You guys got it all wrong. Don’t be looking in barns in Podunkville. You should be looking in suburban garages. Look in the neighborhoods that were new in the ‘70s and filled with solid middle and upper middle class young families. That’s where you’ll find the 356 the dad drove in college or the ‘63 Corvette he bought…

For things like intake manifolds and transmissions that have to go on square, buy some extra long bolts the same thread as the ones that clamp the part. Cut the heads off and chamfer the cut end. Use at least three and thread them into some of the bolt holes. They act like long guide pins and let you get the thing…

"The Last Open Road" by Burt Levy

I grew up in Studio City in the '60s and Hanna-Barbera's studio was not far away down on Ventura Blvd. My older brother and his buddies used to ride their bikes down there on weekends and raid the trash cans. They came home with hundreds of cells that had been thrown away. They would layer them up and put together…