Ace-Garageguy

Man...that's pretty. Great colors and interior. I love Ghias too, and that would be a perfect daily driver.

Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen.

I all fairness, I have to say I've turned out a few nice paint jobs with the cheapest rattlecan paint that was out there. One in particular, an exceptionally bilious shade of medium green enamel, I put on a '53 Ford pickup that was supposed to look like a cheapo Earl Scheib job. Anybody who remembers Scheib and other any-car-any-color-$29.95 shops should recall that most of the "standard" colors they stocked were just flat awful. I did the prep and primer as usual, with Duplicolor sandable red, and did enough testing with the cheap rattlecan stuff to 1) be certain it wouldn't craze, and 2) that I could maintain sufficient control of the stuff to flow it out nice. The result, after very minor sanding and polishing to remove the inevitable dust nibs you get in slow-drying enamel, was exactly what I wanted. Smooth but not real glossy, and an ugly color. But use garbage like that regularly? No way in jello.

Sadly, that is largely SOP for many social media sites, and anywhere where comments are allowed. The truth isn't popular in a lot of circles.

Etiquette?" she asked, to which I answered "what's a quette?"

Jessica IS actually mentioned several times...

Why people keep buying junk primer is beyond me. It's just a waste of money and time. The primer questions have all been answered repeatedly already. Stuff like this is for lawn furniture and mailboxes.

Considered responses are usually better than blurting out the first thing that comes to mind, as in "think before you speak".

Nice little trailer. Probably will last pretty much forever as a useful heirloom. Glad that you elected to restore it rather than leaving at the dump as most if-it's-not-shiny-I-don't-want-its would..

Sorry. But she had a loving home, and gave love in return. It doesn't get much better than that.

PM'd.

BINGO:

Project your will as in "these aren't the droids you're looking for" and have an easier path in life.

Air cooled transmissions were used behind just about anything under 150 HP...including flathead and OHV V8 engines.

Build or buy a really cool 1:1, most of us could for what we spend on models and supplies, and the time we spend here.

Very possibly true, but there's no question a stamped steel, finless, machine-welded torque converter shell would be cheaper than a heavily-finned, aluminum die-cast, bolted-together-by-hand shell of the same size. It would be very interesting to read the relevant SAE documents of the period, but I'm not going down that particular rabbit hole any time soon.

Another night of low humidity and temps in the high 60s is forecast here; good sleeping weather.

Just more trash in mine, and a nice pile of dog poo right by the mailbox.

Numbers are hard.

OK...IIRC...there were two versions of the early Ford-O-Matic, one liquid cooled, one "air cooled". Don't ask me why. The aircooled torque converter has cooling fins cast into it and takes a different bellhousing IIRC. I THINK that what's called out as a "TORQUE CONVERTER AIR INTAKE" in your instructions is actually a small air-scoop-looking thing, for the finned torque converter. I USED to know a lot about early Ford automatics as they're essentially the Borg Warner 35 (again IIRC) and many of the parts fit early Jag automatics. There were times I used Ford-O-Matic parts in Jags when there were no US local Jag slushbox parts sources. It looks to me as though you've interpreted the instructions correctly. WARNING: I USUALLY KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. IN THIS CASE I'M NOT 100% SURE, SO THIS INFO MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. EDIT: I have a lot of older reference books and shop manuals that cover most mainstream cars of this era. I'll try to remember to look this up fer ya, but in the meantime, I'd say go with what ya got. If you get it wrong, only one in ten million people will know...and they'll all be dead soon anyway. EDIT 2: Studebaker and Rambler used similar air-cooled BW autoboxes, and had the air intake for the torque-converter on the bottom front of the bellhousing, facing forward....again IIRC. EDIT 3: I haven't been able to find a photo of the Ford-O-Matic showing the air intake online. Maybe one of my old service manuals will. EDIT 4: Getting closer. Found this reference on HAMB: "...air-cooled Fordomatic, small case. The air intake for cooling is just below the starter 'hump'. Had a finned-aluminum multi-piece torque convertor." and this: "if ever there was a 100% perfect automatic transmission, it was the 1951-57 cast iron, air-cooled Fordomatics. With three forward speeds these indestructible workhorses would outlast the entire car. It was only when they cheapened them with water cooling lines, aluminum cases, and missing front pumps did they have a shorter (and more expensive) life expectancy.

Contact cement is the ideal adhesive in many situations, if you understand where and how to use it.

Other civilizations on other worlds look at us and scratch their heads in wonder.

That's been Microsoft's model for decades. Now it's the model for lotsa software, including what runs a high percentage of vehicles. The world is changing, and not all for the better. "Technology" is a wonderful tool, but a side effect is that it's allowing many people to be lazier, sloppier, and less capable. And when you try to call attention to most of this stuff, the almost universal reaction is "lalalalalala everything is OK and I don't care anyway lalalalalalala don't be so doom-and-gloomy lalalalalalalala..."

So far this week and last, multiple deliveries have made it here on time or only slightly late, even one that got a nice free trip to Arizona for some reason. One of my ongoing local problems has been misdelivery by fill-in drivers when my regular carrier, who is great, has a day off. This week I met a new off-day carrier when I happened to be in front of the house when he came by. As I had been tracking and was expecting several packages, I walked out to his truck to see what we had. Everything sorted together in a big plastic PO box, and the young driver seemed intelligent, organized, and capable. Hoping this will be the off-day going forward.