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    The Car Which Shall Not Be Named III (1935 Lincoln K)

    in Our Cars & Restoration Projects

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    9 hours ago, Matt Harwood said:

    Unfortunately, Mr. Peterson passed away in 2022. One of the Lincoln Club members had the foresight to purchase a bunch of Lincoln-compatible regulators, but he's down to one and he's saving it as a replacement for the one that's on his car, should it ever fail (that's the one I'm trying to buy). @AB-Buff has another one that he's trying to reverse-engineer, so I'm hoping that project bears some fruit.

    Matt, a few Model T guys with electronics backgrounds have developed a new electronic voltage regulator for the Model T/Model A. If you haven't already checked with them they might have something that would work with your car. The guy actually making them is a Porsche/Model T guy (rare combination) in California.

     

    https://modeltstarters.com/voltage-regulators-cutouts/

     

    https://modeltstarters.com/contact/

     

    https://www.mtfca.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=38035

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    Period images to relieve some of the stress

    in Period Photos - Pre WWII

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    8 hours ago, Walt G said:

    Does anyone know the location the photo was taken? I can't read the license plate to identify the state. Does the building still exist?  I agree with kar3515 that the brickwork is incredible ( my family were masons for generations) That is one of the added "neat stuff " factors about period photographs the architecture, construction, lettering on windows, vehicles and buildings etc. The whole spectrum of the era.

    Salem Iron Works at Front and State Streets in Salem, Oregon. Demolished in 1977.

     

    https://www.willametteheritage.org/carl-gerlinger/#

     

     

    Salem_Iron_Works_1889_Front_and_State_Cronise_0177G007_s.jpg

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    Period images to relieve some of the stress

    in Period Photos - Pre WWII

    Posted · Edited by John E. Guitar (see edit history)

    10 hours ago, wayne sheldon said:

    Wow! Some wonderful photos there John E G! Thank you for finding and sharing them.

     

    The model T is interesting to me. If I recall correctly, there was a Ford assembly plant in either Brazil or Argentina (I forget which?) in the mid to late 1920s. If I recall correctly, that model T may very well have been from that assembly plant? It is clearly a 1926 or 1927 so-called "improved model T" Ford. Compared to the USA assembly cars, that appears to be a fairly early 1926 model based upon the fender mounted headlamps (no cross bar between the fenders which appeared early/mid 1926 model year on USA cars). However, if the car was assembled in Brazil (or Argentina?), the timelines for that change may have been different. The T also has nickel plated radiator shell and headlamp rims which became optional on open model Ts for 1926. 

     

    They were quite the modern city at that time!

    There was an assembly plant in Sao Paulo.

     

    The T looks fairly high-spec with wind wings and a front bumper. I've got a 1926 tourer that looks very similar except it has wire wheels. These were sold as a De-Luxe Ford here in Australia. This ad is from October 1926.

     

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