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  1. Fred Kanter had a 56 Packard Panther. I was at Hershey one year when he came over to tell me he had bought it. He was so excited, and I thought that was cool. But later I learned that the extent of his excitement included the fact that this one-off Panther he bought had been missing its supercharger system. As luck would have it, Fred had found that supercharger system years ago, and had it in a box at his shop. How cool is that? 

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  2. The OP listed a 1968 Riviera in his post, which is a very different animal from an 84 Riviera. Is this definitely the same car-for-sale deal? 

     

    I remember a used Riviera that I once owned...I can't recall the year for certain, but I THINK it was a 1979 model. It came from the factory with an Oldsmobile V8 engine in it, if I remember correctly. That engine was prone to prematurely wearing out rocker arms, since oil was not getting to the rocker stands correctly in the middle of each cylinder head. I got tired of working on it and traded it in. 

  3. LOL.

    • I remember being a mechanic trainee in the very early 1970's, and being horrified at what all we had to go through to change the spark plugs on a 1969 Firebird with a 400 V8 and air conditioning. I seem to recall the mechanics made holes in the right side inner fender, and put through a long extension with socket to reach them through the fender well.
    • I recall being told that to change the tail light bulb in an early 1970 Monte Carlo, you had to remove the rear bumper...(though I never experienced that one myself). 
    • My sister-in-law owned a Chevy Monza notchback car with factory V8 engine. One spark plug was nearly impossible to remove. I finally took a middle-deep 13/16 socket and cut a hex onto the outside of it, and bored a round hole through the square hole for the 3/8 drive, which the spark plug would fit through. Then I slid it over the plug body, and could now reach the hex on the outside of the socket with a wrench. (Essentially, I used that socket as an extension for the hex on the spark plug, to bring it out where I could reach it.) 
    • I once owned a 1933 Adler Trumpf Jr; a German sports car. It was front wheel drive, with 4-speed column-shifted transmission. Basically, the Adler engineers had taken a rear wheel drive car, and turned the drive train around backwards, eliminating the drive shaft, and putting the differential under the radiator. The fan belt was driven by a pulley on the clutch assembly. So to change the fan belt, the entire car would have to be split in half! 
  4. On 3/27/2017 at 8:27 AM, kking15 said:

    My time is too valuable to me to waste playing games with those clowns. If I get an email or phone call that has the least suspicious tone I either delete or hang up. If anyone is the least bit serious they will try to follow up.

    Yeah, me too, King. But that one time I just wanted to make THEM suffer a little, in return for all the hassle they cause everyone else over the years. LOL

  5. This is an issue you will NEVER find widespread agreement on. I spent a lot of time working to fight the "Clunker Bills" about 15 years ago (with direct support from SEMA, and my fellow ARMO members), and discovered many horror stories from BOTH extreme ends of this subject.

     

    At one end of the spectrum, some people felt they should be allowed to move into a neatly manicured neighborhood, and then run a combination semi-pro body shop and junkyard full of partially-dismantled automobiles and household stuff (one guy also had piles of used toilets and sinks, etc, lying right out in the open, plus school buses turned on their sides, etc, inside a city limit, and was looking to fight anyone who disagreed with him.) Some of them really did make nuisances of themselves...even to neighbors who also liked old cars. One fellow told me that he could not understand why little old ladies living next door would object to him welding, pounding, and grinding on steel frames and body panels outdoors in his yard in the middle of the night, only 25 feet or so from other peoples' bedroom windows. On the other extreme, I personally raised support to fight a bill that was proposed in California which would forbid ANY work on ANY car in most neighborhoods...even inside a closed garage. Storage of ANY non-licensed non-operational automobile in the community would have been strictly forbidden. The proposed law would even have allowed the government to come to that home when the owner wasn't there, then break into the garage and seize any car they might find in non running condition! (Of course it was easy to rally opposition to this proposed bill, and it never even came up for a vote. But there are people who do think that is the way things ought to be). 

     

    As a car collector myself, I always worry about the "slippery slope" every time someone proposes a new law or ordinance against "junk cars on private property." Yet in my own neighborhood, where I am an elected official, we constantly battle with a few eyesore properties, where homeowners have several junkers outside in their front or side yards,(not very old vehicles at all) where they try to part them out one piece at a time. They leave engines and transmissions lying on the ground exposed to the weather, wrecked fenders propped against the front of their houses, open containers of used oil and antifreeze lying around, broken windshields in heaps,etc, etc, etc. 

     

    My point is that BOTH sides of this issue have very good points from their own perspective. AND, both sides' can be very wrong when carried to extremes. Most of us realize that you must draw a line somewhere. But it's not all that easy to delineate exactly where such a "line" ought to be drawn.

     

    If anyone can come up with a simple solution to finding where to "draw that line," (which the vast majority of all folks would agree with), speak up. There are hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of this issue waiting to hear it. 

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  6. Hmmm....I don't recognize this at all, but it makes me wonder...

     

    Do you suppose that it came off of some other item that the Studebaker company may have produced? Many early manufacturers made other products, and I know Studebaker made carriages long before they made cars. I will follow this thread, to see what we may learn...

  7. I've been buying lots and lots of ads as a full-time professional from car magazines for over 30 years.

     

    Publishers discontinue magazines for the same reasons other businesses shut down certain locations, product lines, or entire operations. They weren't making adequate money. Simple fact. They MUST have enough readers to attract enough advertisers to pay for each issue. If they do, they will continue. If not, they will eventually listen to the bean-counters, and walk away. 

     

    Publishers pursue success by trying to find under-served market niches, and fill that niche. HEMMINGS gave this a good, long try. Kudos to them for giving it a shot. Too bad it didn't work out. The fact that it was a good, well-produced magazine has NOTHING to do with it. There simply was not enough demand, plain and simple. I can think of dozens and dozens of now-defunct car magazines that went away, in spite of being pretty good magazines overall. But NEVER before in history have we seen so many disappear all within a span of a very few years. It is a brave, new world my fellow car-collector friends. 

     

    As for statistics, I'm pretty sure HEMMINGS used "39-64" because many collector-automotive-oriented advertisers in America today identify that statistic as being the "sweet spot" in their customer profile. In other words, MOST of their customers are males, within that age group. 

  8. When I suspect a scammer, I often tell them I must get off the phone now, but I will call them back. I ask for their phone number, which they usually refuse. They ask to be able to call me back instead. I tell them I really prefer to call them back. Then I hesitate and say something like, "Wait a minute...is there some REASON why I cannot call YOU back?" Often they hang up right then. But once in a while, in an effort to avoid any suspicion, they will reluctantly give me a phone number. That's when the fun begins. 

     

    Years ago scammers used to call small business offices, like mine, and claim to be our "official supplier of toner" for our copier. They always said there was about to be a giant price increase, so they knew I would want to order a bunch right now. If you fell for this scam, they would ship you some overpriced, terrible stuff which wouldn't work right in your copier...resulting in an expensive service-repair call. So one time when a guy called selling scam toner, I went through my above-mentioned routine with him, and he DID give me a phone number to call back. When I looked up the area code, he was somewhere in Las Vegas. I waited about an hour, and then dialed the number. When a voice picked up, I said, "Hello. Is Herbie there?" The reply was negative, telling me there was no one named Herbie at that number. I waited about 20 minutes, and called a 2nd time, asking for Herbie again. Then I waited about half an hour, and repeated. And again, and again, and again, and again, and again...all day long. Finally, late in the business day, I called one final time, (with my entire staff standing nearby and chuckling silently). When they answered I said, "Hi! This is Herbie. Have there been any calls for me today?" 

     

    You could hear them cursing through the phone line, even as I held it away from my ear so the staff could enjoy it. I gently hung up the phone, and savored the moment. 

     

    I had gotten the idea from an old, old issue of MAD MAGAZINE. Who says you can't learn anything reading a comic book? 

     

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  9. My family had a Hupmobile of one year or another for most of my youth, back in the 1960's and 70's. Consequently I have several Hupmobile memorabilia items lying around on shelves. I've seen these emblems several times before, but I don't think I have one like it. 

     

    In Auburn, Indiana, there is still an old warehouse where a gentleman has the remnants of old Hupmobile factory inventory. My parents made trips there when I was a kid, and came home with NOS Hupp stuff, including quite a few radiator badges. I suspect that there were quite a few badges made beyond quantities needed, because NOS Hupp badges are not really rare. 

  10. 26 and 27 Model T's are the only years which utilized a headlight bar, instead of individual pedestals for the headlights, which makes them distinctly different in appearance. Also, 26 and 27 T's are often (usually?) seen with wire wheels, which I believe were not factory installed on earlier Model T's. So these factors can throw you off. When I was a little kid, and trying to learn how to ID various cars in our car club, some of the first features I learned to look for were the tiny radiator cap with external threads for Model T's, and gas caps on top of the cowl for Model A's. 

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  11. Last year at the 600+ mile St Rt 127 yard sale I bought 2 or 3 NOS bumper guards, without knowing what they fit. They are dirty looking, but I learned long ago that it's MUCH easier to photograph them before polishing! LOL. 

     

    Anyway, this one is marked on the brace on the backside with, "Made USA BLC." It is roughly 9.5 inches long (about 24 cm). Does anyone recognize it? 

     

    Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. 

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  12. 13 hours ago, Dave Mellor NJ said:

    I'd say 54 or so panel truck

     

     

    I looked up photos of reproduction tail lamps assemblies for GM panel trucks of that era. They seem to be flush-mounted, with no "pedestal" or "leg" to hold them away from the body. Also, they are stamped steel. Of the examples I've seen in this thread, it seems most like the tail lamps on the 39 Chevy Master and the Graham. So far, anyway. 

     

    Greatly appreciate everyone's input. 

  13. I would like to see a good photo of the casting number(s) on this piece. The number you listed here seems like a casting date code, IE: 10-46 MIGHT mean it was cast in October of 1946, which would mean it was likely intended for a 1947 model engine. But there are many nuances to decoding casting numbers and date codes on engine components. So photos of ALL symbols on your manifold might help us. I don't personally recognize the bolt/port pattern, so I can't help with the BRAND of vehicle. But I might be able to pin point the date, and/or add some other details. 

     

    The threaded extension piece might be helpful, or may mean nothing at all. It obviously bolts onto the manifold, and may be homemade. 

  14. Aardvark Motors sells ACC floor mats that are correctly shaped for your car, but they are not exact reproductions of original mats. You can find them online. 

  15. Folks, a videographer friend of mine is trying to shoot a commercial for a client. He wants to make a "time capsule" looking scene, utilizing a stock restored panel truck, of similar style to the one in the photo I have attached here. The filming will happen in the Dayton, Ohio area, so the truck needs to be located near here somewhere. I'm sure he might be willing to pay some kind of "rent" or whatever, but this is a small-budget video spot for a local HVAC firm, which has been in business a long time. 

     

    Does anyone know of a vehicle of that vintage in this area? 

     

    Thanks for any help. 

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  16. Welcome, John Boyd. Sounds like you have a great project. 

     

    First, and MOST importantly...get some photos. No, make that LOTS of photos, and then post them on here. Photo the engine compartment from both sides, the inside of the dash and interior, and every angle you can think of. There are some very sharp people on this forum, and they will be glad to help, once they know what you have. And PHOTOS are the best way to get it all started. 

     

    Cheers! 

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