TerryB
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Never saw auto themed trays, thanks for posting them. I’ve had a few beer related ones over the years which were somewhat common in our area.
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Maybe a little better view?
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Check over the rear fender wells for rust out and around the rear tail lights. The tail lights had rubber doughnuts around them that would trap water and make rust. Speaking from my own ownership experience.
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The load rating of the motorcycle tyre might be a limiting factor, especially on the 23” you show. That was a limited production cycle, at least here in the USA and 23” front tyre for it became nearly impossible to find in later years. The Honda XL500 was a comparatively lightweight motorcycle which makes me question how well it would handle automotive use. Trelleborg (sp?) makes some very heavy duty motorcycle tyres that might work better if they have something in your size. My experience off road on Husqvarna and Honda spanned quite a few years.
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That leaning over must be one of the minor issues that needs attention.
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Solar spark is a MoPar name for the coil. With the armored cable it’s probably 1930s to about 1941.
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3 hours ago, JACK M said:
Something else about the one wire alternators.
They don't get excited until it gets a good goose.
Me too some mornings….
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Does the car run under its own power? If no, can it be loaded onto a rollback or flatbed trailer?
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Nice, but dare I say boring car at least for my interests. Has the classic MoPar interior of the times but just doesn’t ring any “Oh that’s cool” in any way for me. Your opinion may differ of course!
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When the car is running, what is the voltage at the battery?
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The above photo is my hometown, Branchdale a little bump on the road along PA Rt209. At the top of the picture is the coal train leaving town. The picture was taken from atop a coal refuse bank, one of many that totally surrounded the town. The train tracks went right through people’s back yards! No fences or other barriers to keep the train from running over pets or even people. We survived somehow but a few slow moving critters weren’t as lucky.
So for today, here’s a rough layout I have in mind. The coal loader is really meant for steam trains but I could work for what I want to do. The CAT mine truck has real coal from the area near my hometown. My son gather it years ago for his HO layout. The CAT excavator in the picture is today’s purchase at the farm toy store. It’s close to N scale and is only $4.99 plus tax. A real bargain in the world of N scale. The two brownish Pennsylvania hopper cars are used ones from eBay that arrived yesterday. I need to create some hills and bumps on the layout to give it some 3D effects. I’m still rather new at this stuff so inspiration comes slowly 😀. Almost forgot to mention, the little shed with the reddish door is my scratch build. I used a craft stick that looks like tongue depressor as the wood source. A bagful of them for $1.99 at the hardware store!
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5 minutes ago, STEVE POLLARD said:
It's too bad that the AACA had to suffer from this act of destruction from this person... sounds like the family should have step up and give her the help she needed before it came to this.
They probably tried. These cases with getting help for an adult person are complicated as I learned with my own family member.
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On one of those Motor Trend TV shows they fixed the pushed in roof of an all original late 1960s Camaro by using a porta-power unit inside the car (interior removed) to press the roof back into shape, sort of like a big paintless dent repair. I think it was the show that’s filmed in West Chester PA but I’m no 100% sure. Wood cribbing was used to direct and spread the force needed to pop the metal back into place.
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As usual with generators, has it been polarized after you installed it?
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I grew up in the anthracite coal area of Pennsylvania, in the southern field area near Minersville and Tremont. I’ve been hoping to build a small diorama of the area close to my home where train cars got loaded with coal for shipment to Philadelphia and beyond. Watching the train cars get loaded with coal was our entertainment in a town of less than 600 people.
Looking at what vehicles to use in the diorama the 1/64 Matchbox size is easy to find but train coal cars are not. Next was HO 1/87 scale. Train cars are available as are scale size vehicles to use but they are bigger than the area I want to take up with my diorama layout. So I moved on to N scale 1/160. I had one N scale coal hopper car already and I had found some almost N size construction equipment at a decent price at a local farm toy store.So I’m going to try some scratch built N scale structures and set the layout size to 15” wide and 10” deep to keep it manageable. I cheated and bought a prebuilt N scale coal loader to help me determine size of vehicles and buildings. I have made a small scratch built shed like the HO one in the picture, the paint is drying as I write this. Just doing that tells me this project is going to take a while…
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You can use a section of small diameter hose, like vacuum line hose, as a stethoscope listening device to help pinpoint where the sound is coming from. How about the generator, bad bearing perhaps?
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The 100th anniversary car and its driver were featured recently on local TV when they were in the Harrisburg/ Lancaster area as part of this cross country trip.
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Good looking car that deserves better background for pictures.
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Every laptop needs a good mouse so maybe….just never know!
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The nameplate was the Packard dealer in Reading PA.
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49 minutes ago, jdome said:
Eco terrorist. Attacked what she envisioned as the worst representation of IC vehicle pollution. The result of anti-IC hatred promoted by leftist politicians. No different than eco terrorists who throw paint on Rembrandts at the National Museum of Art. Case closed. 🙃
If you have never been around a person with a serious mental illness you have no idea what it’s like to deal with what they justify as defending themselves from something. Don’t be so quick to pass judgement until more facts are known. I went through it with a family member, it’s living hell.
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Post your carb number / type here for a starting point.
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5 minutes ago, Ozstatman said:
Trying to "build" a reputation.
Looks like he did..
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3 hours ago, c49er said:
Ok...now on to Marc's next question on his DeSoto.....
It takes a community to raise a DeSoto, or something close to that old adage!
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What is the number on the starter data plate?