1912Staver

Canada , so no Title in any case. We do use Registration documents . If missing the process to replace is somewhat easier than much of what I see on here about missing titles. Still hoops to jump through, but not flaming like in several States.

Prices around here are as often as not just plain stupid. I don't understand it. Almost everyone around here is totally tapped out with our local , sky high cost of living. And yet any old hunk of junk is priced like it is ready for a prize win at a car show.

1935 Ford Panel Truck for sale by owner - Surrey, BC - craigslist Door #3. What a prize.

Another hot deal. Hurry ! 1929 Ford Model A Sedan Delivery for sale by owner - Surrey, BC - craigslist

Here are three vehicles that just were posted to my local Vancouver B.C. area craigslist. They all need a bit of work. Sadly all too typical of my local market.1929 Ford Model A Pickup for sale by owner - Surrey, BC - craigslist

I don't think Henry necessarily planed them that way. They were contracted out, and I expect Briggs and Murray just bid on the contract and built them the way they were most familiar with and could mass produce for the lowest price.

Now that is priced to sell ! I am almost tempted myself.

Yes , Land Rovers are another pricy in todays Vintage vehicle market that often need a new frame. As far as I know brand new body shells are still available for MGB's. When they were first offered quite a few years ago the price was almost reasonable, but I understand it has gone up a lot in the last decade or so.

My grandmothers brother ran a threshing crew in Southern Manitoba. My grandmother did a lot of the cooking for the crew meals. My mother says my grandmother { my mothers mother in law } was the best cook she ever encountered. A Sawyer Massey steamer, later replaced by a big oil pull. I have photo's of the steamer somewhere , but in a box with hundreds of other old family photo's.

Stutz cars from this time period are quite a bit bigger than the car in your photo. The Middleby like your grandmother is sitting on was a relatively small car. If a Stutz and a Middleby were parked beside each other the size difference would be quite apparent.

Both TVR and Lotus have gone through several ownership changes. Very little documentation exists in the hands of current owners. TVR had a very serious factory fire in 1975 and virtually all of older drawings , documents etc. were lost. The current companies have little to no interest at all in the " vintage " products . You can buy nearly every part of a early 1960's TVR new. But not a single piece of it will be made by TVR themselves. That is why people not connected with TVR the company now make parts. The TVR company can sell you nothing at all. Everything on the market is reverse engineered from old parts. These cars are raced a lot, so lots of upgraded specification parts are now made. This is what's available from what I consider the best supplier, but several other companies also make and supply parts. As long as you have a I.D. tag { just a very small tag mounted to the body , nothing at all on the frame } you have a TVR. Just add money.

I get what you are saying demco. But I think the chances that anyone in Belgium's motor vehicle bureaucracy has even the slightest idea of how a tiny company like TVR or even a bigger co. like Lotus was building cars in the early 1960's is close to 0%. FIA can't even consistently figure them out. TVR in particular was hand building the cars in small batches. Running changes to the point that lots of small differences exist between cars even very close together in production.

I recall seeing a few taxi cabs using these in about 1970. They didn't catch on.

That's why these days I always get involved with " real " race cars rather than converted street cars. Absolutely everything is adjustable and very easy to access. Into the pits and up on work stands, 10 minutes and all the body work and wheels are off and everything is right there in front of you. You still have to put in the time and be methodical in your set up, but compared to a production street car dead easy to work on and set up. This isn't my car, but a T492 like mine. This illustrates how accessible everything is. It can look like this 10 minutes after you pull into your pit spot.

Much as I got my start in the late 1970's. Four of us , myself, a British car mechanic / marine engineer, one friend a mechanical engineer, one friend a mechanical technologist, the fourth one a young Dairy farmer / budding pro race driver { really, several national titles later in his life }. We spent way more than $500.00 a year 45 years ago. For a street legal { sort of } Bug Eye Sprite. And that didn't include the car itself. Bare budget racing in the extreme, but even 45 years ago $500 would not have got you behind the wheel. Our team motto was " spin or win " we did plenty of both. My current Auto - X car is a home built ,knock off of a Lotus seven. Both basic and cheap in the extreme, but like i said before still about 10 K . But I also have a Late 1970's Lola sports racer. Just can't afford to run it at the moment. it's got a Hewland transaxle and they don't like Auto - X , way too easy to break first gear on the standing starts. Serious $ to repair, so rolling start , track events only. But those are way more money to enter than Auto - X. I have to pay down a bunch of debt's from my house purchase last year before the Lola will see action again. I expect your son would like a session behind the wheel in it. He would probably be faster than I am. Age is starting to slow me down.

All the track stuff around here is about fun. No prize money at all. But $500.00 does not even get you a demolition derby car. Not picking holes in your sons activity, just the absolutely unrealistic concept that you could have a " race car " ; and one able to run for 24 hours at that, for $500.00. If things were that cheap we would all be doing it. Just a track day weekend for your street car is a $400.00 per day fee at my local track. Usually two or three 20 minute sessions / day. Most people have gone through a set of brake pads and a set of tires by pack up time on Sunday.

I currently have about 10 K into my very basic auto - X car. And it still needs to be put back together and at least a new set of tires , not on the track for the last 5 years. So it had to come all apart and be checked out. All new rubber parts in the brakes, new clutch disk, shocks sent out for new seals. Even very cheap racing costs a lot around here.

I sort of get it. But the rules state the cars have to cost $500.00 or less. No possible way that Pontiac { or your sons BMW for that matter } cost $500.00. I just sold a non running 5 series that had been sitting for almost 10 years for $1500.00. And had several interested people at that price. The trunk lid off that Pontiac is worth $500.00. Low buck racing sounds good, but either the rules have come closer to reality, or the whole thing becomes a charade. ANY running beater around here is $2000.00 and well up from there. 350,000 km rust buckets that look like they should be heading to the crusher. My son looks for them daily, about $3500 for anything that won't get you pulled over for a vehicle inspection by the first police officer that sees you .

I sold one once to a drop in lookie- loo. Actually he was carefully searching the area for a Hudson pick up that a friend had told him about. But he saw my project 1953 Chevy convertible { a Canadian market 210 Deluxe, one of a handful built } and knocked on my door. It all caught me a bit off guard and I told him a price that I really did not think about long enough. Sold after about a 8 second look over. Been kicking myself ever since, I could never afford to buy another . Then about 4 years later he phoned to see if I wanted it back. About twice the price I had sold it for plus he had thrown much of the car away to build a street machine style car out of it , including the convertible frame. He was going to order up a aftermarket frame but never did. Needless to say I turned him down. I don't know where it ended up. Never again will I sell a car without very careful consideration.

That's worth researching. But I somehow doubt there are many Mercer's that actually need side lamps. I quick google search shows a Mercer with these lights. So I would expect they are more valuable than I would have thought. Quite a few higher quality cars had lamps that were either engraved by the lamp maker with the make of the car , or had a soldered on badge with the cars name. So they make a nice display item even if not actually mounted on the correct car. But these only have the Dietz name, interesting but probably not as much as lamps with Mercer name tags would be { assuming they ever existed }.

I have seen similar levers used to actuate an air pump . Some vehicles teens - early 20's used these pumps to pressurize the gas tank. Usually driven off an eccentric on the cam shaft. There would be a hand pump on the dash to bring the tank up to pressure for starting. Once the engine started the dash pump is isolated with a valve and the engine driven pump takes over.

Pretty sure a 1965 Galaxy is coil springs and locating arms.

The seller is already offering the car { project car , but very good condition, just no engine / gearbox } at a extremely good price. I would not attempt to dicker even one $ off his asking price. But I know from past experience that by the time I get it home in Canada when the dust settles I am going to be into it for 2- 2 1/2 times the cost of the car itself. Purchase , transport , brokerage, costs at the border { Canadian taxes }, exchange. Just trying to figure out if I can fit it into a pretty slim hobby car budget. It's one of perhaps 25 cars in North America ,from an obscure but very well regarded in its hobby niche British car maker. They built over 400 cars overall , but most are still in the U.K. There used to be two of them local to me years ago and I really liked them a lot. But when they were eventually for sale my finances were in tatters and both were sold to the U.S.

Thanks, I will do that. Yes I figured the flexible time frame would make things easier regarding back hauls, seemingly not in this case.

This does seem to be more and more the case. The cost of transport is rising rapidly. So it's either put up with whatever your local selection and pricing is or go without. I just a couple of days ago asked for a ball park cost estimate from one of the haulers that is on here quite a bit. Upstate New York to Washington State. Very small car { inop } and very flexible time frame. Trying to figure out if I can afford the purchase or not. His only reply was that virtually no vintage car was worth hauling that long a distance. I guess things are really that bad if you figure it's not even worth your time to provide a quote when you are in the hauling business.