alsancle

I love it but the pictures stink. Is that paint awsome or not? Can't tell. At least I can read the license plate so I know where steal it from.

The only downside to Pierce Arrow is the club initiation ceremony makes the one in Animal House look tame.

Silly Americans! I took it to mean she was getting out of the car to attend an event. That car was as expensive as a smaller mansion level house in the US in 1929 and much more than a Model J.

If you can get an exact brand new replacement I vote that. If it is only a reasonable facsimile, then you can try these guys: https://www.gastankrenu.com/ I need to confirm it is the one that I have been using for the last 20 years. I've had 3 or 4 tanks done. The only downside is that if you are going for a Pebble level chassis restoration, you are going to have a lot of sanding and filling to do as the coating leaves a rough finish. This is not an issue for most people.

That would be United States as it is from a US Newspaper.

https://reoroyaleforum.net/thread/26/factory-production-numbers

You are right. I figured it was gonna be 250-300k to bolt a car on to the back of it. It found its way to a worthy place so hopefully we see it in action soon.

In that era I like the 3 window over the convertible Mopar. The only exception would be the Wayfarer Roadster later on. A 41 New Yorker business coupe has been on my list for years.

The thing I regret selling most is not an entire car. In fact it is just a small part of a car, but since there are only 5 or 6 known ones in the world I doubt I'm getting another. What do you do when you have a friend that is really bugging you for something that you don't want to sell, but you know you are years away from doing anything constructive with it? This is my original Stutz supercharger. It was bought from a junk yard in Chicago in 1938 and placed in a wooden shipping box in 1940 which is how it came to me. Along with lots of paper work from the original sales invoice to letters back and forth with what was left of Stutz discussing the blowers.

Did that Green Davis that was up for auction ever sell? I was going to bid on it and Ed yelled at me.

Did you see this one? 29 Packard. Dude calls it a roadster but we know otherwise. Price and colors will hold it back, but it tells you something about the market. Car would probably find a home around 35-40k. https://www.ebay.com/itm/164843913584

I forgot for a second, but I owned this one too. One of 31 428CJ Four speeds built in 1969. It was identical to my Shelby in every way except it was a Cougar. Color, options, engine, transmission, rear end, etc. Well, that and it was a HUGE project. Guy I sold it to restored it beautifully himself. No regrets. I would have had 200k in it.

The GTE was pretty special as it is the only Ford road car to get the 427 Side Oiler. Most people don't know what it is. They only made 357 total cars so they are hard to come by. The block and heads went in the trunk when the car was sold and I got 37k for it like that. http://home.townisp.com/~alsancle/GTE.html

We have a thread way back on selling your first car. I was happy to see mine go. This is different and came to me when John Bloom asked if I regretted selling one of my mustangs. I told him I didn't, because I could go by the same exact car if wanted to spend the money on it. Sometimes you can't buy something back because there was only one or few, or it has become too expensive over the years. I've has a bunch of different cars over the years, some pretty nice, others not so much. I had to think hard and this is the only one I have a tinge of regret over. Mostly because you never see them for sale, ever, and if you do hold on to your wallet. My 68 Cougar 427 GTE. Original paint, zero rust, and a 2 inch pile of documentation going back to the day it was new. The original engine was taken years before to power a Cobra POS replica. I had found the correct block (all were cast on the same day for all the cars) and an original set of unobtainium heads. I accumulated all the other parts. It still had its VIN stamped special C6 transmission. I sold it for 3 reasons: 1. I needed some money (but not that bad). 2. It was an automatic. 3. It bugged me that the original motor was gone. In retrospect, I should have kept it.

Compound carburation is cool. You will see 10 Caddys for every Classic Buick or Packard.

The only stuff I regret selling is the stuff that is impossible to buy back. It would cost a bit more, but you can always find a mint Mustang. I remember prices very clearly when I was a kid. I can tell you that 1500-2000 would buy you a mint GTO with the scrub cars trading in the 600-900 dollar range. I'm sure the collector grade stuff was more, but 1k bucks was a lot of money in the late 70s early 80s.

My blue one was originally a California car and it has the nicest floorpans and trunk this Massachusetts boy had ever seen. I think I had over 40k in to it and got 35k, this was 15 years ago.

Mine was a 70. 351C four speed but no shaker. Really nice nice car.