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No argument on either count. Red Coat is what I'd use as well after lots of pinhole sealing...

The rolled terne sheet/wheeled edges/soldered seams construction of that tank is typical Detroit of the era. Could be one of 20 units of one of 200,000. In those days was a lot of fab work at that scale with what we'd now call machine-assisted processes not unlike what a real bodywork guy...

I've had the thankless job of being a judge at car shows. One of the least fun things I've had to deal with was telling an owner with a car in the factory restored class that I was taking some points off because something in my purview was over-restored . I've seen '65 Chevy bumpers with...

This document (NSA history of the SIGABA) suggests that the tactical encryption hardware would probably have been some variant of the Hagelin M-209, which is a mechanical rotor system similar to the more-famous Enigma machine. It also had similar weaknesses, which is why it was replaced by the...

The COE is a funky/cool/ugly truck as it is. Add on that almost rococo brush guard and you elevate the thing to high art. I look forward to seeing it get its most distinguishing characteristic back.

Is that black wire going behind the mount above the pass seat antenna coax or just plain old vintage car power wire?

The wire between cowl and hood is meant to electrically bond the hood to the body so that it won't mess up the radiation pattern of the transmitter or introduce interference into the signal. The box with the coil and black cylinder looks like either an LC load for a transmitter antenna or maybe...

I actually took a color science class in college, along with a lot of other stuff. The color science class has proved useful a lot of times since, much to my surprise. Without going into huge amounts of detail, TV, cameras, etc nearly never have the ability to properly render colors in the...

Probably worth mentioning that in hot rod circles this engine is called a '12 Port GMC.' They have held a lot of records at Bonneville and Muroc over the decades.

I'm usually one to talk trash about asbestos paranoia and lawyers, but this is probably the nasty stuff -friable and up near your face. Please use appropriate protection - it's just about as bad as stuff you can catch from not using the other sort of protection... I'd probably set up the...