Mark Wetherbee

Funny, I thought the same thing at first, but my originals are not terrible and new ones would stick out...

If someone who hasn’t been a member in years were to join the club now, how long before he gets his new membership number?

The hood ornament is an Essex, around 1928 maybe...

Boy, it sure looks like it would fit my 31 Pierce Arrow, but I have wood wheels and am not sure...

I didn’t think it was going to be tossed, if OldCarFan backs out it’s yours Wayne. OCF sent me his mailing information and has first call, after I get it boxed and weighed I’ll know what the shipping price will be.

PM me your address and I will see what shipping is.

Yup, FREE if you pay the shipping from my place, the outer tank is VERY ROUGH, but all the innards are there. No number stamped on so I have no idea what it is from. I picked it up at Charlotte because I needed the brackets and I hate to toss it into recycling if anyone can use it. If if you only want the innards that can be done too, like I said, the outer can is ROUGH...

I wish you were closer, I’d have paid you 2 beers apiece for the 31 Pierce tires, thank god I only needed to mount 3 new ones as the fronts were new when I got the car...

A few more pictures from Charlotte, and another thank you for all involved in putting it together!

Grahams picture above shows why I bought the set for my Pierce before I even knew that they were used - they seem to take your eyes up and away from the modern spark plug beneath them in my opinion. Gives a more period correct look without trying to find NOS plugs which are ludicrously expensive. My set was on eBay and I paid around $10.00 for 15 connectors, a far cry from $8.00 each which I don’t think I would have paid until I was looking to show the car seriously...

I am only going by John’s post, but he states that Auburn and Franklin used an extended nut similar to a Pierce Arrow one shown - he is referring to the car companies not a plug manufacturer. If the chassis picture in his thread is of your Terraplane it too appears to use one of these styles of extenders. You’re original question was what style fasteners to use, and it appears that you need a set of these. As for the two you show, the knurled one and the clip on one, and a multitude of other ones also pictured in the eBay link overlap through the teens, twenties, and later but I don’t think that knurled nut will be right for any 30’s car. If you use the clip on plug top with a straight plug wire end only a handful of people might ever know if it’s right or wrong. Good luck with your car, I’ve always been a fan of their styling.

I owned a 24 Special Six a long time ago, this was the best club for the early year cars: http://www.theantiquestudebakerclub.com/ There’s also the Studebaker drivers club which at that time was better for the people who had later cars, I’m sure someone who still has a Studebaker will chime in on this as well.

Saw this on eBay today showing the Auburn style spark plug nut. I never heard of them before and bought a pile of the Pierce style for my Pierce Arrow not knowing that they actually did go on a Pierce... thanks to John and this discussion thread I now know about them, how cool is that? https://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-SPARK-PLUG-TOP-TERMINAL-NUT-VINTAGE-EXTENDER-UNUSUAL-UNIQUE-09/153443750739?hash=item23b9f5d353:g:Y4AAAOSww7NcqmkR

Saw a couple good ol’ boys bass fishin in the red field Friday, would not have been surprised if they caught one that pond was so deep...

Value varies so widely that I wouldn’t even try to put a number on it. Selling it on eBay is your best bet for a maximum return.

1927-28 Marmon factory mascot according to Bill Williams’s “Motoring Mascots of the World” book

I’m going to be going through the repair process for the original in my Pierce-Arrow soon as well. After days of soaking mine with kroil, which since the gauge was working was worth the effort, I decided to remove the head and stand it up to see if I could get at it from inside through a cooling port which lead to a slip and a kink in the line... I wound up tearing the line but even with the mounting nut removed from the head I cannot get the !##&$@ bulb out of it! At least I can do the engine work now, and I get to try the frozen bulb trick.

You will have the same problem with the alcohol filled units, modern cars have a pressurized system and get to higher temperatures than the earlier non-pressure system does, you need a sending unit that has a lower temperature range.

Port holes works for the left ones but I think the ones on the right should have been called Starboard Holes... or maybe they were just Scuppers to let the steam out of the engine compartment... I’ll agree with Keiser that the name might have evolved from exhaust ports, but to argue the name seems redundant...

Not an April Fools joke, I have been following this story on the Pierce Arrow Society’s website for a while now. I think David has to be the most lucky guy around, that probably has worse odds than hitting a lottery....

The ones with the split stud might be mid 20’s Studebaker - there was a pair on my 24 Special Six very similar, but as Greg points out there are many variations to deal with... the others that clamp to a post don’t ring any bell for me. Good luck