neil morse
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What an awesome poster! I'd love to have an original of that one.
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Outstanding report, Grant!
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4 hours ago, EmTee said:
...but you had to admit it's pretty!
Oh no question about that!
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Agree on both the upside down steering wheel and the high price. Good looking car, though.
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4 hours ago, EmTee said:
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Great looking instrument cluster, but something ain't right. Looks like it's going 45 mph and the odometer is turning over to 80K miles, but gas tank is empty, there's no oil pressure, and the temperature gauge is missing a needle!
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Yes, the CL ad shows the location of the seller as Deansboro, which is in between Syracuse and Utica. Sounds like the car itself is located in Maryland, which is just a bit southeast of Utica near Cooperstown. Heck, sounds like a perfect situation -- go see the car and visit the Baseball Hall of Fame at the same time!
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1 hour ago, Marty Roth said:
1940 behind the 2-tone Olds?
That's the only one I see.
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$1.00 is the price? What am I missing?
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I had forgotten that part of it, although it seems they were still ahead of the times. It made me wonder whether it would be cool to do a variation of what you did on your Limited by putting the extra brake light in the red plastic BUICK emblem on the trunk lid where the turn signals were located in '39 and '40. I may look into that variation. I have LED's in my brake lights and turn signals, and I haven't been aware of anyone not seeing the the brake lights, but I know that on at least one occasion I slowed and came to a stop for a left turn with my turn signal blinking and someone behind me started honking irately. He/she apparently didn't see the turn signal.
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Good addition to your Limited, Matt. I always thought it was interesting that my '48 Chrysler Windsor had a factory center brake light on the trunk lid. It seems they were ahead of the times, although they discontinued it in the early '50's for some reason.
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Nice opportunity for someone -- looks very clean.
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17 hours ago, Matt Harwood said:
Oh, and while I was farting around behind the dash, I managed to kill the courtesy lights for the rear compartment. I suspect it's that crappy-ass bundle of generic black wires at the 6-pin connector.
The Limited may be wired differently, but on my Super ALL the interior lights are powered by a hot wire that goes through that six-pin connector, so if it's only the rear courtesy lights that are dead, your problem is somewhere else on the circuit.
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2 hours ago, valk said:
Yea man I wish I could but I’m worried as a couple of my valves are .015” COLD. I ran a .015” feeler gauge through all of them cold, right after start up to help identify any tight valves. Most of them measured more than .015” but 2 were a little snug. May just adjust those. As you know, tight valves are a bad thing.
Yes, but are they noisy? That's the question you should be asking yourself.
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Hope your face is feeling better, Keith. I dropped a cast iron casserole on my foot and broke my big toe, so I've been watching a lot of old movies on TV. I found your car today while watching "Gun Crazy," a great picture from 1950. Here it is:
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2 hours ago, Matt Harwood said:
That said, if your valves are quiet, LEAVE THEM ALONE!
That's definitely the advice that I got (and followed) when I had Don Micheletti first look at my Super. The valves were so quiet that he first thought someone had installed hydraulic lifters. When we determined that was not the case, Don said, "Whatever you do, don't touch them!" I haven't, and they continue to be super quiet.
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Wow -- a very handsome vehicle, for sure!
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36 minutes ago, Fr. Buick said:
Took a lot to get that tire out of the trunk!
Haha -- indeed! Also, judging by how bald the spare looks, that guy is very likely going to have to go through the whole thing again pretty soon!
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A '51 Ergo? Was that like a variation of the Yugo?
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Nice job!
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I concur, Matt. Call Michael more often, for sure! 😄
Just for a break, take a look at these screen grabs from a film I saw today on Turner Classic Movies -- "The Underworld Story" from 1950. In the opening scene, these guys drive up in a '41 Limited and rub out a guy coming out of the DA's office who was about to sing to the Grand Jury about the nefarious dealings of the gang boss. After they plugged the guy and took off, the scene switched to a newscaster in front of microphone who said the killers fled in a "high-powered car!" This was a Warner Brothers picture -- I think someone posted earlier about the fact that Warners had several Limiteds that they used in various films.
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Great news, Jakes. How about some pics of your car. We love pics!
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Carolina Roadmasters: Taking over where Dad left off - 1930 Buick Series 61
in Me and My Buick
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Haha -- I don't want to hijack Brian's thread but I've already made some attempts in that direction with my '41. But the look of that poster from '31 is sensational. I'm afraid I don't quite have the right outfit with the plus-fours, plus you gotta have the girl, too! I looked up the artist (Lawrence Sterne Stevens), and he's actually famous for his later work as a pulp fantasy and science fiction illustrator.