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Those horns appear to be Northeast. I think you will find a 1918 used a Klaxon 5 horn. It has a short inverted trumpet.

car or motorcycle?

I have some really good apple if you need. I can't split, may as well be used for something.

The early '15s didn't even have a slinger, just the felt which is just about useless.

Thanks for the explanation, Cutdown. That is pretty stylish. Our Javelin was an American Motors car, not real sporty.

What kind of wood do you use for the sleeve in the master cylinder?

Totally different. I would think you will have to make one. Should not be real hard if you can borrow one to copy.

Looks great in B&W.

Would you post the serial number, leave off the last 3. I can tell you exactly what year, maybe month it was built. Definitely an export car as US cars had distributors and left hand drive at that time. What name is on the mag cap?

Sure looks to me that you need to check the serial number and get the proper owner's manual. DB called them Books of Information. It will have answers to most of your questions. A reprint is available from AACA library. From what I see it isn't a '27, most likely a late '25. The serial number will tell, NOT the engine number.

The rear seal seems to give everyone a pain. That was probably DBs worst design flaw.

Looks like some of the pistons lost the fight. They seem to have a different compression ratio then the others.

You are going to have to translate to English. What is a pommy javelin Jupiter? I got the bonnet thing. I'm actually a little disappointed, thought the Chebby would be in primer by now.

How about an update on the Chebby? Or the club coffee car?

If you can not find what you are looking for McMaster Carr WILL find it even if they have to have it made. Ask to talk to an engineer and they will hook you up. I gave up on places like Fastenal years ago. We dealt with them at work because they were cheap. But they never had what we needed. My motto for Mc Carr is if they don't have it you don't need it.

Something I learned from John Parsons was the Delco shown and the 10,000 model Northeast distributor reversed polarity every time the engine was started. It took me a while to wrap my head around that. The condenser has two leads. The ignition switch only turns to the right 90 degrees at a time. Off start off start. It was done to make the points last longer. Look at a REAL wiring diagram for a late '16, '17' or early '18, it shows this.

My '18 Light Repair truck has an Eismann mag because they didn't have a battery or any other electrical system. I THINK all 1915 and early '16 US DBs had Eismann but the exports used a different brand. This picture adds some questions as they all do. It shows a one piece valve cover which only the earliest cars have. You can not put a one piece on an engine designed for a two piece valve cover so the engine is very early. But the earliest cars also have a pressure fuel system which this engine has a block off plate where the air pump should be and it has a vacuum tank. Always questions.

Are you a member of the Dodge Brothers Club? We have several people working on or owning those trucks.

Research Coachbuilt.com website and try the AACA library. Several cars used friction drive and they should have info on that.

What about a string and a vacuum cleaner? Sure hope you aren't working on the brakes.

The first edition Senior owner's manual we have says Stromberg TX 2 as has been said but another book says it has 1 1/4 venturi which John says did not exist. I'd go with the BB1 if it was me. Besides that will give us something to pick at on Ron's car.

I will be in that museum next Sat IF I can remember to look at a Ford. I was in that museum today with the Ford with dual white walls. I was disappointed, they are Coker repops. SO I still have yet to see a REAL dual white wall.

Not sure what you mean by your non comment. Boyertown Museum has been good to the DBC, we have a very good relationship. They did get hate mail for the 1933 date as ending the Brothers part of the name. I also know the " Doug" they refer to. The article Dan referred to was written by Hemmings. The Victory was the first car that the whole side was stamped as one piece, quite revolutionary and changed the whole industry.

It MAY have been the Kokomo, Ind. meet that he had the car to. Might be in someone's pictures. It was not the third Michigan meet or Texas.

Sorry I can't help. There are plenty of members that live in Florida. Any idea what area he went to?