IndianaCarGuy

What is a computer, anyway?<P>RS

What is a good source for the twist off spinners for the 1988 Lincoln Town Car with the all-spoke rims? Have put on 6,..and they keep getting stolen, even when bolted on! Never happens at home, always when parked at work or shopping. Have tried junkyards, and they are always poor condition. Am almost ready to buy different rims and just use hubcaps,..this is absurd. They cannot be valuable! If I can't find any,..will make my own out of Aluminum and permanently affix them!<P>RS

Am trying to locate a picture of a 1921 Cadillac model 59 (Suburban?) 7-passenger car,...I found one, and if it resembles a Cole from about 1919,....am thinking of making an offer on it. I have found the sales literature stuff on a 1922-1923,....and I'd also like any information on the early 20's Cadillacs, or anyone owning one to ask questions to. Have a feeling this one is pretty complete, but not moved in 30 years,...so it will be a long resurrection. Any previous, or current owners care to share advice? Will require wood wheels immediately, and any information on transmission parts. Actually,...any advice will be appreciated,..I go to look at it in a week.<BR> I was wrong,...it has not moved since 1938, it has not been started in 30 years, and it may not fit through the doors that were put on in 1956,...I could be in trouble,...who was that patron saint of cars, again???<P>RS<P>[This message has been edited by IndianaCarGuy (edited 01-20-2001).]<p>[This message has been edited by IndianaCarGuy (edited 01-20-2001).]

What I wanted was what I got,..an honest answer. Thank you!<P>RS

Antiques, and collecting cars is either a form of pleasant insanity, or an incurable disease which affects both the mind and the personality of those affected. Personally, I accept my lunacy, and I feel no compunction to either lessen it's effects, or be cured of it. I think I would be a far worse person if I ever regained my grip on reality.<P>RS

I think ( my opinion) is that you have very carefully, and tactfully said a lot more and put a finer point on ideas that are reasonably widespread. It isn't wrong to question and expect an explanation for ideas, or methods of operating that are either outmoded, or lack coherent meaning. Obviously, there is a reason for things to be as they are, and it does sometimes require justification to leave things that way,...If the justification fits the particular needs, and situation, then, by all means they should stand. If,..on the other hand, there is no outstanding need, or reason to maintain a situation "as it has always been" then it raises serious doubt as to both the efficacy,..and the motives for retaining them. <P>Perhaps it would be best for someone to comment on this that has been there,..or is there,...to make clear the need,..or speak plainly of the need for change. One thing is certain, failure to uphold and show the need for it, is one step closer to a demand for the re-evaluation of it. If not here, then in some forum where it cannot be waved off as an idle question.<P>RS

If there was a means of making sure only current members could view it,..unless you wanted it public knowledge. Guess it depends on what purpose it was needed for, and if everyone wanted full public knowledge. <P>RS

By the way, guys,...I looked at this Auburn's picture,..it is a convertible Cabriolet,......and it is in pretty fair looking condition, though mostly unrestored,...better jump on it if yer interested.<P>rs

Well,..I am Shawnee and Native American church,..so I suppose I need to just stop along the road and smoke some tobacco and smudge the car if I need protection. Unless someone can tell me how to get elected as the first non-catholic Pope. Is anyone selling those John-Paul hood ornaments, yet?<BR>(Before you decide I am being irreverent,... let me say one word,..PONTIAC!) If elected Pope, I will drive a Jordan,....<P>RS

Ummmm,...I am passing on this topic, except for this statement<P>I like gals the way God made 'em, and cars the way Henry made 'em.<P>RS

You'll see,..it will be worth it. <P>RS

No, I'm not, Mercedes, DeDion Bouton, Genescette (two four cylinder blocks mounted over one crank), and about 5 other specially built cars raced. As I recall, not one of the V-8's actually finished. That the one you mean? Mercedes dropped the V-8 design after that, and went in for HUGE volume straight 8's. Locomobile attempted (successfully) on three pair-cast blocks over a bronze block with a single crank,... Best running large displacement 6 I ever heard!<P>RS<P>RS<p>[This message has been edited by IndianaCarGuy (edited 01-18-2001).]

Oaklands are wonderful cars, they are rare, but not obscure. As to me being psychic,....no,..not to my knowledge, I just know a lot about the era 1900-1925, especially in the realms of the big, heavy cars and early V-8's. So,..is this a 1922?<BR>If so,..I need to look up a guy I used to know in Valencia CA. who had a 1920 Oakland touring, it was left original, but ran VERY well, he drove it to Indianapolis at least three years I know of, and it never faltered.<P><BR>How about sending your psychic car guy a picture of that Oakland? Better yet, put it on here in a new post and let's see how many shocked people there are. Someplace, I have an original factory sales copy of a 1905 De Dion with a V-8,..maybe I should post it,...<BR>RS<p>[This message has been edited by IndianaCarGuy (edited 01-18-2001).]

Not only Marmon, but a lot of Indiana cars used these,..are they about 1917-1921? what kinda condition? are the rims and separate irons there? Be very interested in these if I could see them.<P>RS

Looks like a set of Large Chrysler (about 32-34) lights,..do you have the v-shaped lenses? I understand they are harder to find than the lights themselves.<P>RS

In Auburns, model, body style and completeness are key factors to a value. Even the Beautiful sedans don't come up to the value of the rarer body styles, such as the boattail and speedster styles. <P>RS

OK,..I must be imagining things,...that's always possible.<P>rs<BR>

Is it my imagination, or have a few postings dissolved? I seem to recall one about Oaklands, and the order seems disarranged,..was there a crash?<P>rs

Just goes to show, the world would rather be Peerless than Beerless.<BR>RS

What is that 1908, again?<P>RS

The first V-8's, PLURAL were DeDion Bouton AND Marmon, in 1905,.. both were air-cooled pair-cast blocks mounted on the same crank. By 1915, nearly everyone had designed either 8's or 12's to put in their cars. Even Willy's Knight had a V-8 in 1917-1918,...I'd look this up before stating that it was Chevy, Cadillac or any car in the mid-teens who developed the 8. And let's not forget, Ball Bearings were around as far back as 1906, but only one car used them,..the Maytag!<P> If one wants to be technically accurate, the first monoblock v-8 was developed by Northway in 1912,...but it was never used,...Pierce-Arrow, Cole, and King used a block that separated down the middle, which was, for a time, the ONLY successful method which did not use too much oil. Northway made the Cole and later, the Cadillac V-8's.<BR>Cole came out with it's V-8 late in 1915, and it failed to be first due to the fact it was the first to use an aluminum alloy piston, they were forced to delay the release of the motor due to the fact they had been trying to use an all-aluminum piston, and it would seize up in the motor as it was being driven, due to the differences in iron and aluminum heat expansion. If you want to inquire as to whether the Cole was a dependable engine,..ask Buck Kamphausen about<BR>how his 1919 Cole ran in the Great Race a few years back,...he came in third,...and I don't believe they had any problems to speak of. By the way,..in the old days, Pike's Peak was run with the car locked in high gear, and Cole V-8's won in 1915- 1916- and 1918. If you want to see complex, I have a 1918 sales flyer for the Willy's Knight V-8, with the sleeve-valve engine,....it was being designed in 1914. Now,...should we talk about the first V-8's,...or the ones who were successful?<P><BR>RS<P>[This message has been edited by IndianaCarGuy (edited 01-17-2001).]<P>[This message has been edited by IndianaCarGuy (edited 01-17-2001).]<p>[This message has been edited by IndianaCarGuy (edited 01-17-2001).]

Given enough time, and in excellent condition, anything can attain value. If you are willing to lock it up in a hermetic trailer and wait 30 years,....who knows?<P>I know where there is a car from 1913, in pieces, that will bring only $3,000 dollars.<P>RS

You got them all right, but it was in this order, Peerless, Pierce-Arrow and then Packard. Peerless fell because it would not change, Pierce devolved because of the depression and it's failure to keep up with design and business, and Packard survived, at least for a time, because it swallowed it's pride and settled for a larger share of the market and a lesser product. It did, however, prove throughout the war, that it could and did turn out quality AND volume with the best of them. I am afraid we have lost a lot of the mentality that made great cars. Companies today don't take chances and design something beyond, or with the thought of creating something new,..they devise, interpret and puke out a market scheme,... or "sell" trends. Granted, there was at one time a few major corporations, and a world of "fringe" and idealist producers, who fell the way of the Dodo..... Take a close look at what is valuable today,...for the most part, it is from those dreamers and people who bucked both the system and trends, or latched onto ideas that had not been fully realized. Duesenbergs just wanted to race and build a great product, the Stanley's liked building and driving, Walter P. Chrysler was a tinkerer, he tinkered with machines until they worked, and then did the same with a company,...Even Henry Ford,... How many people in his time wanted to see EVERYONE in a car? We are living in a world of innovation and change,...and yet,....where are the individuals who can set out to change the world, and do it? They exist,..and they are here,..but how many times will we ignore them until long after they are gone? <P>I think we had progress for so long, that we no longer understand the concept of creativity. Make the same thing better, cheaper, faster and more profitable. I look around today, at the numbers of people who can't even work on their own cars, like myself, and I wonder where we are headed. I don't know,..but I want to think that there will be enough people to take over working on these cars, and keeping them going in the future, but I wonder, where are they coming from?<P>RS<P><BR>

I had a friend who called his Apperson Jackrabbit "Jack" We used to have a 1919 Cole Limousine we called "Mr. Cole" I called my Isuzu "Little Gray" and my Town Car is now referred to as "Big Gray." Currently looking for a brass era car, preferably a tourer, and if it has the kind of class and size I hope it will,..I will most likely name it "Dolly" because it will be nice to have her back where she belongs. Oh,..Nearly forgot "Clyde" a 1928 Marmon in formal black that looked like something gansters would have loved.<P>RS<BR>

I hope you named it "Godzilla"<P>RS