Jim Bollman

Looks like a nice rig if you can modify the camper part to meet to your needs. I have a friend with a similar size Class A with a big enough gas engine to pull a car trailer and he gets 4-6mpg when he is not towing. He has never said what it gets towing. I switched to a diesel pickup a few years ago and the standard maintenance is more expensive and when something does go wrong the parts are expensive. The upside is they run forever if you take care of them and the low end torque is fantastic. With the miles I put on mine it may out last me if it doesn't rust out. So far all my costs have been on the pickup part of the truck (2000 F250), so it was just fixing all the normal things on an older truck. With it's age, it would be nice if you could have someone look it over with a cell phone in there hands so they can tell you what they see. Looks like you are running out of time on the auction, if there are not any snipers lingering for the end of the auction you may want to make contact with the seller before the auction ends in case it doesn't sell and you want to continue the negotiations. Must be some AACA members in that area. Another friend of mine bought a big class A diesel of eBay a few years ago without seeing it and the seller was willing to give him a get out of auction guarantee if it wasn't as advertised and pictured. He ended up with a very nice rig, he just flew in and drove it nearly 2000 miles home.

My tail lights and parking lights were white originally is why I made mine white. I have also put tinfoil in the back of other taillights to gain higher output.

I try to keep within what will fit in my building but there is an occasional problem with timing. I ended up renting a bay in a private garage this Winter when one truck didn't sell fast enough to make room for the new one. I paid $200 for the Winter for clean dry storage. I sold the truck a couple of weeks after moving it in, but throwing in storage for the Winter clinched the deal since the fellow that bought it was having the same timing problem and was a bay short. I do rent a spot under cover but open on one side for my car trailer (flat bed) with my truck camper on the back for the Winter for another $200 from right ater Hershey till April/May. Could leave them outside but seems cheap to keep them a little dryer. Plan to build a car port for them eventually, been telling myself that now for 4 years.

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Big variation with LED brightness between brands. I pulled a set of 6 volt LEDs that were about break even with the standard bulbs and put in Halogen a little more than a year ago. Halogens were noticeably brighter. I have seen other LED bulbs that seemed brighter but I couldn't do a side by side. My LED s were not the cheap ones you see sometimes, they were from SuperBrightLED. This car has new wiring and restored, white inside taillight housings. You might see a bigger difference with old wiring since the LED would not draw as much current, so would not have the voltage drops caused by less than perfect connectors. The Halogens draw about the same current as standard bulbs so they would have the same voltage drop problem.

If MI is like NY they charge all these fees and taxes, and give you the illusion that it is for roads and infrastructure then dump all the money into the general fund for other things.

The wife and I took the 1950 F1 out for a short drive today. First time on the road since I brought it home over Thanksgiving. Looking forward to some longer drives.

Looks like you nailed it Dave.

Thanks for all the insight (and pointing out my mistake on the Airflow). I thought Chevy for the truck when I first saw it but couldn't find any pictures of that vintage COE that was even close to looking like that so I gave up.

You guys are amazing pulling the details out of these fuzzy snap shots. Here is a unique COE Truck grill. Also a few interesting cars in this 1947 Phily shot. I see an Airstream by the truck.

Thanks, I think your right on the 41 Ford. You don't see many of them. You might be right on the 40 also. Didn't the 39 Delux have the same grill as the 40 Standard?

I hate it when I see such a unique grill and can't pull the make out of the old brain cells. The first one is the one that has e stumped, I think the second one is a 39 Ford. This is another street shot from 1947 Philly

Yes, but Ford didn't use expensive paint either. You could probably duplicate the quality he used for only $50/Gal. Now that 500 gals is affordable.

Thanks, I new the experts wouldn't let me down. I thought maybe MoPar but the pictures I had for 37 were pretty poor. Now that I know to look more carefully at 37 in the book I have, I can see the extra hood trim.

This photo is from Phily around 1947. Seems like I should know what it is but I'm drawing a blank.

I remember a dealers ad in the Toledo Ohio area in the 60s, I think Oldsmobile. It started out with a silhouette of a man (I think smoking a cigar but I may be remembering Hitchcock). Someone is saying every dealer in town says nobody can beat our prices, well meet Mr Nobody, Nobody Oldsmobile, as the silhouette rotated around and lights came up.

Depends on how deep you pile them. Some of our more fanatic Crosley Club members build racks to store them on to fit more in. Before I cleaned out a few projects I knew I would never get to, I had 3 Crosleys and a 66 Falcon in one bay of my shop with plenty of space to tuck in the riding lawnmower and a bunch of other stuff. And I didn't stack them. Of course I do have a small Crosley size trailer hanging from the ceiling in that bay waiting to be restored.

A regular at our Crosley Nationals.

Our region also has an eMail option, not sure how many use it. I'm involved with a Habitat for Humanity Affiliate and we made electronic delivery of our newsletter an option available about 3 years ago and advertise the option in every issue. We now send 13 of the 1000+ newsletters via eMail. I was concerned when I made it an option since I didn't have a process for eliminating them form the printed list at that time. Turned out to be a non problem, we just delete them manual before printing.

Jim, One of my retirement activity is a morning 3.5 mile walk with two other retired guys that live on the road. I was telling one of them about this thread this morning. I told him if he put in a shuffle board court I wouldn't play and might have to move because he was trying to turn the road into a retirement village. :cool:

These are what I use. Neos Stabilicer Voyager Overshoes, Traction Control Devices - GEMPLER'S I do 3.5 miles every morning and use them when weather calls for them. I have used them for about 6 years now and am on my second set of studs. They are very light and allow normal walking shoes to become heavy duty winter shoes.

I agree 100% Jim. I have never understood the reason for moving into retirement villages if you have plenty of hobbies and outside interests to keep you busy. We built what I considered our retirement place about 30 years ago on 8 acres. I could do with a bit less land but would feel cramped without an acre or so. Since we were only 32 when we built the retirement place, now that we are really retired we may decide to eventually find a different place, but it will not have lots of rules and no space. If I was looking for a new location, I think after deciding on a general part of the country, I would start investigating regional club activities for the different clubs I belong to. Then look for an area that has easy access without getting onto 4 lane roads.

I drove a 61 Met in my college days. I regularly carried 5 and sometimes 6 college kids (me included) when I had the only wheels. Now I admit we only went across town for burgers or pizza. It was a tight fit and it was fun seeing peoples looks when we started getting out. I did have to replace the rear springs after the first year. And the occasional number 6 person was a lanky 6' 2" guy, he would fold up in the trunk, put a rag in the latch so he could open up the lid and wave at people and get out when we got to the other end (he didn't trust us).

Here are the heavy duty drawers I made out of ammo boxed with the tops removed. This is part of the Crosley parts department. This is the upstairs of my barn so the Gambrel roof works to my advantage to have deep shelves low and narrow high. Here are the two sizes I have, I picked lighter ones to pull out to show, but they will hold most anything you can lift. This is another part of the upstairs so you can see several other storage methods. Starting on the left and working around, you can see an old painted oak desk, picked up for a few dollars years ago, used it as a work bench for years now it is a sorting area. The gray drawers I have a bunch of, I keep finding them at garage sales and even free along side the road during cleanup week. I like them because you can stack them in odd places, you will see some in the knee hole of desk also. Next a neat piece of heavy office storage picked up at a library sale for $10. The red plastic tubs have magazines in them, I have a bunch of those to, bought at a household sale for $1/each. The yellow file card drawers have pretty much been obsoleted by computers, they stack into large arrays of drawers like I did here and also handy to tuck here and there on shelving to store small stuff among large, again cheap to pick up and available in several sizes. Wood drawers were from an old hardware store, very nice but hard to find anymore. Not showing but I also have a bunch of 2 and 4 drawer file cabinets scattered around, also cheap to pickup. The heavy office grade are the ones to get, they become very cheap when they get ugly from scraps and dents or are the old olive drab green color, and can hold the heavy stuff without binding up. So that's a tour of a small portion of my storage area.

I voice my opinion that the original long thread was better to Peter in a PM soon after it showed up, he gave me the answer about to long a thread. I can live with it either way but preferred just scrolling down one long list. I take the blame for Peter extending the PreWar to 1945, when I pointed out many cars were made in 1942 before the war shut down and a few civilian and many military vehicles were being left out in 1943-45. Didn't really care which group they were put with but they seem to have more kinship with PreWar if you are lumping over hundred years into two buckets.