Brass is Best

1940 Buick Special Touring Sedan.

This great 1913 Model 31 Touring followed us home the other day. Now we are finishing it up and getting it ready for touring!

Should be the new highest price paid for an American automobile and rightly so.

How about a 59 Olds with AC?

When you work with the public be prepared for anything. The longer you do it the more crazy stories you will collect. When you think you have seen it all something else will happen. Most people are great. But that fraction of a percent is amazing. I have had hate mail, hate e-mail, death threats and once a very large man tried to fight me because I wouldn't accept his lowball offer. Still a bad day playing with cars is better than a good day doing anything else.

Woven natural fiber works best with steel drums. It won't last the longest. But it will stop the best. Using any hard composite shoe material will be a mistake.

Having lots of interior color choices costs money. The American car companies try to keep it a 2 or 3 choices to save on production cost and time. The more a customer is willing to pay for a car the more choices they get.

Anything is possible...

If I find one of those in the scrap bin I will send it your way Ed. If you find any brass era Packards set out on the curb let me know.

I will be happy to take any unwanted prewar cars. I will give them a good home.

Wonderful automobiles!

The famous Buick Model 10 made from 1908 - 1910 traveling at a blistering pace!

Here is a link to the club: http://www.austinbantamclub.com/

Matt, Do the next guy a favor and mark which direction is off and on someplace on the hub. Sharpie or paint stick. If you want to get fancy a punch set. Just an idea, Andy

Not sure if it was mentioned previous. But what about installing a 6 volt alternator? That would solve all of the issues. I know several MARC winning Ford A's that get toured with alternators and when they go to the show field the generator is put back on.

Beep!

3 coupes were built originally. Today there are 4 or 5 that exist. I have seen at least 3 in the wild. One of the new ones has a fiberglass roof. Real coupes have an M in the serial number. A real coupe would bring more money than a Sportsman Cabriolet.

It was a 1936 only option and cost more than the standard interior. It could be done in any color cloth or leather the owner desired. Factory color choices for the Cord were only suggestions. Gordon Buehrig's personal Cord sedan had this interior. Here are a few more examples.

The 100G open cars tend not to shift themselves. It takes a little more today to get a good one.

That is an arm chair Beverly interior. It is done correctly.

Beep!

Went 100 miles in the last 2 days. What a great Buick!

The dog looks very serious about the whole matter.

Every car has real history. It is a shame they can't talk. The "Final Countdown" Splash the zeros!