Mark Wetherbee

From the internet... https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.hemmings.com%2Fstory_image%2F627465-1579-0%402x.jpg%3Frev%3D1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hemmings.com%2Fmagazine%2Fhcc%2F2018%2F07%2FRoadster-Recovery---1925-Willys-Overland-Model-91-Roadster%2F3751834.html&docid=WhKC2IVL2Z6FHM&tbnid=owV4hDe2FKb5kM%3A&vet=1&w=1579&h=1112&hl=en-us&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim This is the one I had in mind

Willys Overland and the cheaper model called Whippet are two very different cars. Your two pictures are Whippets not the car I had in mind

My first thought is a 25 Willys Overland, but I can’t find any pictures with cowl lights.

I’m thinking that Dictator is right and the script is a town booster item.

Here’s the link to the 30 Cadillac you missed: I think it’s one of those that will be on my mind for years to come.

I agree, I was very interested in that car but no matter how I rearranged my garage it just wouldn’t fit In without removing my workbench altogether. It’s a great looking car!

2-1/4 hours north looking at google maps for me. If it’s newer than the mid 30’s I am not the right person to go...

Ask the Studebaker group, I had a 1924 Special Six many years ago and the tire plate was nearly identical but I don’t remember the brackets other than the round pegs sticking out. There were grooves in the pegs where the bolts passed through making them left and right specific and keeping the plates from spinning if they rattled loose.

Amen to this. We moved this past summer and in the short time since I’ve probably given 30 people their first ride in an antique car. My wife invited several people from the schools she works in for a Christmas party a few weeks ago and the 6 or so children that were there couldn’t get enough. Just yesterday I took a couple guys that we had doing work to our kitchen for a ride around the community. It’s infectious and well worth going to the meeting near you to learn more and hopefully join in the fun.

Not a steam car, the hole in the side is for a crank to start it. Early car, 1904 or thereabouts is my guess...

The Babbitt in a T is around .08 thick on the block (approximately, it may be a little thinner or thicker), on modern shell style mains it’s closer to .008 - the good thing is that extra thickness allows for a certain amount of metallic filings to become embedded and not score a crank. I’m in favor of leaving them stock unless you go all the way with pressure oil and an oil filter to clean the oil and then it just doesn’t look right IMHO. There are several places still doing quality Babbitt work and it is expensive but also a one time expense unless you drive it an awful lot. Just for conversation, I had an A done a couple years ago (similar to the T engine) and had around $3200 in the engine plus transmission which included pretty much everything new inside but doing all the wrench work myself. BEST bet is to follow the advice above and talk to someone from a local T club, maybe have him look at it with you and give an honest opinion on the specific car. I love my 26 and enjoy it as often as possible!

My dad had a coupe too, he never had it finished but it would have been too tight with the seats reupholstered - I could get in when the seat springs were out. Then I saw a roadster for sale and before calling about it I sat in the one at the Owls Head Tranportation Museum while I was volunteering there and it was a tight fit but doable. I’m 225 and 5’-10” and I wouldn’t have been able to get in if the top was up so I passed on the car.

No, Ford put a tiny plastic plate over the gas gage sending unit and it was supposed to be safe...

Thanks Keiser but the more I look at the pictures the less I am interested. It’s a poor quality restoration with just enough issues to be concerned. It is a sharp looking car but I’m not looking to take on something that needs that much corrected.

My wife asked why I didn’t add my Canadian Mountie story so here goes... It’s 2007 or 2008 and I’m working as a manufacturing engineer for a snow plow company in Maine at that point. My company has prototypes in a winter test program placed in several areas around the country and there’s also one in Digby Nova Scotia. In late December my boss was looking for a volunteer to inspect that one unit and somehow I drew the short stick. So just after Christmas I start off at a god awful early hour so I can make the one daily ferry from St. John into Digby. I’m up there early but the ferry was canceled due to snow and poor visibility so I stopped at a McDonalds for a lunch and hop onto the highway. Well, the snow was pretty bad and there’s no traffic on the highway at all, come to think about it there’s no plows either but I am getting paid for driving so on I go white knuckling it through to Moncton where I am planning on giving up and staying someplace. It was snowing so bad the exits are not passable but the highway is still drivable so on I go. Not too many miles later I am stopped by a Mountie with his cruiser blocking the road at a turnaround. Well he walks up to my truck and asked “sir, are you aware that this highway is closed?” And the only answer I came up with was “No sir but it would explain the lack of traffic since leaving St. John.” Thank goodness he had a sense of humor, but he was shocked I was there at all. It seems they closed the highway and blocked the on-ramps just after noontime but I was already on the road and there were no signs telling me to get off so I kept on going. He turned me around and told me I had to sit it out in Sackville as the road from there to Amherst was going to be shut for another couple hours. I finally pulled into Digby at 3 am and thankfully the innkeeper wasn’t too mad about my arrival time.

When I got my learners permit Mom had a Ford Maverick with a 302 in it. So I pestered her all week and she kept telling me we could go on Saturday. Friday night we had an ice storm and Mom looks out the window and said “perfect time for it, let’s see how careful you are on the gas” - took about an hour, but I finally found out how NOT to spin tires which was a trick on dry roads in hat car! Flash forward, my first car was a 1972 Pinto. I’ll wait for you to stop laughing... So I was working 2nd shift and coming home with about 5 inches of slush on the highway and going about 35-40 mph when my rusted out floor decided to give up, it dropped down just behind my feet on the pedals and becomes a snow scoop. I was up to my bellybutton in slush almost before I could realize that the floor was no longer under my feet. All I could do was fold it the rest of the way under and keep driving. Damned that was cold!

Thanks for all your replies! The car is close enough for a drive up to inspect it even though the holidays might make it tougher. Now I’m looking closely it seems that the more I look the less I like... the doors aren’t the only issue that can be seen in the pictures so I guess it is time to keep looking. We we have plenty of back roads but also a lot of cars that don’t like 50mph let alone 35 and getting my T outside the immediate community is challenging enough, something quicker with decent braking is the ticket. And it has to fit in my garage which is killing the idea of a large sedan.

This coupe is on eBay and got me wondering about how roadworthy it would be. What is a comfortable speed for this car? How are the brakes and how dependable are they assuming that they’re set up right? I know it’s a very open question based on the condition of the car itself but would like to have an idea before making any kind of offer. We live in a more congested place now and worry about the Model T being hit from behind by someone not paying attention to the road. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1932-Chrysler-Series-6-CI-Restored-by-White-Post/264095588780?hash=item3d7d52e1ac:g:16EAAOSwVCpcDabG

I have a hood ornament or two I consider as fine art, and many of the drawings should hang in museums IMHO.

I am seriously looking for something like this but it is well above my pay grade... A real beautiful car, Thank You for posting it!

I got nailed once in a UAW plant.. My company at the time sold custom equipment, I was there to supervise the installation of a manufacturing line and the union did the installing. One day an electrician asked me to hand him a screwdriver and another guy wrote it up. I should have known better but I’m pretty sure it was like a fraternity hazing thing. It’s actually sad to know their BS (like that day) followed by striking caused them all to be unemployed, and we wonder why all these manufacturing jobs are moving to Asia???

I was thinking that it could be for a very fancy oversized pedal car. I have a smaller scale brass headlight from a very early one but it’s not as detailed as your lamp is. Very nice lamp!

Tex has it above, but if you want to, hear’s the best looking Cadillac emblem IMHO... it’s the 1915 era V8 badge with too many dots in its crown and white swans instead of black ducks.

It is, I mentioned that I changed it to a zerk a few posts earlier, that way I could use a modern grease gun which is a lot quicker than using a cup...

Here’s mine, along with a tool you can pack with grease, an then use a hammer to force it into a plugged fitting, that way you can force the dirt and rust in as well... I don’t use it for that reason.