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If they'll throw in the '64 Thunderbird, they got a deal!

 

Rare cars indeed, but not very valuable.

 

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If the bodies aren't rusted through, I could see a cool cartoon like street rod. Put in a huge engine, like a blown Hemi, so big you have to sit in the back, and the biggest tires you can fit in the back. Maybe a lifted front end with a straight axle and skinny tires.

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I wouldn't mind having one of their sheet metal engines to play with. Stamped sheet metal for the block .... and 50mpg in the 40's. Why are we struggling to make that today???


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Why are we struggling to make that today???

 

modern tech/amenities: spare tires, air bags, seat belts, fatter cars, fatter wiring, fatter computers and fatter people.

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what does this sheet metal engine look like?

Same answer to the old joke "My dog has no nose! How does he smell?"

Awful!

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what does this sheet metal engine look like?

http://crosleyautoclub.com/EngineTree/Crosley_Eng_Tree-1.html

 

Actually ... I came across an article that may interest ...

 

http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/engine/1412-how-to-build-your-own-sheetmetal-engine/

 

 

 

 

If you wind up heading out to the garage after this ... it's not my fault.

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It just proves that it can be done....not that it should be done....on a regular basis. Kind of like a TV show host we know.


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That describes 90% of our hobby. Hell ... remember my old Sonoma? Entire floor shot. They sell new tins. I had three people offer me replacement cabs. I redid the entire floor and firewall using old computer cases.


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True. Saw another convertible Sonoma pikcup over the weekend come to think of it. notallthere saw it too.


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http://crosleyautoclub.com/EngineTree/Crosley_Eng_Tree-1.html

 

Actually ... I came across an article that may interest ...

 

http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/engine/1412-how-to-build-your-own-sheetmetal-engine/

 

 

 

 

If you wind up heading out to the garage after this ... it's not my fault.

 

interesting. its jus that "sheet metal" engine sounded so different and odd that i had to ask.

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In metal working terms, anything 1/4" and under thick is considered sheet metal. Thicker than that usually gets called plate. For me, the defining quality of sheet is it can be stamped into shape. When you're talking 100 ton press, 1/4" steel is pretty malleable.


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