KiwiFord

Greetings all, I am looking for an early, relatively complete and viable project to restore. Pre 1906 Ford is ideal, but open to other marques pre 1905 please. Location not an issue. Please send me a private message on the forum and we can make contact from there. Thanks for checking out my post. Alex

I think you underestimate the sophistication of some scammers. Without any offence intended, this underestimation itself puts people at risk of being scammed. Many scams are very elaborate and many scammers run, or are employed by people who run, very digitally advanced operations. As a potential purchaser of a car, if I was asked for a copy of my drivers license online I would run a mile. Enough of a black flag for me to think I may be in fact dealing with a scammer. The information on a drivers license in some countries carries a ‘points of ID value’. Often 100 points of ID is required and a drivers license is worth 40 points in my State, thus not insignificant in proving one’s identity. If contacted by email look for syntax, spelling, grammar etc. Hover your mouse/cursor over the email address of the sender to check it seems valid. Look for unusual domain names. Check it’s not a spoof ie check that the sender name seems to correlate to the sender email address. Sometimes there are glaring problems. Other times it’s no one big thing… it’s a series of small things, that all add up to say “this doesn’t feel right”. Often after a couple of further emails you can explain the small things and go ok this seems good, or actually the feeling of things not being right continues to grow. I have been looking for an affordable early car mostly a project, up to around 1905, and still am. As an aside, if anyone can help please message me privately on the forum. I saw a great car advised for sale on the hcca website a couple of years back, good price, on the cheap side, not a once in a lifetime bargain but still pretty good-cheap enough it didn’t quite add up. The photos were excellent. It looked like everything I wanted. But there were too many of those small things that didn’t quite add up as I continued to communicate via email with the seller so decided to give it a miss. The tone of the language used felt very much like I was communicating with someone who’s English had a slight hint of Indian having been their first language. About a year later I was in touch with the late Mark Smith and he sent me the same photos of the same car. Turns out the scammer had used old online auction photos, had a good amount of information from the auction write up and therefore was able to seem quite competent. Mark did offer the car at a fair price, but unfortunately for me he passed away before anything could be finalised. For anyone in business, such as Mr Shappy who raised this post I would say it’s worth considering Cyber Insurance with a Cyber Crime Component. Social engineering, ransomware, privacy breaches, hacking etc etc can lead to costly losses for businesses.

Does anyone know if this car sold?

Thanks for your thoughts and photograph - interesting

BTT - thanks 🙏

Can anyone assist with restored/genuinely restorable CAV Model F or otherwise Rotax headlamps? Included is a photo of what the Model F headlamps look like. I’ve been looking for several years with no luck. Thanks Alex

I believe this to be a brass era Stewart Warner Speedo maybe model 67-A? Any help identifying it would be appreciated. It’s also surplus to my needs so if interested send me a private message with a fair offer. Thanks Alex

Really interesting looking car! Thank you for the info

Do you know what the asking price was? Thanks

Thank you Bob - does seem a good match after seeing the example car provided

Hi Bob, thanks for that. Do you know what Facebook page? Also I’m no expert and haven’t seen the post but it doesn’t really look like a Cutting from my internet searching and the radiator emblem seems different and is unlikely to have changed much between years.

Hi all, This photo appeared on a local car club page seeking identification. No one has been able to positively identify the make thus far. I can’t pick it but assume it’s American c1912. Any thought’s? Thanks Alex

Does anyone know what’s become of the pre T Fords and when these may be for Auction? I was in discussions with Mark before he passed but was unaware he was unwell and didn’t know why all of a sudden my emails went unanswered. Thanks

You may have seen this - but if not it’s an interesting photo. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1635867/times-record-february-17-1969/ also https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/56254586/

I grew up in NZ - Dad didn’t have an old car but in the 1980s used to take us to car rallies and shows to look at the vintage cars. I was a bit young to remember the makes and models but I just remember so many of these sorts of cars and loving them all. Now I rarely see a good number together anywhere. It’s quite sad.

Thank you for the input - appreciate it

Im hoping someone can help my curiosity. Can anyone help identify what this chassis is from? It seems like a really unusual rear spring and chassis shape. I’m not sure whether this is the right section if the forum? Thanks

I’m also looking for a very good repro or preferably a very good original or original restorable Boa Constrictor Snake head horn. Please message me if you can assist. Thanks

Looks fantastic! A real credit to you😊

Great I’ll look at joining the group .

Thank you 🙏

Thank you! And “relatively “ close to home! Appreciate the message 😊

Hi all, I know it is a long shot but I’m looking to find out if anyone sells correct 1906 Buick Model F top hardware (Sockets/irons etc) and bows? Or maybe has useful suggestions... Thanks 🙏

100% agree - eventually duping someone out of their hard earned cash for what is usually a low value, low quality fake!