Sparkydave

Thanks! I'm sure it's going to be an adventure. Very cool that you have a 1937 Cord 812, my family lived in Michigan when Dad and I got to see a Cord at a car show. Supposedly, that Cord belonged to the guy who founded Listerine. Beautiful car.

Hi all, soon going to be picking up my dad's 1947 Lincoln coupe. He and my mom are looking at moving into assisted living soon, and he's passing it on to me. He and I have worked on it together many times, but there's still lots for me to learn. For as long as I can remember, it's been slow to crank, and when the engine is at operating temperature it gets even slower to crank. Even mom seems to think it didn't used to be like that. New batteries don't seem to improve things. He's cleaned battery terminals, polished up connections at the solenoid and the body ground, but it still involves some finger crossing when it's warmed up, or you'll have to push start it. Any ideas? Could the starter just be tired and needing a rebuild?

Hello, found this forum searching for some info on my dad's 1947 Lincoln coupe. Pleased to see that there's a V-12 Lincoln forum, I'm sure I'll be asking some questions there. Mom and Dad have asked me to re-home his car as they will be moving into assisted living soon, so next month my wife and I are road tripping to transport it. Got some work cut out since he reports it's not running at the moment. My other car is a 1977 MG Midget I rescued from a friend's garage after an 18 year hiatus, so I've got some experience resurrecting a car that has sat for a while.