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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Dismal Nitch, AZ
Posts: 9,042
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Originally Posted by LakeCleElum
Don - Mine was a 1959 100-6......Where do I start. PO had the engine rebuilt just before I bought it. Rings never seated. Valve cover breather hose was aimed behind the firewall. Blew oil all over my girl fiends new white shoes. I had to tear it apart and redo. PO had put clutch disk in backwards. I was 200 miles from home when it locked up against the flywheel bolts.
Typical Lucas issues. Top and side curtains not for the Seattle rain. Loved the electric overdrive.....These sell for about $60K now......
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Bummer!
A military buddy had the 4 cylinder...mint, it was - back in 1964.
He cherished that car...took me for a ride and let me drive it...and I loved it - for what it was.
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Those big sixes...wasn't it somewhat common to drop-in a 283 Chevy?
Lose 100 + lbs. and gain power?
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"Fully integrated people, in their transparency, tend to not be subject to mechanisms of defense, disguise, deceit, and fraudulence."
- - Don R. 1994, an excerpt from My Ass From a Hole in the Ground - A Comparative View
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