Category: News

“News” pretty much explains it.

STOLEN CAR: Red 1948 Ford Business Coupe

Stolen on September 29th, from a house in Breslau Ontario. The owner is a very, very big man.

1948 Ford Business Coupe

Pro Street
502 BB Chev, Tubbed 9 inch Ford Turbo 400
Frenched Headlights, shaved and smoothed
Bright Red, Tan Interior- Custom painted dash and garnish mouldings

Penetrating fluid

I just received this from a friend and thought you may find it useful:

Some of you might appreciate this. Machinist’s Workshop magazine tested penetrants for break out torque on rusted nuts.

They are below, as forwarded by an ex-student and professional machinist, Bud Baker.

They arranged a subjective test of all the popular penetrants with the control being the torque required to remove the nut from a “scientifically rusted” environment.

*Penetrating oil ….. Average load*
None …………………. 516 pounds
WD-40 ………………. 238 pounds
PB Blaster …………… 214 pounds
Liquid Wrench ……… 127 pounds
Kano Kroil ………….. 106 pounds
ATF-Acetone mix…….53 pounds

The ATF-Acetone mix was a “home brew” mix of 50 – 50 automatic transmission fluid and acetone. Note the “home brew” was better than any commercial product in this one particular test. Our local machinist group mixed up a batch and we all now use it with equally good results. Note also that “Liquid Wrench” is about as good as “Kroil” for about 20% of the price.

Keep Guessing!

Let’s keep the guesses coming! Email me or reply to this thread with your estimation of how much the ’32 weighs.

I’m going to keep the figurative contest doors open until Tuesday September 1st, because the newsletter automatically goes out Monday morning at 4am (who picks these times?).

Thanks to all of you who have submitted a guess so far!  The closest guess is 37 pounds off!

“Do You Think I’m Fat” CONTEST!

UPS is always at the NSRA Nationals weighing cars, so I thought I’d take the ’32 over and see if it needs to go on a diet.  Before I spill the beans (and the twinkies, and the ho-hos), I thought it would be really fun to see how much you think it tips the scales.

Click here to email me with your guess!  The winner will get 1% of the weight they guess in dollars.  In case of a tie, you may want to divide it up into front/rear distribution.  I’d be happy to answer any questions about what’s on the car, or you can just read the whole build-up HERE.

Contest closes modnight on August 24/09.

Next Week Will Be Bigger

If we get done shipping all the Louisville orders some time next week, I’ll have time to upload all my pictures and videos from the trip. I actually don’t think I have any shots of cars from the show, just cruising with Dave Tucci in the Syracuse Nationals giveaway car (a track T roadster), the Hot Rod Industry BMX Challenge put on by Tim and Carrie Strange of Strange Motion (the builder of Resilience, the ’52 Buick in the Builder’s Showcase), and some cruising shots of the ’32s maiden voyage. It ran great for under 100 miles of test driving before we left Monday in it for Louisville.

Stay Tuned!

Made Us Popular

Thanks to all who stopped by the booth at Louisville… it was great to hear from people who watch our videos, and get these emails. The show was great – good numbers (I think I heard just over 11 000 cars) and the booth had a pretty constant stream of the public perusing our wares.

There were some interesting “anti-’80” T shirts around…

we’re here!

well, we made it safely to louisville… the ’32 performed great but it’s really dirty after driving through a crazy rain storm. we’ve got the booth set up, ready to go! stop by if you’re at the show.

Do some “blogsploring”

So you’re getting a little more used to this whole blog thing… you’ve seen the categories on the right side of the screen, you know that you can see older posts by clicking on “archives”, and you may even know how to subscribe to the RSS feed by clicking on the little orange button in your address bar. But did you know there’s a place you can go, I said yo man, when you’re short on your dough, you can stay there… nevermind. Across the top of the page, there are a few buttons that say Home, Contact Us, Dealers/Builders, etc. I wanted to point those out just in case you haven’t seen them… and if you have a testimonial you’d like to give for the “Testimonials” page, that would be terrific.

I should have a few more ’32 updates this week – we’re hoping to get it started by Friday.