Royal Kustoms

Hi Larry, thanks as always. That's what i thought, maybe i am just being picky. I went through all my old photos of the floor pan and couldn't see anything either. Spoke with Colin and he sent my some photos of his but typically that end of the spring you just cant see where it goes in the photos. Even went through all my old books and part diagrams and again that end doesn't show. So it will have to be a bit of Creative license :). Cheers Jim

Trying to find out where the clutch pedal return spring hooks onto on my 38 Zephyr, i know where it goes onto the clutch arm but where does the other end contact. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers Jim

I have for sale an EE-23 Stromberg, will need a rebuild but nothing is seized and all shafts turn freely. Looking for $500 plus shipping. I am based in the UK put i ship worldwide. Cheers Jim

Do you know what year is the crank>

Thanks Ray.

Hi Ray, yep I know what you mean reference bearings size and availability. When I build V8 flattys I never like to go any bigger than 40 thou. I have ordered a set of 60 rod bearings from old.parts, thanks for the heads up just to get the engine going. I do have another crank for a 46 engine with the bigger rod crank journals. This is on +40 already but am thinking of grinding the journal size down to to std to use the earlier rods. Have done this on V8’s a few times. Are there any other differences between the early and later cranks?

Also need some +50 or +60 rod bearings as Egge have just got back to me and haven’t got any left.

Thanks for the reply. I deal with Mike at H&H quite a lot already but unfortunately he hasn’t got any. Also Egge only list up to +30.

Desperately looking for a complete set of +50 Main bearings for my 38 as the crank is right on the limit for the +40. Also a set of +10 pistons and rings for the 2.750 bore. Any help is much appreciated. Cheers Jim

Next job was to get the underside prepped primered and coated.

Finally got this into it's first primer stage, with all the welding done. Slowly i'm getting there.

My thoughts exactly, and the only person i can come up with that fits in with the time-line and the reason is Dr Esders. Over the weekend i also managed to find that all Dr Esders art and antiques where sold at 3 different auctions in Paris 1941 and the auction house is still going. So my next job is to get in contact with them to see if they have any records showing what happened to his car/plane collection (just need to learn some French). It's unlikely as by this time the Nazis had invaded so most records have probable been destroyed but you never know.

Funnily enough he was good friends with Andre Citroen and the aircraft manufacturer Henri Farman as well.

Horses for Courses as they say . The Cord is an absolute stunner.

Apparently he said that he nor his wife would never driver at night and that they ruined the look of the cars.