March 31, 2005

Thursday Car Blogging

As mentioned last week, I went to go pick up my Land Rover engine this past weekend.

It hasn't been painted, but it is freshly rebuilt. I still have a few other things to do to it such as installing a rear main oil seal, setting the tappets, and actually putting it in the vehicle.

I also got some pictures of various old vehicles this weekend...and not all old British stuff either...mostly old American.

My father's latest project

This is the same car seen here,
and it hasn't changed much in the past few years.

Power Glide...aka Automatic Transmission

An Apache

This is the same vehicle pictured here and here

I think I'll be adding a few of the above to my photo album pretty soon.

I will end out on an old British car though...the following Austin Healey is being restored by a friend of mine down in Alabama. Silver was never an original color, and I was skeptical at first when I saw it in the paint shop, but this thing is actually going to come out pretty nice:

That's it for this Thursday's Car Blog. Be sure to come back for more pictures of old British cars next week as I will hopefully have been working on a Land Rover engine.

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Nothin' like some good ole car porn there Blake..I'd love to see the Apache when it's done....good luck with the Rover Engine....

Posted by: Tman at March 31, 2005 10:41 PM

Who's Austin Healey, John's? Looks nice. The MGA went for $1800 (too much), now we're keeping an eye on a local Bugeye that needs restored.

Posted by: Mary at April 1, 2005 05:01 AM

Spot on old chap.

Posted by: Jakester at April 1, 2005 07:35 AM

Nice! I am not really a "truck fan," but I do like old ones.

Posted by: Miss O'Hara at April 1, 2005 10:25 AM