My Feller has a saying: “Nobody ever listens to old Brian!” In this case? He was right. I should have listened. When I bought my ’48 Ford in 2006, the truck had a barely running mid-50s OHV6–not the coolest motor. For Christmas that same year, Brian surprised me with a flathead, an early 50s Mercury…
February 3, 2014 – If you’re friends with me on either Facebook or Instagram, you’ve probably seen teaser pictures of our new project, a 1936 Harley-Davidson VLD: like the first picture I posted of the gigantic headlight and springer front end, or the flathead engine, or the Picasso-like top of the tank (I first wrote tank…
Bondorella went on her longest journey yet, traveling 263 miles from Orange County California to Las Vegas Nevada, and for the most part, her old flathead did pretty darned well… as long as I didn’t slow down. Since getting her back on the road September ’10, she’d been running rich, but no matter how many…