Mark Wetherbee

I guess it’s a love them or not thing… I think there’s also some years that are far more attractive than other years. Personally I love the look…

We (volunteers) had the opportunity to do a little work on an OTTO at the Owls Head Museum a few years ago. A very historic piece of equipment that gets started on occasion now that it’s back together. The noise it made was impressive, and the “muffler” which looks like a drain pipe running up the outside of the building doesn’t quite soften its effect. I’ll look forward to seeing a video of that one running!

I sold a very solid clean 15 T runabout several years ago that the next owner did a super nice restoration on but painted it maroon with cream accents… it was hideous and for some strange reason he couldn’t sell it for what he bought it from me for. If it had been just plain old black it would have sold double if not more… the guy really thought he was improving its salability. I don’t even want to think of the money he must have lost. It was his car and his choice, but some people just don’t “get it”

Oops, it must have been $100 plus shipping. Here is that old thread:

I bought mine without the instructions on eBay three years ago for $100 shipping included and it’s as complete as yours is. I have seen them listed much higher but I don’t know if they sold… Their use is to set multi-cylinder dual point distributors, my car has a 4 lobe distributor cam for an 8 cylinder engine, so those points need to fire 45 degrees from each other to keep in sync. On a 12 cylinder it would be 30 degrees apart and for a 16 cylinder they need to fire 22.5 degrees apart. I think I posted pictures here years ago using mine, but those pictures are not still in my phone but here’s one of the pictures I was sent of those instructions. If you need I can see if all the instructions are still in my phone…

No, this will likely not fit your Imperial… There were three different sizes of this Gazelle, a large one, a medium one, and this is the smallest of those three. I am not sure if they each had a different size cap, but there’s at least two different ones there as well. As the Imperial was the largest offering in the lineup, I think you need the largest Gazelle on the large cap, which is far scarcer to find in one piece than the more common small one I have.

Yes I still have it, I haven’t tried too hard to sell it after it got me banned from buying or selling on Facebook… seems their system thought I was attempting to sell endangered animals instead of metal mascots! Since then it’s been on my desk as a conversation piece about inept computer logarithm’s.

A very good friend gave me one of these recently, it’s in my family room but anyone who thinks it is old deserves to be parted from their money…

Early 20’s Studebaker touring with a “California Top” on it - likely the Special Six model and possibly a 24 which had the almost Packard shape to the radiator.

I have one just like it in my T tool box, it’s a tire iron with a clincher bead breaking hook but I do like the bottle opener idea… got to give that a try!

You could look for someone who does stained glass in your area and have them cut you one. Flat red should be easy enough to find… might also be able to buy it from a local glass shop???

I don’t know WTF this guy is playing at, but the above quote by me is completely a fantasy BS post. I personally don’t know this person and I do not endorse any things he might be selling. I personally feel as if my name is being used as part of a scam and don’t like it on bit. PLEASE DISREGARD ANYTHING FROM THIS USER.

But can they ever match the patina? Personally I think I would pass on it anyhow…

Yes it’s a back flush tool, each rib on front getting progressively larger is so that it fits several hose sizes.

When I was first married we were living in central PA in a town of 300 people and some 15000? Cows. Two different farms (but in the same family) each had a tanker and one was named Republican and the other Democrat and they both joking said which would sling the “stuff” the farthest… of course fresh country air is a very misleading thing, especially first few weeks of spring!

Not trying to break the non political laws here, but they are also referred to as politicians… and can be any particular party or neither at your personal view.

So sad to hear, we will be keeping the family in our prayers.

I believe it is a rheostat that was an accessory item to reduce the voltage from the magneto into the headlight wiring so as to reduce the number of burned out bulbs.

It doesn’t quite fit the intent of the thread, but when I was in college I bought an old Coke machine at auction for $35 with the intent of restoration for my future family room. The machine was complete with very little rust once it got pulled out of the shed it was in and cleaned up. I didn’t know the very first thing about it and after moving it a couple times I was pretty sick of it and off to Hershey it went. So I barely found my spot when three or four guys started arguing about who was there first and it basically turned in to an auction. I was dumbfounded when the final offer was $500 because I was planning on asking about 1/4 that and would have been very happy to see the backside of it at that. So, later it’s on another booth for $1200 and the guy’s sign says it’s a very rare model from 1940 and I was still happy to see it’s backside… I’m sure I both took someone else’s trash home and left other trash there not that it was as memorable as getting rid of that ##@!! machine.

Great stuff Terry! Thank you for posting

The radiator emblem is Ranger not Velie…

From a quick Image search…

Mid 20’s Studebaker Special Six, maybe as early as 21, and fit through 24 at least (I had a 24 many years ago). The bucket is the same for the Big Six but the rim is different and the Liberty Lens was factory correct for those years.

I sold one of these side mount generators years ago, I believe it fit a 1910 Buick from factory.

I was at work and, rather than sitting at my computer, was working in the shop on an engineering prototype when a coworker came in absolutely ashen and told me about the attack. I think most of the department followed the news for the rest of the day but it only got worse when they hit the Pentagon. My father in law was supposed to be at a meeting there that day - He was a senior engineering manager at one of Chrysler’s defense related companies. From what he said later, they had already called off any meetings, escorting all of the civilians out and locked down all the military bases within minutes of the second tower being hit. It was completely surreal especially when our clubs fall tour started on Wednesday evening and our T was all ready to go on that Tuesday night. It’s odd that those memories are more vivid now than what I was doing last week. Never forget the sacrifices of the NYFD that day and all the first responders and rescue volunteers over the next days and weeks.