Glad you made it Mel, you’re in good company. Greg, you’re in good company too
Hope you guys have your cameras ready. Would love to see the radio installed also.
Too bad you’re missing all the cold snow Mel……..

Ed, I edited your post to turn the url’s into live links. Hope you don’t mind. Great stuff!
And James…good thing you have the luggage rack for your MG. Your wife’s bag would really cost you if you decided to fly!

Thanks. My main three tow vehicles are a 4×4 Jeep Cherokee Laredo, straight 6, lifted, 31.5″ tires with class III bolt on hitch, an International Scout II 4×4 with 345 V-8, towing package, with front and rear hitches welded to the frame with jumbo mudders, and a Lincoln Mark IV with 460 V-8, welded hitch. I will probably use the Scout since it p…[Read more]

WOW!!! Sounds like fun in the future for the Cochran’s.
I’m not a trailer expert, but I think dual axles, both with brakes are the way to go. Light weight and aerodynamic as possible seems like a gas mileage and less tow vehicle abuse improvement too.
Most of these replica car weights range from the 1,500-1700 lbs. for the VW based and…[Read more]

 Hi Buddy, You may be able to slide a ruler thru the hole in the firewall that the rod from the pedal assembly to the master cylinder passes to check the measurement. Since you need to move them anyway, why don’t you locate them to fit your personal leg length or preference? Also keep in mind the seat position in reference to the steering wheel…[Read more]

Cool article. Thanks for passing it on. I love the top illustration of the cars bouncing in the Popular Science one.
I use a folding tire step for my removable luggage rack (see my pics). The step folds flat to store behind the seat. I have since found the tire step in chrome. The step can support over two hundred pounds, about enough for my…[Read more]

Hey Larry…yours is Christmas red too…just like Santa’s Sleigh!
I am thrilled that like the car and most of all, thrilled that your “finished” it! I knew what it would look like all back together.
I’m still thrashing on my 1940 Ford Streetrod…motor mount fabrication…GEEEEZ! I want to make it’s first long trip a drive to Reidsville…[Read more]

NICE TROPHY for a NICE CAR

Thanks Richard. I saw them. I bought them new from JC whitney. $20 each, but they are shiney new.

“Never let ’em see your knuckles.”

Sure Greg. Driving gloves will tame that 450 hp street rod TD!

Just wear driving gloves Paul!Greg

I’ll take my 85 hp Duchess and the ability to cruise around all day without killing myself!
There’s something to be said for driving without white-knuckles!

Hey Mark,
Did the NJ guy trailer the car?
Because I saw it at a car show up at the BMW offices in northern NJ. And he might have been at Memorial Day Madness at the M&Ms plant one year too.
Gets around!
 
 

 Lynn, There is one on Ebay ,item# 200416851311 ,It has three days to go and the bidding is at $224.72 now. It is used but it looks decent in the pictures. They are very hard to find.

Lynn, these grilles are no longer available and have not been for several years.
Moss Motors used to sell reproduction units, but sold their last ones early in the decade.
I spent $800 to get mine rechromed when I had the BCW “Pink MG”.

I would not want to try to drive this thing around a corner…but I’ll bet it’s fast in a straight line!
I’ve seen that yellow V8 TD at a cruise night in central NJ a few years ago. It too was a “straight line” car.

That is really cool! I don’t think you could slide a piece of paper in that engine compartment though. I bet that is a fun car to drive (in a straight line).

Yeah. Like he should have the shifter sticking up to about the height of the windshield!  And put an 8-71 blower on it and a set of Hillborns. Really run the ball to the End Zone!Even as it sits I’d be afraid to drive it. I had maybe 300 hp in my 2900-lb Nova and that thing was scary enough. 450 hp in 2300 pounds, and with basically no bumpers…[Read more]

Sweet ride. But as is, the car reminds me of those Ed Roth “car-icatures” from the late sixties/early seventies. I think I would have gone a little less severe on the rear tires.There is an original ’52 TD street rod running around northern NJ. Yello body, black top and interior. No sides on the engine compartment. And it’s been a few year since I…[Read more]