I love the atmosphere you've created (or revived) in your workshop and seeing what is a living museum of early 20th-century motor repair in action is a treat. Merry Christmas from Folkestone!
Hey guys, this was a good shop update. A lot of nice cars and many jobs to complete. Glad to hear you are keeping busy and look forward to more videos. Always appreciate original tools and shop manuals being used and being shown on your videos. And the original decor you use to furnish in your shop.
Matt - Glad to see you received my book. Hope it's helpful for the occasional Ford truck project. Nice collection of Ford Service Bulletins, congrats on scoring those. Cheers, Dave.
Awesome Manual's, noone in my family are into car's, 😢 and normally no older than 2000, yous have a great variety, thanks for sharing, all the best to yous and your loved ones
Those early 6 cylinder Chevy heads were prone to cracking in ordinary use so they are hard to find. It was late in the 30s before Chevrolet figured out how to cast heads so they would last. I'm a Chevy guy so I am not just tossing stones at the "other guys". I might have a repairable '32 head (in Missouri) if you get desperate. I probably have the kingpins, as well. Also, the oil pump has been updated, When Chevy started using a gear type pump in '37 or possibly during production of the '36, they developed gear type replacement pump kits for all of the previous 6 cylinder models. The giveaway is the oval screen. The original vane type pumps had round screens. Don't tell my Chevy buddys, but I have 4 Model T Fords too. I always enjoy your videos. Keep them coming. Love your shop. Mike
I just love you're shop and how genuine it is and looks. Seems like most people trying to get their shops old shcool just end up with kitsch versions and over stuffed with old stuff and signs and what not. Keep it up!!! ... cheers from sweden!
Factory service manuals are worth their weight in gold. I see so many people who own older cars who don't have the manuals for their car and they're struggling to fix them. Even finding a Motors manual of the appropriate age can help.
I had a 1961 Ford Fairlane 500 with a 221 v8. Had over drive. Same block as the 260 and 289. Fun car it were! Ford must have liked that 221 cubic inch.
Always good to see a video from you two. I get to see Jim occasionally on CWM for the Lincoln Continental Mark II. Happy Holidays to you and your families!
Another great video. Love the work you are doing. You have some really nice cars going through the shop. Seems like all my favourite TH-camrs are in Canada doing cool things. I’m working on a 1948 2 ton truck and hope to have it on the road this summer. I am going to need one of those news boy hats!
When i worked in a sunoco station they had an old drive on ramp lift, and one like you guys just got. It was a very sturdy lift we used it for everything, on 90% of the cars that came in for repairs, that was back in the mid 60s.
I really love what you guys are doing. Your videos and shop have totally rekindled my lost childhood love-affair with pre-1950s automobiles. Really cool channel, and great to see guys my age with a strong interest in this era cars and tools. Keep up the great content, and thanks reigniting my hobby.
Regarding the cracked '32 Chevy head, I ended up having mine stitched up because a good one was so hard to find. It turned out excellent. If you're interested, I can give you the contact info on the shop that did the work. He's well respected here in New England. Great videos. Thanks, Joe
Matt, Jim, great to see you again. Your shop continues to be a vintage work of art. Love all of the cars and trucks you work on and the knowledge you both have. Thank you again for sharing your craft. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and wonderful new year from Lorie and I here in Cedar Grove, Wisconsin. Cheers.
Glad to see your Lincoln Mk is getting closer to having all the major panel work done. Merry Christmas to both of you and your families. By golly I knew you guys would be starting in the strange antiques with all the knowledge you have stored in your noggin. Hope you can find a descent head for the old 6 cyl Chevy. That old commercial truck hopefully doesn't need any major parts as I would guess you would be fabricating them from scratch. Maybe you might find some new old stock for its Continental engine though.
I have to admit I never have heard of a ACME truck. That thing has some stories to tell. Also the rear tire looks like very agricultural purpose made. I'm amazed how the Chevy still had the original floormats? They look so nice and new, usually anything that vintage looks very trashed. You should both do more videos like these. You hardly see any 20-40s vehicles even for sale. They are going extinct fast.
Loved your shop update tour. They are always interesting and love seeing the old classics you are working on. It has been a busy 2023 for you and I hope business in 2024 is even better. Wishing you and your families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Happy holidays from Memphis Tennessee. I have a great time watching your shop videos . Grew up in rural N Dak with a few old greasy garages .thanks for the memory. It would be really cool if your videos came in and faded out as black and white old time reels
Thanks for the memories fellas 😊❤! I grew up in the 60’s so much of the equipment you use was in our gas station, the center post lift, the air over air jack, etc. Thank you for bringing back the memories 😅!!! We worked on a few of the model A’s and 30’s Chevy’s 😅
You guys have made an incredible workshop there and are doing a bang up job. I ran into a TH-cam channel you might be interested in called Barry T's garage. There is a gentleman there who has been working on the same Ford engines you guys are working on since before you were a twinkle in your parents eyes. He has all kinds of helpful hints on flathead Fords you might be interested in. He is quite a character himself. Thanks for the great videos. I enjoy watching them. Happy Holidays to you and yours.
Merry Christmas guys, good to see a update. Those old Chevy 6's were well known for cracked heads. Might be a problem to find a replacement. Might try to have it welded. If done tight, they are good to go another few decades! I'm guessing that it was over heated and that will cause it. Dad would buy old cars from the airmen at the AFB where he worked. He found several old chevys with the 6, and most of them had either burned valves or a cracked head or both! We would pull the heads and raid the local parts yards for replacements. Not hard to work on and parts were cheap enough. The one that really burned my feelings, we rebuilt the head on a 54 Chev 2 ton. The cousins still had the milk delivery service and they had spent a ton on having a local shop give it a tune up and it never ran on all 6 after. Now their delivery routes were all around the Metro area and those trucks would be on the road 6 days a week and cover hundreds of miles daily. Finally parked it, and we got it. Fixed the head and valves right and it was sweet. had big plans for it as the farm truck. Brother was supposed to drain the cooling system in the start of cold weather, Went to get going in the spring and the side of the block was split open. The dummy drained the radiator but not the block! Related that dad only told him to do the radiator, never was too bright that one. He did the same with a tractor we restored back in the day. We were checking the antifreeze with a tester, I did several in one shed he did the others by the pasture. Sure as hell he let the thing freeze, I was livid, his excuse was that the coolant looked green enough so he didn't need to check it! Even though he should have known full well that he had added plenty of water over the summer, after that I never relied on his work, always checked things myself.
Jim, On them "snow days" git yerself at it on the 56' Mark doin anything. And when she's ready, don'tcha dare paint er anything but 56-23, dat's da paint code fer Starmist White on the 1956 Lincoln Exterior Color Code 23. That'll match up with the interior, okay buddy?
You guys are really stocking up on NOS, as evident by those shelves. I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED, in the year 1940, was there a hydraulic kit available to convert earlier Fords from mechanical brakes?
Merry Christmas gentlemen, and all the fans.There's more wonderful things afoot in the garage, and it's great to see some. Merlin mentioned you in his last video as he ran his T on a Dyno, along with his Model A. I hope you saw his hodge-podge contraption fire up and have plans to beat him by spring ?. We all want to see you racing again. Cheers !
WHAT NO COMPUTER? Can't work on it without a port? Had no google that? Real mechanics back then. Alway wondered who made the machine that made the first lathe? Good show, thank you ALL stay safe
That's fascinating. I've never heard of an Acme truck. That Chevrolet reminds me of one of their ads from the 1920s touting their 6 cylinder engine "buy a 6 for the price of a 4."
Love the videos I have just sympathetically recommissioned a 1928 Hupmobile model M it was off the road since 1953 before I brought it home in 2022 and got it roadworthy, I have already put over a thousand miles on the car only and plan on driving the heck out of it. What do you guys do when you can’t get a new set of king pins because they are obsolete for my car ? Wish you guys were a little closer sure would like to stop by the garage. Merry Christmas to you and your families.
Wish they made things like this now a days, can't understand why they do it, I know plan obsolesce?... Give it to them and they'll have to by it in three years, probably a Year, "A"?, Thumbs Up Guys, hope you and your Families Have a Wonderful HAPPY!...
Merry Christmas gentlemen! Blessings to you both and your families. Thank you for sharing all the wonderful work you both are doing keeping history alive. Cheers from Connecticut!
Happy Holidays Gents, glad to see a new video from you. Looking forward to more in the coming year.
Always good to hear from you guys.
I love the atmosphere you've created (or revived) in your workshop and seeing what is a living museum of early 20th-century motor repair in action is a treat. Merry Christmas from Folkestone!
Thank you, from Australia.
Ding ding YEAH!
Awesome video. Thank you.
Holy crap 1st one in!?! 9seconds!
Hey guys, this was a good shop update. A lot of nice cars and many jobs to complete. Glad to hear you are keeping busy and look forward to more videos. Always appreciate original tools and shop manuals being used and being shown on your videos. And the original decor you use to furnish in your shop.
Matt - Glad to see you received my book. Hope it's helpful for the occasional Ford truck project. Nice collection of Ford Service Bulletins, congrats on scoring those. Cheers, Dave.
Awesome Manual's, noone in my family are into car's, 😢 and normally no older than 2000, yous have a great variety, thanks for sharing, all the best to yous and your loved ones
Omg cool, a new vid, might as well crack a beer now 😂
Those early 6 cylinder Chevy heads were prone to cracking in ordinary use so they are hard to find. It was late in the 30s before Chevrolet figured out how to cast heads so they would last. I'm a Chevy guy so I am not just tossing stones at the "other guys". I might have a repairable '32 head (in Missouri) if you get desperate. I probably have the kingpins, as well.
Also, the oil pump has been updated, When Chevy started using a gear type pump in '37 or possibly during production of the '36, they developed gear type replacement pump kits
for all of the previous 6 cylinder models. The giveaway is the oval screen. The original vane type pumps had round screens.
Don't tell my Chevy buddys, but I have 4 Model T Fords too.
I always enjoy your videos. Keep them coming. Love your shop. Mike
That old Acme truck has to be as rare as a Grass-Premier. You work on the most awesome vehicles.
Happy Christmas guys from the UK 🇬🇧
Merry Christmas 🎄and Happy New Year🎊
Y'all have the most amazing vehicles in your shop.... Wow!! Awesomeness!!!
Thanks!
I just love you're shop and how genuine it is and looks. Seems like most people trying to get their shops old shcool just end up with kitsch versions and over stuffed with old stuff and signs and what not. Keep it up!!! ... cheers from sweden!
Nice update!!!
I love that place! Thanks for the videos gentleman!
Thank you! That was wonderful, particularly the service bulletins. Amazing!
Love this opening rear windows on that 35 so cool!!
Such a cool gig you boys got going there!
Thanks for the tour...
Merry Christmas you guys!
Like # 422 ! Keep it up !
Lots of great stuff and it's great that you share it with us!!
Wonderful 🎄 Tour 🧑🎄
Factory service manuals are worth their weight in gold. I see so many people who own older cars who don't have the manuals for their car and they're struggling to fix them. Even finding a Motors manual of the appropriate age can help.
I had a 1961 Ford Fairlane 500 with a 221 v8. Had over drive. Same block as the 260 and 289. Fun car it were! Ford must have liked that 221 cubic inch.
Love the tour. You have some really cool cars there now. Would love to see that sedan delivery when it is done.
Some great additions to the shop and you do great work as usual,enjoy your updates Thank you
Thank you for the video
Always good to see a video from you two. I get to see Jim occasionally on CWM for the Lincoln Continental Mark II. Happy Holidays to you and your families!
That 35 -4 door was a beautiful old car, a treat to work on it for you guys
Thank you for taking the time to do your videos
#HappyHolidays To you and yours! Looking forward to new projects in the new year. Cheers! 🎅🎄🛻🏁🏁🏎
great boy´s... merry christmas & good luck for 2024
Another great video. Love the work you are doing. You have some really nice cars going through the shop. Seems like all my favourite TH-camrs are in Canada doing cool things. I’m working on a 1948 2 ton truck and hope to have it on the road this summer. I am going to need one of those news boy hats!
Oh yeahhhh
I bought a set of those books from The Early V8 club for my 1953 Ford Customline. Very comprehensive.
That lift is really cool 👍
Absolutely fantastic! Love the, um, ah, timeless feel you guys radiate, period correct everything! Keep up the great work....
When i worked in a sunoco station they had an old drive on ramp lift, and one like you guys just got.
It was a very sturdy lift we used it for everything, on 90% of the cars that came in for repairs, that was back in the mid 60s.
Come for the cars--stay for the coveralls!😎
I really love what you guys are doing. Your videos and shop have totally rekindled my lost childhood love-affair with pre-1950s automobiles. Really cool channel, and great to see guys my age with a strong interest in this era cars and tools. Keep up the great content, and thanks reigniting my hobby.
Loved the grand tour. Merry Christmas to you and your families.
Regarding the cracked '32 Chevy head, I ended up having mine stitched up because a good one was so hard to find. It turned out excellent. If you're interested, I can give you the contact info on the shop that did the work. He's well respected here in New England. Great videos. Thanks, Joe
Matt, Jim, great to see you again. Your shop continues to be a vintage work of art.
Love all of the cars and trucks you work on and the knowledge you both have.
Thank you again for sharing your craft.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and wonderful new year from Lorie and I here in Cedar Grove, Wisconsin. Cheers.
Great update on the shop boys, Happy Holidays!
That cracked Chevy head MIGHT be able to be fixed with tapered pins. Worth a try.
Nice update. I hope you guys have a Merry Christmas.
Great to see the Ford V-8s!
Glad to see your Lincoln Mk is getting closer to having all the major panel work done. Merry Christmas to both of you and your families. By golly I knew you guys would be starting in the strange antiques with all the knowledge you have stored in your noggin. Hope you can find a descent head for the old 6 cyl Chevy. That old commercial truck hopefully doesn't need any major parts as I would guess you would be fabricating them from scratch. Maybe you might find some new old stock for its Continental engine though.
I look forward to your videos. Thank you so much for sharing!
The boyz from Strong
Iz never wrong.
The Unknown Poet
Merry Christmas from northern western Arkansas.
I have to admit I never have heard of a ACME truck. That thing has some stories to tell. Also the rear tire looks like very agricultural purpose made. I'm amazed how the Chevy still had the original floormats? They look so nice and new, usually anything that vintage looks very trashed. You should both do more videos like these. You hardly see any 20-40s vehicles even for sale. They are going extinct fast.
cool
Thanks for the tour guys. Happy Holidays.
Loved your shop update tour. They are always interesting and love seeing the old classics you are working on. It has been a busy 2023 for you and I hope business in 2024 is even better. Wishing you and your families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Fabulous! Thank you. A very Merry Christmas to You and Yours and God Bless Us Everyone!
you guys are living my dream working on those great old vehicles.
Great video guys. Thanks for the updates. Especially liked seeing the Acme truck!
Now we need to know what's added to those coffees. Merry xmas guys, thanks.
Antifreeze! LOL 😆.
Wow ! Almost forgot about you guys ! Lol ! Happy Holidays to you guys and your familys ! 👊😎👍
The Herbrand display appears fully populated. I’ve had some and are my favourite wrenches!
"Canada cars are kind of different sometimes" Like all the bolts are in backwards.
Kidding. Merry Christmas to you both and your families.
Good to see you guys, been missing you. Happy Christmas to you and yours.
So Freaken Neat!...
11:09 that’s a old wood wagon dump style tail gate. Nice old touch.
Happy holidays from Memphis Tennessee. I have a great time watching your shop videos . Grew up in rural N Dak with a few old greasy garages .thanks for the memory. It would be really cool if your videos came in and faded out as black and white old time reels
Great tour guys!
cool stuff guys, keep it up.
Nicke video as usual, so merry Xmas and happy new year to you all and looking forward to more posting!
I love you guys and your shop. Always enjoy watching your videos. I just wish you were close enough for me to bring my '38 Ford to you for service.
Thanks for the memories fellas 😊❤! I grew up in the 60’s so much of the equipment you use was in our gas station, the center post lift, the air over air jack, etc. Thank you for bringing back the memories 😅!!! We worked on a few of the model A’s and 30’s Chevy’s 😅
Is that coffee in those cups?
10:00 I have an Acme too! I got mine out of Stan Reynolds yard in Wetaskiwin!
Thank you, Matt and Jim! I really like the vehicles that you get to work on! Merry Christmas!
You guys have made an incredible workshop there and are doing a bang up job. I ran into a TH-cam channel you might be interested in called Barry T's garage. There is a gentleman there who has been working on the same Ford engines you guys are working on since before you were a twinkle in your parents eyes. He has all kinds of helpful hints on flathead Fords you might be interested in. He is quite a character himself. Thanks for the great videos. I enjoy watching them. Happy Holidays to you and yours.
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Glad to see Matt staying away from the ladder while the Christmas decorations are going up.
Enjoy watching your TH-cam videos Dover Dover heads Ian rossville Georgia can repair the 32 Chevrolet head if you want to repair.
Merry Christmas guys, good to see a update. Those old Chevy 6's were well known for cracked heads. Might be a problem to find a replacement. Might try to have it welded. If done tight, they are good to go another few decades! I'm guessing that it was over heated and that will cause it. Dad would buy old cars from the airmen at the AFB where he worked. He found several old chevys with the 6, and most of them had either burned valves or a cracked head or both! We would pull the heads and raid the local parts yards for replacements. Not hard to work on and parts were cheap enough. The one that really burned my feelings, we rebuilt the head on a 54 Chev 2 ton. The cousins still had the milk delivery service and they had spent a ton on having a local shop give it a tune up and it never ran on all 6 after. Now their delivery routes were all around the Metro area and those trucks would be on the road 6 days a week and cover hundreds of miles daily. Finally parked it, and we got it. Fixed the head and valves right and it was sweet. had big plans for it as the farm truck. Brother was supposed to drain the cooling system in the start of cold weather, Went to get going in the spring and the side of the block was split open. The dummy drained the radiator but not the block! Related that dad only told him to do the radiator, never was too bright that one. He did the same with a tractor we restored back in the day. We were checking the antifreeze with a tester, I did several in one shed he did the others by the pasture. Sure as hell he let the thing freeze, I was livid, his excuse was that the coolant looked green enough so he didn't need to check it! Even though he should have known full well that he had added plenty of water over the summer, after that I never relied on his work, always checked things myself.
Jim, On them "snow days" git yerself at it on the 56' Mark doin anything. And when she's ready, don'tcha dare paint er anything but 56-23, dat's da paint code fer Starmist White on the 1956 Lincoln Exterior Color Code 23. That'll match up with the interior, okay buddy?
You guys are really stocking up on NOS, as evident by those shelves. I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED, in the year 1940, was there a hydraulic kit available to convert earlier Fords from mechanical brakes?
Merry Christmas gentlemen, and all the fans.There's more wonderful things afoot in the garage, and it's great to see some. Merlin mentioned you in his last video as he ran his T on a Dyno, along with his Model A. I hope you saw his hodge-podge contraption fire up and have plans to beat him by spring ?. We all want to see you racing again. Cheers !
WHAT NO COMPUTER? Can't work on it without a port? Had no google that? Real mechanics back then. Alway wondered who made the machine that made the first lathe? Good show, thank you ALL stay safe
That's fascinating. I've never heard of an Acme truck. That Chevrolet reminds me of one of their ads from the 1920s touting their 6 cylinder engine "buy a 6 for the price of a 4."
Love the videos I have just sympathetically recommissioned a 1928 Hupmobile model M it was off the road since 1953 before I brought it home in 2022 and got it roadworthy, I have already put over a thousand miles on the car only and plan on driving the heck out of it.
What do you guys do when you can’t get a new set of king pins because they are obsolete for my car ?
Wish you guys were a little closer sure would like to stop by the garage.
Merry Christmas to you and your families.
Announce the casting number of a head when you are looking on the chance that some viewer has an extra in stash. Very nice video, thanks.
Wish they made things like this now a days, can't understand why they do it, I know plan obsolesce?... Give it to them and they'll have to by it in three years, probably a Year, "A"?, Thumbs Up Guys, hope you and your Families Have a Wonderful HAPPY!...
Kermit the frog would be proud of the interior in the '32 Chevy!😎
Merry Christmas gentlemen! Blessings to you both and your families. Thank you for sharing all the wonderful work you both are doing keeping history alive. Cheers from Connecticut!
From Michigan Happy Holidays ..as always great videos !!!!!
Thanks good episode!
i had a 32 chev rumble seat roadster convertible. in 2003 .....the six was very peppy
Hey, Mr. Strong, Merry Christmas from Carlos and Maggie down here in PA, USA.
awesome show guys
The only reason that truck is still around is because Wile E. Coyote never got his paws on it, lol.