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‘32 Update: brake pedal return spring (article 25, archived)

A clean, simple return spring for the brake pedal, incorporating the brake light [...]

‘32 Update: Brake Lines (article 26, archived)

A unique method of running the front brake lines on a solid axle ‘32 [...]

Wow! Our First Feature!

One of the local events we decided to check out was the Hyde Park Lions Club Cruise, held at Steve Plunkett’s Fleetwood Farms in London, Ontario. It’s about an hour drive for [...]

‘32 Update: More Air Conditioning (article 27, archived)

More Air Conditioning
A/C hoses rank right up there with brake lines on my “things I don’t like looking at” list. What else is on the list, you might ask? Cigarette butts flying out of car windows, mold, and melting snow are all making their way to the top. Anyways, I tried pretty [...]

‘32 Update: Wiring (article 28, archived)

Wiring
If there was one thing about this build that I underestimated, it was the wiring. I thought “meh, some go to the front, some to the rear, a few underneath. Should take about an hour.” OK, I’m exaggerating a little. I rarely give time frame estimates to anyone, because I’m usually [...]

3363 miles and counting…

Well, the ‘32 has officially been on the road for 41 days now.  The first drive was on Saturday before leaving for Louisville.  I did a bit of “fundematics” and discovered that with 3363 miles on the odometer, and only 41 days on the road, that gives an average of 82 miles every day, seven [...]

Drive-By Shooting

I was driving along the other day, noticing the sunlight and the glory of the morning, when I saw some sort of electrical box attached to a telephone pole at the side of the road.  If you were me, you would have thought “hey that’s a great place to put my camera and take a [...]

‘32 Update: Transmission Cooler Lines (article 30)

Transmission Cooler Lines

The next addition to the a/c line clamp/ tranny cooler lines/ wire cover is making a tranny cooler return line.  Instead of using tube nuts and sleeves on the tranny end of the tubes, I got stainless -6AN fittings, cut them in half, counter bored them for 3/8″ line, and welded them on.  [...]

‘32 Update: window channel weatherstrip (article 52)

It’s always a treat trying to figure out which profile of weatherstripping to use.  Typically, the stuff you use for the window channel is “cat whiskers”, and is usually attached with screws or weatherstrip adhesive.  Since the garnish molding is a part of the door, it’s not easy to drive a screw through the inside [...]

Colyer ‘32 Pics

On the Sunday before Louisville, Paul and Dorothy took the ‘32 to a cruise night in Milton, ON (about 45 minutes away) for a break-in run.  If you haven’t been keeping track, the first drive was a day before.  As they were leaving the show, a man was snapping pictures like film was going out [...]