The Forge, "Good on ya"

[Phred]

Drove the phaeton 1000 miles from Chicagoland to Loveland CO for the MAFCA meet last week. Cruising 55 - 65 mph the whole way, no worries the entire way. Until ...20 yards from the motel parking spot and the car sputters and dies. Daughter #2 and I push the car into the spot and let it cool down for inspection.

Turns out the tubular steel intake manifold developed some significant cracks.

Recalled an earlier FordBarn post from Rex at The Forge in Loveland CO offering his shop to MAFCA attendees in distress. I brought the intake to his shop the next morning.

The guys at The Forge took my manifold, immediately weld it up, and I was back on the mountain roads that afternoon. A few hundred high altitude miles and 1000 flat land miles back to Chicagoland later, the repair is holding up well.

So ... in the words of some of the Kiwis I met at the meet, "Good on ya, Forge!"

Peace, Phred