Jim Bollman

I immediately thought of using JB Weld to fill the void. Since it isn't a high wear use, epoxy would probably work just as well. JB Weld can be used to fix a lot of tough problems.

My current truck, that I bought used, had a possessed radio. In would change stations or switch from CD to radio and back. Volume would go up and down. It would even turn back on if you shut it off. As far as old cars, do odd knocks, rattles, shakes and shimmies count :-)

Still not very good but maybe this will help.

Dave, you should consult the Crosley Auto Club FOR advisor If you look at the factory literature/photos you will find examples with street tires on the front instead of military tread and you will also see examples with a street tire on as a spare with military tires on the front. I would make sure I had the appropriate photos to show the team captain in advance. I believe you could buy the FOR with either street or military tread. If you really want to minimize point deductions you should leave all optional equipment at home, so I would show with out top and side curtains and have the option list that shows they were not standard. Also the rear bed was optional. You need to decide how perfect on the optional parts are since all they can do is cause deductions. Knowing how crowded some show fields can be I would make a small fold up rack that you can sit either in front or behind the FOR with the hood on top of it. Make sure it is stable and tall enough that people will see it. As long as your going to be with the FOR I would wait till the judges show up to remove the hood. I would certainly not leave it on if you're not going to be there since 99% of judges and probably all of the captains will not know the proper way to remove correctly. If you decide to show with the top and side curtains I think you can have the side curtains partially on snapped so they can still be judge and the interior can be judged also. Or just like a car with doors they can be opened when the judges are ready to judge the interior.

As long as your listing great Maine car & transportation museums, put Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor. It has more neat stuff crammed in than you can imagine. You have to look everywhere when you go through, up, down, under and behind.

It is not that easy. This site may help.

I have been getting to the shop regular. I go in, pat te cat on the head start up the 1949 Ford 8N pull it out and plow snow for 30 minutes to an hour and put it back in. Pat the cat on the head again and dump some cat food it her dish and go back in the house to warm up by the fire. Jim...

For all you Yugo Lover/Haters you should get hold of the movie "Drowning Mona" if you haven't see it. Been a while since I saw it but the one review I found online reminded me of the details. Here is the important part. "Thanks to a test marketing effort by the Yugo Car Company, everyone in Verplanck was able to purchase a Yugo at a cut-rate price. Now, Yugos are thicker than cockroaches in Verplanck. Even the Police Department drives Yugos. " Verplanck is a town nestled on the banks of the Hudson River, upriver from New York City according to the movie writeup. For Netflix subscribers it can be current watched on streaming video.

Twice a fellow over 1000 miles from me has used a picture of my truck in his CraigList ad. He is at least honest enough to say "mine looks just like this one" and not say it was his. I exchanged several eMails with him the first time. He started off saying it wasn't my truck. I pointed out that since it was in front of my barn, on my son's trailer, hitched to my F250, I was pretty sure it was. Then he wanted to know why I was so upset and if I didn't ike it why did I come over and take pictures of his truck for him. I sent a note to CraigsList complaining but they didn't even answer me let alone pull his ad.

A friend has brought back some very bad, even hard, rubber with Glycerin. I have tried it on mildly checked rubber with great success. For really bad rubber parts you may need submerse for short periods of time, it will soften to jelly if you leave it in to long. I have seen weather checks on tractor tires heal by multiple coats put on fairly wet and rubbed in. I also use it on the old original weather stripping on my F1. It softens it enough just rubbing it on to stop those annoying rubber squeaks.

Since my 2006 gets 8-10% less mpg with E10 then straight gas, I would guess there is little CO2 saving and that doesn't count the CO2 emitted planting, picking, hauling and processing the corn.

A friend was on one of the first shows and he said they were at his house for 3 days. I think he generally had a good experience. Even though they didn't give his name, they gave enough information that people have tracked him down and he says he gets visits or phone calls almost every day.

Seems like the definition should be based on engine size and/or vehicle size (length/wheelbase). Trying to list all possible cars gets real hard when you look at all the foreign micro/mini cars available. Lots of US built micro cars also but many of them were in such small quantities they probably qualify for class 35.

I agree I have not had any real problems with ethanol in my 2006, accept. If it wasn't bad enough that making ethanol from corn was almost break even, I get 5-10% less fuel economy. Thanksgiving trip took 3 tanks of fuel (I don't like to call some of this stuff gas). First tank and last was all interstate driving, out was warmer so if anything should have been better millage. First tank 10% ethanol I got 37mpg, 3rd tank was pure gas (or as pure as it comes these days) 40mpg. I have seen these differences every time I have checked over the last year or so and I keep track of every gallon of fuel that goes in.

No, at least two of us have had problems. I put my new 6 volt Battery Tender on a 6 year old battery for the Winter. Month after I tool it off in the Spring it was stone dead and would not take a charge. So I though it was an old battery, replaced it with new battery. The next Winter same results 1 month after taking it off in the Spring, battery stone dead will not take charge, and only 11 months old. Tossed the Battery Tender on the shelf and went back to my old method of leaving them coast in the Winter and topping them off in the Spring. Been meaning to check out the BT to see if it was faulty, but have not gotten around to it. As for the original posting by broker-bob. I have kept my tractor battery charged for years with a trickle charger and a timer to give it about an hour a day. I need to add water a couple of times a year. Forgot to check water for to long once and ruined a battery before it's time that way to. Now for something completely different. My neighbor swears by a chemical called EDTA (Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid). He just traded in his 1998 Ford truck with the original battery in it and it still was spinning over just fine. It sat outside in Western NY it's whole life. He used a small amount in each cell when he first bought it. He claims it will extend existing batteries and even bring back marginal batteries from the brink for a few more years of use. This is not an endorsement, but I'm thinking about trying it.

Well you know I am Dave. Never showed the Crosleys Nationally. May take the FarmOroad for DPC some time.

This site is addictive. Thanks a lot :-)

You may want to define upstate NY. We can't even agree what it means.

I'm glad to hear the Taylor 6 has survived and is in good hands. I have sent you a PM on a possible follow up story for the Crosley Auto Club publication.

If I read all the pros and cons correctly you need to buy the $1.99 version to do moderation or posting. The free one does a nice job for reading.

We use to stay open till late afternoon on Saturday sin ce we were staying till Sunday morning to come home anyway. Saturday has not been a good day for sales for decades for us. The last 5+ or so years we have started packing up around 1-2pm and on the road by 3. Part of the reason is all our neighbors now leave and we always use to have a Saturday night potluck supper and story telling time with all the neighbors. The other reason is the last time we stayed over on Saturday night they came around and told us we had to be off the grounds at some very early hour. Since we have about a 6 hour drive and we can't sleep in our camper after we pack the flea market space we leave in time to get home at a reasonable hour. All that said we actually had one of our best Saturdays for sales this year.

As I said they actually only built one bank of the Taylor X-24 for testing. The picture I posted was just a mock up. It was intended to be dry sump. Here is a picture of the one bank on the test stand. It did pass all the tests with the performance they predicted. Even the crank was fabricated out of tubing and steel plate

Was just thinking of starting a threat like this to find out what preventive measures people were doing. The last stations in my area that had real gas, switched a month or so ago. I now have what is in my vehicles and tractors and about 2 gallons in a can left of real gas. So are there thinks to do to minimize the problems? The new green STA-BIL is according to the bottle suppose to counteract some of the bad thing that ethanol do. They say to use it in every tank full and extra for over Winter storage. I bought some but have not tried it yet. I was thinking of talking to some local farmer friends and a small airport to see if they had real gas that I could at least buy for my tractors and small engine use. I know the state would not like me using it in my cars and trucks, plus it would not be practical for any vehicle that I put more than a few miles on a year anyway. A friend told me as a minimum to put a filter just before the carb to stop the chunks that break loose up stream from carb.

I would only say 10 or so of the list would make my ugly list, some are just generic of the time they were built. Like others I have owned several on the list and bought them because I like the styling. Ten or more of this list would be in my collection if I had the money for a dream collection and lots of space. But then I collect Crosleys so we know I have great taste in cars.

How about a 1702 CI X-24 made out of metal stampings. Taylor Engines, Inc., Oakland, California submitted a proposal on May12th 1942 to build such an engine to the Navy. It was suggested he build one bank for testing and he did. The contract was never issued but it was the forerunner of what became the 44 CI Crosley CoBra fabricated engine that was contracted by the government for WW-2 and after. More pictures and details on the Crosley Club web site. Crosley Engine Family Tree I did a 4 part story on this engine and variants awhile back for the Crosley Club Quarterly.