Eastern Hot Rodder

I has been a half decade or so since I've been to a show in Maggie Valley, NC so we cruised Lil' Red on up to check out the 2023 C10 Nationals. This event grew a ton since my last time there. The swap meet was bigger too. There were so many LS Swapped Square body trucks you'd think they came stock that way. While square bodies dominated the show a close race for second were the 67--72 C10s and the GMT400 (OBS) style they made from 88-98 or so. The first gen C10s had a good presence (60-66) and only a few examples of early trucks prowled the fairgrounds. Overall we had a good time, saw some cool trucks and even picked up some stuff in the swap meet.

We headed down to Calhoun, GA to hit up the Paradise Dragway Show & Go in the Basement Bird. The dragstrip hosts these evens a couple times a year. Weather kit the attendance down, but it stayed dry until we headed home. There were a few gassers making passes along with some hard running track stars, a handful of dual purpose hot rods and my buddy's front engine dragster that's powered by a Ford 300 6 cylinder. That little digger scoots, and is consistent. The 1/8th mile outlaw track is one of my favorites.

We show you how to change the pesky leaking shift shaft seal and kick down O-ring in our '63 Ford T-bird. The Cruise-O-Matic trans is notorious for leaking from the shifter shaft and our basement find low mileage Bulletbird is no exception. I had a tough time finding any real good info on fixing it, the best I found was on the www.SquareBirds.org site. There was still some vagueness to the directions, but they were pretty good. I hope this video helps you with doing the job. Having done it once, I wouldn't shy away from it at all, it wasn't too bad to do and it dried up the trans. Now the cool cruiser is that much safer and more reliable to drive.