JACK M

Well, we are just poor boy dirt racers doin the best with what we have. I had to save up for the hand held. LOL

I think it was 38 (at least on the DeSotos) for first full metal roof that is not an insert.

I have seen a couple. The one a few years ago I remember the best. There was one about 1975 or so. I recall the cows heading for the barn, then turning around.

This is what I do on the race cars, and it should (and i will suggest) translate to DDs. Go for a long drive on a freeway. Pull into a rest area and quickly jump out and test the temperatures with your handheld pyrometer. Check inner tread, center tread, and outer tread on all four tires. Do this quickly, best to make a diagram of all four corners and have someone write down your readings. Hotter in the center means to much air pressure, hotter on the outer edges means not enough air pressure. If you get readings like hotter inner, not as hot center and colder yet on the outsides you probably need an alignment. (This scenario is not uncommon on the race cars, and we will change alignment to accommodate). Even temps all the way across will be the most efficient and where I would run my dailies if I were as anal as you guys seem to be. If you write the pressures down you should be able to come back to these even readings.

Maybe a bungee cord ?

Simulators, so that people might thing you have truck type wheels.

I'd take that 53 Studebaker. The neighbor has some good tastes with the white picket fence and swing set.

One of my farmer buddies told me the best way to get rid of those black Berries is to spray them with Crossbow on the last sunny day of the fall. Spray the leaves. This will be the time of year that the vines are pulling back to the earth for the winter, hence the timing of late fall. This is the best way to actually kill the roots. Those vines will all be dead by spring. I sprayed about daily for a couple of summers and made no progress. I would see the BB leaves starting every time I looked. I got good advice from my farmer friend that knows his farming. Another thing about those stupid vines is they are murder on tires. I use lots of that green stuff in my mower and tractor tires after working on the berry vines.

For some reason I have a bunch of boat and boat trailer titles in a file in my office. There are a few boat titles as well. I just hate tossing anything that might be worth looking at for the rest of my life.

You might try some different oil weights.

I am a sucker for a 53 Studebaker. First car with lots of good memories. Where is it? Thinking with the correct cells would behoove me to suggest the swap.

It has three pedals. I see this option mistake often. In my opinion these mistakes have to be hurting sales. Makes me think the seller doesn't know what he has so can't believe anything else he says. I have been eyeballing a four speed Mopar that a dealer is advertising. Claims it has a pistol grip shifter, but the white ball shifter in his pics tells me he doesn't know much about cars.

Starting fluid washes any oil that would be in the cylinders. Should be in the cylinders. Repeated running without some lubrication between the piston, rings and cylinder walls will certainly result in metal to metal wear. What you are experiencing is common, you are needing to start the engine to bring fuel from the tank to the carburator. Lots of guys will install an electric fuel pump to aid in this. Run the electric pump until the carburator fills up then turn it off. I have a couple of cars that do the same thing, I simply squirt a bit of gasoline where you are using starting fluid.

Looks like they might be installing an elevator.

All good points.

Yup, I can't seem to get out of my own way. LOL I will be seeing you there Jim. Unfortunately, John K. won't be making the trip this year. Look forward to next year.

Good shot John, its kind of a regular thing to get stuck trying to back out.

Some of the guys have been running straight Evaporust to clean things up. Then there is the nylon stalking filter in the radiator hose trick.

I don't recall just what he got reemed for, it might have been he had several of those old cafe booth juke box controllers. Might have been a lawnmower. What ever it was he thought it was rediculess. Stop on by for a minute or two if you get down my way again.

Probably a wrecking yard item. Sounds like you didn't have things supported properly.

Linseed oil.

I agree, one of my runnin buddies gave up his 8 spaces this year. He heard rumors that they are going to close off the west end, which is where he was. But was mostly because he and his partners are aging out. The Expo is much more difficult to deal with as You have to leave at closing, no camping. They also are very picky about anything non-automotive. I was told that PIR was sold out.

That one caught me as well. Maybe only reasonable if you need parts. And I suspect that this seller would be negotiable. If a guy needed say, a rear end for that Rivera, or maybe a core motor? Maybe a thousand-dollar offer would help clean the guys place up some.? A couple of 2 and 3 hundred dollar cars there. Almost the price of scrap. I am sure if one needed Studebaker or square body parts it would be well worth $200 for a whole car. Ha, I just reread the ad, says OBO maybe even some trades. So, here's an opportunity to swap JUNK !!!! By the way, pretty sure they all used to run. 🤣

Two meets at basically the same time and place. The Portland Expo meet is Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 4/5-4/7 The Portland International Raceway swap meet is Thursday, Friday and Saturday. 4/4-4/6 These two meets are very near to each other but are totally different. They do co-op busses and parking. To my friends here on the forum I am inviting you to drop by and introduce yourselves. I am at the PIR meet in space 2011A, it's in the chicane past the west end of the drag strip. Wear your walking shoes.

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