hidden_hunter

Not really something we have to deal with here unless you live in the snow fields

I do wonder how much of the "slow starting" is actually because of other factors like crappy fuel Here is our 26 Buick starting from dead cold, with non ethanol fuel in bone stock configuration (6V, optima red top) and vac tank. Weather wasn't above 60F that day

Ours are boring maroon and say club permit and Victoria on them, though the numbers are different based on categories and separate from our regular cars. Pre 1932 started at plate 1 and everything later is much higher and prefixed with M for modified or H for hotrod Pre 1932 is also the only type that only has to have one plate (I’m convinced that whoever set the scheme up had an early car)

My understanding why new countries typically had larger people in the 1900's was the substantially better diets that they had compared to the rest of the world (e.g. fresh food and meat) Now obviously it's different reasons

My cads rear seat is way more comfortable than my actual couch in my house, the drivers seat? Not so much

that’s true for a lot of cars of the period, folks were just shorter back then on average I guess My Cadillac has plenty of room but odd spacing, to the point I’m not entirely sure the body shape of the person it’s designed for

My Cadillac has locks on all doors (keyed alike including the boot) and you can walk crouched into the seats

I’d be a little surprised if they’d done that because it would have had the full tariff on it where as CKD was cheaper Post ww2 Australia had a pretty significant manufacturing capability

Chassis were originally supplied in RHD config and then a body made locally (usually chassis via Canada for favourable tax treatment for the empire) Australia had quite advanced manufacturing for the time

The last 'top spec' ute they made before GM shut up shop here in Australia

The domestic makers don't seem to have ever had much luck with selling their foreign built/designed cars for the most part, with some truly baffling decisions that killed off any chance of success Can't imagine a DKW/Auto Union in September of 1939 was a huge seller in Australia

For the intake, what number are you looking for? and would you be willing to ship it to Australia?

Did you manage to sell any?

Not from an earlier car either

There are still some thriving ones near here in suburbia, including one that still offers a full service petrol station

Is the ball bearing part of a valve that controls how much oil is let through? Is it possible that's worn and is letting too much past?

My local government does that all the time, "we haven't adjusted our percentage of rates in over 5 years" instead they just revalue the asset higher so you get hit twice...

My 22 cad has them fitted to it but as far as I'm aware they were added later

It sounded ridiculously labour intensive as well, some of the Cadillac marketing talks about 40 coats (yes fourty) and then having weeks of drying time

Why am I not surprised to see Johnson's carbs on your list of 'desirable'

It's possibly something as simple as sticking clutch plates - we pulled ours apart so I can't speak to ways to remedy it within the car but I'm sure others have dealt with it A lot of the problems the American's have with starting comes from ethanol fuel which we don't really have here in Victoria (not sure about WA), but the carb jets can pick up crud pretty easily if the cars not run often - I dumped a can of this in ours after it had not been run for a while https://www.liquimoly.com.au/2772-fuel-system-cleaner-conditioner and for what I thought amounted to snake oil seemed to have cleared up the fuel bowl at the very least. Most of the things on the car are fairly straight forward, but the manual and alot of the documentation is written in ways that are very confusing if you're not intimately familar already - I found that having general workshop/mechanic guides and then supplemented with the workshop manual was the most helpful to bridge the gap with what we'd expect for a modern car. My Cadillac on the other hand... jeepers

40 years service seems pretty good to me! I've previously eyed off some US made ones when the time comes to replace our no longer manufactured Australian made ones

At least here that is sometimes in loans

Unfortunately on one of our spares someone didn’t bother to find the fitting…

They’re pretty simple when push comes to shove, take your time and they can work just fine (at least on real gas here in Australia) Make sure all the lines are clear, no pinholes in the float or the internal tank we have a lid that looks like someone attempted to run wipers off so also worth checking for “modifications”