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Thank you. I will put on my Nancy Drew hat and attempt to track down the lead!

Perfect. Thank you.

Thank you Wayne. No answer at the first number and the second is disconnected. Just tried the email. Fingers crossed.

Good point. After some discussion privately with another member on the forum I went back to the owner and explained that his description would not be accurate for this car and he readily agreed. We have revised the description to one more suitable for this beautiful beast. Will work to make that change right now in the copy.

Thank you!

Way out of my client's budget! I have found a 1938 V-16 Series 90 Fleetwood Club Coupe. Definitely a restoration project. I would like to send the car to someone that can help me figure out what we are dealing with and help determine a price. I want to keep the car in confidence for the time being. I can be reached at duesdealer@gmail.com if anyone is interested in helping me out. Kelly Dietrick

I would say I have to agree! And out of my client's budget. Beautiful though. I am following up today on the leads offered. Fingers crossed!

Thank you everyone for your responses. I don't know why I am not alerted when there are responses to my post. I am still on the search and will follow up with these suggestions this week. Thanks! Kelly Dietrick

I have a client looking for a wiper motor for his 1934 Packard. Are these impossible to find?

I am confused about how to post a car in the For Sale section. I thought I just posted a 1916 Franklin Roadster but I can not find it. There is a sub forum of Not my Car but where is the general automobile for sale thread - how do I access it? It used to be very straight forward and now I am just confused. Can someone tell me how to post a car in a General for sale section? Thanks.

1927/28 Aero Engine Special "Zeus" Fantastic Hillclimb and Sprint car with incredible torque. This is a beautifully engineered machine which stands comparison with any Edwardian mega monster aero engine car which are all the rage for the Goodwood Festival and the recently introduced Brooklands Race event, prestigious global inter-Continental rallies and USA endurance rallies/races. Zeus competed in the “Great Race“ in 2017 and covered around 2500 miles with 4 stage wins. Zeus has won many car shows in America. NOVA clear. True to its Special designation the bodywork consists of a 1916 Franklin and 1918 Studebaker and parts of a boat tail 1947 Hudson. The amazing engine is built by Hall and Scott who were famous for building aircraft engines in the first world war such as the liberty aircraft engine and vehicle engines for the luxury car maker Duesenberg, This engine is a 1928 straight inline 6 cylinder, 14.5 litre 900 ci with hemispherical heads that was acquired from a museum in California along with the dashboard instruments. The Hall and Scott 14.5 liter engine is the heart and soul of this car. It's 6 cylinder, all aluminum, overhead cam engine is a delight featuring dual ignition by magneto to plugs on the LHS of the engine and coil and distributer to another set of plugs on the RHS. Twin updraft carbs on the LHS and a massive cast “drainpipe” exhaust on the RHS together with a massive centrifugal water pump which circulates through the original aircraft radiator. It has a wet sump. Everything is monitored by a full set of original matching period Hall and Scott instruments. The electrical system includes a high capacity generator, starter, fuel pumps and glorious lighting. The externally contracting generous sized brakes are fitter front and rear are converted to hydraulic operation for safety in modern traffic. The underneath is clean and tidy and free from oil leaks. The spacious cockpit is fitted with seating for two in hand stitched hide leather. The unmarked paintwork is in dark green, with fine pin stripes and magnificent hand painted logo of the great Greek God, Zeus This car will benefit from detailed inspection. The quality of the engineering is very high and evident in the smallest components. Cast bracketry ,lamps and instruments are all first class. This is a beautifully engineered machine which stands comparison with any Edwardian mega monster aero engine car which are all the rage for the Goodwood Festival and the recently introduced Brooklands Race event, prestigious global inter-Continental rallies and USA endurance rallies/races which Zeus has already taken part.. Built by Don Luttmers and Paul Springer Built on a 1927 Diamond T Chassis that was custom ordered 13ft 9” wheelbase The amazing engine is built by Hall and Scott who were famous for building aircraft engines in the first world war such as the liberty aircraft engine and vehicle engines for the luxury car maker Duesenberg, This engine is a 1928 straight inline 6 cylinder, 14.5 litre 900 ci with hemispherical heads that was acquired from a museum in California along with the dashboard instruments The original engine spec was 275 bhp and 850 foot pounds of torque This is one of only 12 known engines 4 gear Clark transmission with 100% overdrive built in built by Brown and Lipe The original axle only lasted a few miles so was rebuilt using a drag race axle components. Original Lockheed hydraulic brakes connected external to the drums The amazing bodywork consists of a 1916 Franklin and 1918 Studebaker and parts of a boat tail 1947 Hudson Custom made wheels Absolutely beautiful early Gray and Davis headlamps Cloth covered Wiring by Bart Ouchida Classic leather upholstery by Wild West upholstery Jim Anderson Coach Striping by Mitch Kim This car weighs around 7000 pounds ! Zeus completed in the “ Great Race “ in 2017 and covered around 2500 miles with 4 stage wins Zeus has won many car shows in America NOVA clear Car is located in England. I can help with shipping arrangements. Price: $175,000 0bo Video here: Click the underlined link. $175,000.00 US

Good News: Our Children Have Some Terrific Ideas for How to Get the Big Ol’ Boat Unstuck From the Suez Canal I love so many of these kids that I can't pick a favorite but I will say they certainly know how to use their cars. Teddy, 4: “They need a crane and a rope and a ramp and a car. The car will run on the ramp and cut the rope and land on the boat with a crash. This will bump the boat back into the sea. If that doesn’t work, we could just add another car. Double force!!”

Are you saying your father could not answer a simple question like, "Why is your plane burned at an Airport in South America?" I would have so many answers - almost all certain to get me thrown into a South American jail LOL

Past owners. It is true. A car with ownership history and invoices for work done will help you avoid any surprises - and always have it inspected. Always.

May I be so bold as to disagree. The details are with the masses. You were lucky to have a good experience - but records get lost, people die, and if your one off car was not so important to somebody it could have very well disappeared forever. Those very people were obviously not very far from your car in terms of connection. I believe we used to have about 2500 car companies in the US in the early 1900's. A lot of cars got made. Some companies only producing a handful of cars that are now extinct. You lucked out. The rest of us are still chasing dead leads and gleaning important information from obituaries and angry widows:)

Please PM the VIN to me. Thanks.

It is so addictive that I have just spent my entire beautiful Sunday afternoon on the site much to the dismay of a very unhappy un-walked dog that keeps giving me the sad eyes. Good luck with your search. Keep us posted. I have sent a PM with my Rev's Institute contact.

Craig the new privacy laws aside Jaguar in England only had a record of the first US owner if that owner took out a warranty on the car. The dealership where the car was sold in the US had the owner's name but a lot of these records were tossed when dealerships closed. Sometimes family members took the records home and stored them in attics. Dealership records are very sought after these days. So a Jaguar Heritage Certificate can tell you where your car came from in the US but 9 times out of 10 they can not tell you the first owner.

Have you contacted the Rev's Institute to see if they can help? They have a treasure trove of pictures and in the case of the research I was doing on a Maserati they had all of the hand written notes from an author that wrote a book about the car that they were able to supply those notes to me. I gleaned a lot of clues from notes written in the margins but never used in the book. Also if it has a Tennessee tag from 1972 there might still be info at the DMV. Each state has different requirements for how long they keep records (not as long as 1921). Might help to contact the AACA Library and Research Center in Hershey. Do the original factory records still exist? Were the cars sold from the factory or through dealerships or a combination of the two? Sometimes they keep the first owners in the factory records. Hence my ongoing search for Max Hoffman's factory records that will tell so many Jaguar owners who owned their car first here in the US. Information even the Jaguar Heritage Center does not have unless the new Jaguar owner took a warranty on the car which would have had to have been issued from England. Thus allowing them to know the first owner. Also try to track down classic car clubs in both Tennessee and DC. In the old days people communicated by letters and the newsletters were mimeographed and sent to the members. If you could find information on the clubs you may be able to track down the car from there. I am currently working on two databases - one for the Arnolt-Bristols and the other for the Lotus 15. I just received a mind boggling amount of information written by an enthusiast in 1965 that details first owners, technical information, articles of the period - all gathered by one man for the rest of the Lotus 15 club members. I have been given all of the notes from every registrar and historian for the Arnolt-Bristols. Material is out there you just have to keep putting the word out where someone might - just might see it. Local historical societies are also wonderful resources. With a car like this the owner's most likely wanted to share it with others. They did not buy it to tuck it away as an investment. You sound like you have done amazingly thorough research so far.

I have put out a message to a client that has a 350GT in France to see if he knows about Ford connections that might be helpful. Have you tried contacting classic car dealers in France to see if any of them recognize the car? I would even expand that to dealers in Belgium and the Netherlands, etc. that specialize in muscle cars or American cars overall. Do you know how long the car was in storage? Do you have the name of the person who's shed it was in? And why is the VIN a dead end? Someone stop me LOL.

Hi I saw your PM and was just about to respond to you to ask about the shipping information. The DMV will not have records from 1921. Did the car come to a dealership in DC? By the way the car is beautiful. The owner's may have passed on but all family members have not. You would be surprised at the amount of information tucked away in boxes in attics. What clues do you have so far?

To everyone looking for information about their car's history - what Craig found on "Fleets" for Owl Head is exactly what you should be doing. Post on every forum that has something to do with your car. Find out who the Registrars and Historians for that make and model are and reach out to them. This site has been an invaluable tool for research for me because people that contribute are car nuts and they are invaluable resources. You have to keep getting the word out there. As far as the Woodbridge Dealership is concerned I am certain if Owls Head posted on Ford forums someone will remember something - an uncle worked for them and is still alive. Their parents bought their first car from them. Owls Head between the information on Fleets that Craig provided and the fact that the car was yellow try to research what companies had their cars painted yellow by Ford for promotional purposes in the 60's. From there you can try to find people that were part of that company and that promotion (now you are moving from actual car research). If Ford did not introduce the bright yellow until 68 and your car is a 66 then odds are it was part of a promotional event by Ford. By the way, do not discount contacting Ford itself as they do keep records and might be able to help. But my advice is Google Ford forums. I know that there is even one in French - just keep getting the word out there. Keep going down the path until it either veers to another lead or comes up dead. I have to admit I have to stop myself from looking into your car. Research is an addiction. Too many Nancy Drew books when I was a kid I guess.

Oh my Lord! That will make you cry. That story is exactly like the one I wrote about in this thread. The son searched for the VIN one last time on his mother's request and the car popped up for sale - on this site as a matter of fact. How awesome to see the look on his face. Thank God he really didn't have a coronary because he looked pretty close to it. And how about after all those years he still remembered what the muffler sounded like. "Oh they changed the muffler." LOL

15 years later and the dealer was only asking for $5,000.00 more? Getting it up to snuff again would take half that so heck yeah. That's a good deal!

That is a great story and a beautiful car but the video itself was not included. Would love to have seen the look on the dad's face when he saw the car again.