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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.

I'm looking for any information and photos of the Burlington Buick dealer noted above. I posted the following under the Buick section but possibly in the wrong area. McGreevy owned the Buick dealership in Burlington, VT from 1940 to 1960; not to 1950 as noted above. The dealership was located at 100 Main St. Lake Buick bought the dealership in 1960, later moving to a larger property at a date unknown to me.

Dad told me the story of his friend Bill(?) working underneath his car in Arizona and outside of the garage. The car was up on jackstands and well secured. As Bill reaches over to grab a wrench while under the car, a rattlesnake that had also crawled under the car warned him that any further movement could be a fateful move. Bills injuries were limited to the top and bottom of his head as he jerked so fast that his head hit the bottom of the car, then the ground and repeated until he could control his escape impulse.

Any interest? the axle is complete with the drive shaft and spring. The brakes and associated hardware for the brakes has been removed.

Yes, that is the drain valve.

Geez Wayne, you need to write a book. Seems like you have much knowledge to share.

The number of knobs distracted me for a moment until I noticed that the windshield cracked (wicked bad).

Automobile styles seemed to change more radically in about 10 year increments up until recently; or possibly 20 years ago. When looking at a series of period photos involving scenes in the public with automobiles and with about a 10-year separation, one can notice that the cars seemed to turn over within each ten year span.

Here's a before and after of mine. Grain-it Technologies of Winter Haven, FL did mine. https://woodgraining.com/ I visited their shop as well, they have an amazing collection of historical information so they are able to replicate properly. The 1940 dash has two color variations; a dark color (below) and one with a greenish hue. These two colors would be used to match a selected interior color. Before: After: Note the orientation of the grain pattern, it is vertical from top to bottom. Each car was different, each year may also vary.

You're very helpful, thanks. Let me rephrase, anybody know the street location? I'd like to see if the building still exists.