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FWIW, some of the questions on this thread are addressed in this book: "Race of the Century" by Julie M. Fenster, Crown Publishers, New York,2005.
I found my copy at Abe Books.com a few years ago, pretty good read. There are quite alot of books out there on the subject.
I get the feeling it was a publicity stunt to sell papers that took on a life of its own.
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You probably could increase your exposure quite a bit if you posted a inquiry on the Studebaker Drivers Club forum https://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/
The tool in the picture looks simple enough to copy if you had the measurements.
If you happen to locate the tool, please post the measurements.
Good luck
Jim KB1MCV
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Late fall shots in southern Maine.
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I suspect the microphone is probably generic aftermarket since the intercom systems (I think) were supplied by the body builder or dealers. It works on the same principal as a public address system, just at a reduced output to communicate with the driver.
The mic looks very much like the crystal mics used by amateur radio operators of the period and still used to an extent today.
There should be a power supply and a speaker system with the mic, do you have them?
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The naphtha engines I linked to are external combustion using vaporized naphtha as an expanding gas to drive the engine. After doing its work it is cooled back to a liquid and heated and vaporized once more, similar to the steam cycle. The heat used for vaporization is usually supplied by burning naphtha as well.
I think there were internal combustion naphtha engine in use but thats not what I'm referring to here.
There was just a small amount of irony in my statement about not understanding why the naphtha cycle didn't catch on.
Remember, the steam generators used in most if not all the steam cars contained very small amounts of water by design at high (for the time) pressures. The small amount of water reduces the startup time and makes a catastrophic boiler explosion less likely.
A look at the steam tables will give you an instant respect for steam temps at a given pressure and some idea how stationary and marine steam plants can produce tens of thousands of horsepower.
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I was thinking that the Lear steam bus was touted in the magazines as using a freon expansion engine.
Steam is pretty scary stuff.
Heres a link to an alternative, can't understand why it never became popular.
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Ed, maybe some cleaning supplies in the Tehran-bound box as well?
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To me it looks like a generic drum pump used to transfer any liquid, usually some kind of oil but not always.
My first exposure to these pumps, I think was transfering the contents of twenty 55 gallon drums of Taro 440 lube oil into my ships L.O. tanks from the end of a dock in northern Norway in the dead of winter. It took a while. I think that was in 1969.
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Here's a small news flash-
Theres a bunch of New York and New Jersey folks who seem to be coming the other way.
The yellow-black NY plates are becoming much more common in Maine this summer.
I'm not sure if they are visiting or settling, and the winter may discourage them, time will tell.
We do live in interesting times.
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I think it is 'Spanley', great movie, it was on Netflix some years ago.
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https://forums.aaca.org/forum/2-buick/
It might be a good idea to ask some questions re installing an OD in your Buick over here, under Pre-war Technical.
It should be doable but as stated above, the torque-tube drive makes it a challenge.
There is lots of Buick specific information there.
Good luck.
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😄 "Does this bumper make my *** look big?"
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What is it that threads into the hole in the drive gear/shaft?
Is there a spring-tensioned assembly against a bearing surface on the front cover to help control thrust generated by the helical drive gear?
My first thought was the gear could be made separately but I don't think that would work.
Interesting.
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During the winter of 1962 in central/northern Maine, record low temps with blizzard conditions for weeks at a time I worked at a local Gulf station and as the low man (boy?) I got to drive Joe's IH Scout service truck on no start calls.
Many days we had constant calls from early morning to dark.
Most of the cars were 6v. units as the 12v systems were ~ seven years old or less and usually started. All the jump starts were made with the Scouts 12v. battery with no problems. The only thing to watch is to observe battery polarity and to be sure the lights were off.
I really don't know where the "It will blow up the battery" thinking comes from.
Just my two cents worth...
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..And the BIL invented the 12 point hex as well.😁
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Today was a fine cool day and the Packard was ready for some exercise.
Drove up RT.16 to Gorham, NH for lunch, where the car spent quite a few years, then took Rt 2 east from Gorham to Evans Notch, part of the White Mountain National Forest. A rather nice drive with very little traffic.
Close to 200 miles round trip.
The only other old car I saw was a ~39 Mercury coupe as I was leaving the Evans Notch road.
JimKB1MCV
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This car is one of Mr. Bahre's collection, for quite a few years he has opened the collection to the public benefiting the Paris Hill Library.
His Paris Hill home was built by Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's first Vice-President. It had somewhat gone to seed by the 1960s, restored to the showplace it is today.
My last visit to the collection was in 2018.
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Bob Bahre has been connected with New England racing and real estate development but along the way he accumulated a top Classic and antique car collection. Local news reports indicate he passed Friday at 93.
I knew him in the mid-sixties when he and his brother Dick bought Oxford Plains Speedway.
This is the best article about his cars I've found.
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Db64deville,
It sounds like you may be relatively new to old car ownership, and
I'll give you lots of credit for jumping in and doing your fuel sender job yourself.
You have some good advise here, and ask more questions if necessary.
There seems to be a point in the stewardship of an old car when you need to decide to learn basic mechanical and electrical repair or find someone to do them. Finding that someone seems to be becoming more difficult all the time.
Learning to use a test light and/or a VOM (volt-ohm meter) will mean learning some basic DC electrical theory but it isn't rocket science.
If you don't already have one I suggest you find (ebay or used book dealers) a MOtors manual appropriate to the year of your car and study it, it will help you quite a bit.
Patience should be your keynote. 😄
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Also, theres something funky about the picture, at least to my eyes.
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Joe, heres a bad pic of the heat shield on a Stromberg EE23, the principle should apply to your carb.
Good luck.
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Before you can make any progress you'll have to identify the unit.
I think the major US supplier was Borg-Warner.
If I recall correctly the Laycock units were used in the Austin-Healeys.
Does this video help any? It start off kind of weird but does apply to N-H overdrives.
The fact that it is 6v. may make the relay harder to source. It was for my Packard.
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I don't think the limiting factor on the Lombard log hauler was how many sleds of logs it could haul.
It probably was how many sleds it could stop on a downgrade. If you look closely you'll see the lad in the front is steering the hauler. He would be the first to arrive at the scene of any accident. I suspect he was VERY aware of the tons of logs behind him. 😁
Tales of using Lombards in the woods were still current in the 1950s.
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I wonder where all the nuts and bolts, screws, clips etc. are? Maybe they are in small labeled baggies for easy I.D.
What a lot of work, indeed it would have to be a labor of love.
My first reaction was 'theres too many zeros in the price.'
I never happened to see the 'peel and stick' defoggers. Here in Maine in the '50s it was common to see add-on defrosters on cars of that era which have heating elements in the glass and are held on the windshield with suction cups. I think I still have a couple kicking around.
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The rooftop watchers were very much in evidence in the hills of central Maine during WW2, my hometown historical society has logs and ID posters from the period.
The program was reinstated at the start of the Korean conflict and was somewhat active in the early cold war years.
The sub Mr Puleo is referring to caused a considerable amount of mischief, sinking the USS Eagle PC56 and a few days later the SS Black Point. I sailed with the son of one of the surviving crewmembers of the Eagle, the wreck of which was finally located a few years ago.
The Captain of the SS Black Point lived in a Portland suburb after the war.
Different times indeed.