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Brazilian cars
David Marques of Brazil is working on a new site hosted by The Old Car Manual Project: brazil.tocmp.com
This is a fascinating and visually appealing site dealing with Brazilian cars, including the Brazilian-American makes that are just a little bit different from the US models.
Also check out David’s gallery of Brazilian car brochures at oldcarbrochures.com/brazil
Changes at The Old Car Manual Project
Since starting out nearly seven years ago with a few dozen pages scanned from my collection of 1950’s Holley carburetor manuals, The Old Car Manual Project has grown to tens of thousands of user-contributed pages of manuals, brochures, pictures and advertisements.
Some of the new things that we’re doing with the site are adding self service […]
How to convert a Rochester carb to electric choke
A lot of Rochester carburetors came originally equipped with a hot air choke, in which heated air from the exhaust or intake manifold is used to open the automatic choke as the engine warms up. There is a metal tube from the manifold leading into the carburetor choke housing. Inside the choke housing […]
Hidden truck treasures in the BC interior
A couple of weekends ago we went on a camper trip into the beautiful Kootenays of southern British Columbia. Packing up the trusty ‘76 GMC chassis C-class we ventured off in search of spectacular scenery and nifty old cars in hidden-away places.
As we usually do, we picked a random road to follow, heading […]
