BOB P. - My Buddy has a Haband sickle mower on an off-topic tractor. The mower hasn't been used much at all. Been 6-7 months since I saw it and really wasn't paying much attention but I'd say the red was more like Simplicity orange than IH 2150 red. And the white was kinda an off-white, maybe about like a Brinley white or FMC Wimbleton white. I was able to find my buddy an operator's & parts manual but your correct, Haband info is tough to find.
DON T. - Not much difference between a '69 & '70 Nova. Mine was V-8 & floor shifter from the factory. Wish Mine had been a 350-4BBL but I doubt I'd have gotten the 18-20 mpg on the highway then. I didn't mention the fact this car burned a quart of oil every 200-250 miles the whole time I owned it and eventually as quick as every 125 miles. Stupid Chevy idea of what a valve stem seal should be! Evidently the engine had over-heated some before I got it. The o-rings over the valve stems were hard & brittle. I had a local shop replace them once. They had all the stuff to do it with the heads still on the block in the car. I watched him do one head and took maybe ten minutes. Bet I drove 700 miles before I had to add any oil. Valve guides were wore and chewed the new o-rings up quick and that's when it started burning a quart every 125 mi. I carried a case of 24 quarts in the trunk. About twice a year I'd screw on a new AC PF-35 oil filter and consider the oil "changed".
There's a good(?) cast iron 2 bbl intake manifold and a pair of stock exh. manifolds in the rafters of Dad's old garage down home. I think the ZOOM HD clutch is up there too. I know I replaced the clutch at least twice, maybe 3 times. I put an early Edlebrock Streetmaster alum. intake, Cyclone equal length headers & header mufflers on it, had some off-brand traction bars I had to "Modify" to install. The engine already had a larger CFM 2-bbl Rochester carb off a '69 350 V-8 on it when I got it. Worst thing that happned was when one of the mono-leaf rear springs broke while I was in Chicago one weekend. Had to replace both rear springs with 4-leaf packs when I got home. With the air shocks it rode like a lumber wagon! It was kinda quick for what it was, I chased a guy in a '68 383-powered Charger around town one night with my buddy's cute little sister in it. He was trying to loose me but I could catch him pretty easy when I tried, and he couldn't loose me when I wasn't trying.
You YOUNG Guys who have never driven a car with some speed potential with four wheel DRUM brakes don't know what a THRILL it is. My '88 Mustang 5.0L which was notorious for bad brakes would stop and accelerate back to 60 mph in less distance than this Nova would STOP from say 90 mph. The brakes would start fading before it slowed to 40 mph. Car was manual steering & brakes, no A/C, tilt, cruise, or P/W. REAL easy to work on and I worked on it a L-O-T!
which are ongoing this week.
Also I was out of town on Friday and Saturday and then with the 4th... Anyway, I'm back, kind of. I still need to get my PC back in order, lots of programs to install. Not to worry, the Photo Archives were never in danger.
