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Originally Posted by fastfredracing
Remember when cars were simple ?
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Yep. I had a '63 Dodge pickup for 3or 4 years and never had a key for it. I hotwired it every time I drove it. I loaded it to a friend one winter weekend who left the gas cap off when he put gas in it. The tank got snow in it which melted and froze in the fuel line. It was cold as a witch's toenails and I needed my truck, so I took a punch and punched a hole in the top of the fuel tank (behind the seat) and ran a copper tubing from the tank, out the passenger's window, under the edge of the hood, to the fuel pump.
Had a 1950 Chevy pickup that threw a rod. It didn't go through the block but it badly buggered the crankshaft. I cut the rod off with a cutting torch, beat on the piston until I could get it out of the cylinder, and drove a 5 cylinder Chevy for the better part of a summer.
I won't go into rebabbiting the rods and mains in a Fordson engine. That's one part of old engines that was not simple.