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  1. Actually this is not an old photo, I snapped it at Christmas time a few years back. Gary
  2. A four cylinder Oldsmobile Autocrat with a 1912 Cadillac on tour. Well used Autocrat, has been driven around Europe and to local restaurants, too. Regards, Gary
  3. Seems like a pretty good deal on a decent car. A fellow could begin touring with the one cylinder bunch this summer and continue to restore the Cadillac as you like on the go. The owner says he is reasonable. Make an appointment to see the car and buy it. Life is good at 20 MPH. Gary
  4. Mar 30th is the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter. Bev and I plan to make the hour and a half drive East along the 401 freeway to attend. Thanks for the invite. Regards, Gary
  5. Every morning I click on the HCCA.org website, classified. My question is what happens when something sells? Recently there has been a red rectangle which declares sold, however, I haven't seen that on any ads currently displayed. Before the upgrade in the classifieds there was a button to take you to recently sold page. Does Recently Sold still exist and I missed it? Thanks, Gary
  6. Yes, the hood can be painted black and the body a different colour in 1914 and 1915. A style which didn't become popular. Many cars which were originally done this way are changed by the restoration to be more appealing, done in one colour to suit modern tastes. Regards, Gary
  7. While performing some winter up grades to our 1915 McLaughlin touring car and since the sun is shining, roads are dry it is hardly a winter photo at all. Two photos, the brown background is Feb 10th in Southern Ontario and the green background is the same location last July, a vacant lot at the end of my street. I would regularly say "think spring" but not necessary. Regards, Gary
  8. Hub Cap Collector your photos and commentary answered a mystery for me. I have a small collection of mostly common parts and if anyone needs one for a vehicle they are usually given away. Just happy to have it back on the road and serving a need. That brings me to the heavy brass Buick cap with nickel plating and the nearly new aluminum cap as shown in the photograph. I now see from your posts they are a Buick and a replacement or after market cap. It never dawned on me they are the same size. Regards, Gary
  9. Top. windshield, brakes, luxury, you people have it soft....
  10. Thanks for letting us know the outcome and best of luck with your new car. Gary
  11. I have a lovely German Silver, I think, flip top from the side opening rad cap. I would like to identify the make and model. Originally it had the Boyce cover plate as posted above. I've installed a working motometer, not Boyce, with a metal front cover. The backside is printed on yellowish paper. No identification on the Motometer either. I should say on the rad cap wings it had a male threaded pot metal system. I cut that off and retreaded it to fit my '15 McLaughlin, it also fits my '13 Buick. Any thoughts? Both pieces are original finish, unrestored. Gary
  12. I've arranged with the owner of this 1905 Model F Cadillac to remove these hinges and door handle and deliver them to a Mennonite foundry to be duplicated for my project. The foundry will produce the molds, however, they only work in the winter and we have had foul weather here lately. Hopefully I will have the new hinges in my hand in March. I ordered three sets of hinges and handles. Regards, Gary
  13. When I lived in Fort McMurray in northern Alberta I left my Toyota Land Cruiser idling the engine all night in the driveway when the mercury dropped to minus 40C. The truck had a manual transmission so I had to block the tires. A pleasant winter day was -20C, no wind and sunny. I still recall the ice fog above the parking lot at the local Safeway grocery store, every car was idling and unlocked while the folks shopped. My coldest experience was minus 53 Medicine Hat, Alberta. Recently in a submarine movie someone asked about the cold, the answer was " Brighton, in August!" Made me laugh. Regards, Gary
  14. Merry Christmas and joyous New Year. I received my latest order from Restoration Supply in California. Included were these NOS brass hose clamps, a person would never see them except I know they are there, looking correct and performing their intended job. I always phone Resto Supply to place my orders, just to talk to real brass car people. Lets me ask about the rains, etc. and the fact they are lovely young ladies I met from visiting them in Hershey is all good. Regards, Gary
  15. Just a thought, Is there a way to contact folks who collect hub caps? I searched for groups on Facebook without success, however, they must have a way to swap, buy and sell.
  16. Everyone has the perfect solution, pun intended, to polishing brass. I use a variable speed polisher with two 8" cotton wheels, one loaded with red jewelers rouge compound and the other clean. The speedometer on the left is good as found and the other took about a half hour buffing on the discs. When the brass is polished I coat the parts with paste wax, vegetable oil is good preservative too. Regards, Gary
  17. I have a heated garage attached to our home and a workshop in another building with enough heat to keep from freezing. I also added a heated toolroom, 10X20' to the back of the workshop. I expanded our parking situation by removing a 25 X 25' lawn and adding gravel. Today, the weather was mild and I swapped the parking for the Cadillac with our 1915 McLaughlin. The Cadillac will mostly rest until the spring and the McLaughlin is getting a refurbished U Joint installed and I am having side curtains fabricated during the winter. This is the first time the Cadillac and McLaughlin have been together, the Cadillac's body is on a rolling workbench in the shop. Regards, Gary
  18. I had this happen with my '39 Century. I would like to suggest the issue is in the clutch since the car won't roll with the clutch petal pushed down. I had a mechanic and he set the parking brake, start the engine in gear and " burned in the clutch". Clutch and transmission have worked fine since. Be careful, best of luck with your new wheels. Gary
  19. The Lansing to Dearborn Endurance Run followed by the Old Car Festival at Greenfield Village.
  20. Finished with the hood decorating, painted the louvers black with single stage urethane, waited a few weeks and followed up with the fancy pinstriping. I copied the pattern and layout from photographs of an original Cadillac published in the HCCA Gazette during 2000. Now I will leave the hood to rest until it is needed in the spring. Next is the dashboard, I previously painted the edge of the wood black and now it will receive broad and narrow stripes on both the inside and outer surfaces. And it really is a dashboard, literally. Regards, Gary
  21. I think the above car is a 1915 C25 Buick, I can see the body has door hinges visible, the 36 model has hidden hinges. Gary
  22. Thanks, Jeff. I see in your photos you painted the edge of the hood panel black, very nice decoration. Do you have a photo of the louvers? Is the entire louver painted black before stripping or just the section, like a rectangle, between the stripes? Also Jeff, do you have plans or diagrams of the rear wood or seat? Gary
  23. Since the summer I have been driving the Cadillac around the neighbourhood and giving rides, getting used to adjusting the spark and throttle. Drive a bit and tighten transmission bands, had a spare coil rebuilt for the ignition, starts better too. Now I removed the body and plan the winter work, we have not used the car yet though next summer we have events. I bought One shot enamel in Ivory for the body decoration and Fire Red to stripe the chassis. One Shot is expensive, $50.00 CDN four ounce can and a hundred Kilometer drive each way to pick it up. I also have a variety of camel haired sword brushes, new Beugler striper with many different sized rollers and fine line tape. The photos show the first stripe yesterday, as a test, with two or three furlongs to go. Regards, Gary
  24. 1915 McLaughlin, as found and finished. Regards, Gary
  25. The photos posted are very nice and clear, however, they do not show the festival part. Here are some photos I recorded during the Lansing to Dearborn Reliability Run, Thursday and Friday and others like the WW1 re-enactors and open driving anytime through Greenfield Village. I show a red Model A, 1903, parked next to a 1906 six cylinder Model K Ford. The 1898 Beeston, professionally restored and driving, that's a festival. Regards, Gary
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