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Did you ever calculate what RPM you're turning at highway speeds running on the converter like that? And the follow up question, what RPM is the upper limit for these engines? I've been wondering how hard I can push my car and not start having parts start swapping holes.

Not just the senior cars, at least by 1952. My car has has opening rear vent windows. Luckily the shed apparently kept my window rubber in decent shape, mine are all still flexible.

Hey Troy, do you suppose that guy thinks the Cadillac Packards are worth more than the plain regular Packards? I was just asked again the other day, "Who made Packards?"

Big pdf catalog. Page 60 has these clips.
http://www.wesales.com/pdf/2013-14CATALOG.pdf

Minneapolis area 120 with a 356 transplant
https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/cto/5436954237.html

I'd love to see some outside pix of that car, what colors did you use?

How about that, learn new things every day. Phone call still might not hurt.

depends on whether you're wanting to restore the car to it's exact original glory, otherwise look at the LeBaron Bonney website. They have all the patterns, but not the original type of fabrics.

this is where the stuff in the Kanter catalog comes from.

I think the original seat, sidewalls and headliner fabrics were all wool, judging by what was left in my car.

Aircraft piston engines have aluminum cases, you might check with dedicated engine overhaul facilities that do their own case work as they may well have a cleaning cabinet or similar that would work for you. Or at least they can offer tips on safe materials to use for cleaning your block.

Other than mineral spirits (normal parts cleaner solvent) our shop doesn't use anything else to clean the engine cases, and if we're doing an overhaul we send the cases out to a specialized facility for cleaning/welding/machining.

A major facility in Pennsylvania is Penn Yan Aero, www.pennyanaero.com. Start there and see what they say.