UCGHandyman

I was wondering if they might be called Paddy wagons because of being padded inside? I suppose it has to do with the Irish from hints I've taken here.

Wow! That's pretty to me (German blood lines). I'd think that clock has more precision in it than some whole cars! Lol! I so miss having real clocks in cars. When I have a millisecond to glance down for the time I don't want to see anything other than time. Clocks in built into digital radios are usually a frustration to me. Give me a real, dedicated clock!

So the answer to Drwatson's question about the air intake is thru the grille & the air is ejected thru the slot at higher velocity toward the window..

Leif, Looking thru my pictures I find it looks more like another Peerless than anything else. That was the upside down car someone identified for you a week or so ago.. It was also an X registration. I see the radiator has a cover on it but a bit of the car's name is still showing. Cadillac or Willys-Knight of the years suggested above don't have the correct front bumper, windshield shape, or any name on the radiator as this does.

Here is a similar manifold on a Ford A.

Keiser, you're King! And you're FAST too! ;-) You must have a great memory & probably a large amount of experience of having seen older cars. While the Packard is very close, after quite a bit of comparing I saw the wider rear fenders, splayed windshield mounts & chrome-rimmed wind deflector panes. Hahaha..

Boy! I'd think that front end design would drive weird when it got worn out! It looks to be obviously a flexible suspension, but the mounting points that secure each side of the axle in place are so close together that they have little mechanical advantage against the leverage of the wheels & axle. I'd guess it was susceptible to shimmying if the spring mountings ever got loose.

Curiosities interest me unduly, perhaps. In light of what Keiser31 pointed out, if the attached cable was a usual stiff wire cable, then that indicates this "valve" was operated by the cable, rather than the other way around. (A vacuum dashpot wouldn't push the stiff cable alone.)

It does look like a transfer pump. It's a garage or shop tool. Prolly didn't come with any car.

Call a GM dealership.

Cool Buick convertible. It may be a 1968 or so Custom Convertible. Wonder what they're worth now? Dorky girls are more fun. :-) :: 1968 Buick Skylark Convertible - Flemings Ultimate Garage

According to what I've read tonight Ford didn't build their own bodies, but used a number of companies to made different standard & custom bodies for them. This began before the Model T. Some of the companies assembled specialty & custom bodies for Ford's customers, like the G. E. sales trucks, the ones for NCR, the Ambulances, the military vehicles, etc. There were body companies that sold direct to consumers too. The lightest Sedan Delivery van was more based on a car, but the heavier vans were built on the TT, AA, or BB truck chassis, some with dual rear wheels & many with V-8 engine past 1932 or so. So I'd be curious to see if someone uncovers this "wagon's" peculiar history & reason for being in life.

Sir you'd get more response from your ads if you posted pictures. It's as easy to attach a picture to the ad as it is to attach it to an email, & it will get you more real responses. Scammers often put up fake ads then ask for people's email addresses, so those of us that have been burned by that will be more hesitant or wary to respond. As many ads as you've posted you can learn to attach pictures, add prices, or whatever the forum rules require.

Nice big roadster from Stearns Knight. They may have had an unorthodox engine design but you see it had full six intake & six exhaust ports, as well as a crossflow engine design thus giving 65 horsepower in early years without a complex cylinder head. Most overhead valve engines were not even crossflow (intake on opposite side of engine from exhaust). Modern overhead cam engines are nearly universally a crossflow design which generally gives better power & possibly better efficiency.

Picture or link to pictures?