Dave@Moon
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I've been looking for an A/C condenser for a 1971 Lincoln Mark III. I can't find any, but I see several listed for a 1971 Ford Thunderbird which should be more or less similar. Does anyone know if thee interchange, or if a Hollander book gives and interchange for this car? Thanks!
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We are looking for a good hood and set of doors for a 1975 Chevrolet Caprice convertible. I believe 1976 Impala and Caprice cross reference, but 1975 Impala does not. If anyone has any please P.M. or email at dave@benhasecarrestorations.com . Please include photos and prices. Thanks!
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We are looking for a Ford ECZ 9425 intake for a customer's 1957 Thunderbird project. If anyone has one available, or has a line on one, please leave a p.m. or post contact information here. Thanks!
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Be sure to list it on a U.K. web site (like eBay.uk). It will likely have more demand there than in the U.S.
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That clock was used in numerous Austin models from roughly 1954 to 1968. That particular face appears to be fairly rare, as the only image of it I can find is in this dashboard illustration from an Austin 4 liter Princess catalog (produced 1964-68), making it one of the later editions and perhaps exclusive to that model.
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"VERY few insurance companies will cover an antique fully (real collision and comprehensive coverage) when driven daily."
Dave, I've had regular insurance (State Farm) on the '57 Buick for some years now, so I can have the option of driving it without antique policy restrictions. Agreed value, comp, collision. Maybe it's a state-by-state thing?
TG
It must be, or maybe an agent-by-agent thing, because my friend had State Farm and they refused (according to him, although he possibly meant they prohibitively overpriced) coverage beyond liability and mandatory minimum medical.
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Be sure that your insurance allows that and that you do not have special license plates that restrict usage.
That's more than valid. I personally know someone who is now homeless partially because they didn't do this when using an MGB as transportation. VERY few insurance companies will cover an antique fully (real collision and comprehensive coverage) when driven daily.
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Purist: Quite unnecessary, Sir. EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE INVENTED HAS BEEN INVENTED.
Having gone from a hobby to now being employed by a restoration shop that does about 50/50 correct and modified work, I think I know the proper response.
GENIUS: "Ah yes, but the mistakes that can be made are infinite!"
I've always been more of a purist than not, but having seen some of Frankenstein works that are out there on the road made by "geniuses", it's becoming a lot more "more" than it used to be. The number of amateur re-engineers that have inflicted themselves on some of the cars I've seen come through here lately, 2 of which I refused to drive on public roads because they were simply unsafe, are stunning. Today if a street rod or rat rod is behind me in traffic I get more nervous than ever no matter how good the car looks, and will usually yield the road to it out of what is probably mistaken for respect.
Modified cars are common. A modified car done right is a beautiful and rare site, sadly.
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We are in need of a front bed panel for a 1948 Ford F2 bed. If a complete bed is all that is available it will not be an issue, but a good NOS/used front bed panel will suffice. Please contact me via a personal message on this forum if you have or know of one that is available. Thanks!
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I was browsing in the record section of a used bookstore one day when I came across a first pressing copy of the soundtrack for the movie The Caine Mutiny. It cost $3, but it wasn't the type of record I collect so I passed. The only reason I remembered it was because the photo on the cover of Ernest Borgnine was so bad I thought out loud "if that was me I'd sue".
That evening I was looking up the records in one of my value guides I did buy that day, and happened to check this one as well. Soundtracks are notoriously valueless, so I wasn't expecting much.
$13,500.
I drove straight back to the store. It was gone.
I've never had a car incident that came even close to that.
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You know what they say when the little puppies that were nipping at your heels do when they turn into full-grown adults?
Toyota, Honda, Nissan, & VW saw the golden opportunity at the smaller end of the market where GM only took a half-hearted look at, and Audi, BMW, and Mercedes Benz, (and later, Acura, Lexus, Infiniti), saw the golden opportunity at the opposite end of the market where GM didn't have any contenders (although they are really trying at playing 'catch-up' by constantly reinventing Cadillac). At the smaller end of the market, GM was still competing with their first world car, the T-body Chevette (I do not count their captive imports) when Toyota, Nissan, Honda and VW had fwd hatchbacks with better handling and more efficient engines by 1980. As I stated in a different thread, Cadillac moved downmarket in the late 1960's in the interest of higher volume, where Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi, maintained their higher status, and sales for those marques started to steadily increase in the 1980's. Somehow, GM failed to noticed that, but Honda, Toyota, and Nissan sure did, and responded with Acura, Lexus, and Infiniti by the time the '80's were over. All I can say, is I am glad they sold off Lotus before they dragged it into the ground like they did SAAB!
Craig
The features on "foreign cars" in the 1980s meant nothing. Frankly the Dodge Colt, 2 Datsun 210s, Mazda 323, and Subaru BRAT I drove in those years were probably no more enjoyable or cutting edge or trendy/status driven as the 3 Chevettes I also drove frequently (although none of the Chevettes were mine). What those "foreign cars" were was obviously and profoundly of better quality than the Chevette, as well as the other small GM cars of theday. The difference at the time was mind-blowing. It was a revelation that a small/inexpensive car didn't have to be a poorly made one*. That difference was hammered home in the late 1980s and beyond when larger, more upscale "foreign cars" (Accord, Camry, Legacy, etc.) didn't have to be (and weren't) any better made than the small cars that got them in the door.
That continues to this day. My Toyota Yaris, while small and cheap, is assembled just as well as the Toyota Avalons I was selling until recently. They're all equally well made. Did anybody ever claim their Chevette was as well made as a Caprice?
It continues to this day. A Chevy Spark/Aveo/Sonic/Cruze is nowhere near as well built as a new Impala. I've driven and sold almost all of them (used trade-ins) so I have seen it firsthand, but all you have to do is pick up Consumer Reports to see it as well. (BTW, before people begin bashing CR bear in mind that lately the love upmarket Buick, in some cases more than some "Japanese cars".)
There has never been a cheaply made Toyota (at least since 1975). Ditto for half a dozen other Asian car brands (some of which today have higher domestic content than any GM car). When we can say that about GM over a 40 year stretch maybe they'll be back where they once were.
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*And for people who never understood Saturn, that was why they existed. For as long as the SL/SW Series continued, they actually pulled it off too!
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Interesting you picked the homeliest model when you could have picked this;
http://www.collectorcarads.com/Picture2/672+2-9.jpg
http://assets.hemmings.com/uimage/41167171-770-0@2X.jpg?rev=1
I thought picking the homeliest model was the whole point!
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A few notes:
Throw another log on the Aztek fire from me as well. There's just no excuse for it. The car was chosen deliberately for Breaking Bad, right down to the color, for the same reason Walter White frequently appeared early on in ill-fitting tighty -whitey underpants. It was meant to show a man that, prior to discovering his Heisenberg (and his Chrysler 300), was completely defeated in life.
The 1959 Buick was not a styling mis-step, but it begin a period of slow sales for the marque. Those slow sales resulted from some very ill-built 1955/56 models, and damage they did to Buick's rep for a time. Those mid-50s boom era cars were slapped together as fast as possible, and if you read that era's Consumer Reports there were severe consequences as those cars aged.
The downsizing of GM's cars in the late 1970s resulted in cars some 800 lbs lighter that actually had larger interiors and trunks than the 1976-era cars. They were better and more appropriate cars, and along with the collapse of Chrysler in 1979 resulted in GM's best market share. Sadly it also resulted in a sense of market entitlement there that came back to haunt them...
...which ran counter to the idea for the need for Saturn, which in turn was never fully realized or exploited. To this day, even in the era of "the new" GM an the vastly improved cars they're building, there is still an attitude/sense that small cars should be less well made than big ones. It has hurt GM for generations now.
Hummers were not cars or trucks. They were costumes.
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Now, as to GM's homeliest car I tend to weigh more heavily against the cars from the era where GM had every advantage and should have done (and generally did) better. For the most part the GM cars of the 1960s were their most attractive, but one stands out to me as a huge miss. The heavily restyled 1967 Pontiac full-size cars to me look like they're trying to look even heavier and more ponderous than they are. I just don't see a balance or theme to the design except to advertise it's bulk, something the other A-bodies didn't seem to do. It had to be deliberate, and I've never thought of it as attractive.
I had a friend in the 1970s that had a 1967 Pontiac hearse by Superior. The bulk of the hearse body actually made for a better looking vehicle.
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Does anyone have a good source for a set of interior patterns for a 1928 Model 20 2 door sedan (seats/headliner/flooring/door panels/etc.)? We need everything as the car is completely gutted, including new material. If the original material isn't available something like it will be used, but cost is a factor.
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Vauxhalls were available in Canada from about 1950 until the middle 1970s. The car in the picture is either a Wyvern (4 cyl) or Cresta(6 cyl). Both were definitely available in the UK. The car in the picture has the wrong grille in it.
Terry
That hood badge is from a Vauxhall Velox, a model mid-grade between the Wyvern and Cresta.
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Bob,
That's easy. First one has to have absolutely no courtesy, respect, or consideration towards the Sales Person trying to make a living to support themselves or family. To waste the Sales Person's time and efforts when they could possibly be making a sale to someone else would not make me feel too good at the end of the day.
I think your original plan to lease one from Enterprise would be more rewarding in that you could relax and have fun checking it out on your own instead of having a Sales Person ride along with you.
Peter J.
Recently I sold Toyotas for about 6 months until I got a better job as the parts buyer for a restoration business. It's a lot tougher job than it looks, especially if you value spending time with your family. There are the occasional a-holes that are there to drive cars for free. You know they're not serious as soon as the test drive lasts more than 15 minutes, and when they ask for 3 different cars. They become well known very quickly, and are treated accordingly.
We once had a young man test drive an FRS, and had his friend follow with the intent to beat up the salesman and steal the car. The geniuses made 2 mistakes. The first guy gave his real name and driver's license prior to the test drive. Then the second guy accidentally (for real) rear-ended the FRS in a very public place and was "helped" by a good Samaritan. The cops had a great time laughing at these two explaining what happed to the bemused salesman (not me).
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Mathematically, 1.00/0.78 = 1.28, meaning that, for now,
the U. S. dollar is worth about 28% more than the Canadian.
That is only meaningful in relation to historical norms. Every country's currency has a base/intrinsic value that is not an equivalence to others. In other words a Canadian dollar has never been the equal of an American dollar in the same sense that an American dollar has never been the equal of a British pound or a Japanese yen. Fluctuations occur of course, but unless the currency is deliberately devalued it is rare to see lasting wholesale changes in relative values.
Over the last 5 years the Canadian dollar has averaged around 78 cents American, so the current situation is typical. It's only low in relation the very recent spike in it's value in January 2015, where it was at nearly 95 cents. It's low over the past 5 years came in 2011 when it was worth 68 cents American.
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The P1900 is a beautiful car, if a bit tubby, especially considering that it was an in-house design and not the fashionable Italian creation. Unfortunately it was quite expensive, fairly slow, and was of appallingly poor build quality (particularly for a Volvo!). 68 were built, 2 0f which were given the same serial number.
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I discovered this weekend at a swap meet in Chicago (Kudos to the Chicagoland MG Club! :cool:) tht there is a brief section on removal/installation in the XK120/140/150 & Mark VII sedan manual, which is available as a Bentley reprint. However I was unable to buy one there. If someone has one could you please scan and post an image of this page here? Thanks!
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1965 Electra 225 & LeSabre hood ornament.
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Does anyone have access or a link to a diagram or assembly procedures/manual for the sunroof on a Jaguar Mark V? A parts diagram would be helpful if nothing else. I'm helping someone re-install one that had been removed.
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Yes, there are bigger problems in the world, and I'm sure there are forums for those problems.
This forum is about enjoying our antique and Classic automobiles, and things that make them less enjoyable are fair topics.
Some of those waivers, NTX5457 mentioned, allow us ro buy non-ethanol gas for our non-ethenol cars...
I've been saying exactly that on this forum for 15 years now. It would be easy, a simple waiver for registered antiques allowing them to use marine or aviation gas, the demand for which would allow for a reasonable degree of outlets in most areas. Maybe in another 10 years it will be mainstream in the hobby, if it isn't too late by then.
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Some just won't admit how bad Ethanol really is.
Everybody knows how "bad" ethanol is. It's not an original thought. Some just will never appreciate that there are bigger problems in the world than making it easy and convenient for you to enjoy your Buick or for me to enjoy my Triumph, or the ability to use a vehicle for the lowest possible cost regardless of consequences. Neither are original thoughts as well.
Everybody knows how bad this is too. Maybe if we pretend we'll never get sick.....
1971 Lincoln Mark III/Thunderbird Interchange?
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Thanks! Found one using these numbers.