bryankazmer
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There are a few Traction Avants, but again rare. I see an occasional Peugeot 404 or 504. A very few Fuegos were sold here - they completely missed the mark in the US market for sporty coupes. R5, R9, R11 were sold here under different names but were not much prized to be preserved
To me, the rear design of the Valsatis is Aztek-level ugly - no sense of line or proportion.
Smaller European cars here need to compete against the Japanese designed but North American-built compacts, and are usually at both a cost and reliability reputation disadvantage (that last one is hard for the Germans to swallow).
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yes, we know the DS, although not everyone knows the pun ( the letters "DS" pronounced in French sound like the word for goddess). I saw a DS21 sedan and a Chapron convertible at a recent meet. The CX that followed is very rarely seen. Deux Chevaux have a small cult following. The models in between are almost never seen.
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family resemblance - the 404 was also a Pininfarina design
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Pininfarina designed the Berlina (sedan) and coupe', the GT coupe and convertible are by Touring, and you can see the close resemblance to the Maserati 3500 they also did. A friend had a Touring coupe and it was a very pleasant car. The Zagato bodied ones are the most valuable.
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Agree on the inherent balance. A straight eight is more susceptible to crankshaft whip, but the better ones had 9 main bearings to address it. I think the difficult issue is getting uniform flow to all cylinders. Hence Buick's duals and some aftermarket set ups.
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All antique car insurance has restricted use rules. Know what they are - it's as important as the rate. Each carrier sets their own rules, but all prohibit daily driver use or for hire use. You'll need "regular" insurance to cover if that's what you need.
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while I like both, I think Pierce was in a bit of a styling quandary, trying to balance new and old. The head lights in the fenders and streamlined pod parking lights were leading edge in the mid thirties, but some of the other Pierce trends, like often using wire or artillery wheels, were trailing edge. The overall effect seems to be that Pierce and Lincoln tend to look fairly streamlined, but not as much as Graham, Hupp, Cord. In the luxury market, the leader was the conservatively evolving Packard (don't bring up the Dietrich aerocoupe, it was an exception).
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could it be single carb vs compound carb, which is I think how Buick referred to the dual carb set up?
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I'd refrain here from using the subjective "upgraded" as a synonym for the factual "modified." Trying to keep the discussion civil all around.
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Ironic that the go to options are from cars that were pretty much regarded as dogs when new
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1 hour ago, padgett said:
Originally the rubber was white and then they started coloring them black because they didn't look dirty and for style. Then they started trimming a band of the black to create whitewalls since the underlay was still white. Then they became narrow and wide and multiple (General Dual 90s).
Not sure where you heard that but it's not quite true. Rubber is off-white (somewhat yellowish). Still is. The rubber compound had carbon black added because it's a reinforcing filler. The white wall material has titanium dioxide added to made it a cleaner, more stable white compound.
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not knocking Asheville - it's on my potential list too, but the airport is regional/connector and Charlotte is more than an hour's drive away, so doesn't match the poster's stated criterion.
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asheville has a lot of pluses, but doesn't meet the one hour to major airport criterion.
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then he has discovered a great arbitrage opportunity
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I think it's Rockne, Studebaker's companion car
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Joe Dassin's L'Amerique now in my head from this , Sebastian
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street rod - fully restored = oxymoron
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that's a rodded Mercury, not a Lincoln
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those are low end but realistic tooling costs. Extrusion tooling is much cheaper than injection molds, even with more tooling material options because few parts are needed.
Compression molding is another possibility for mats.
As far as materials, I had a call where I worked asking for material to make color-matched moldings for a 1970 Pontiac. We made these kind of things everyday for new cars, but one box held 1300 lbs. As a hobby support favor we ran a very small run of 700 lbs, but it was $10/lb.
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"isinglass" was used to describe a couple of different materials, typically based on fish bladders or mica. Of course the mica wouldn't bend but the canvas it was held in would. Cellulose acetate is another possibility, and could be made flexible by having glycerin added. And those are early plastics.
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Studebaker-Packard was Mercedes sales and service arm for a few years in the US, so they were partners.
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Stutz - HCS
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a historical extra from the pre-car era included in the aerial shot. At the upper right is Fort William Henry ( reconstructed as the original was burnt in the French and Indian Wars).
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no need to be snide. The big chips or an unexposed area of an original car, both polished as you describe, are the closest standards we are likely to get. Better than old little chip books from the paint store or body shop, better than old formulae unless maybe you have access to both old and new pigment characterizations, certainly better than any photo. so a good discussion on how to recreate an original OEM color.
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new DS7 Crossback pub 2019
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there is the Renault-Nissan sharing, but it is very limited in the commercial side. resembles Daimler -Chrysler more than FCA, in terms of limited communication