both missed and validated my point.

Marksan: Before somebody else does, let me give you a small piece of advice. When first coming onto a site full of long time members, you might want to read a book titled "How to Win Friends and Influence People" before you start dissing long time members. Especially those who are expert in the subject the site focuses on. If all of your 13 posts are similar to a couple of the ones here, you will not fit well with this crowd and you may wish to simply disappear before a moderator does it for you. Zimm

Has anyone signed up for Managed Pay? Looks like EBay's latest trick is to intercept payment by the buyer, hold it for several days to ensure their fees are collected up front, and then send it to your bank account directly. They want your DOB and last 4 of your ssn to boot, so as to comply with "legal" requirements. Looking at the payout schedule, if you sell an item on a Thursday, with the buyer paying immediately, the earliest EBay will send payment is the following Monday, with a warning that it may take an additional 1-3 days for your bank to credit the account. Thats a week total. Meanwhile, the buyer expects shipping shortly after payment. Nope, don't think so. I am not a business, but have been using EBay to dispose of some unneeded parts that have accumulated over the years. Been doing so for quite a while, with no issues. Now, I will have to remember to add language to each listing informing potential buyers that there will be a 7 day hold on shipment so as to ensure payment is received. Hadn't sold anything for the last several months and have to agree to the new scheme to sell again. Seriously?

Getting ready to do a full tune on on my 63, including replacing he coil. I assume it would an external resistor type, as its fed by a resistor wire. I also want to replace the condenser that is attached to it. What recommendations would you offer? Any specific brand or type people have found to be better? Thanks Zimm

My Mom gave them to me, as did friends of hers. Got my first socket set with Plaid Stamps in about 1970.

The bed doesn't look out of place so much as the rear fenders.

63 Riv was traveling the Land of Pleasant living yesterday.

This is an interesting thread to me, as I am in the market to replace my 30 year old CH 5hp with 60 gallon tank. Its noisy and I could use more air to run the pressure blaster. A couple things I have not seen mentioned. One is current requirements. When I built my new shop, I installed a 10GU circuit with the idea that 220 volts at 30 amps would be enough. The old CH runs on 20. Wondering if that was enough. The second is location. If painting, most of us do not have a proper booth. How much of a concern is painting in the same space as the compressor? Don't the brushes in the motor spark as it runs? Having gotten to my mid 60s, I am really not much interested in blowing myself up. I have considered building a small shed on the back of the shop to house the compressor, but wonder about heat build up when its running for extended periods. My original thought was to put it in a closet under a set of stairs, but decent horizontal machines are hard to come by at a reasonable cost. The Eastwood scroll unit is interesting, but it uses a 30 gallon tank and is not ASME certified from what I understand.

Are you sure its the switch and not the cable, or adjustment? Cable problems are more common on tilt wheels, though. Look at the Buick Riviera board below. Lots of information on turn signal problems there.

This reminds me of a story about a country boy who was admitted to Harvard. He was walking across campus on his first day, and stops an upper classman to ask "Can you tell me where the Library is at?" The upper classman stands up straight, and replies "young man, you are at Harvard University. We do not end sentences with a preposition here". The new guy thinks a minute, and replies "OK, can you tell me where the Library is at, a$$hole?" Did you ask the guy where he went to college?

Few bales of cash and it will be like new.

Good that it is a desert area car. A friend of mine had a Hornet in the 1980s that dissolved to the point you could see through it. We used to joke that he needed to find something else, before it became invisible.

Nothing screams flip as much as pictures of the car on a trailer.