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Hey! Those toe boards look just like mine! Did you sneak in my shop and steal them..??!!.. Oh.., mine are still here... never mind.. LOL!

Seriously, those look just like you used mine for a pattern, but you're several hundred miles away. You have a good eye for size and dimensions. An acquaintance of mine used to call that "calibrated eyeball". I like that term. Anyway, since I made mine (about 15 years ago) I have used them many times on my cars and friend's and a couple of them have made sets of their own. On a beam axle like my '31 and '32 and the roadster I sold a while back, I set the caster with a bubble protractor and the toe with these boards. I never have to pay for an alignment.

Oh yeah, the orange tape in my picture was just masking tape holding the boards up against the tires. Otherwise, they would fall over if I tugged on the measuring tapes.

Originally Posted by J. Robinson

Hey! Those toe boards look just like mine! Did you sneak in my shop and steal them..??!!.. Oh.., mine are still here... never mind.. LOL!

Seriously, those look just like you used mine for a pattern, but you're several hundred miles away. You have a good eye for size and dimensions. An acquaintance of mine used to call that "calibrated eyeball". I like that term. Anyway, since I made mine (about 15 years ago) I have used them many times on my cars and friend's and a couple of them have made sets of their own. On a beam axle like my '31 and '32 and the roadster I sold a while back, I set the caster with a bubble protractor and the toe with these boards. I never have to pay for an alignment.

Oh yeah, the orange tape in my picture was just masking tape holding the boards up against the tires. Otherwise, they would fall over if I tugged on the measuring tapes.

LOL they say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery! I just happened to have a 2x2 piece of veneer grade ply that had solid core sub-plys, and my front wheels measured 24" so it was meant to be! I had a drafting instructor that taught us to draw without scales for measuring, using a folded piece of paper and proportion marks, so my "calibrated eyeball" has served me well through the years. Thanks again!

Originally Posted by johnboy

Crikey. That'd make you spit wouldn't it?

Or rip your hat off and jump on it.

Three times.

No hat, and five lanes of traffic moving 65mph so all I could do after the initial scare of the hit was yell out a minor oath and slap the steering wheel a couple of times! What compounded the frustration was that I was glancing at my passenger side mirror to see if I could change lanes and get away from the truck when it hit

Originally Posted by 34_40

I'm glad they decided to do a commemorative edition... not as "flashy" as I would've thought but.. it's cool.

They issued them early 2015, after my free wheels had already arrived, and when the Cragar guy told me the plan for them I asked if he had a set of 4 earmarked to send for my "commemorative wheels" but it didn't fly. I was really kind of surprised to see them pop up at Performance Tire & Wheel in California after 6 years, thinking I'd probably be looking at aftermarket eBay. LOL they're probably happy to see them moving off of their shelf!!