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I have one that is at here at work does a great job on macro shoots. I use a canon a40 for everything else.
I researched http://www.imaging-resource.com/WB/WB.HTM for what I wanted in a camera and the guy was on the money for what the camera will really do.

Where I live here in Indiana ,I can show you about 20 places to find old cars from the 1900's to the early 70's but it is all in what you wallet can afford as to what you will get.
looked at a 50's bullet nosed studebaker last week. It was complete but had not been on the road for more then 30 years, one guy has nothing but old caddy's sitting in a field a place about 10 miles from my home has nothing but 50 - 55 chevy's very light on the 55's but it is a great place to find parts .
even the local motorcycle junkyard has an old 49 desoto and a 50 dodge.

a couple of the old farmers around have some model A's and T's sitting out in a field.
it all depends on how much you are willing to do to get it.
My 54 was bought for me by my wife because she thought I needed another car to work on beside my friends.

man do not talk about eye injuries............I have had them all everything from metal fileing from a brake lathe to having a brake spring break through the saftey glasses and ripping my eye open and having to get 4 stitches in it..
on the stitches the doctor said that the angle that the spring hit the glasses and the force behind it was what made the glasses break.
and the metal shavings in both my eyes was due to the wrong type of saftey glasses being use for the type of job I was doing.
I now have about 15 different pairs of safety glasses around the shop I use as recommended by the eye doctor that did the work on my eyes.
Oh I did forget the time I got a sliver or fiber glas from a dash in my eye from a car I was not even working on ( I was just passing by at the wrong time) that hurt the worst of all the eye injuries I have had .
so yes I wear safety glasses now .
on a brightrer note the place that I work for now gives us a free eye exam every year because they offer a school of optometry , so the optometry students get to see first hand all the bad things that can happen to the eye.

I will be happy to get you that infor when you get the car.

A friend of mine restores MG's for a hobby. I asked him and he said the highest he would go would be around 3000.00 and as far as finding part there is a place just outside L'ville Ky that has more part and cheap prices then any other place he has found yet.

I am wondering if anyone knows the first years when dual masters, power steering, power brakes, and front discs became optional, I imagine the vette was ahead by a few years but what about Impala, Chevelle, Nova?


Ok i watching speed the other night and remember cause it was a rerun they asked who invented the cruise control. I wont list the possible answers here but does anyone remember the right answer  ?They gave a list of possibles and i guessed it right the first time  by picking the lease likely answer..
Dave

Dave the answer to your question is cruise control it was designed by a blind man after taking a ride with his lawyer and he made notice of the fact that when the lawyer was speaking he sped up and when the lawyer was listening he would slow down witch made for an uncomforting ride.

the other choices were A/C , P/S , and power brakes.

Herb

I had a 50 or 51 Pontiac ambulance as my daily driver in the late 60's

About a mile from me is a 50 ambulance that has been sitting in the same spot since I moved to Indiana 9 years ago. The owner will not even talk too you about it or the 53 merc sitting beside it both are in need of repair but either one would make a great rod.

Thanks for the warm welcome.
most of the questions I have have been answered in either other post or in the tech section. but Iam sure I will run into some as the project gets further along.

I'm new to the board and decided to join after reading through alot of the post and most of the tech section.
there is alot of knowledge on this board and hope to learn more from all the members here.
currently I am working on a 54 pontiac 2 dr ht. I have decided to keep the flathead 8 and trans for now mainly due to the fact the it had just been rebuilt just a year before I got it.
but 90% of the stainless is missing so I am going to shave it clean and if I can get some one to teach me chop the top a few inches.
 
Again thanks for allowing me to be a part of this fine board