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Hello friends! I am posting to make you aware that my Rustyhope disc brake kits are being ripped off and sold by SRPM, Street Rods, Parts & Memorablilia out of Ohio. Jim and Randy of SRPM started buying my kits a couple of years ago leading me to believe they were building cars and trucks in their shop and installing my kits. What I've learned is they are marketing my kits on their website for prices that are $110 higher than I charge when sold direct. They even have a picture of one of my kits on their website (see below)! What they don't know is that kit has been out of production for nearly 12 years!!! In any case, please spread the word, no one on the face of the planet is authorized to re-sell my Rustyhope disc brake kits, absolutely no one! I sell direct from my web site only at rustyhope.com. My kits start at $215 for a standard and go up to $245 and $315 for the undersized kits. If you are buying anywhere else you are being ripped off! It's probably not illegal, but certainly not ethical.

You might recall that last October, I purchased a set of four B F Goodrich Silvertown wide whitewall radials for the convert while at the Carlisle swap meet. Got them from Coker Tire Co. Got them mounted at my favorite tire shop, and ready to go.....didn't have much time to get to shows this summer...... But, on the first weekend of this October, I went to a show in my old hometown of Aurora, MO which is about 50 miles from Joplin. The tires drove good......much better than the bias plys I had for the past several years. Then.......I decided I should replace my ancient spare tire with one of those new radials that looks like the old bias ply. The reason for that is because the skinny tire will fit in my spare tire well.....but the wider ones on the ground are too wide to go between the spare tire brace and the edge of the well. Turns out the new skinny radials are only about half an inch or so wider tread area than the old bias ply. So, now, I have a new spare to go with the ones on the wheels. The last picture shows how they list the size of the skinny radials. Second pic shows the similarity in tread sizes of new radial and bias tire. Third pic shows how close the height of the two is.

Almost certainly a creative addition of a D24 grille to a D25 car. It is not the right grille for the car but it has been blended in quite nicely. D24 grilles are much easier to get than a D25. I personally have a D25 grille but I keep it as a spare for my 1948 Dodge D25 Club Coupe.

even if you do not do your own work on these cars...the benefit of owning and reading the repair manual is immense...it will make you aware of the many cautions and warning that will enable you to ensure the proper work is done so to protect your investment and the car itself. If you have the manual...read up on it..you can breeze the book quite quickly and be on top of your game. If you do not have a manual it is in your favor to buy one. Hope it is just a simple item overlooked...

I retired 34Yrs. ago from The New York City Dept. Of Sanitation, Then became a union truck driver " Teamster Local 282" retired from that three years ago. Now I'm a union SAG-AFTRA Actor with my cars.

welcome to the forum, I love your truck already. Please send

I see that the blue car has the grille shaped to the prow of the hood. The green car has crescent-shaped fillers between the sheet metal and the straight tops of the grille. I have no idea whether it was manufactured that way.

At least he didn't ask for photos of Picts. That would be a LOT tougher to come up with. I guess you could find a drunk Scot,strip his clothes off, paint him blue ,and pass him off as a Pict. Especially a Highland Scot.

No sealant needed there. Bolt or stud should work fine as long as you don't bottom it out. Jeff

Flushing will remove loose stuff, but not crust or accumulated deposits at the bottom of water jacket. You may try vinegar (5% acetic acid), which dissolves rust. Vinegar works slow, and you may need to change it several times until all the rust is dissolved.