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    Early Milwaukee Wisconsin Racing Photos

    in General Discussion

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    Wonder what the Model T Ford guys were using? ...........Was gonna wait with this one..but it seem approiate to show you this now. Ask the driver of this car........looks crabby though.....the teaser is the car to the right of the T I got better pics. of that coming. Notice the T has "Unibald Notread" tires and the car on the right has those cover tires with the steel buttons on them...HMMM..... Also the T is a 1913 or early 1914 right? Radiator is still shiny,must be new!!

    Early Milwaukee Wisconsin Racing Photos

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    I seem to have a better quality photo than you guys,I can only send a 100kilo- bit to you and mine is 249 kilobit. The Banner hanging in back reads.... top row reads HEADQUARTERS .Then ??O MOTOR CARS... the first word is behind a man's Derby hat and I don't know if it is 3 or 4 letters before the o. The mechanics seem to be drilling through a short 2x4. notice the ball of twine? Looks like I'm fixing something!!( where is my Duct tape!!).Maybe there is some kind of front end suspension repair being attempted.( that is what the guy in front is peering at? ) See all the klunky tools on the bench? I always pitied those guys having to use those heavy wrenches.

    1912 Chevrolet model 790-4 number 64 King Braeger Co.

    in Chevrolet & GMC - General

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    Hi, I have always wondered "Where are the really old cars hiding?" I have a picture of a 1912 Chevrolet Model 790-4 with serial number 64. The photo is in "The Oldtime Automobile" book by John Bentley. the book is copyrighted 1951. On the hood of the car is painted that it has been driven 216,000 miles, on the door says it was built in 1912, and on the rear 1/4 panel it says it is Chevrolet number 64. Above the drivers seat, painted on the top is written King-Braeger Co. which is a old Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA Chevrolet Dealership.

    Standing next to the car is a Mr. C.J.Hylton the Milwaukee service manager for Chevrolet.

    I've been going to car shows in Wisconsin since the sixties and have never seen or heard of this car.Has anyone? I know the old cars are hiding in sheds of collectors for years. Since I believe this was a contemporary photo (1951),musta took almost 50 years to put over 200,000 on a car like that smile.gif but this must be the oldest Chevrolet left! Any thoughts? confused.gif

    Johns Manville Hubometer

    in Commercial (Ambulances, Police Cars, Firetrucks, etc.)

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    Hi was cromming around of late and came across a early truck frame/wagon. the left front wood spoke wheel with hard rubber tire had a Johns/Manville hub-o-meter built right into the hub. Rear axle is not chain driven. It is sad that the rubber tire buried in the mud are in like new condition and the wood spokes are rotted off, and what was exposed to the air is the opposite. Anyone know when hub-o-meters started?

    What where they and where are they now

    in General Discussion

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    While out scouting for cars, Early winter is the best for me. Marginal snow, no leaves,frozen ground,people usually home. On this hunting trip I came across a John Deere GP and since I am a product of the midfifties,the song GREEEEEEEN ACRESSSSS is the place for MEEEEE!!! went thru my head. Long story short it now sits in my shed. Been puttering around on the net got me noticing all the old cars on that show. I've seen that Mr. Haney's ( every swap meets vender's hero as well as mine smile.gif) truck has been labeled a TT but to many springs are on the back axle. Does anyone know where that John Deere or the Hoyt -Caldwell(Fordson), or the Stutz Bearcat that was Eb's college car,Mr. Haney's truck are located ? I'd call Sarah in Pixley but it is too cold to climb the telephone pole to make the call...........Brad in the Wilds of Wisconsin

    1926 Chevy car or truck frame and front axle wanted

    in HCCA General Discussion

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    Fellow rustaholics A lil story first... A billion years ago when I was young and stupid ( now I'm just old and stupid <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />), A friend and I found a 1926 Chevy depression tractor/doodle bug / jump buggy/Whatever.... We ripped it apart and remembered how to reassemble it back into a running moving death trap!!! It had a 26 Chevy truck running gear and 2-4 spd. truck trannys bolted to a TT ruxtell rearend. The cool part was trannys in reverse,reverse the buggy went forward. it could pull like wild,you could shift it 4 times going backwards it was short, narrow ,almost unstoppable, quiet, IE, a ton of fun. Since I lived next to thousands of acres of state owned land that was full of old trails and such we had a great time. The state put up no motor vechile signs years later. But the bad part was it had only the TT truck axle brakes and since it would still go fast in 4th /4th High range , it was gonna get us sooner or later. Since God looks out for fools and drunks and drunk/fools,He made the rod bearings start to rattle and we dissambled the engine to sand the caps as we did originally. (I know that is wrong now) Anywho my buds Pa got in a Junking mood and scrapped our frame,and front axle. My friend now 25 years later has sold me the remains of the freakazoid and I've decided to reassemble it IE can afford to have new rods and mains poured. and since I'm almost 50, I'll drive a little more sensibile. maybe. LONG story short loo [color:"red"] king for a frame and front axle from a 26 Chev car or truck. Tanks for listening to my ramble hope you can help me out.

    Wisconsin license plate question

    in General Discussion

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    I was wondering if anyone would know much about Wisconsin license plates. Years ago I had a set of original 1930 Wisc. plates the were tan and black and started with the letter C. I bought these locally from original owner.I sold these along with the car (1930 Chevrolet 2 door coach)to a man in Oshkosh,Always wondered what happened to it) Now years later I bought another 1930 car ,and in the search for another set of plates I came across a set of which are gray and black letter/numerals starting with the letter D. Talking around to friends,one tells me the C stands for autos and A stands for trucks.....What does D stand for?

    Flushing a T motor

    in General Discussion

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    crazy.gif I recently bought a 26 Tudor that hasn't been run for at least 25 years,(ran good when parked) Yeah right!. It is loose and a slight bit of Compression. Was thinking of flushing it some with diesel, spinning it with the crank, draining and repeating. Then dropping pan and cleaning out oil tube and seeing if I can get some smoke out of it....Any thoughts on this? Thanks

    Not another T!!!!!

    in Model T (and older)

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    I wasn't gonna do this but,,,,,,,,,It looks so forlorn sitting in the barn lots of racoon poop four flats, filty, Pretty beat up, But when I saw painted on the side ,a three on the tree,a fifth under the seat,I had ta buy it. (1926 Tudor) loose looks like a parade rig to me!! Will haul it home soon if it don't snow then I send some pics. My wife said that "another T" how many old cars are you gonna get!Well, I replied, the barn aint full yet. Going tomorrow to look at a Oil/Pull tractor. I never had one of them so at least she can't say ,,,Another Oil/Pull...........Having a good weekend in Wisconsin <img src="/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" /> [color:"green"]

    My Mother the Car..... MMMAAAaa!!!!! where are you?????

    in General Discussion

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    O-kay I know it is dopey ......But when I was a kid it and the cars that Avery Schreiber drove in the show where about the only old cars a kid saw on TV. The question is ,,,what happen to it? What was it really?I think it had Model A wheels on it... Hey why where at it,,,Where is Fred MacMurry's Model T, Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang ,Jack Benny's Maxwell Fred Munster's Funeral car I remember the episode when Lilly goes to a carlot and has the man there combine a dragster and a funeralcoach into it.confused.gif [color:\\"red\\"]

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