37 Ford build--IE: old Header issues thread /37 Ford/5.0/GT40P heads

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"Interesting" wheels Bobby... I am unsure of "the look" but it will be different and depending on the tires.. could be appealing. When you're ready, I'll take a couple Oxycodone with a couple Valium and we'll float down the street together!

[bluestang67]

"Interesting" wheels Bobby... I am unsure of "the look" but it will be different and depending on the tires.. could be appealing. When you're ready, I'll take a couple Oxycodone with a couple Valium and we'll float down the street together!

I am ready knee is hurting i will do 2 Vicodin and a clanopam to yours .
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I am ready knee is hurting i will do 2 Vicodin and a clanopam to yours .

OKAY Bobby, I guess we'll file this under "you know your old when"! Or how about, I'll trade you 2 blue ones for 3 of those yellow ones there?

Sometimes I think John Lennon said it best , "Whatever gets you through the night"!

I'm actually feeling pretty good! Compared to last week or the week before!! With the relatively warm weather today (50's) I'm gonna take the car out for a ride and finally try out the new shocks!

[Dave Severson]

Good find Bobby!!!!! Friend of mine has a similar wheel on his Merc (my old 'glass one with the SBF), he did the wheels up body color, added some stainless trim rings and baby moon caps!!!! They look better on the car then any high dollar one-off aluminum wheel could ever look!!!!!!!!!

Can't help much on the "Kelsey Canada" stamping-- Where the heck was the Kelsey-Hayes plant at? Maybe they had some of their wheels made up in Canada? Certainly wouldn't be the first company that had parts built there, heck, most of my exhaust tubing is Canadian built and great quality!!!!

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Just thinking about this Bobby and all the metal I buy up this way has that same style lettering, that is CA NA DA, they're probably the largest of the imported steel manufacturers at least up this way! Maybe Kelsey used their steel for these rims?

[rspears]

The Kelsey Hayes company was originally formed as the Kelsey Wheel Company - found this info in one of the Wiki links... Probably means your wheels were pre-'27?

The property is the site of the former Kelsey Hayes plant which was founded by Detroiter John Kelsey in 1913 at the request of Henry Ford. The Kelsey Wheel company initially made wooden wheels for Ford and other automakers but later produced wire wheels and auto bodies. The original factory occupied only that portion of the present site located to the west of Mercer Street (Windsor, Ontario). In 1927 Kelsey Wheel merged with Hayes Wheel to form Kelsey Hayes. It was the first company to be unionized by the U.A.W. in Canada after a strike in 1936.

[bluestang67]

Also the do have the Chrysler logo stamped on the inside , they are older mopar wheels for sure .

[randyr]

Also the do have the Chrysler logo stamped on the inside , they are older mopar wheels for sure .

I thought they looked like Mopar wheels....

[bluestang67]

Yep good thing Mopar has the 4 1/2 bolt pattern

[IC2]

Bobby - I going to splash a drop or two of water on those MoPar wheels. Don't forget that they wont fit without possible wobble unless you use some rings to make them again "Hub Centric" on your Ford hubs. Here's what I mean -

http://www.prestigewheel.com/Catalog/HubRings66_67.pdf

There are several manufacturers but the above is a write up mostly of what the rings will do.

And much of that CA NA DA steel, which is much of what I get too, comes from Korea (Posco Steel) into Canada as raw stock to be processed into bars and plate (GE put a couple gas turbines in that plant in Korea )

[bluestang67]

I understand totally and glad some one else picked up on it . I was thinking till you posted this that if they are to large I could just have a space made up at work .

Same thing we use on the Chevy crank when it is grooved .

Bobby - I going to splash a drop or two of water on those MoPar wheels. Don't forget that they wont fit without possible wobble unless you use some rings to make them again "Hub Centric" on your Ford hubs. Here's what I mean -

http://www.prestigewheel.com/Catalog/HubRings66_67.pdf

There are several manufacturers but the above is a write up mostly of what the rings will do.

And much of that CA NA DA steel, which is much of what I get too, comes from Korea (Posco Steel) into Canada as raw stock to be processed into bars and plate (GE put a couple gas turbines in that plant in Korea )

[bluestang67]

Mike Glad to here the mobility is coming back with less pain .

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Mike Glad to here the mobility is coming back with less pain .

Bobby, and all the regulars here, just wanted to share with you that I was given clearance to return to work after the 18th! While I am still just a touch sore I am so much better than back in december! Now I can get back to the details that I wanted to do over the winter!

[randyr]

Bobby, and all the regulars here, just wanted to share with you that I was given clearance to return to work after the 18th! While I am still just a touch sore I am so much better than back in december! Now I can get back to the details that I wanted to do over the winter!

Clearance to work is great!! Clearance to play is even BETTER!!!

Happy for you, Mike!!!!

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Clearance to work is great!! Clearance to play is even BETTER!!!

Happy for you, Mike!!!!

Thanks Guys! It's amazing what they can do with 2, 3/4" slits in your back!

And yes Dave, I do seem to heal a bit slower than 20 years ago!