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I had a naked 1947 Buick. Everything the car needed to run, except for a gas tank and seat and a small bracket for the gas pedal, was already attached to the chassis. I rigged up a gas tank from an Oliver Row Crop tractor and an old bucket seat. It ran very well with its Fireball Eight and 3 on the tree. No floorboard or any other sheet metal, and...

That's what I posted a few days ago !

That will go fast enough to be extremely dangerous. It still has Model T steering, 2 wheel brakes of some kind, & a stock rear end that won't live well with modern power going through it. The wood in the body would be the least of your worries. I will say, it looks to be nicely done. If it came my way, I'd throw the engine away and re-power it...

Modern carbureted vehicles with missing or inoperative intake heat devices will suffer from condensation/freezeup issues under some conditions. Inline 4 and 6 cylinder engines are more prone to it. I believe that some fuel injection systems have some provision for heating the throttle body. They are less prone to the problems, but frost can occur...

My grandfather told the story of crossing the Mississippi river on a ferry and have a man drive off in his T to have the car stall half way up the hill. He rolled back to the landing, restarted the engine and made a second try, also stalling half way up the hill. For try number three someone told him to turn around, he turned around and backed up...

Personally, I cannot understand where confusion comes from if a few seconds is spent looking at Dan Treace's supplied photos... but for those who deal better with words rather than pictures, I submit the following (BOLD Font is likely the most pertinent to the topic):

Below is a list of changes to (just) the steering case. For every change in...

A very knowledgeable individual that no longer associates with Model T things told me the reason for the 1/4th inch gap is because a spark that jumps 1/4th inch in free air needs 2,500 volts to make the jump and in a good compression the spark needs that 2,500 volts to jump .025 of an inch.

That is why the spark plug gap is set to the .025.

I...

Update! All good. I was able to meet with the buyer's agent (his niece and her husband the doctor). All was legit. I got the money in cash. I had bought a counterfeit bill checker and used it and all the bills were fine. The buyer in Czec Republic is very happy that I went through with the deal. So good on all points. His shipper has contacted me...