Jim Bollman
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Bought a very similar one at an auction years ago without looking at it before the auctioneer held it up. It was at a car collectors friends estate auction. When I got it in my hand I decided it was a flag pole topper. Ended up giving it to one of his grandsons.
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I worked two summers as a gofer at a airplane servicing business. My first week on the job they sent me out for prop wash.
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My guess an early hand done fake for the studio. Photos were being doctored long before PhotoShop.
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I seem to remember the first house my parents rented had a coal furnace, I remember the coal door and coal storage room. Don't really remember the furnace so maybe it had been covered to oil. The next house they bought and the coal furnace had been converted to oil. We used the old coal storage room to store firewood for the fireplace. The coal room also had two 275gal oil tanks.
The one flaw in hauling ice in the Summer and coal in the Winter is if I'm not mistaken didn't you still need ice in the Winter if your icebox was inside the house? being a BabyBoomer I have no remembrance of iceboxes actually in use, I assume they didn't move them outside in the Winter and you would still have the cross over Spring/Fall times to worry about if you did. My bet is two trucks.
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No paint numbers bit I have seen several in a light yellow. The one they made for Sears were red. By the way it is Crosley based not Cowley.
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Been think of making this sign for my Hershey booth.
Collectable Rare And Precious
For Sale
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I think it is Christine, I would not buy it.
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Hard to kill those old refrigerators, just replace the seals and they keep on chilling. About half as efficient as the new ones and last 5-8 times longer.
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Shifting could just be that he doesn't know how to drive a car with out synchromesh. The transmission tops did wear but are not all that hard to rebuild if it does need work. Looks like the whole car was reconditioned some time in the past not just the paint.
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One of our Crosley Club members is using a 1948 Gasporter that uses a Crosley drivetrain, made in St Paul, MN, to fuel his two planes in AK.
https://crosleyautoclub.com/GasPorter/GasPorter.html
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I correct eBay sellers from time to time, more for the buyer that may not know the difference than for the seller. Most thank me some do not respond. One acceptation was a fellow that had a reprinted Crosley manual up for sale for 3 times what you could buy the same reprint new. I suggested it was still a good item but he probably would do better pricing it closer to what anyone could buy it from one of several Crosley dealers. He did the cussing out and what did I know answer. I watched him trying to sell it for months, not sure if he ever found a sucker or not. I have stopped giving advice on parts in flea markets unless asked. I once saw a desirable piece at the Crosley Nationals and suggested he raise his price by 3X and it would still be a good deal for someone that needed it. I walked by as he was packing and he made a nasty comment about it not selling at my high price. I should have just handed him his original asking price and taken it to Hershey and tripled my money. Did work for me once at Hershey, on setup day a fellow asked what his box of Crosley speed equipment was worth and I told him what I thought it would bring. He then tried to sell it to me for what I told him it was worth. I told him I didn't need any of it and if I bought it I would have to make money selling it and since it was the first day I didn't want to spend all my money before it really started. He walked over to my spot later and sold it to me cheap and I sold every piece before I left, made about 5X on my investment and only had to keep it for a couple of days.
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I don't think this one has been mentioned, I haven't been and it is a bit expensive for an outside museum but they have over 4000 cars on display. Here's a link to the website and a story about them.
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/georgia/automobile-junkyard-old-car-city-ga/
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Our first house only had a two car garage.
- Everyday cars never go inside unless you are working on them.
- Build shelves so stuff doesn't take up space on the floor.
- Go up if you can. One of the first things I did was beef up the roof rafters and added some extra support. Floored over what was accessible and built shelving. I was young then and I built a little cart with rollers so I could scoot back and forth to get things.
- Collect small cars
- When I could afford it I added an extension on the back of the garage, it wasn't large but it allowed a couple of small cars and a lot of storage on shelves. I only cut one car size entrance into the addition so I could use the wall that was left to have shelving on beside and a bench on the other.
- Build a loft if you have the ceiling space. In the addition I built a loft that was 6' off the floor and was 5'X12' in one back corner. This allowed me to park a small car under it and a lot of stuff on top.
- Put pegboard up on any free walls, you can hang lots of things on pegboard and get it out of the way.
Probably more but that is what I remember from my first shop.
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Many years ago I gave our minister at the time a bumper sticker that said "Holy Roller" which he proudly displayed on his Rambler.
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Looking at the tool again today I think the metal discs with the plastic are inserted with the tool but don't understand the spring and spacers on the rod. Perhaps they are inserts for a specific faucet.
It doesn't look like it is suppose to be struck. the main part is aluminum so you wouldn't hit it very hard.
I said it was in a box with punches but they were the Greeley type punches that cut holes in sheet metal by drilling a hole and putting half on each side and tightening till the cutter shears a hole.
Oh well I put it back where I found it, doesn't take up much room maybe it will come in handy someday. 🙂
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Here are a couple from the Crosley Nationals a few years ago.
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It is the right shape for repairing faucet seats but there is no cutter or abrasive to actual doing any seat repair unless something is missing.
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Found this tool in the bottom of one of my Dad's toolboxes with some hole saws and metal punches. Should have put a ruler in for reference but it is 3 1/4 inches top to bottom. The bottom is solid and is part of the shaft, all one piece. The extra pieces appear to all be the same with a metal piece and two plastic pieces. the pieces on the shaft can be removed by taking off the cross pieces.
Any idea what it is?
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Thanks Frank. Not sure if it was the Atlee, VA pole Crosley but one of pole Crosleys was recently taken down reconditioned and put back up or will be put backup.
Almost forgot about this one less than 10 miles from me just South of Jonesborough, TN. The LeCar has went down hill fast the last 6 years I have been in the area, not sure how much longer it will last.
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Mine isn't an AACA site it is the Crosley Auto Club. It is strong on info but doesn't use all the fancy stuff.
I also have my own private site hosted with them that is even less fancy and mostly used for the storage.
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Here are a few, I know I have a couple of more if I could find them.
The one I always liked and never took a picture of you could see from the New York Thruway, it was a fun size tractor trailer rig way up in the air. I think I heard they had to take it down.
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I stopped in and got gas and wandered around back in the 90s. Don't remember much about it other than it was a nice break. Yep Hemmings do seem to be down sizing, hope they can adapt to the new way of doing business.
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I'm a fan of masonite for the top layer. Not real hard but relatively cheap to replace if it gets too beat up. I have the center work area covered with a piece of rubber mat like they sell at home improvement stores as rug runners. Has some texture so stuff doesn't roll around and easy to clean, plus it can be removed when you want a hard surface. I have a second bench for clean work that I have covered with carpet.
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New technology - GPS vs Printed Maps
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Not what you want but when we were traveling, pre world shutting down, my wife had map software on her iPad that was all on the device and she would use it to scope out different routes and place while I use the GPS as our primary guidance. She would make suggestions and we would sometimes take the new route and the GPS would eventually figure out what we were doing. Sometimes we would add a new town to the GPS if we were changing where we were going. Can't remember the name of the package and she has updated her iPad since then and it doesn't seem to be on her iPad anymore. Worked well for us, much more manageable than paper maps and it would place us on the map so she always knew where we were. Since all the maps for the US were on the iPad we didn't have to worry about having cell service.