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  1. On 5/11/2023 at 10:19 PM, Tph479 said:

    The 1908 Brush was found under a coal pile at his foundry on Michigan Ave. You can see the deer whistles on top of the turn signals on the bumper of the Cord.

    Here are some pictures of Charlie’s Brush in a Minnesota field when he was his way to the New London to New Brighton. Charlie was pulling the car in the 1957 Chrysler when the hitch nut came undone. He claimed he looked out his car window and seen that the trailer was going to pass him and then the trailer veered off into the field and flipped. The car was restored again after the tumble. Interesting view of the bottom of a Brush-

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  2. Here is the Falcon when it was in Venezuela.
     

    My buddy told me a story a few years ago, that back in the early sixties there was a shop in Chicago where the younger old car guys hung out, including Bortz. The story goes that either someone sold, or bought a Cadillac V16 roadster for the astronomical sum of $10,000. As the guys were walking over to the local tavern all they were talking about was how could someone pay $10,000 for a car and they had to be crazy and nuts. I guess as they were walking Bortz then said, you watch one day a car will be looked at as art and will sell for $1 million dollars !!! My buddy told me that he thought that was the most ridiculous and delusional thing he ever heard at that time and that the were all laughing at Bortz’s crazy talk. This was before they even got to the bar so the liquor was not talking yet. As he was laughing telling me the story he said, one million dollars, One million dollars!! Come on $10,000 was insane money at the time-  I told my friend that he should have listened to Bortz.

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  3. 3 hours ago, 60FlatTop said:

    I have always enjoyed concept cars and just glancing over at a couple of dated hardcover books I keep on my shelf. I had referenced them for a few things I have done to my own cars that make people look at them suspiciously, like almost credible but something is just not right.

     

    A while back I came across this taped Corvair meeting with Mr. Bortz as the quest speaker. He'd fit in well with our Saturday morning coffee guys.

     

     

    That is my buddy Larry’s shop, with the local car guys in the background. Larry has all sorts of neat odd cars. 

     

  4. There is a classic Seinfeld episode where George buys a K car convertible with wood grain because he thought that John Voight owned it. 
     

    I seen one of he cars that gable owned and it had drywall screws holding it together. Of course drywall and drywall screws were not invented yet that were on the vintage of this car when new, so I assume that gable had no part in the placement of said screws.

  5. 55 minutes ago, CarNucopia said:

    The hobby will live longer then any of us. I think the relevant question for this forum is will the AACA be there?

     

    I'm a life-long car enthusiast, Gen-Xer and former consumer marketing professional. What brought me to this thought exercise is the fact that, for the first time in my life, I have weekends free. As such, I started to look for more ways to get involved with the club. Based on my experience, I believe the organization is poorly equipped for the enthusiasts of the future.

     

    I enjoy the AACA and want it to thrive. As such, this is offed to be constructive. The club needs to modernize how it communicates with people, particularly as it relates to events. Honestly, it's astounding that event registration is trafficked (in both) directions via mail. The next generation of members avoid mail. (I'd also wager a good portion don't have a checkbook). Using these means not only sets up roadblocks of sorts, it also gives the club an air of obsolescent. I said as a joke in another thread, the cars need to be 25 years old, do the communication streams need to be too? My own experience is that the effort required to find information on events isn't worth the time. I doubt I'm the first person to reach this conclusion. 

     

     

     

     

    Late last year a college education, mid twenties guy, had to give me a rent check and he had to google on his smart phone how to fill out a check. After he gave it to me I gave it back to him and told him that he needed to sign it. It was check number 1001….. first check he ever wrote. I thought that was pretty funny, but then again it made me feel like a dinosaur.

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  6. 2 hours ago, alsancle said:

     

    George,  as of recently Jim was still alive.  There is a forum member who is friends with him.  Check out the last 20 pages or so of the Mercedes thread and you will see some of Jim's cars.

    I talked to Jim last week. He is sharp as a tack and has a photogenic memory when it comes to the cars that he owned. If my memory serves me right from a few years ago, I think he had about 12 Duesenberg’s mostly J’s and like 8 500s, 540’s. Most of his cars were the best of the best. 
     

     He had a Willoghby sedan body in his rear yard that his kids used as a play pen. His stories are crazy as to how he scored cars. I tell him that he should write a book on the early days of collecting and the characters that he came across. Sometimes I joke to him that he is the best pathological liar that I have every met and next thing you know he will show a picture and have his notes on the back of it.

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  7. 2 hours ago, George K said:

    I hear the names Hach and DeBickero and it’s a flashback. Grew up in the Chicago area. Bill Hach had a shop next to a great little Mexican restaurant I frequented. I saw all kinds of ACD stuff laying around in his fenced yard. Here’s a couple of pages from the ACD club Illinois membership roster. Check out the occupations givenD8F42D54-75DA-4C12-B22C-BF33981621D1.jpeg.3ca20048e195917f3bcb30ced017af37.jpegF1E17556-C7FE-4F19-8E91-2034580D3070.jpeg.29f6a1f92578debcca25949244641da2.jpegIn the mid 1970’s. That’s when you could get a laugh.

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    I came across this picture a few weeks ago with Charlie Fabian’s 1937 Cord supercharged phaeton in the background at Roxas’s shop after he smacked a deer with it. Charlie had dual buell trumpet air horns on his car and when he would unexpectedly stop by the house when I was a kid he would blast the horns and scare the blank out of everyone. They were extremely loud! His car was always a fan favorite at the acd Auburn meet parade. He would  tell us stories about how much fun he had in that car back in his single, bar hopping days. If you look up Whiskey Dent in the dictionary there probably is a picture of his old car next to it.
     

    Charlie lived 3 blocks away from us on the Southside of Chicago…. So of course he had vogue tires on his car. After rearranging the front of his cord by mowing down the deer, he put deer whistles on everyone of his cars. It was the joke among everyone that you could hear Charlie coming from a mile away…

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  8. 10 hours ago, Steve Moskowitz said:

    Rumor has it that a rare brass-era Locomobile will make its very first appearance at our AACA event in Auburn after a 44 year long journey!  Having seen the car I can tell you it will be well worth the wait for those who will get the chance to see it.  Make sure you get a chance to see the engine compartment...absolutely breathtaking. 

    Your good buddy has the finest and most brassy brass era car I have ever seen. I always remind him that his Locomobile is one of the most stunning restorations that I have ever seen on any car. The entire car is breathtaking, not just the engine. I’m looking forward to seeing this masterpiece of art outside in the sun. Kudos to a job well done. Tim should be very, very, very proud of his work.  

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  9. There were Lincoln Model k parts listed on Marketplace last week on the east coast. If I recall there was a transmission, a crankcase and engine blocks. They seemed to be pretty reasonable in price. I have not checked to see if they are still listed.

  10. 4 hours ago, alsancle said:

     

    I talked with the collection manager.  It was purchased from the AACA museum.   The spotlight was ordered as a factory option and it was not a police car.   The engine/tranny combo is the factory base level configuration with no options.   It is a 10k mile original car.

     

    You guys know I'm a tremendous car elitist but I had no problem with this car on the field.  I thought that it was pretty neat.   If all the cars were like that I'm might think differently.

     

    Hagerty needs to up their game on the placards for sure.

    Me and my brother were walking around downtown Amelia on tour day as spectators and when we saw this Buick it brought a smile and laughter to our faces and we both had to go over and check it out.  It was funny that it was parked among the fancy classics. We came up with all sorts of imaginary stories on why the car was parked there... On Sunday we had to check it out again on the show field. Did it stand out? Yes. In a bad way, I'm not educated enough to make that call. Considering people are still talking about this Buick does show to me that it did make a lasting impression. People were walking around it and checking it out and both locations.

     

    Where I'm from there were a lot of GM cars like this one driving around our neighborhood when we were young. By the late 1980's and early 1990's they were rust buckets and cars that were in the high school parking lot. These cars are pretty much extinct around my parts now, besides the occasional hooptie or Donk car you see on the freeway that was extracted from the Victory Auto Wreckers lot.

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  11. When I was a kid, back in the early 90’s,  I went with my dad to a museum close out auction in Ohio, mostly fords. He ended up buying a model t, and then we had to stay to the end of the auction to buy the single axle homemade trailer to bring the car home. It was cheaper than renting a u haul or having the car shipped. Still have both.

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  12. 7 hours ago, nzcarnerd said:

    The post on the previous page with the black '32 Packard reminds me of this one. Due to it being right hand drive 1932 Packard Light Eight 'coupe sedan' I suspect it is a particularly rare variant. I don't know many details of its history other than what is noted in the 1960s newspaper clip. What the sentence about it being 'one of three special models made by the Packard company' refers to I don't know. I recall seeing it at a few events in the early 1970s but then it 'disappeared' into Graeme Craw's Packard collection where it remains today. The collection has 'morphed' more recently into a full fledged museum -   The mission of the museum is to show the changes in design and technology from horse drawn vehicles through to motor vehicles and heavy machinery that made NZ what it is today. This charitable trust encompasses a vast collection of vintage cars and early heavy machinery housed in 4 large sheds (packardmuseum.co.nz)

     

     

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    I can account for this coupe sedan 563-317 in New Zealand, and 4 in the United States. Has anyone ever seen one of these coupe sedans besides  the black one, brown one, maroon one and blue one in the states? Off memory the highest coupe sedan tag known goes to 563-318, so at least 308 of them were built in 1932. Ford borrowed this design on their 1933 Victoria. Very cool car.

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  13. 2 hours ago, alsancle said:

    You guys know I have a fondness for prewar German engineering.   I got to drive this 853 Horch last year and it was a treat.  The doors shut like a bank vault.  Construction quality, engineering and details are off the charts.  I attended the Stevenson Auction in Courtland NY in 2005 thinking I might steal this car but that wasn't going to happen.    Once repaint in the late 40s, early 50s.   Original interior, bright work, never been apart, etc.  Pebble Beach preservation class award winner in 2010.

     

     

     

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    Fantastic picture of the Horch next to the Td. It really shows the size comparison.

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  14. 13 hours ago, Mark Wetherbee said:

    Here’s one to make you all cry… 

     

    This 1914 T has all of the original paperwork from new and was in absolutely fantastic condition when my dad passed away but since that time has not been treated well by my brother…

     

    If anyone remembers Bill Eads who sold T parts out of Wilmington NC as the company T-Nuts, this was his car he called Miss Vickery. She was a HPOF car with a lot of transitional part features that was built late in the 1914 model year and was proof that Ford used a number of “floor sweepings” instead of solid time changes. Specifically the front fenders are 1915 style mounted with the 1914 style brackets.

     

     

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    You should inform your brother that they invented these things called “Shelves” to place objects on. You should swap him a couple of shelves for the car… Cool car, thanks for sharing.

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  15. 5 minutes ago, arcticbuicks said:

    Amazing car , and those few little things …..how rare ……I wonder how much the added value would be with the papers etc ……besides the incredible condition .

    I received a letter in the mail from the person I bought it off niece about a year after I purchased the car saying that her aunt had passed on and they were cleaning the house and came across a bunch of paperwork and spare parts and I could have them if I paid for the boxing and shipping, which would run about $75 bucks. I didn’t know what to expect in the mail, until the treasure trove arrived. All of the paperwork, the original tool kit, spare parts galore. I was very happy to receive the items and sent the niece a gift for her efforts. 

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  16. My buddy in the chrome world tells me that the biggest threat to the plating industry is the EU. He told me about a year ago that the European Union is making a lot of companies list the source of origin in products and that if the source of origin goes back to chemicals or compounds that the EU doesn’t like then it maybe doomsday for certain products in the future. I don’t know if that is true or not, but those people do operate on the metric system so they can’t be trusted.

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  17. Since the words original, and unrestored are being debated, I am going to use the word factory applied paint and factory installed interior on this 1932 Packard.

     

    I have the original title, the original envelope that the title was mailed in, the original bill of sale, the original Packard hanging Tag that I believe was hung on the door handle, the original service card, original owners manual, etc.
     

    The first owner worked as a mechanic at the Turner Automotive Company out of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He passed away as a bachelor in 1975 and left the car to his niece. I believe the niece was 96 years old when I purchased this off of her in 2018, making me the second family to own this wonderful car.

     

    Car people really like this car, from the street rodders to the original/ factory people and from young to old. Everyone says it has the look. It really is a very nice, low mileage, factory presented survivor and solid as can be. The old lady I bought it off said it was her uncle’s and her’s pride and joy. She also told me the car was “zippy and had a lot of pep”… I still remember that because I wasn’t expecting to hear that out of someone her age.

     

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