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Grimy

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  1. And speaking of Prohibition, in his single days my father used to buy bootleg liquor from Trader Vic Bergeron of later restaurant fame. Trader Vic had an early tiki-style restaurant, then called Hinky Dink's, at 62nd and San Pablo in Oakland, CA and sold his bootleg (which financed his expansion into the tiki-style Trader Vic's) from a 2-pump gas station across the street. My father was then a scoutmaster and once was stopped by a cop for overloading his Model A Ford coupe (with overload rear spring) for too many kids in the rumble seat obscuring the two cases of booze--which the cop didn't find.
  2. Here's the gallery of photos for this car, which I sold in early 2016. The new owner passed away within two years and left it to the Pierce-Arrow Museum at Gilmore. I hated to sell this car which we called "Percy Pierce" and my lady friend still hasn't forgiven me, but the sale was necessary to acquire my 1918 Pierce 48-B-5 touring that I had been chasing since 1998. The Museum brought the car to the 2019 PAS Annual Meet at Angola, Indiana, and we were allowed to drive it during the three days of touring.
  3. My 1925 Pierce 80 coupe (photos later) had such a compartment. The literature called it a parcel compartment; I called it a Prohibition compartment....
  4. Flapping your jaws doesn't seem to tire you, my friend!
  5. I agree with 55. As the owner of three Pierce-Arrow 8s, I'm aghast at the 83 specified in Keiser's chart for those engines. I torque my iron heads to 55-58 max.
  6. The butterflies also share the same shaft which keeps them aligned together. However, you should ensure that both butterflies are oriented in same direction (but may have identical leading and trailing edges--I don't know this carb). The mounting screws have a wee bit of wiggle room to allow for very small adjustment, but I'd remove carb to deal with them lest we drop a screw into the intake manifold and one of its runners.
  7. A light oil, either aerosol or squeeze bottle. I use an enzyme-based cleaner called Oil-Eater to remove grease and oil without damaging painted surfaces. Follow with a water soaked cloth to remove the film.
  8. Fast idle can be an indication of a major vacuum leak. I suggest you disconnect and cap the vacuum line that feeds the wiper motor(s) and see if the idle speed changes--if it does, you have a leak in the wipers themselves or their downstream lines. Then, remove the cap and attach a vacuum gauge to the wiper feed and tell us what the reading is. Misalignment of the throttle plates as @Oldtech says is a possibility: look directly down the throat (engine off) and work the throttle by hand, noting whether they snap fully closed when you let go of the linkage. How's the throttle return spring? Have you sprayed carb cleaner around the intake manifold runners?
  9. Thank you, had a good Christmas but my sciatica is flaring up. We appreciate your tenacity and rescuing a very rare and special car. When you can, please add photos of the car. May we all "Keep on keeping on" in the New Year! Best regards, George
  10. Per https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ that 22 cents is today $4.02. So you're saving money!
  11. You could write smaller, Bernie.... 🙂 I see you've succumbed to the "as long as it's open" temptation....
  12. F-r-i-c-t-i-o-n is Ed's specialty! 🙂
  13. But you asked a question....and I answered it!
  14. Or a porcupine and a BMW... On porcupines and cacti, the pr*cks are on the outside!
  15. My 1930 Pierce 8 has two coils, two condensers, and a 4-lobe cam (Delco 668-E distributor), and my 1934 and 1936 Pierces use 662-Js with one coil but two sets of points, one condenser, also 4-lobe cams. Some 20 years ago I found on ePay a Bear (made by Echlin) mechanical synchronizer set with 12 different degree discs and a test light. It has been awhile now, but I synch points with the dist head in the vise and use a 6V lantern battery to power the test light. I have the instructions on a pdf which I can't post here if anyone is interested (if so, pm me your email address). The chart showing which disc to use for which engine ends with 1934 applications.
  16. Reproduction sandwich-style head gaskets with plastic rather than asbestos centers require at least five re-torques, in my experience, before all the potential "squish" is taken up. When available, I'm happy to pay the extra money for NOS asbestos-center gaskets which generally only require one or perhaps two re-torques.
  17. Ouch!!! Good ol' wood-framed bodies don't afford much crash protection....
  18. My primary DD is a (late, with OBD-2) 1995 Mazda B-2300 4-cyl, 5 spd pickup, purchased 18 years ago with under 11k miles (paper bar code assembly line tags still on brake lines and diff) from an estate, now close to 100k miles. Only problem has been the fuel filler hose to tank which is apparently not available in ethanol-resistant form and thus needs replacing every 6 yrs for smog tests. My tow vehicle is a 1999 (purchased new May '98) F-350 DRW 7.3 diesel with 192k now, almost 150k of which has been towing. Still on original 4R100 trans likely due to Mag-Hytec deep pan and frequent changes. Magnificently dependable vehicle....
  19. @30DodgePanel I *think* the McFarland meet is a re-creation of the Bakersfield pre-war only swap meet, but don't know for sure as I haven't signed up to be a vendor.
  20. Yes. At Tulare we shared space with a "regular" swapmeet and, I believe, a tractor-oriented swap, but we (pre-war folks) were given our own corner of the grounds so that we could search away without tripping over mag wheels, SBC stuff, and racks of T-shirts and other stuff. I'm really not dissing the newer stuff, but am pointing out that it was far more efficient for pre-war folks to have their desired goods concentrated in one area rather than scattered throughout the large area.
  21. The old Bakersfield swap meet moved to Tulare Ag Center for 2021 and 2022. In 2023 it was to have been at the Tulare County Fairgrounds but was canceled because the Fairgrounds were being used as a flood evacuation area. In 2024 the swap will be May 3-4 at Famoso dragstrip, McFarland CA Hwy 46 E of 99. See the HCCA website for more info.
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