JimKB1MCV
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Joe, I'd reconsider using a heat gun on your fuel tank, seen lots of burns from tank fires and explosions. Its not an open flame but you are putting a lot of heat on the tank with a heat gun.
Nice work on the car.
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I'd just leave it in place, it is part of the Chrysler's history.
If it really bothers you you should be able to find another thermostat housing eventually.
Those tapered plug petcocks tend to leak, but then again it won't be under much pressure, maybe no pressure, is the cooling system at atmospheric?
It also would be a great conversation starter at car shows and an old-timer may come along and tell you exactly why its there and why its located where it is.
Good luck with the car.
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Just to pick a minor nit-
Barney Oldfield may have coaxed 999 to 60 mph but the Boston and Maine Railroad locomotive 'Antelope' broke 60mph in 1848.
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Saw at least one at Nearfest, New England's premier ham radio flea market in years past. They are somewhat of a hazard as are the electric scooters.
Never has the experience of riding one but I can see the possibility of damage to several body parts.
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As far as colors are concerned, I may have had a very high degree of curmudgeon exposure in my developing years because I can recall LOTS of comments regarding peoples choice of automotive colors. Many of those comments would not be acceptable in todays world and some may have induced fisticuffs at the time. 😆
The '19 Buick would look much better in another color.
Its my understanding that most paint jobs didn't stand up well prior to the introduction of acrylic and urethane paint. I do know nitrocellulose lacquer didn't weather well.
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Heres couple more from a stash of 8x10 prints from the previous owner of my '39 1705 Packard. Most look like factory shots.
Edit: these prints probably came from the Eastern Packard Club as indicated by water marks on some of the prints. Hope I'm not stepping on anyones parade putting them up here.
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Very cool, indeed.
And now I know what a 'rampy' is.
Thanks.
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West Peterson's air conditioned 1940 Packard restoration blog is a very interesting read.
http://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4307&forum=10
The 1955 Studebaker President was available with A/C, at least one has shown up at SDC International meet over the years.
Cadillac advertised an available A/C unit in 1941.
Its a little disappointing the article ignores the independents early air conditioning availability. Not too surprising, though.
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My Grandfather (well, step - GF) was present for the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. It was an occasional topic of conversation in the early 1950s.
He was a young chauffeur and it was around this time he started driving for the family he stayed with for around thirty five years.
The family had PA limos until RR opened the factory in Springfield. They stuck with Rolls till the late thirties, I think 1938.
When the Mister went into a nursing home in ~1954 they signed the Rolls over to my Grandfather. I remember the car but not a lot of details about it.
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Its good to see that neighborhood looking clean and well kept, know it well from the 1960s when it was neither.
Its not far from there to the watering holes on the waterfront. You could almost expect to see Ishmael with a harpoon on his shoulder walking down the street.
You did a good turn.
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This is a shot of the Victoria I traded into around 1990 (If I recall correctly) and sold in 2013.
It looked about like this when I got it but took a few years to 'sort out'.
Except for some of the interior trim parts which are specific to Vics and the A400 models I used Snyders and Brattons and was very pleased.
With Model B intake, carb and distributor and Snyder's 'hi-compression' head and high speed gears it kept up with traffic nicely.
Enjoy the Model A.
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I tend to hang into cars.
I drove my stealthily modified 31 Ford Victoria for ~23 years and 30k miles. Honest 55mph cruise on level ground and actually stopped when required.
Probably the only car I ever made a profit on was a early 50s Hudson I bought for $15 and sold from under a snowdrift for $25. This was in the middle sixties.
The jalopy project in the picture was a scene constantly repeated in the middle 1950s and maybe beyond.
My uncle bought and sold Model A's in the early 50s for around $5, tinkered and resold for 15 to 25 dollars to local college students.
He had a cow when I bought my first Model A for $100 in 1957.
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Heres the '39 plate on the Packard, I see I need to scrounge up four brass 1/4-20 bolts.😀
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What BucketofBolts says makes a lot of sense.. but (theres always a but, isn't there?) it may be difficult to find a car museum, at least as we know them right now.
At least in this part of the US the 2020 tourist season looks like a wash and here in the northeast a big chunk of all the museums rely on the summer trade.
In March a friend and I took a overnight trip to Visit the Seal Cove collection and the Owls Head Transportation Museum fighting snow and ice on the roads and I'm really glad at this point we did that.
All the best to everyone.
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If the water pump shaft is anything other than smooth the new packing will not last.
If the packing gland is overtightened the resulting friction can score the shaft and ruin the sealing effect.
Before you invest the time in replacing the packing you really need to look at the shaft closely.
Loose pump bearings and rust or pitting on the shaft also will guarantee a leak.
After any necessary repairs the gland should leak an occasional drop which keeps the packing lubricated.
You may be able to have modern seals installed on the pump, no leaks. Packed pumps are more fun, though.
Good luck.
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There was one of those (or similar) in The Bob Valpey collection in New Hampshire. I think it may have come up for auction recently.
I saw it the summer before Mr. Valpey passed when the Valpeys had an open house for the Studebaker Drivers Club.
I wonder if its the same display?
Neat item.
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Sometimes the outlandish colors just kind of grow on you.😄
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1972:
-ish, cruising the Davis Straits and north, also the Greenland fishing grounds, on watch with a 3k HP diesel electric plant.
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Well, I have to admit I like green cars...
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Heres a video of the '47 Gatti expedition, heavy IH truck content.
I can comment the roads shown here are probably at the peak of condition, I suspect after Kenyan independence the infrastructure deteriorated
to some extent.
I called at various East African ports in the early 2000s on ships bringing American surplus grain and had the chance to travel to some extent inland and the roads and bridges where they existed were somewhat primitive.
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Well, define jungle.
This trip was very well publicized and had some sponsorship by Hallicrafters Radio Co. They used photos from the expedition in some of their advertising.
https://www.qsl.net/pa0abm/ghe/hallicr.htm
Despite the hype, I don't think they delved into 'deepest darkest Africa'. There seems to be quite a lot of info on the 'net. Some of it may be unpleasant to the PC element. Different times.
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Seems the local supermarket hasn't had eggs for a couple weeks (or they were gone when SWMBO was shopping there)
so my task for the day was to find some.
Theres a Mennonite market about eight miles west of here that seemed like a good bet and it was, the coolers were well stocked.
Use of the back roads and byways let me cover close to thirty sunny and leisurely miles without braking a single egg.
Took along a passenger on the trip, he seemed to enjoy it.
Everyone stay well.
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Bhigdog wrote:I used to love being down wind of the Luzianne coffee company. The smell of the coffee/chicory being roasted was sublime.
As a New Englander I had never heard of chicory as a component of coffee until I took the Chief Engineers job on a self-propelled semi-submersible derrick
barge used in oilfield construction. (The crane onboard was rated at 3500 tons static lift, but thats another story). Two of us joined in Capetown and rode to the Gulf of Mexico with a Dutch and Indonesian crew.
On arrival we went to anchor and the Dutch and Indonesians flew home and a new crew came on board by helicopter. The biggest proportion of the new crew were from south Louisiana and we nearly had a mutiny on our hands until a good supply of Community brand (heavily chicory) coffee was flown in.
I actually developed a taste for it.
Misc humor and interesting videos
in Automobile Humor and Interest
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToqtoaRE114
Pretty common in developing countries, less common in the USA now but once was done anywhere a ship could be hauled up onto a beach. Several of my old ships have met this fate.
Profits to be made are dependent on scrap market.
It takes surprisingly little to move a floating object.