46 woodie

It would help if you let us know what the year and make of the car you are restoring.

The grill shell and cowl look like Model T. I wonder if it was a true Hydro Motor Car, or something these guy's cobbled together using junkyard parts and called it a Hydro Car?

My cars are black, so I had been using a wax by Meguiar's that was for black or dark cars. It was a great product and my cars looked great after I used it but now I find that it has been discontinued. I had never seen a wax like this as it contained petroleum distillates and was flammable. It also states that the vapors may be harmful, probably why it is no longer available.

Porsche, this isn't an ad for J-B Weld, but I once owned an Isuzu Rodeo with a three inch crack in the plastic top radiator tank. I had nothing to loose so I tried J-B Weld. I had the vehicle for 5 years and the J-B was still intact when I sold it , might still be working!

Scott, one suggestion if I may. You mention that the car needs to be moved by May 6th, don't let that dictate your sale of the car. I would try to find a "loner" or rental garage, to take the pressure off your removal date. I don't think your $50,000 sale price is too far out of line, but a car like yours will take time to sell. As others have suggested, you will need to contact several different club's and people and that all takes time. It's quite possible that the car might realize more than $50K if you take your time with the sale. It sounds like your Dad had a lot of friends and once word gets out that the car is available, you never know who might be a potential buyer.

Like Terry points out, it's his first post. Meadowbrook, you will find that there are a lot of brilliant people on this site and can get you thru every problem you have with your car. Don't be afraid to ask anything, there are no dumb questions.

The picture in the Encyclopedia is in black and white, so it's hard to come up with a color, but the plate is not "LAMBERT" but 4E-728. Now, the license plate in the picture is dated 1958, so that was before NYSDMV allowed personal plates. It's hard to imagine two 1909 lamberts from New York as rare as they are, it might be the same car. Do you know how many Lambert's were in the area?

Scott, I looked up Lambert in the Encyclopedia of Motorcars and along with the Lambert history, there is a picture of a Lambert. The picture looks like it was taken inside the HERSHEY stadium, at one of the early HERSHEY meets. The car has a New York license plate affixed to the front spreader bar and looks like the date of the plate is 1958. With the rarity of Lambert's, I wonder if this could be the same car as the one we are talking about?

Restoration Supply Company sells exact copies of the originals. They are correct right down to the foundry number and patent date, June 24th 1913 and come in two sizes.

The Ford Sportsman also had hydraulic windows from 1946 to 1948. Most of the design and engineering was from the Lincoln.

Buick35, the light bulb that you refer to is called the "Centennial Light Bulb" and is located in a Pleasanton CA fire house. It has been burning continuously since 1901 and is in the Guinness Book of World Records. I guess they got their money's worth!

You really can't ask a question such as this and expect to get a definitive and scientific answer. Everyone that has clothespins on their fuel lines will say that they work great. "With the clothespins on my fuel line, I can drive in Death Valley at 125 degrees with no vapor lock", no one like's to think they are wrong. Come on guy's, these old cars had vapor lock when they were new. Insulated fuel lines and an electric fuel pump and most of the problem is solved. Flathead Ford's are notorious for vapor lock, so the V-8 Club allows electric fuel pumps in your fuel system with zero point deduction. One thing I notice in the picture of the Old's engine with clothespins on the fuel line is that there is no radiator shroud. The second picture has the fuel line directly over the exhaust manifold. Why fix the problems correctly when we can get away with clothespins!

Scrap yards are as rare as "Hen's Teeth" on Long Island, the property is worth more for a housing development or a medical facility, plus the E.P.A. visit's every few days. We had two in my area and the car club I belonged to in the early '60s would spend Saturday morning scouring them for parts. Back around 1964 I remember a yellow, Cord in the junkyard and when we went back that afternoon it was crushed. As hot rodder's all we wanted was Ford coupes and roadsters, one guy did purchase a 1940 Ford, four door sedan from the yard. One of the members in my fire company's family owned one of the yards and when he saw my '46 Ford station wagon, he told me that they waited until they got 6 or 8 station wagons and they used a bulldozer to push them into an upper lot and threw a gallon of gas over the cars and burned all the wood. After the wood was gone they drove over the remains with the dozer and put them on the scrap truck! If we could only invent a time machine!

There is a company in Columbus Ohio called Heritage Antique Automobile Interiors, 614-451-8893 that will restore your original window shades.

Bill, last year I used the tank sealer from Bill Hirsh and it worked out well so far. That being said, in the early '70s, I used the latest and greatest gas tank sealer and with the advent of Ethanol gas it literally clogged my gas lines every month. All we can do at this point is hope the government does not come out with some sort of gas additive that will attack the "latest and greatest" sealant.

Hello Hans1, you have me beat by 5 years, this will be "only" my 55th HERSHEY. I would also like to stop by and say hello and especially shake the hand of your 100 plus year old friend. Let us know where you will be! He needs to have his picture taken for the A.A.C.A. magazine.

Sure, there are several things you can do to make your car drive like a modern car. New independent front suspension, new rear, disc power brakes, power steering and new crate engine and trans, BUT WHY???? Please do not cut that beautiful '49 Plymouth Station Wagon apart. It is way too nice to modify, enjoy it for what it is. If a modern type driver is what you want, sell the '49 Plymouth and find a Wagon that needs work. One that would take too much money to restore and build it how you want. That way you are bringing back a car that might never get done and you saved the life of the '49 Plymouth.

Bumpers! I would like to see some form of a bumper that prevents $3000 in damages by someone simply backing into you. I cringe whenever I pick up my grand-daughter from school and see some ditz in a huge SUV trying to squeeze into a parking spot that is too small for her car. It never fails but as the car is backing up, the car in front of me starts to shake. That tells me that that the ditz is parking by feel and has bumped into the plastic grill of the parked car in front of me.

There should be some kind of law against parking a "Woodie" outdoors for long term storage, Mother Nature is not kind to wet wood! The bright side is that many part's on that Buick station wagon are rare and If you remove them now, can be used in someone's restoration.

The antique car hobby is cyclical. I have owned several Model A's and naturally gravitate to that section at car shows. My first year going to HERSHEY was 1968 and I still have the program. It lists over 200 Model A's on the show field, last year there were about 10 Model A Ford's on the field in total. Back in the 60's and 70's the people that were restoring model A's were probably middle agers that had some skills and cash and wanted an old car. Those people are probably gone and now their heirs are disposing of those cars. Model A's and T's are parade cars and are not a car such as a 55' Chevy or 65' Mustang that you can just get into and drive. Very nice Model A Ford's sell for less than they sold for several years ago and you can't give a Model T away, every time I look the prices are coming down. It's just a fact of life that things change and we all need to change with them.

I purchased a box of coins last year and one of the silver dollars was from a belt buckle that someone had chrome plated. I placed the silver dollar in a small cup filled with muriatic acid and after about two weeks the chrome was gone. It did not affect the silver dollar at all but how it affects steel I don't know. Try a small piece of steel in some muriatic acid and see the results.

I actually didn't notice much of a difference, but in all fairness the mounts were not bad when I replaced them. I just figured that if I'm restoring everything, else why not the body mounts.

Well, you don't mention what year and vehicle you are working on, but I replaced the body mounts on my 1946 Ford Station wagon with out removing the body. It was during the restoration so everything was out of the body and the fenders removed. I loosened all the body bolts and lifted each spot that a mount was near with a small bar. I slid the old bushing out and slid the new one in and replaced the bolt. I didn't notice anything different when they were all tightened down.

NOW, it looks to me that the front header needs to move forward about a 1/2". Whats puzzling is the tenon is about an inch and a half back, towards the rear already. I don't think that the side rails could have shrunk that much, something is amiss.

What a great video! I know that many of the scenes that were depicted were during wartime, but it was a time when all American's were all "on the same page". I did notice a few wrong dates listed.