I don't think that are many rad shops left around here, cheap Chinese imports are killing them.

I have a Chinese one in my pickup and it's been good so far..

Not sure if mine has a Chinese core in it or not.

That was my experience, John as radiators changed from Copper to Aluminum. ... All that stuff is getting horded.


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This is what is happening all over the States now. 1 - 1/2 mile from me this retro's roll up door is open to the public all afternoon to see it when they come home from work. My neighbor starts a 36 Ford up every Saturday morning, runs it hard warming it up, loud pipes, so all the neighbors know he is leaving for another car show in a rural town. It's how it goes down. Rural is what car lovers are about ! Yea.

Reminds me of a joke.
A company sells old barn dust by the 5-gallon bucket.
The catch is to turn an old $500 junker into a $25,000 barn find.

Morning All, Local rad shop is gone here too. I know a few people who’ve used new all aluminum rads, no issues. I’ve replaced 3 or 4 rads with new aluminum / plastic tank rads myself, no idea where they were made, no issues so far. My dad just used a new all aluminum, I thought it looked good. Beautiful welds on it.

A copper radiator for this truck is almost $1,000 US , I have two old ones here neither one I would use and not sure if you could trust the tanks on them. I'll likely get what I put in the pickup again..

That's why I'll buy the Chinese one for about half that price.. I got the crankshaft put in the block today..

Evening All. $1,000 is pricey, doesn’t surprise me. Copper and brass are nice for a full resto.

I paid over $600 back when I did my panel,that was about 12 years ago..

Was that for aluminum or brass, copper?

That was a copper one, the aluminum one I put in the pickup was around $400, likely closer to $500 now..

Lots of the old copper probably got sold for scrap value.. it was worth quite a bit a few yrs ago.

There an outfit in Minnesota that makes an aluminum one that looks like the original copper one but won't ship to Canada..$249 US

That’s not a bad price actually, pain for shipping though. I could always get something like that here and ship it to you if that ever helps.