[1922 Buick or Cadillac?]

Here's a restored '23 McLaughlin-Buick. The spokes are different but the top looks the same.

 

[Lost Car Rescue TV show]

39 minutes ago, 1937hd45 said:

Is the guy with the gray cap and glasses the same star from Blind Frog Ranch, too much reality TV show  crossovers. 

 

Bob 

Don't think so Bob. The guy in the grey cap is body man Dave Mischuk. The lead guy on Blind Fog ranch is ranch owner Duane Ollinger, according to my quick research. Correct me if I'm wrong. Jim

[Lost Car Rescue TV show]

Granted, it's made for TV, no different from American Pickers or other such shows. I still got a kick out of it, I suppose in some ways it reminds me of my car hunting days back in the sixties and seventies, when stuff could still be found on the back roads of southern Ontario. It is what it is, but it highlights some country I'll never see and watching young Jessica James handle the spotter plane is entertainment in itself.

[Lost Car Rescue TV show]

18 minutes ago, JACK M said:

Found a promo on You Tube which only mentions 1/13

Might have been on last night but not scheduled for next Thursday.

It's listed for at least the 20th and 27th of January.

[Lost Car Rescue TV show]

Yet another car show premiered on History channel Thursday night (9:00 PM EST)and Friday at 4 PM EST. Lost Car Rescue features a young team of car hunters using a small two seater spotter plane, a 1988 cab-over tractor with a crane equipped flat bed trailer,and a Dodge Power Wagon to seek out hidden treasures in the Peace River country of northern British Columbia. In the first episode, they use a helicopter to lift a '34 Chevy coupe from the edge of a beaver pond, buy a partially restored '59 Buick Invicta coupe from an aging collector, find and buy a second gen. Land Rover ,and after a five year search, find a complete 1930 Model A Deluxe roadster. It looks like it will be an entertaining series.

[Period images to relieve some of the stress]

Here's a couple more ads from the Farmer's Advocate magazine ca .August 1911. Both the Tudhope and Everitt were built in Orillia Ontario and are the predecessors of OTACO, who built the Autotrac years later.

I scotch taped these into an album when I was a teenager, hence the glue marks in the corners.

[Period images to relieve some of the stress]

Sorry if this is a repeat posting. This rig was clearing drifts in what is now south London, Ontario. I'm not sure if the trucks following are for added traction or sanding. Ca. 1936.

 

[Period images to relieve some of the stress]

I have a pile of old Farmer's Advocate magazines from the teens through the 40's. Going through some of them recently, I found this ad for the "Autotrac" ca. March 1943. This was a kit supplied by OTACO (the Orillia Tudhope Anderson Company) that included a stub frame, steel rear wheels, sprockets. etc. to convert old cars into makeshift tractors during wartime shortages. At $150-$300, these were a cheap alternative to a horse or light tractor. It's surprising how many have survived using Ford, Chevy, Gray-Dort, Star and other makes. Pictured is a 1923ish Gray-Dort.

[What has your vintage car done for other people lately? Stories of the happiness we create when we drive our vintage cars]

I can and have told stories on this forum before, but the most recent event happened just before Christmas. My wife had gone to get her nails done, taking the only car we drive in the winter with her. I wanted to get a couple more things for her while she was out, but my backup vehicle, the Jeep ,had no liability insurance for the winter. That left the old cars,which are insured year round. They are rarely driven after October, but what little road salt that had been applied thus far had been washed away by a rain storm, I took the '40 Packard. When I came out of the store, a couple of guys were giving the old car a good going over. Turns out they had been out for a walk and spotted it in the parking lot a half mile away ! Somehow they didn't believe me when I told them it was my winter beater. I took them for a drive in it, and one of them, a hot-rodder as it turned out, may have been swayed enough to change his ways !

[Family car photos]

The two on the left are a '27 Chevy and about a '30 Chevy.

 

[Valve seat service tools]

I picked up this Hall's unit at a yard sale. They show up from time to time and although I personally have never used one, I've been told they do a great job.

[Vintage Hearses, Funeral Coaches and Flower Cars On Main Street Anywhere: A Pictorial]

On 3/29/2013 at 12:47 PM, Hudsy Wudsy said:

I came across these two quite classy looking last rides on the "Just a Car Guy" blog. Their moderate gothic ornamentation makes them relatively tasteful.

Just a Car Guy: gothic hearses

I hadn't until now gone through this entire thread. It's nice to see back on page two, the photo of Needham's (London, Ontario) 1941 Cadillac hearse, top. The body on this unit started as a '41 coupe. As it was Needham's first hearse, old car enthusiast and second generation funeral home owner Lloyd Needham searched for the long lost car. It was found in derelict condition in a collapsed barn. RM Restorations was given the task of recreating the hearse, starting with a restored coupe just as originally. They apparently even sent an employee to wood carving classes so he could make the carved sides. It's still owned (and occasionally used) by Needham's.

[Cars Celebrating Anniversaries!]

Our 30 year old Buick Park Avenue (qualifies for Historic Vehicle plates this year- yay) and 50 year old Chevy C20 pickup.

 

[Merry Christmas Everyone!]

[Holliday Season Pick Me Up........please post them.]

We had a 78 RPM record featuring Yogi Yorgesson singing "I yust go nuts at Christmas" and on the flip side was "Yingle Bells". The record got broken years ago but I now have it on CD and it's available on Youtube. Still two of my favorite Christmas memories.

Perhaps someone more tech savvy than I can post a link to it. 

 

 

[The only winter car worth owning.]

The best winter cars of many I've had over the years were front drive Buick LeSabres ca. 1989-96. They have ABS, traction control, great heaters, and with a good set of snow tires will go almost anywhere. All that plus the comfort of your living room sofa !

[sedan wagon]

The name is slightly switched, but the 1948 Packard Station Sedan is the first to come to mind. Jim

[Holliday Season Pick Me Up........please post them.]

Not the first time posted here, but a seasonal favorite.

[What’s Your Old Car Doing In December?]

I still had a few Christmas presents to buy for my wife. She took our DD to town to get her nails done. The bulk of the insurance is off my '99 Jeep till spring. The old cars are fully insured year round and since a recent heavy rainstorm washed the salt off the roads, I went shopping with the '40 Packard coupe. When I came out of the store, a couple of guys were standing admiring it. I asked them if they liked my winter beater. They didn't believe me for a second. After a lengthy conversation  I took them for a spin.

[Holliday Season Pick Me Up........please post them.]

[Great leapin' cars!]

Funny how the military loved to "fly" their vehicles. Here's an early Canadian Military Pattern (CMP) 15cwt  testing its' springs ca.1940. Hard to tell if it's a Ford or a Chevy. They used the same sheet metal.

 

 

[Cars and Christmas]

1 hour ago, rocketraider said:

 

 

'Course now, if someone had one there'd probably be a wreath on the door or a string of lights on it this time of year...😏

 

Great idea, but nobody could see it !

[FS: Jello Car Coins (32)]

1 hour ago, TerryB said:

Never saw them in spite of mom making a lot of jello dishes in the 1960s.  Closest I had was Sunoco car coins.

I think they were a Canada-only promotion. They also came in the vendor-sized Hostess potato chip packages. They were all the rage in my first year of high school (1961).

[FS: Jello Car Coins (32)]

I collected the whole set as well as the complete set of aircraft coins that came out after. I ordered and still have the poker chip containers and booklets for them. Haven't eaten Jello more than half a dozen times since the mid-nineteen-sixties !

[1920 Mclaughlin]

I'm sure someone on this forum can answer that precisely. I discovered when restoring my '21 Oshawa-built Chevy that the US fenders were different. My original fenders looked like someone had once stopped the car by wedging it between two trees ! I bought a NOS front fender at Hershey and on getting it home found that where the front apron attached it was completely different. Also,where the running board mounted there were differences. It could have worked with two NOS US fenders and a US front apron. We repaired the originals.

Jim