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Lots of detail work and waiting for paint to dry before assembly. This past weekends efforts including sand blasting a handful of parts including the fan at the water pump. Close inspection revealed possible stress cracks or cracks formed when the fan hub was stamped and punched. I have a second fan to consider, but I might be able to file these cracks out: I might have just saved the radiator, hood and who knows what or who else by noticing this now.

and the 80's

I noticed that several cars had plates that appeared to have local tag numbers but still had a US state written across the top or bottom of the plate. How does your registration work over there?

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Just sent you a note about your floor pans, but upon further reading I see that you already have replacements. Here's a couple shots of the temp shoring that Dan did on my car. Don't be afraid to weld brackets to solid metal on the windshield frame or door openings. You can cut and grind back to original very easily.

Found this dealer promo that I picked up years ago. Very nice presentation of the cars in color. Back when I got this, I could afford some of the literature, but not the car.

50 years is a long time for any car, indoor storage saved this example from the alternate fate.

Easy introduction, I'll PM the both of you. In the meantime, here's his forum thread:

The state was 80% clear cut by about 1920. During one of the years of the civil war when it was not possible to cut timber in the south, Burlington was the largest lumber port in the country. As of about 1980, the state was 80% forested.

An acquaintance, Bob Blanchard, is searching photo archives in Burlington, VT and came across very early photographs of portions of Rt2 that traverse Vermont. From Bob: "These photos were found in the Detore negative archive, but were not taken by him. The envelope noted that these had been taken by Frank Wager, a Burlington photographer who pre-dated Detore. These are from 1925 and show the Roosevelt Highway (Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Highway). The highway was named as a memorial for Teddy Roosevelt after his death in 1919. The road would eventually go from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon, passing through Vermont along the way. This was before U.S. highways had numbers. In 1926, the year after these photos were taken, a national numbering system for highways was put in place, and the portion of the Roosevelt Highway in our region became US route 2. When these were taken, there wasn’t much along route 2 except for an occasional farm. So in the absence of identifiable building’s it’s hard to be sure where these were taken. They were taken in March, and as you can see, mud season was in full force. There were many photos in the envelope. I photographed about a dozen, and am posting the ones that might give some idea where they were taken. One does show a truck driving on the muddy road. The others are all traffic free. Quite extraordinary images of a well-known route nearly a century ago."

Under hood stuff this past couple of weekends to rebuild the distributor (many thanks to @GaryW) the generator and starter. Like Gary's distributor, my shaft was in great shape and I did not need to replace the bushings. The upper edge of the distributor where the vacuum advance BB's ride was undamaged. I've have also included an extra set of points and a handful of condensers in the "go bag" for possible future use when driving. The generator and starter were next. I did two generators; one for the go-bag. The generators were cleaned up and received a new bushing, brushes and bearing. The starter also got new bushings and brushes. I did not rebuild a second starter motor as it not likely to fail and weighs the same as an extra passenger. I did pack an additional rebuilt solenoid though. I did figure out a trick for loading the spring loaded brushes by pulling the brushes back with a string that I later cut off and pulled out of the generator. The starter was a much easier deal.

One trick is to get your hands on extra belt line molding and fitting it to the running boards. You will have to join two pieces, grind and polish and also finish the ends. Few people will notice that it is wrong. You can also use 41 belt line molding, again, your secret is safe with me.

Do it, endure it and enjoy it!

What have I got here?

I epoxied my garage floor and the lesson I'll share is that a solid light color gray is the best color and texture when searching for dropped hardware. The flaked floor looks cool and hides slight defects in the concrete finish as well as all dropped hardware.

Now, no more questions for 14 days. Oops, I spilled my drink!

Wow, another photograph of a beautiful Australian women. Mrs. White I presume?

wow, tough but fun puzzle. I searched 50's fords and 60's Corvairs; no luck there.

This one, too. https://www.fleetfilter.com/filter/51006.html

According to the one chassis manual that I have, they are not interchangeable.

No sense of humor and no ability to post photos properly - that's it, I'm done. I'm now looking for a stamp collection in trade for my partially complete car. Willing to take 100 unmounted stamps from various countries packed in an orange drawstring bag (remember those?). I'm particularly interested in older stamps with a face value of less than $2.00.

Oh yeah! Darn photos loaded that way. I've researched this issue as others have noted a problem with sideways posts. I've rotated the photos in my file and reload them and they still come up off center. I gave up. I'm on the track of a radiator shop now, thanks for the idea.

Knocking out the generator and the starter this weekend. I'm sending the water pump out for rebuild and see that many people on this forum use O&G or Gould. Egge will also rebuild, but they are way across the country which increases shipping cost. Next up is the gas tank. Matt Harwood strongly recommends the guys at ReNu but there isn't a shop nearby Atlanta for that process. The local radiator shop says they do tank coatings as well; still evaluating that they would be useful to me. You said "rare" side draft carb? I'm not aware that it was rare as that is all I've seen on the 1940 320 cars that I've had. Start up date? Let's plan on May

Very slow progress with holidays, visits, football season and still organizing the garage after the move this past June. Read organizing as finding. I've had to sort several boxes even though labeled to find the rest of this car. Aside from body panels, I believe I have parts for three cars in the garage. The first thing finished is the carb rebuild. Purchased the kit from Jon aka Carbking. Here's the carb before starting: Here we are finished and ready to install: I picked up an NOS vacuum switch (not shown) two summers ago. Not sure if the old one is bad or not, but it has filthy contacts so it would take a bit of work to make whole.

I've never seen a capacity noted. You may have already seen the manuals that instruct you to fill, cycle, check and fill as needed.