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Perhaps a cracked cap or bad wires - as noted above make certain that the core is covered with rubber material before the cloth was applied....
If it was mine and not subject to judging I'd get a new cap and make a set of wires from Packard 440 wire ....
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If you have a store on Ebay this is what is being proposed ..
https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2020/9/1601049321.html
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1933 Pierce Arrow 836
Personal favorite. I was 11 in 1960 when we drove to Boston to purchase and drive back a 1928 Franklin. The owner hadn’t had time to finish it but offered my dad the Pierce Arrow for the same money. Pumped up a low tire and drove it from Boston to Rochester , Picture was taken about 2 months after we got home,
Bernie Weis told my dad he should have waited for a 12 – “they’re a lot more car”. I still love the styling (5 passenger) and road manners (had to wait until I was 15 to drive it). Light steering and braking, Startix starting. lots of torque .. Unfortunately I’ve been told this one has been turned into a resto-mod.-
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if you do have to use heat drawing wax into the threads (think solder) can help. You probably know that but hadn't seen it mentioned. It;s also big enough you should ne able to come up with a vibrator to hook to it - vibration loosens a lot of things
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"wires cut and hanging loose"
That was pretty much SOP back in the day. No one ever bothered to strip the old wires out ...... 99 per cent of the time you will find them attached to nothing..
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I had a Model "A" when I was 12 - the first thing I did after the fan blade just barely skinned my elbow was to paint the fan blade tips yellow. I did that with every new car I got for quite awhile.
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Would not hurt to polarize the generator once you have the battery hooked up properly - only takes a minute but right nowI can't remember the way to do it (it's been 20 or 30 years).
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Thanks, we need to dwell a lot more on the good in this world... there is a lot of it out there if we just open our eyes and our minds,
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Back in the 60's there was a 39 Merc Phaeton or Convertible Sedan in the Rochester area running 2 - 6 V batteries hooked up to provide a normal 6V circuit and a 12V circuit for the starter. An elegant solution.
Of course when my 50 Chevy truck had hot start problems I carried around a 12V battery and a cheap pair of jumper cables until I saved up for a good set of 00 cables from a local welding shop - problem solved.
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You will need to find someone with an arc grinder to arc the new shoes to the existing drum as noted by Tinindian above. Ask me how I know.
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We had a 1964 stripped Chrysler Windsor with the 3 speed transmission and manual steering and non power brakes. The 3 speed is non-synchro on low gear, the steering and brakes are very heavy.
On the other hand it's doubtful you will park next to another one at a car show. If I was younger (and hadn't lost quite so much of my grip) I would be very interested - it is a wonderful example of the last of the big fins.
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Check out their dmv site - that's the only way to find out. I believe things have changed.
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Renault LeCar - in the snow a quick flip of the handbrake and you are headed back from whence you came. A lot of fun and the front seat is more comfortable than most luxo cars. Great engineering but unfortunately lacking in quality...
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When we couldn't find our youngest we had only to look in the rear seat of our 64 Imperial to find him perched on the center armrest.
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The problem is partially with pay based on flat rate a good mechanic at a busy dealership can make 6 figures. I do not believe that there are many auto restoration shops out there who pay that well...
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Depends on the state - many cars were registered with the engine number. That works great as long as a rebuilt engine wasn't installed...
Beat me to it
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3 hours ago, jvolgarino said:
Vermontboy, I'd love to make contact with your friend to see if those discoveries could be brought to light. It's apparent that we, as current generation enthusiasts, know this information exists, but those discoveries remain shrouded in mystery, never to be part of the continuing automotive story. Having been part of the academic community for a number of years, I can assure you unless those materials are drawn out by enthusiasts, no one will care. And eventually those wonderful donations will simply be lost to neglect and disinterest.
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Addenda - rest assured that his discoveries were brought to light to those who provided the access and many were written up in the appropriate media. He was not a collector per se except for things of interest to him - the stuff he kept was valued for it's uniqueness, not it's monetary value.
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8 hours ago, jvolgarino said:
The problem, of course, is no one really knows what has survived and where. Bound materials could be stashed away in cardboard file boxes with no one having an interest in saving the material or getting it to an organization that might preserve it. That's the point. No one knows what is out there and how much duplication exists. I'd be interested in knowing about literature collections that are accessible. Anyone have a complete list?
There is an almost infinite amount of material to be discovered in many places. Alumni have donated libraries, manuscripts, correspondence, art, photographs and etc to Universities for decades only to have them boxed and warehoused, often without even a cursory review of what is enclosed and identified only with the donees name. And yet they continue to add to sorted and cataloged material rather than exploring what they have - I have sold a lot of ephemera to Universities over the years - they are good customers but payment is very slow as all expenditures require board approal (usually measured in months)..
I have a good friend who does appraisals for many universities, museums and auction houses and he has made many of the publicized "discoveries" - they will continue to be new discoveries for decades - the volume of unsearched material is truly endless.
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I remember you started a few different threads on these and then on a later Oldsmobile. You need to go where you will end up having to get the titles - walk into a rural DMV office and look around for an old timer -- then go explain the situation (you don't need to give your name) and ask what the best way to proceed is. Or you can go to a local attorney who may have an in at the local DMV or know a friendly judge... no idea what the fee is but here in rural NY it ran around $700 o $800 a decade or two ago depending on how many favors were being called in.
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SAAB 93 with front opening doors - my dad had a 93B...
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"Could be old loggers tongs to rotate logs to complete a cut. "
Nope - that would be a cant hook or a peavey (they are different) - used one for many years when we heated with wood.
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No telling what the timing is except I know that their agreement with Paypal ends sometime this year. It was surprising to me that they stuck to their guns on the per item fee because you know that the mega vendors aren't paying it........I suppose there will be a day when the word "ethics" no longer appears in the dictionary....
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It will not be cheaper - though tight lipped there are a few things that are known, mostly
1) Money will not be instantly available - think they are down to 3 days now -still a lot of "float" money for them. They have also condescended to allow paying for shipping out of funds they are still holding
2) At the last q&a they are holding firm to a 25 cent per sold item charge in addition to the percentage - obvious attempt to get rid of the low end stuff
There's more but it appears that it will be more expensive and a lot harder to deal with than paypal
Re: the tax issue don't forget that the sales tax ebay collected shows up in Paypal totals starting in November and has to be backed out to make your accounts balance - what fun......
great post war car line up
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Whst year Desoto - is it a lever sticking out of the dash or maybe a pushbutton selector ?