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I’ll second that ^^, especially since I don’t know what referred ‘32 Olds components look like. I’ve casted/fabricated/poured/etc various elastic components for vintage cars, including enclosed driveshaft housing-to-transmission couplers, etc using various compounds, but it’s difficult to offer advice or suggestions without seeing details and other requirements, like measurements, etc.

With 40+ years of extensive experience, including several hundred thousand driven miles in countless Chrysler Corp. cars with cast-iron Power- & Torqueflites along with numerous overhauls, rebuilds & services I don’t use anything other than Type F. While they will work, especially if only adding a quart or two, Dexron/Mercon type fluids don’t have all the necessary properties to provide long service life for these transmissions. My rule of thumb: Type F can be used in all 35-40+ year old automatics, but Dexron etc shouldn’t be used in same age, i.e. older Ford or Chrysler engineered automatics.

I don’t have any “Holy Grail” desires and I’m more than content or should I say happy with cars I currently have, but there are few I wouldn’t mind owning & assuming they’d be up to my expectations, driving. I have no interest owning anything that I couldn’t drive/use as it was originally intended. For example, while I can appreciate the coach work & engineering technologies and in some cases appearance of things like chauffeur driven cars or otherwise unpractical vehicles like "professional service" cars or trucks, etc, I have no interest in owning any. To paraphrase E. Gilbertson: “Cars are meant to be driven !”

Thanks for replying. I think you’re being quite modest by not mentioning you accomplishments in space exploration, walking on water and turning it into wine while at it, etc. 😉

I have always offered and supplied copies of my photos to clients, i.e. owners of the given cars/projects I’ve done or worked and all have been very appreciative of them, but I’ve also always requested they don’t share any publicly without my approval (you know copyright and all that), even if they’ve sold the car. Most have expressed no interest in sharing them publicly anyway. In most cases where they’ve disclosed of having them or shown any in the process of selling the car and new owner(s) have expressed desire to have copies, my permission has been sought & given with same copyright protection request.

Like I said, I have owned 100+ vintage cars in past 45 years and even one time (about 30 years ago) had 20+ in my name (half in Europe and half in California), but quickly realized I don’t have enough time nor money to properly maintain/own that many, but didn’t want to become one of those you refer as “demented, frustrated junk yard owner wanna-bes” a.k.a. “hoarders” trying to identify themselves as “collectors”, so I got rid of all but couple which I still own and enjoy today. I also made a living (+/-35 years ago) for about 4-5 years buying/selling/brokering (+/-1000) vintage cars, motorcycles, boats, trucks, parts, etc mainly supplying a demand in Europe, so I guess that could qualify me as "A used car dealer"(?). Perhaps I (hopefully) qualify as "a harmless old coot" ? So, other than supplying click-bait media stories by others on this and perhaps other forums, what are your personal experiences & history with “collector cars” ? 🙄

While I’ve owned 100+ vintage cars, including 20+ (all drivable) I had simultaneously at one time, I’ve never considered any of them as a “collector” cars or myself as a “collector” of them.

I have taken tens of thousands of photos of countless restoration projects I've done or worked on during past 4 decades, but will never post or publicly share majority of them due to concerns I have for the privacy of my clients and their cars. I even have detail photos of some cars shown at PB & other similarly prestigious events, including a BoS's and (100 point) BiC's proving their restorations (by others) having notable or even significant authenticity errors & flaws, but I'll never share them publicly as I'm pretty sure none of the owners or their restorers know the existence of these photos and most would likely not appreciate what they would reveal if published. Many of my files include thousands of before-during-after detail photos of single projects. A few thousand are or were in film/print format and all my digital images were just unorganized in my computer, but last year my wife started/volunteered to scan all print photos and organized everything to individual "folders" (per car/job) so now finding any picture for reference is much easier. 😊

I actually did read the posted comment in the attached image I referred to and to my understanding, right or wrong, it implied (but somewhat unclearly) 100 spaces (indicated in red) having been sold and rest (indicated in yellow & green) are/were still available (at least at the time of posting ?), hence my comment. I didn't see any reference to " exceeding 200" prior to previous post. A few of my friends visiting from Europe will likely attend, but I have another pre-agreed engagement in Pasadena for the weekend (displaying a vintage Ferrari I restored few years back & volunteering to judge similar others shown there).

Not only does this ^^ look like this event appears to have a lack of (pre-registered) vendors, but if those “green” spaces don’t get filled, it will be quite annoying for spectators having to commute between vendors at the extreme ends of the field. No wonder attendance in events like these are shrinking. I recently attended couple of local-to-me, brand specific swap meets as a vendor first time in decades (just to get rid off bunch of new & used stuff I’ve accumulated over the decades) and while many, including me, had pre-registered, spaces were filled in first-come, first served order. While there were probably 50-100 vendors in total, I got in line couple of hours before they opened the gates and was sixth to get in. A dozen or so commercial/professional vendors had taken the opportunity to setup their displays on previous day for an extra* cost, but their spaces appeared to have been filled in same fashion. * No overnight camping allowed, but the extra cost included overnight security detail.

I agree.

I would probably call it a pimp-mobile with western flair. 😉

Even if you were able to rent a U-Haul box-/moving van, which they will probably require for full, 2-axle trailer towing, the fuel consumption (likely less than 10 miles per gallon) alone would be very costly.

Well, why not ? 😲 🙄 😉

Had a nice little 500+ mile road trip over the past weekend. Got on the road Friday around 11am, it was drizzling, but after an hour of driving west, weather started to clear. After one fueling & (late) lunch stop about halfway through 200+ mile drive and another brief, 30+ minute stop along the way to fix a malfunctioning driver’s door handle in a friend's ‘72 Ferrari, got to my destination, another friends house, around 4pm, switch to his DD and took him to a nice steak dinner. Next morning, we got up early and drove the Roadster to their “local” C & C about 25 miles away, which he hadn’t visited for nearly 6 months, due to some aging and health related reasons. All his car buddies at the event were very pleased to see him there again and our arrival in my Roadster probably didn’t hurt either as majority of attendees surrounded her and were seemingly surprised by my travel stories with her in past 30+ years. After the C & C, we drove back to his house and spent rest of the day just talking Sunday around Noon we drove to a local country club for a “Celebration of Life” event held in honor of another dear friend and lifelong car/Ferrari enthusiast. Monday, I drove back, but stopped along the way to have a lunch with yet another friend and then later, about 30 miles before reaching home, visited one more friend in his shop and got home around 7pm. Little back story: A week before the trip, I decided to bring her from the house to the shop and do minor vital sign checks & trip preparations + wash her, but during the short trip discovered the generator had quit working. Fortunately, I had a fully rebuilt spare on the shelf, so after swapping them and checking regulator adjustments, she was easily ready for the road again. Next week, my wife, I and another couple (friends I've known for decades) vacationing here from Europe are going to drive (in 2 cars, me and my buddy in the Roadster, him driving and our wives in an modern appliance) to Joshua Tree and stay 3 nights in a rental house and take daily cruising trips to the park and other nearby scenic destinations. While we will likely accumulate less than 300 miles, it should still be fun.