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I have a ShopSmith my wife inherited from her dad. Made (and bought) about 1985. But he left it in essentially an open shed, and it has a fair amount of rust. I'm slowly getting parts refurbished, as I attempt to build an electric guitar. Today, I got out the jointer and started cleaning it up. I pu...

Gene Howe wrote:Mine's a toilet flange mounted close to the bottom and centered front to back.
Installed it in the '80s.

Could you post a photo, please?

Is that thing street legal??? With that short wheelbase and monster motor, I can see why he's got wheelie bars on it!! Beautiful car!! Yep, street legal. Washington state, for him. Texas for me. There is an amazing amount of wood in a Model T, and when you build a Depot Hack, as he has, there is ev...

It turns out that the first Oldsmobiles were at least partly Dodge, and all of Ford's cars were Dodges. http://www.allpar.com/corporate/bios/dodge-brothers.html All of those companies were inter-connected at first. By the way, the story of woodworking at the Ford company is legendary. Especially the...

It's a Chevy 350. Well, a 357, since it's bored .30 over. Very mild, just a little cam. The distributor is in the back, where God intended for them to be. The text in front of the door is either "Cut here for normal T bucket" or "Cut here to reduce fun 50%." I don't remember whic...

OK, here it is, in all its glory.



1923 Model T Touring Car. Sort of.

I used one of the "hammered" paints on the windshield frame of my hot rod. Gold, I think. Anyway, it was sprayed on what had been a chrome-plated frame, which I had sandblasted.

None of it has fallen off. In fact, it's all in good shape, except where the old mirrors scraped it off.