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I can't help with the parts but in my stacks and stacks of literature I happened to stumble on these letters in the last week or so. I had never heard of a Cameron before and then saw your posting here. I have no idea how these letters came to be in the same spot these actually came from the collection of an automobile sales brochure collector in Windsor, Ontario.

It's a 70 Plymouth Belvedere with a Road Runner front clip on it - not quite AACA material as it has a slightly built Mopar small block. The car was originally a 318 car. My one niece ran a race truck a number of years ago at Delaware Speedway just outside of London, Ont and the motor was the last one out of the truck. My father and the same niece found the car at Moparfest and decided we had to have it. In typing this I just realized that was at least 15 years ago. A couple of years later it got traded on the paint and body work for the 64 D300 and then we ended up buying it back again from the painter after he picked up an early 70's Monte Carlo and needed the space. Upside is in the time he had it, he did the bit of body work it needed and got it in primer. You have to love how the car world works.

For those of you following along you'll notice that there's been a lot of "We'll get to it tomorrow" sort of projects that I've been tackling. A word of caution to you all - tomorrow might not come. My father always talked about a family friend of my in-laws who had a couple of British cars and every time dad talked to him he said that he was going to get to them someday. Well one day at age 55 he didn't wake up. Fast forward to last year and my father finally retired from his second career and he admits now that he waited to long and he's no longer able to work on any of the cars, though he is still able to drive them despite his mobility being severally affected in the last couple of years. Not the way he was planning on spending his retirement years but at least he can still enjoy the hobby even on a limited basis. All I'm saying is if you are able to, do those things today that you want to accomplish, be it with cars, travel or family. Now let me get down off my soap box and let me say that the modern stuff can at times be more frustrating than the old stuff. My parents park their 2013 Challenger every winter and with all the electronics it needs to be started every now and then. Yesterday I tried to the start the car and the message comes up on the dash that it can't read the fob for the push button start. I'm guessing that it's likely just the battery in the fob since it won't even unlock/lock the doors, so I order up fresh batteries from Amazon and they came by lunch today - beats having to go to Walmart! Load up the new battery in the fob and same message, so I hook up the battery charger figuring that's the issue and the battery must just be really low and sure enough it was pretty flat. It charges up over 50% no problem but then just sits there. My next step was to hook up the battery tester and after running through it's thing it tells me to start the car, of course it still won't recognize the fob so I pop out the push button start button and use the fob like a good old fashion key and it fires right up! Not sure yet if the fob is the issue or the car just needs a really good charge but at least it's back running and I can move it if I need to. It still has the original factory battery so one of these days a new one will be in order. I keep working down the centre aisle today and though visually the first picture might not tell much of a story, it was actually a very successful day as I can finally get to the hoist after about 2 or 3 years of it being blocked in which is going to be a huge change in being able to complete some of the maintenance that needs to be done on the fleet.

170 - I may have edited it after you saw the initial post. Don

Block number looks to be Studebaker - 59- 60 , 170 cu in

The last project of the day was one of those "we'll get to it someday". I'd give my father the air hose reel a few years and and it's been mounted for at least 3 years now. While cleaning the bench on the other side of the shop I found an old piece of air hose coiled up underneath the bench. I had stuck the hose by the compressor then thinking I'll get to the reel eventually, well today I looked at it as I was getting ready to leave and thought "I wonder if I've got everything to connect it?" Sure enough, what I needed was on hand and after 15 minutes it was finally connected. There's too many of those "another day" projects waiting to get completed and truthfully we've likely spent more time talking about doing them just getting our act together and doing it! The stupid part of this is how close the compressor is to the reel, but of course there's another line that we could make do with even though it always turned into a skipping rope trip hazard every time you drag it out. And another little thing off the list...

Today I finally got the power steering pump reinstalled and both lines run in the 51 Plymouth. The high pressure line doesn't run quite as nice as I'd like but it's the best of what available on the market at the moment. I almost forgot to put the return line on but caught myself before calling it a success. That's my father's preferred car to drive so other than an oil change in the spring he should be good to go. The shop is already feeling better to work in with the space that has been cleared - I actually feel more productive and the tools are easy to find and at hand again. To keep pushing forward I moved back to the centre aisle. When last seen it looked like this: With a little effort over the last couple of days the Star is almost free of being buried. This is another case of some stuff is now online and some is in the back of the 64 as scrap. With it being handy it makes it an easy decision to toss things over the side! Those wire baskets were a bit of an auction mistake. They are Ice Cream baskets from an area dairy that a local auction house was selling by the skid of 48 of them and they had 5 skids. I put a bid on each skid figuring that I would get outbid on most of them and might get one of them. Well no one else bid so I ended up with 240 of them! Turns out that service manuals fit perfectly in them and they are handy for housing parts and taking stuff to swap meets.

About the same as recoring a 20's or 30's rad - but considering it's nearly 40 years old and this is the only repair work we've had done I can't really complain. I should find out the name of the fellow that polished it though and get him to do a couple of the cars - there were scratches that I was pretty sure weren't going to come out and the top looks like new!

It was the equivalent of a frame off restoration - 2 1/2 guys straight for the two weeks - and just like cars, we really had no idea what all was going to be involved until the pictures starting coming back of the work in progress. The piano is definitely my wife's thing - I'm a life member of that not so well known band - The Tone Deaf and No Rhythms!

One other consideration is depending on the car and its history it might not be eligible to be exported from the country it is currently in. Don't trust the seller to be telling the truth, do your own research. Don

Even though I deal is this stuff, this listing is not mine and it's a bargain - the parts book is worth more than the price just to avoid buying wrong parts. I applaud your educational efforts! Don https://www.ebay.com/itm/402484696991?hash=item5db5f5179f:g:6LoAAOSwnWpfgRkP&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8NLVrfXnYiTKsWdJPfsXC2PovgJZIgNHHMRJAjsFhFwWNYPZa0i0DquwozmY3B1sjLozK3vmtJ73vvBwLntFQ49aWGzZTidzRC%2BhbAg%2FunopoHqIp6xeJrVX%2BZf4r2VAkNtpYM5oU2Y80ki1P39JvGUEDIejBO2hOd7qf17%2Bd3njMbmwA89VvUaEdFYD8ib2JfF%2FO9Hg0sx2Si7boRl%2BNoAJJlDZLO5MWze1B5LmtG%2BWZkyzq2opsg%2F8G5yh0Iqcp0VO6GZV%2FhwPl%2BtnI0DneiZftzH8jfVXwlQ0T9Ib%2Fdn8MLFmMK59nBAdeCXwoQJcKA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABFBMoL6F9qFj

Today started off a little bit later as the first restoration of the year came back home. I can tell you that apparently piano restoration is much faster than cars - the piano was picked up on January 2 and returned today the 15th. I've mentioned this before on here that the piano was a present to my wife from her parents when she turned 16 - something she never expected and it had been part of a joke list including a Lamborghini. She was hesitant about getting the work done but I compared it to the money that gets spent on the cars and that's what she gets enjoyment from. Somehow old cars and old houses go together - the window above the piano had been covered over when we bought the house, I made the trim and window frame for the leaded window when we opened it back up. If you think sourcing parts can be tough the original trim in the house is chestnut. But now back to the task at hand - I kept working down the work bench to get it cleaned up and discovered a few tools buried under the empty parts boxes and other debris. I think there was a period of time that my father bought every battery charger that he saw - I think I'm up to 4 so far and only about halfway down the bench! I know that we can all be thrifty at times but this Red Green broom just comes down to being cheap! It is now gone! This last picture shows one of the issues that you come up against when you buy obsolete parts in bulk. I hate to toss brand new parts but so far I haven't found any part numbers on all these ball joints - they aren't big dollar parts and it is always a debate as to how much time to spend on identifying parts vs the financial reward.

The big issue in our shop is that there had been 3 generations sharing the space. That has its good points and its bad points - the biggest downside is that if one person doesn't put stuff away the next one can't find it. Two of the three were also known for hanging their tools up on the floor. I'm firmly convinced that keeping stuff organized skips a generation, just like cooking. My mother learned to cook from her grandmother (my great grandmother) and both were/are excellent cooks - my grandmother on the other hand was terrible. I was fortunate to marry the right generation of my wife's family! A big part of my motivation to get it cleaned up quickly is so that I can get to work on some of the vehicle projects. Buried in here is the back of the cab to the 30 Ford AA truck that needs a small bit of metal work and some of the wood replace. Not a huge job but it will take some space to do it. Some days when I look back on the pictures I think that we could start a game of "I spy"

All this discussion of the cold does make me wonder what did they do "back in the day"? As in when these cars were new.

Those three areas are all right in the snow belt coming of Lake Huron/Georgian Bay. Once you get up to that area block heaters are more common and then the further north you go that are just normal. Our cottage is about straight east from Sudbury and the one year our neighbour asked how everything wintered with the snow that year - what we didn't know was that had received 13 feet of snow that year! Flurries to us are just light snow that slowly accumulates over the day, snow is when you shovel the lane and by the time you get to the end you have to start over! Where I am in southern Ontario is just about straight across from Erie, Pa and in line with Northern California. As for Sudbury - you can't count on the ice being out of the lakes until the first of May and then snow is always possible starting in October. You travel about another 90 miles south west from me to Windsor, which is actually south of Detroit, barely gets any snow most years. Ontario is so big that the old road maps were two sided and you weren't really north until you were on the other side of the map!

Your brother's weather is balmy compared to here - he's sitting at -13 C or about 8F and where I am is -18 C or -4 C - to top it off I'm further south than he is! Now my oldest is out in Edmonton for a hockey tournament this week where it's -32 C. He'll actually be warming up by stepping onto the ice!

Yah, but its a dry cold

You know that you are in Canada when...... Actually we can't complain around here, this is the first real snow of the winter that will actually stick around for awhile. Considering the original forecast was for 8 inches and we only got about 3 and not the blizzard conditions it's all good. I don't know who invented the snow blower all I can say is thank you! Funny, my wife offers to cut the grass with the riding mower but she never wants to use the snowblower.

How many people do you expect to attend? That might change some of your responses considerably. Are you talking 50 cars, 100, 2500?

So I've started in that corner and I'll work my way down the bench that runs the length of the shop After a little effort there's some progress

A short day in the shop - I had a rush online order - who knew that selling 20 year old parts online could make for rushed orders! I also wanted to beat the weather that is in the forecast that is supposed to hit in an hour or two. One step forward and two back on mounting the power steering pump - there is no way this line is going to clear the block so it will be back to the parts store for a different one. I have no idea if GM lines are different that Chrysler ones but the one on another pump that we have definitely makes the initial bend closer to the pump so I'll see what I can find. On a positive note I gave the bolts on the banjos of the 30 Dodge another tightening and that seems to have sealed them up. Bits and pieces I'll keep chipping away at it. Now who doesn't have work bench that looks like this at times?

You need to look at the event as a marketing opportunity to potential sponsors (advertisers) and and sell to them what the potential benefit is to them. Keep in mind that money and advertising money in particular is tight. At least two major car companies have already announced they will not be advertising during the Super Bowl just to give you some perspective. I can only guess that attendees are on their own for meals so selling ads in your program to local restaurants might an option. Similarly your local attractions might be interested but you have to be able to give some indication of the potential spin off to them. You are hosting a car show, but you are selling tourists to the area businesses. Give some consideration to businesses or activities that the non car show significant others might be interested. To be blunt the area dealers are not likely going to serve up big money as there is likely little chance of payback on their investment (those that are already deal there will keep dealing there and odds of an out of towner buying from them are slim). That being said, if you are a regular customer of the dealer they might be good for a door prize. Just giving you some food for thought of a different outlook to solve your issue.

If you can give us some idea of what the event is it would help tremendously with being able to give you some ideas.

Thank you so much! I didn't expect you to also source the parts for us but greatly appreciated along with the advice! I'll report back on our efforts. Don

If you can give us measurements of the overall length along with the width of the panels, both front and back edge you might get a response.