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| | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,067 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,067 | Had that boat anchor in my garage for the past year. It had a warp in it or something. Ran real good for about 15 or 20 minutes, and then white smoke. I changed the head gaskets 3 times, the third time shaving the 235's head nice and flat. Never saw a crack in any of the cylinders, at least none that were visible by the naked eye.
The reason I didn't rebuild it is because it seemed like a lot of money for 100 hp, give or take. But I found someone who wants it. He wants to drop it into a 1946 Ford truck or something...which seems like an odd choice, given that he does have a Flathead V8 he could rebuild for that instead.
But to each their own. He got a good deal...the 235 was free.
I can't get over how clean the garage looks without that thing in there now.
52 GMC 3/4 ton pickup
68 Big Block Vette
68 455 Firebird
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,875 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,875 | Wish you guys were a little closer- - - - -I'd commit mayhem for a good rebuildable flathead!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | As teens we use to troll around town looking for any metal we could sell at the junkyard. I know we must have found an sold 8 or 10 flathead V8s to the metal dealer. Makes me want to cry! 
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,067 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,067 | Guys, all you have to do is come down to the southwest and cruise through these little towns looking around. You wouldn't believe the cool iron sitting around. This is car/truck restorer's heaven. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 84 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 84 | Besides that, Taos is a neat place to visit.
dg | | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,067 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,067 | As long as you're not trying to buy a place there. Some things about this place bug me. One of them is the unshakable feeling that I am in a foreign country. Another is the trash everywhere; people have no pride in where they live. And another is the unrealistic real estate here; for the same money to buy a tiny place here on an acre, you can have a huge Victorian with many bedrooms back east. Sigh. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 | hey HRD
That's my old stock black 49 panhead, occasionally seen around taos riden by a long beard ... diver
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Jim & Caroline
The highway is for gamblers, better use your good sense."
Gooday-that's my 1¢ answer due to the lousy economy ~ cause I ain't got - no . mo . doe
Every Shaver | Now Can Snore | Six More Minutes | Than Before ... | Half A Pound for Half a Dollar | Spread On Thin | Above the Collar || BURMA-SHAVE
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,067 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,067 | Hey Jim.
I don't recall seeing the black '49 Panhead, but I have seen a yellow AD 1/2 ton truck with a dead guy painted on the doors, running around Taos a lot. Do you know him? Lives out on Cottam Rd.
If I can ever get the issues sorted on mine, you'll see my 3/4 ton fire engine red GMC driving around too. We oughta get together sometime...maybe for a cup of coffee at Michaels Kitchen. Us old truck dudes need to stick together.
52 GMC 3/4 ton pickup
68 Big Block Vette
68 455 Firebird
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