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That Daimler SP250 sounds like a great engine. That's a lot of cylinders for only 2.5 liters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WREafbQWu-s

Does the gap along the back edge of the door look even, or enlarged like it got pulled forward by the door dent? I would remove the door inner panel to see how easily accessible it is from behind. The bottom and top of the dent would be the most challenging for PDR. Looks like it should come out OK to me. It would be a shame to have to remove the paint on an otherwise all original survivor.

You must realize, that from an officer's perspective this is just plain ridiculous. Officers want to be able to "run plates" just by looking at them as a car is going down the road and calling it in. They want to run the plate before making making the stop or contacting the driver. Could the officer have been able to run the plate you had displayed on your bumper?

This pdf link has some details http://www.literaryclub.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/bluegooseii.pdf Only once did Dr. Bitgood display the Goering Special Roadster. The event was in 1973 in Durham, Connecticut for the Durham County Fair. Bitgood had a large banner made up advertising the famous World War II trophy. For twenty-five cents the people of Durham could feast their eyes on the Blue Goose After the Durham Fair, Bitgood contacted the 101st Airborne Division located in Fort Campbell, Kentucky concerning bringing the Blue Goose to a reunion in 1974. However the reunion was never realized since Bitgood was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma and subsequently had his kidney removed. Even during the six weeks of resulting radiation, Dr. Bitgood continued to work in his clinic. His health returned and he continued to practice with the help of his wife, who acted as his surgical assistant and bookkeeper for 55 years. She died in April 1993 after suffering from a long illness. Bitgood, now 88 years of age, was devastated by her death. A few months later he, himself, had additional surgery, and shortly thereafter passed away. When Doctor Bitgood’s daughters heard that the 101st Airborne Division was planning to build a new museum at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, they was eager to fulfill their father’s dream of a reunion of the Blue Goose being reunited with the remaining veterans of World War II. After receiving the Blue Goose out of probate, Jim Champion, Executor of the Bitgood Estate and son-in-law of Dr. Bitgood asked Chris Charlton of Classic Car Services of Oxford, Maine to prepare the car for the 101st Airborne Reunion at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in June, 2002. Upon completion of the work, Charlton had the Special Roadster shipped to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The initial reunion scheduled by Dr. Bitgood in 1973, but never accomplished, now took place. Goering indicated that his increasing weight now in excess of 260 pounds was causing him a problem with his stomach encroaching upon the lower part of the steering wheel. The tension of the war and the lack of success of the air war in the Battle of Britain in the autumn of 1940 led to his disfavor with the Fuhrer. To overcome this increased tension Goering took to an eating orgy. The lack of room for his belly was remedied by reducing the thickness of the driver's rear seat cushion by four inches.

In Breckenridge, Texas? Is this the place? http://www.mccathren.com/motor-sports/ McCathren Motor Company began when Mac purchased Frost Motors, in Breckenridge, Texas, in June of 1923 and thereby became the Dodge Agency for the area. The name was changed to McCathren Motor Company January 1, 1925. Mac is quoted in an article in the Breckenridge Daily American, “The same business like methods and fair dealings, as well as efficient and prompt service will be continued. We believe in an all-the-year round spirit of Christmas - friendliness, good will, and efficient, prompt and unselfish service to all.” The location continued to be located at the old “stand” at 309-11-13 West Walker, at the corner of McAmis street. Mac lived by these values and the showroom was the venue of many community activities and philanthropic fund raisers. In August, 1925, McCathren Motor Company let a contract for a “big brick garage” to J.S. Murphy of Mineral Wells. The 15,000 square foot facility was built across McAmis street at the Southeast corner of Walker and McAmis. Total cost was $26,779. The newspaper reported than new and additional equipment for the service of Dodge cars and Graham trucks was installed. A newspaper ad from July of 1926 lists a new Dodge touring car for $917.50, a Coupe for $963.00, a Roadster for $911.50, and a Sedan for $1,027.50. In comparison, a 1926 Model T touring car sold for $290.00. Through out the early years, the McCathren Motor Company showroom continued to be a hub of civic activity, hosting events and bazaars for groups such as the Junior Class and the First Christian Church. By 1929, McCathren Motor Company had added Plymouth to its lines. In April of 1929, the company was sold to L. E. Seaman and Henry Seaman of Mineral Wells who continued with Dodge and Plymouth.

It appears the MGTD owner has chosen a direction since he bought an engine and transmission from me. It will be an MG/Alfa Romeo 2 liter. Oh well. Nice looking car. It has been garaged for a very long time. It was undergoing a restoration that stalled, and got sold to the new owner. He does not want to continue with the 1800cc MG engine sitting in it now.

This is an interesting discussion. Detroit manufacturing being sent to China. The auto body parts supply warehouse near where I live receives many containers from China with hoods, fenders, bumpers covers, and etc, for cars, trucks, Fords, GM, Honda, Toyota. "Chrome plated" plastic stuff. But it is also interesting that foreign manufacturers have assembly plants in the US. BMW, Mercedes, Toyota, Honda. When Mercedes first decided they wanted to assemble their then new SUV in the US they expressed shock at the lack of college technical training on the basics of setting up and using assembly line robotic equipment. And they said that part of their cost to more here would be to provide a training program of their own creation, one that back in Germany would be at a technical college. http://www.mbusi.com/factory MERCEDES MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE IN ALABAMA! Welcome to Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, U.S.A., and the manufacturing facility where the GLE SUV, GL SUV, C-Class and the GLE Coupe are built. Everything is under one roof… from Body, Paint, and Assembly shops to Administration and Shipping. This unity helps to emphasize the importance of teamwork and to foster Team Member communication and facilitate the consistent, incomparable quality inherent in manufacture of a Mercedes-Benz vehicle. Each model is built "just-in-time," a manufacturing method based on the idea that stockpiling large amounts of inventory is not only inefficient but unnecessary. In fact, in the assembly shop, the target is to have only 2 hours worth of inventory stocked (approximately 3 hours in the body shop) at any given time for the production line. When additional inventory is needed, our automated system places an order for replenishment and it's delivered almost immediately. The manufacturing process for both models begins in the Body Shop where the components that comprise the metal body are welded together. Then, from the ultra-clean Paint Shop, the painted body finishes its journey in Assembly where it becomes a new Mercedes-Benz GLE, GL, C-Class and/or GLE Coupe and are ready for shipping. From beginning to end, our Mercedes-Benz vehicles are created with style, functionality, and quality in mind. BMW also makes their SUV's in the US https://www.bmwusfactory.com/manufacturing/production-overview/ BMW Manufacturing employs 8,000 people to produce the X3 and X5 Sports Activity Vehicle and the X4 and X6 Sports Activity Coupe. The 1,150-acre, 5-million-square-foot campus generates its own power, offers an on-site Family Health Center and provides 24-hour security and firefighting personnel. To date, BMW has invested over $7 billion in its South Carolina operations. Honda, 12 plants in the US - http://hondainamerica.com/ Our Perspective: The Role of Free Trade in Enabling Honda’s Success in America Honda's 12th state-of-the-art manufacturing facility opened in Marysville, Ohio, in 2016 to produce the Acura NSX—the only supercar produced in America. My 2002 Toyota pickup was assembled in Fremont, California, at the GM/Toyota joint venture plant. That ended during the 2008/2010 recession with the UAW not wanting to make concessions and Toyota wanting out.

Incredible pics. We always knew it was down there, but to actually see it is something else.

Saw this Nash today, at the CSRG Vintage races at Sears Point. Has the same "skirts" over the front wheels. Think they said it was a '51. Been customized. People who had it raced the blue Sunbeam and the two red cars pictured together, one an MG I suppose.

I have a "Turbo Torch" which is a plumber's torch. Only use propane for soldering, don't want too hot. Use the hotter MAPP gas in the yellow bottle for brazing. Anyone who's not brazed this way might want to try it, it's easy, comes in convenient for brazing thin metal. Flux coated brazing rod, no need to apply flux to the subject piece. They sell these at places like Home Depot and good hardware stores. http://www.amazon.com/TurboTorch-0386-0403-STK-9-Dual-Torch/dp/B0006519QI/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1475162082&sr=8-4&keywords=turbotorch+kit http://victortechnologies.com/turbotorch/products/prodList.html?brand=TTT&W2Code=TTT200500&W3Code=TTT302200&W4Code=&W5Code=&W6Code=

Might as well just explain it, no?

Please pursue it to the best of your ability. Criminal fraud, probably a felony. Where is the person located, do you know that much even? Mail a complaint to that jurisdiction police dept. Or the state attorney general's office. I was mad getting ripped for, just $190, on an eBay transaction. It involved sending a postal money order. I made a complaint to the postal inspectors office, since it constituted mail fraud and also it involved one of their very own postal USPS money orders. Thought they might take it serious, since I had the address for the fraudster, and documentation. I was disappointed they made no effort to look into it. But looking back I think there was more I could have done in the way of complaints.

I plugged holes in a gas tank with MAPP gas and propane torch and a fluxed brazing rod. Not sure if this is even relevant to your question. MAPP gas will get the steel just glowing red hot enough for the brazing rod to melt and bond.

There was a Cosworth Vega. In fact there is one for sale here, not in the best of shape - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chevrolet-Other-survivor-/331971547028?forcerrptr=true&hash=item4d4b0bcf94:g:95oAAOSwzaJX2hl5&item=331971547028 The Cosworth Vega Twin-Cam engine is a 122 cu in (1,999 cc) inline-four with die-cast aluminum alloy cylinder block and Type 356 aluminum alloy, 16-valve cylinder head with double overhead camshafts (DOHC) held in a removable cam-carrier that doubles as a guide for the valve lifters. Each camshaft has five bearings and is turned by individual cam gears on the front end. The camshafts, water pump and fan are driven by a fiberglass cord-reinforced neoprene rubber belt, much like the Vega 140 cu in (2,294 cc) engine. The cylinder head has sintered iron valve seats and iron cast valve seats. Race-bred forged aluminum pistons with heat-treated forged steel crankshaft and connecting rods enhance durability.[6] The engine has a stainless steel exhaust header and Bendix electronic fuel injection (EFI), with four injector valves, an electronic control unit (ECU), five independent sensors and two fuel pumps. Some 60 lb (27 kg) lighter than the SOHC Vega engine,[4] it develops maximum power at 5,600 rpm and is redlined at 6,500 rpm, whereas the SOHC Vega engine peaks at 4,400 rpm and runs to 5,000 rpm. Final ratings are 110 hp (82 kW) at 5,600 rpm, 107 lb·ft (145 N·m) of torque at 4,800 rpm.[7] 3,508 of the 5,000 engines were used. GM disassembled about 500 and scrapped the remainder.[8]

Here is that individual's profile, and you can click on "Message" and a compose message window opens http://forums.aaca.org/profile/158458-cstep123/ And here's a thread started, you can also add a reply to it, if that's what it's about.

wow, never realized that could happen, my forever stamps now worth less than I paid for them.

If it was me, instead of turn the axle one time, and count the pinion 2.9 or 3.2; I'd rather turn the axle 10 times and count the pinion 29 or 32.

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They can sell for $125, actually sold. One that sold - http://www.ebay.com/itm/1947-1948-Oldsmobile-Hood-Ornament-Amber-Lucite-Very-Nice-Original-GM-554757-/322176040804?nma=true&si=XeV3DVepYFYBDOqUqE80OKwlwjg%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 This one offered at $250 - http://www.ebay.com/itm/1948-Oldsmobile-NOS-hood-ornament-L-K-/351798147176?hash=item51e8cdb868:g:1HoAAOxyaURTjGKj&vxp=mtr

Very true

Actually, it does't have to do with acceleration forces. Angular acceleration, or rotational acceleration is not what it is about. Constant velocity, cruising at constant speed could cause a nut to unscrew itself, if it was loose and well lubed. A loose lubed nut on the left side would theoretically tighten itself while driving at constant speed only if it was left hand thread. If right handed on the left side it would come off. It has to do with the same effect that causes water to swirl in a certain direction when going down the drain. And we know it swirls in different directions depending on whether you are in the northern hemisphere or the southern hemisphere. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-somebody-finally-sett/ "Do bathtubs drain in different directions in the two hemispheres? If you had a specially prepared bathtub, the answer would be yes. For any normal bathtub you are likely to encounter in the home, however, the answer is no. "The tendency of a circulation in a fluid to develop in a clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and a counterclockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere can be traced to the earth's rotation. "The direction of motion is caused by the Coriolis effect. This can be visualized if you imagine putting a pan of water on a turntable and then spinning the turntable in a counterclockwise direction, the direction in which the earth rotates as seen from above the north pole. The water on the bottom of the pan will be dragged counterclockwise direction slightly faster than the water at the surface, giving the water an apparent clockwise spin in the pan. But if you were to look at the water in the pan from below, corresponding to seeing it from the south pole, it would appear to be spinning in a counterclockwise direction. Likewise, the rotation of the earth gives rise to an effect that tends to accelerate draining water in a clockwise direction in the Northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern."

The rears were correct. You should have swapped the front side-to-side.

The top part of the steering wheel is cut out and the ends have the same type of rubber feet on them that the metal legs of my kitchen chairs have. Something like this-

The symptoms you describe are as if 2nd gear is not synchronized. So something is not right, probably with your overhauled synchronizer for that gear.

I have had transmissions apart, but certainly not claiming any expertise. Does this trans have interlock pins? Maybe not. http://www.freeasestudyguides.com/shift-rails.html Shift rails connect the shift lever to the shift fork. When the driver moves the shifter to select a gear, the shift rail moves a shift fork that's attached to a synchronizer. Each synchronizer is capable of changing two speed gears. Most five speed manual transmissions have three shift rails. Shift rails have detent and interlock notches machined into their sides. A spring loaded ball fits into the detent notch to lock the transmission into gear. If the ball slips out of its notch the vehicle will jump out of gear. The rail should slide easily in its bore, but should not have any lateral up and down or side to side movement. While in the desired gear, the interlock pin prevents the transmission from shifting into another gear. For instance, while the first/second gear shift rail is moved, the third/fourth gear rail is held stationary. Check the ball and spring for wear and tension, because a weak spring or worn ball will result in the transmission jumping out of gear. Shift forks are attached to the shift rail by roll pins. Before attaching the forks to the shift rail, make sure they slide along the rail smoothly. Not binding, smooth, without side play. Check the forks, gates, and the rails for bends, cracks, and excessive wear. Transfer cases also use shift rails with detent ball springs. They’re used to shift between high and low gear ranges. The notch, check ball and spring are used and inspected like the internal linkage of a manual transmission. Bent shifter fork, bent shift rod, something not right with syncro, are some possibilities. Don't know really. If it shifts OK stationary, and also shifts up OK in motion, then I am inclined to think something about syncro in the downshift direction.