Recent content by Oaktree

A couple of A's... early 70s tv movie Duel: lead character drove a '71 Valiant current tv show Poker Face: lead character drives a '67 or 68 Barracuda.

I went thru the replacement carb ordeal a couple years ago. My '67 Dart came with a 1920 but got so it wouldn't idle worth squat no matter what I did. Against everything I'd read here I tried the rebuilt route...one (only one they had) from Rock Auto and several Tomcos from O'Reilly. All were...

You do realize that these are not actual radio broadcasts, but re-creations done many years later. If you want the real thing, go here.

Junkyards charge admission these days??? Does the price include all the "free" fuses that'll fit on your pocket? Then again, I suppose you're lucky to have yards that let customers go "out back". None of 'em that I know of around here do anymore. Not that there'd be any A parts anyway...

Not to ask a stupid question, but what are all the shift levers?

Are you saying that in Calif. the plates stay with the car when it's sold?? That's weird. Must be a PITA when you get a new car finding it in a parking lot...unfamiliar car, unfamiliar plate. Why do they do it this way?

Are you referring to the heater/A/C controls on the dash? If so, I'm pretty sure the push buttons switch engine vacuum to various plungers, etc. DC voltage would just be for the blower motor (and lighting if it has it).

Any tricks for dealing with leaks around the bowl cover of a 1920? Had one I "fixed" by using a cork gasket, but that didn't work on the other one.

You might want to check car washes. A few years ago I got a bunch of them...they were next to the building with a "free" sign in front of them. I got 'em to use as rain barrels for my garden.

Maybe I'm just an old fart, but give me the days when the radio and heater controls were easy and intuitive to operate. Waaaay less distracting than today when everything is done via touch screen menus filled with cryptic symbols.

A vote here for the split loom. Not they way they did it at the factory, but neither is half the other stuff people here do to their cars. Looks neat and is a lot easier to install, or to make changes.

Yeah, welcome to the world of living in New England. :BangHead: They use so much salt (and nowadays brine) on the state/US roads cars didn't stand a chance in those days. For US brands, Fords were the worst, GM the best with Chrysler somewhere in the middle. You were lucky to get a Japanese...

Let's be real here, how many similar vintage of any brand do you see regularly on the street? Certainly not as a daily driver. Other than Mustangs, it's rare to see ANY Ford from that era, even at shows. Yeah you see quite a few old Chevys, but they sold a lot more of them too. I probably see...

Yeah, not much fun. I was always afraid I'd drop the screw for either the points or the condenser inside the dist. Fortunately, never did.

Not to pick on toyota (well, maybe...), but they have always taken ugly to a new level. If this car's grille were a face, I'd say it looked like it just bit into a lemon.