Recent content by Dave6T4

Sometimes people take the guys out of the governor assembly and remove kickdown linkage when installing a manual valve body. This stuff has to be present for a full automatic valve body to work.

Congratulations on your new paint job. Your car looks great!

My Dick Landy diecasts.

Dick was experimenting with different headers/exhaust. That is actually an exhaust pipe!

Happy Birthday, Bill, and many more. I'm looking at 77 in a couple of months. Wish I was 74 again! LOL

Welcome to FBBO from Ontario. Nice cars.

Congratulations! Well done. Beautiful car. Nothing more iconic than a black first-year Hemi RoadRunner.

Post # 1 is early housing and Post # 2 is later housing. They changed somewhere around 1967. A later housing yet, puts the inlet fitting from the water pump on the passenger side. This works well for putting a Big Block in where a small block used to be.

Happy Birthday, Chewys68, and many more.

Happy Birthday, 68SptSat, and many more.

Wow! More than luck. Good problem solving and investigative skills. Just the same, I think this would be a good time to buy a lottery ticket, Doug.

I worked at Canadian Timken in Quality Control during the '70's. Right across the street in St. Thomas, Ontario, was a large Ford dealership. At one time, they flew a huge banner proclaiming, "Buy the Cars Your Neighbours Make!" , referring to the Ford Talbotville assembly plant, just outside of...

I think the yellow and green one is a 331. It has the extended block that hardly anything will bolt to. I think this was changed in 1954 to the style of the other engine. I grew up in Southern Ontario tobacco country, and saw a lot of these early Hemi's in irrigation pumps. In dry summers, you...

I had the opportunity and honour to talk to Dick one year at Carlisle. He was autographing stuff, so I found a vendor selling racing photos from the past. I bought a picture of Dick racing his blue and white '67 R/T. I took it to him for an autograph, and told him that I had driven my 1967 R/T...

Love his Dodge ramp truck in the background! Thanks for all the pictures @chargervert