Open House Posters

These will be for sale at the Open House and Online. All proceeds of the poster sales will go to benefit the Spinal Cord Injury Association of Virginia. 

A Five dollar donation can be made through PayPal to joesmithearlyford@verizon.net for our Online users. 

 The Five dollar donation includes shipping. 

Help support a good cause.

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Open House April 3rd

Joe Smith Early Ford & Hot Rod is having our first Open House on April 3rd from 11-5.
There will be vendors, bands, local heroes, painters, pinstripers, fabricators, free food, free beverages, and of course hot rods, customs and bikes. There will be specials on parts and new merch for the day of the Open House. All proceeds from adult beverages go to the Spinal Cord Injury Association of Virginia.

This is going to be a pretty laid back event. I want this to be about having a place for people to get together and hanging out. There won't be a car show. It isn't about trophies. It really is about being around old cars and the people who dig them. Bring your car down and be a part of it. I want everyone to come out and have a good time and support a good cause.

So come down to the Open House on April 3rd at:

Joe Smith Early Ford & Hot Rod
1113 Blackstone Ave
Glen Allen, VA
23060

http://www.joesmithearlyford.com/

It will be a good time Rain Or Shine.

The Spinal Cord Injury Association of Virginia does a great deal of good work in the community, especially for those who wake up with a much different set of circumstances one day. This is a home grown organization that operates in Richmond. The donations that you make will stay in VA and make a difference in someones life locally. We will be accepting donations on their behalf all day. If you don't drink beer for charity you can still contribute.

http://www.odcnscia.org/

Tuesday is gone with the wind

fresh from the machine shop

 I am starting to get some of the engines stripped and cleaned here at the shop. So far three of the four that I have sent out to the machine shop are good and uncracked.I consider that a great run of luck.

Happy Birthday Flathead

"Carl Schmaltz, Ray Lard, and Mil Zoerlein, working in secret, take one of Henry Ford's ideas and turn it into a production item - the Ford flathead V8. The first production car comes off the line on March 9th, 1932. The new flathead features a single belt, two water pumps, a generator/fan combo, a Detroit Lubricator carburetor, and an aluminum intake manifold. The cylinder heads are held on with 21 studs. The main bearings are poured rabbit. Water enters the heads at the top center. On only the '32 models, the belt is adjusted by a single nut on the generator post mount, and the crankshaft is forged. Cast as a single unit block, many said the 90 degree V8 was an engineering impossibility. It looks like they might be right, for early engines suffer from casting pinholes, cracks or overheating. The motor acquires a reputation as an oil burner after 1000 miles. Oil sometimes surge away form the crankshaft bearings on hard turns, resulting in engine seizure. Only a few go into commercial vehicles. To combat these stories, a V8 car travels 33301 miles in 33 days on a 32 mile course across the Mojave desert. It averages 20 mpg for the trip."

Stranger than fiction

http://andiamnotlying.com/2010/types-of-bitches/

Not for the whole family, but I sure made me chuckle. This was found on the floor of a 3rd grade class room in DC

some of my parts are famous

Alan Mayes takes a look at cars, clubs and shops in 2005. Published in 2006 and still available on line. And yes, I still have that barrel, though it has been a little full of itself since the book was published.

My contribution

Every Automotive shop needs...

 

...a tire rack.Now I just need some Hot Rod slicks and Kustom white walls to go with it.

work for a living

folk

 

Just in case you didn't know. This album goes with good times or bad times, bourbon or beers. I would recommend it to anyone who has scar tissue.                     http://www.hayescarll.com/#/home.aspx

threads

I guess that I am lucky that I have a good machinist near me. I had a manifold that was in good shape with the exception of all ( yes, all ) of the threads being boogered up. I have no idea what sort of person strips all of the threads out of a manifold, but I will say that they should stay out of the automotive arena.Well, that's not fair, maybe they just need to ask for help more often. We have all ham fisted something and paid the price.

Joe Smith Early Ford and Hot Rod can help.