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J.H. Congratulations on your Standard Coupe. I have a model 25 touring. Our "Go To" guy has been Leif Holmberg in Sweden who also has done several model 25 touring cars. There seems to be some debate as to what the running board covering was. Ribbed rubber as Brad has noted or Linoleum. I chose linoleum based on a period photo of a 1925-55 Sport Touring. Factory or other period photos being of no help. If the car was well used out in the weather the linoleum quickly gave out. By the late 1920s the rubber mat was the new replacement material. Your enclosed car would have carpeting as our open cars have linoleum for the front floor surface. I may also have some photos of a survivor Standard Coupe.

We considered stopping on our way back from the Buick Brookfield Nationals. When we did the South Bend Nationals we toured it twice on a regular bus tour and on the Pre-War after tour. I could have goon again. It is great. Larry

Returned from the nationals on Saturday. 1,915.5 miles door to door. The 37 gave us a few bouts of vapor lock trying to cross the central PA mountains. Photo of my "dirty thirties" car at my daughters home in Indiana PA. after a day of Ohio storms. The last hot mountain climb did in the manifold gasket for #s 1, 2and 3.

Yes Dave: The penalty of doing an auction. Anything I would like goes way over my limit for "big money. Any thing I try to sell goes for "no money". Our local auction houses have all gone to the hated buyers premiums. Then the sliding scale for "outside items". My one friend bought a lot of good stuff at this particular auction for many years. When he had them sell his accumulation they put it all in outside box lots. He ended up paying them to sell. No profit at all. Could have just thrown all in a dumpster. Larry

Brian: Thank you so much for a great tour. We got back to Chambersburg Saturday evening after 5 PM. Good that we got on the road Tuesday and stayed ahead of the storms. On the way back I presented Paul Ford from Mars PA. with his gold award for his 1933 Victoria Sedan I accepted for him at the banquet. We spent 2 days with our daughter in Indiana PA. Showing what a "Dirty Thirties" car looks like after a day in Ohio rain. Total for our trip was 1,915.5 miles. The 37 was tired as we are.

Gary: Just to let you know we have made nearly 900 miles on our trip to the Buick nationals with the BD-1 Marvel Carb and Delco Choke set up. Other than a bout of vapor lock coming over the central PA mountains on last Monday all is running fine. I have averaged around 15 mpg.. Best Regards: Larry

Yes, the round house and car shops were a great experience. Prior to that Mark, Brian and Finn take a break to watch us riders on the "Merry go round".

We did 785 miles from Chambersburg to Brookfield and missed the prewar long distance by 64 miles.

Jack: Yes all the windows must come out. I just did my left rear door on my 1937-41. The glass was cracked and the Bailey molding (channel) had disintegrated. The kit from Steele rubber has enough channel and sweeps to do all. The only situation I came upon was that there are flocked rubber moldings that fit into a channel in side the door. These had turned rock hard and crumbled. It is assumed that the new Bailey molding will be cut to fit far enough down into the door that will replace these rubber moldings. Over all it took me longer to clean out and repaint the inside of the door. I recommend the reprints available of the 1937-1938 Fisher Body Service Manual. It shows removal and installation procedures.

Mr and Mrs Roger Mays met us at the 1st "oasis" in Illinois with their 1955 Special. My wife Joan and I with our 1937 Special caravanned with them the last 160 miles . Then we met Joe and Ann Suarez along the way with their Roadmaster wagon. Great Buick Day! Larry

Ron: I will be at the Buick nationals and I will be on the look out for these. I never did find any for myself and had to make my own. The spare headlight set I have for the Master only had 3 useable ones. If need be I can make you a set. Best regards: Larry

Dave sorry to miss you at the Pre-War After Tour. And, sorry to miss the auction I was looking forward to it! Larry

Bob: I measured just the rectangle, not counting the extending B and K. I would be happy to help as would my circle of BUICK friends. While I am at the Buick nationals next week in Brookfield Wisc. I will do a little survey. Larry

Mark does have a valid point. I do not recall any BOD discussion on this matter. Who decided to eliminate the driven class? I as one who drove my DRIVER 1937 to South Bend and had the STUPIDITY not to move my car to the poor relations field. I am sorry that I held up the judging process. I know as a judge at Concord, South Bend, Portland and Springfield that a different colored window card did not slow us down a bit!

Bob: I have 3 different size badges. Rectangle measurement. A large 1 7/8" X2 3/8" rectangle. Earlier car? The ones on my tail light plate and radiator for my 1925 Master and Standard Touring cars are all 1 5/8" X 2". A 1926-1927 Master radiator shell I have has a small 1 1/4" X 1 5/8" Badge. Larry

I went with Terrys suggestion on EvapoRust with my 1937 after it overheated badly on our aborted trip to Springfield. I drained the system filled with ER ran it till hot 3 times over a period of one week. What came out was coal black. What settled in the 10 gallon tub was 2 handfuls of scale and crud. Unfortunately the radiator was already packed solid with what left the block prior to this. I did do a re-core. 2 years latter things are still clean. Drove to Allentown last year in 95 degree temps with stop and go traffic. Temp gage did not go above 185 deg. I did install a GANO filter so as not to have anything get back into that new $$ core. I cleaned the filter twice since and always get a few bits of crud.

Hugh: Thanks for making the contact on this. Yes. It does look prettier than the Aluminum one I made for Beulah.

Dave: I will be doing inventory this week in preparation for the trip to Brookfield. Deleting the (before the cooling system clean out) extra 2 gallons of coolant I carried. I will only have 1 gallon. In addition to what Matt just posted I know I have a fire extinguisher, complete distributor, coil, fuel pump, carb, spare belt. I also carry a 5 gallon gas can in case there is a non ethanol fuel available. I have to record mileage between fills since my gage just bounces around 1/4 tank. Another good reason to carry some spare fuel. Larry

For reference this is what the longer 1924-45 body frame looks like. The "dog leg" in back of the rear door looks like some one carved it from a solid piece. I remember finding the photo on the net. Hugh has many photos of the wood from his 1925-25 in which the structure would be similar. There would be a cross member on the rear tub? Or they may be located with the 5 vertical members of the rear tub to mount the 3/8" X 18 tpi trunk bumpers. I have several of them in poor shape. If it would be me I would turn them up out of stainless

I first visited the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village (It was not "The Henry Ford" then) in 1966. My dream as an 11 year old was to someday be able to attend one of the Old Car Festivals. To be able to participate with a suitable vehicle was also a dream gotten close to reality. It took 50 years but last September thru the generosity of Larry and Joyce Shramm, my wife and I were finally able to experience this unique event. It was truly one of the highlights of my life. How we were saddened to see the changes that were to be instigated for the coming events. I hope the recent communications are a step back in the right direction. Larry

My first thought is a Buick Model D. Second thought it matches illustration for 1909 Model 17

Thanks Terry. I will remember that when I need to talk with Barbra about any similar issues. A big concern with these cars of course is the condition of the wood. From what is left of the wood framed trunk platform I will assume that there is not much wood that is sound in the structure.

Dave : Glad to hear from you and good to see the RR saga is coming to a satisfactory conclusion. Larry

By the looks of the condition of the tires and mismatched sizes this may have been put away during WW II. It has the correct color combination. 2 1/2 hours away.....Hummmm.... No!.. I .....must.... not.... be..... tempted...

David : I think that you are in the ballpark with the lowered price. The 1925 Buick Master 6 touring I bought last October sat for only 5 years before the family tried to get it running again. Poor fix up restoration from the 1970s. Still needs a good bit to get it reliable. My friend who helped us get it running in 2012 for the family offered $7,500 then. They turned it down expecting over $15,000. They had some offers from others over the next 4 years. I really was not looking for another project but when they called to see if I were interested I made an offer. Based on what I knew had to be done and then factoring for some unknowns I offered $5,500. They called my bluff! It is at least allowing me to tool around town while I keep sorting things out. Photo of the day we brought it home. Photo below is 2 days later after some clean up and adjustment. Best of luck with the sale. Larry