I've been to the Eisenach plant - it now belongs to Opel. When I was there, they were making Vauxhall/Opel Corsas, and they probably still are. One thing they mentioned was that after being forced to quit the blue/white roundel use, they rotated the white 90 degrees and swapped blue for red, continuing to make the…

I don't know - how does one kidney-harvest that which has no real kidneys? It has more of a.. pancreas, maybe?

Well, you're almost right.

'69 bugeye "transitional" IIa Rover in that picture, too. Very uncommon.

I've thought about trying the Forest Service - government offices being what they are, it's very possible my invoice even still exists in some office somewhere in Yosemite or a complex in San Bernardino or some such. Actually finding the right guy, who knows the right guy, who knows who the expert on that office was…

What I really need to figure out is what dealer if any handled the contracts for the Forest Service. My '63 is a base Ranchero special-ordered in dark green (a green not on the standard sheets) and with a super-low rear axle ratio and tan interior. Previous owner said he thought it was an FS truck, and I believe him.…

Yeah, mostly I GIS'ed that from eBay via a search for "San Jose" Ford frames. My '63 was made in Milpitas. It probably was never in a dealer since it was a fleet special order, but a callout to the Milpitas plant of some kind is about equal weight with time correctness.

I'd be cheating if I put one of these on, though. As far as I can tell, my '63 was made as a government or other volume special order at Malpitas, so as likely as not never passed through an ordinary Ford dealer.

Because I am a contrarian, this post makes me want to buy something like this for my '63:

Fearless or actually an idiot. To borrow from Spinal Tap, "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever, isn't it?"

I'm also planning to rework the original AM radio's tuner to operate AM/FM and beyond via either an Arduino or a Pi with a DAC shield. Combine with altering the body to allow for a midgate and roll-down back cab window, and my whole driveline swap to Rover V8, BW Super T-10 trans, and Jag rear suspension, I'm building…

I know exactly how big they are, and here's why: I've used a photo editing program to measure the front end based on headlight size, after first extensively reading an article discussing track widths of the various models of Falcon/Fairlane/Mustang/etc. Why? Well, funny story: I have a '63 Ranchero, but the original…

Okay, nice. I was wondering why it had what appeared to be a flat plate forward of the "breakfast" like a II... but then, some later and transitional IIas had their own version of the flat trim plate. I also didn't recall that military models went to a different front fender stamping entirely than the civilian models…

Mil-spec Series II, so whichever years '58-'61 that the military felt like having them with turn signals. Probably '60-ish. As a side note, I've not seen that version of the headlight mount before. Nor those hubcaps.

Were the 37mm cannons planned the same Oldsmobile unit as in the P-39? Morbid curiosity.

You can either keep cans around to fill up your 9 cars, your three lawn mowers, your amphibious ATV, and your flamethrower, or you can just get a pump installed. The best part of triangle village houses is that you can make the whole bottom floor a garage for Isettas, Friskys, Zundapps, Peels, and whatever.

"Caprighia" sounds like a communicable disease.

I wrote a post on Oppositelock shortly after the 2015 announcement talking about the weight of the new model, and concluding that the best way to simplify and add lightness was to get a Fatstang. Totally trolling, but the numbers bore me out.

The 239 flathead six is the one I think it would be. If one was lucky and got a streamliner Pontiac with a flathead eight, it would be a travesty to swap, but a flat six significantly less so. I don't know if the old 239 flathead shares a bellhousing pattern or anything at all with the later GM sixes, given that just…

True, and I'm a fan in most cases of improving what's there more so than shooting for something radical. Granted a lot of these were made into rods and a rod is in some sense period correct, but it loses some of the grace in the process. Subtle improvement if any.