I’ve got a 924 and I quite like it, I’ve fixed quite a few cosmetic things on it, with more to do, and it’s been a little finicky starting lately so I’ve got to look into that, but hey, it was a $1300 car, so I can’t complain much. Overall though its a really fun car, the Audi engine’d 2.0L isn’t very quick though.

They’ve been building in in house now for five years and it has by far out performed and outlasted the 6.0 and 6.4 built by International.

I find this true for a lot of artists, one of my all time favorites is Dierks Bently. Sure “Drunk on a Plane” or “Somewhere on a Beach” are your pretty typical bro-ish country songs, but if you listen to his albums they are packed with deep, emotional, honest straight from the heart songs.

You be quiet, they were fast when they were new (relative to most other things at the time) and I still want one in the worst way.

Came here to say this. The V10 Excursion, while still cool, was pretty much pointless, the 5.4 Excursion, while more practical than the V10 was just an over sized Expedition for no reason, the 6.0L diesel, no, just no, but the 7.3 Excursion that’s where it’s at, and used prices reflect it.

Center two cylinders are routed through the block, then out the same port.

Yep, the exhaust for the center two cylinders (I believe) was routed through the block, then out the same port. Not a very good design, but it worked.

Side valves are a major handicap, no way around that. The very basis of the side valve design requires a very large area (relatively) for the valves to open, which is part of the combustion space, and yet does nothing to help direct the combustion itself. Obviously we could improve on the flathead design with modern…

While I haven’t completely rebuilt an engine, I have done a fair amount of top end work, mainly on motorcycles. Just like everything, all an engine is is a collection of parts, nuts and bolts, that just need to have small specific clearances, and work in perfect (or nearly perfect) unison. My advice would be to grab a…

Flat heads came in a few different shades of green before 1940, and orange after 1940.

The color was correct, flatheads came in orange after 1940, and in several shades of green before 1940.

They painted it the correct color, flatheads came painted orange after around 1940, or one of a couple shades of green before 1940.

I too got caught up in the “end of the barn find” hype, but once I really started to think about it I realized that there will always be “barn finds” because there are always people buying their dream cars, and one of a few things happens. Either the car breaks and the owner runs out of time, money, or both to fix it…

Scrolled way to far to find someone who thinks like I do.

Classic roadster you say? How about a 1929 Ford Model a Roadster pickup?

This is a good plan.

If this was a contest you would win.

I completely forgot about that, didn’t they also give a bunch to construction companies as well? All while not telling them they were aluminum. Sounds like a good time to refresh that ad campaign.

So many people complaining about dents and scratches and little holes and screaming, put a bed liner in it! It’s a pickup bed, if you don’t have scratches and dents in it I question why you even have a pickup. I understand the desire to protect your vehicle, but still, are people really that anal about scratching up…

Saw this on the news this morning, they caught the driver and he has been charged with battery of some sort. The motorcycle rider has a broken leg, and the passenger just has some bumps and bruises. In an interview with the rider, the rider said they were out on a ride with friends and saw the driver driving very…