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My point was that as good as ebay is, it's a lot harder to swindle someone in person; therefore, it can supplement but never completely replace the traditional flea markets.
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Awhile ago someone on the Forum wondered if online sales/auctions would one day replace Hershey and other swap meets. No way. Why not? Well, in a word...NIGERIA (et al)!!
Anybody here ever just barely escape some form or other of those infamous online scams??
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Not a "shop" accident but it's the kind of thing that happens in shops:
It was 2 weeks before the wedding, and Mom drove out to Dad's farm to pick him up for some appointment or other. Dad was running late and he just had a bit of field work to complete before it got dark. In a hurry, Dad cranked the old Case leaving the spark in the "run" position. You know the rest of the story.
One of the wedding photos shows Mom "twisting" Dad's arm, in its cast from wrist to shoulder. She'd pretty well tired of the jokes by then but went along with the photographer one more time.
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OK; what have you folks done out in the shop or garage that makes you look or feel like the world's biggest idiot afterward? The kind of thing that makes you want to cry when it happens but that you and/or your buddies can laugh at a decade or two later, down at the local coffee dive?
A buddy of mine was having a hard time with a part not fitting; he tried everything but no go so he suddenly sat up and hurled it with about 6Gs of force at a steel workbench. He watched it bounce up and take out his rare, vintage, perfect, working Pepsi clock, hitting it dead center. He'd just turned down $350 for it a few weeks before.
Anybody else??
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It seems that for trucks, the Commonwealth could issue a separate antique truck plate that would allow it limited function/usage as originally intended by the manufacturer. After all, cars can legally transport passengers, which was their intended use. Antique plates should not, however, be primarily used to avoid higher license fees on a vehicle that has all the qualities of an everyday driver.
Maybe an "Antique Commercial" plate????
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In NY, you have to go through Albany for historic registrations. Seems to me that the wait, 20 years ago, was about 3-4 months while they "research" the VIN to make sure it's not stolen. No real problem there, and they didn't require a photo, just a rubbing of the VIN. It may be different now.
I finally figured out how to make the local DMV system work for me: I go in 15 minutes before closing and I have a 15 minute wait, max. Amazing how all of a sudden every window is open and how not every T must be crossed and every I dotted on the myriad forms.
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I always answer these thieves by sending a stock reply thanking them for their interest (in stealing from me, but I don't write that) and stating that I will accept ONLY payments IN FULL and TO THE EXACT AMOUNT in NONNEGOTIABLE and IRREVOCABLE US legal tender before any item will be shipped or allowed to be picked up. That always ends it.
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You said it. Every time I post an online ad, I get at least one of these attempted thefts in response. They usually: a. write very poor English; b. have no idea of what I'm actually selling; c. also have no idea how well-known these scams have become. However, some of them must be paying off somehow or they wouldn't keep coming.
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Dave, regarding authenticity, I have to wonder if a show car that logs about 100 yards total driving in a year can even be called "authentic" no matter how correct its pristine "factory"
condition?? I think that any car, original or rod, that is out on the road is a car in J.Q. Public's mind, whereas a pampered T.Q. isn't even an automobile but an art object, as someone has already said.Maybe the judging standards should change, as you said. Maybe no deductions should be made for "reasonable road wear" such as some slight rust on the exhaust, dust on the top of the frame rails, or all-white tires with gray on the tread areas. Any dimbulb should be able to tell R.R.W. from poor restoration workmanship, non-factory parts, or "excessive" roadwear such as gobs of mud or rustout. Seems to me that keeping a regularly-driven (AUTHENTIC) vehicle in presentable condition is a challenge worthy of recognition. I know that we already have the preservation award (a laudable state) but I don't think that many of these repeat winners get driven much, if at all.
Quite a gray area, to be sure. Take a production car that was driven off the showroom floor, say 40 years ago, and has been hermetically preserved since then, and compare it to its show-car "twin"--the authentic example wouldn't compare, with its factory flaws. Which of the two is better looking?? But which is more "authentic?"
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Hi Doc...fancy meeting you here. You have several good points, especially the Choc. entrance. I have been feeling this way ever since they changed the whole format several years ago. I well recognize the need for tight traffic control, and it would entail forming another patrol, but it would help keep the fence in one piece for the week.
As to locating like vendors together..sounds good, but how many vendors sell items for only one make? Model T and Model A parts often appear together, for example.
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Now that I have outgrown my single space in the White field, what do I do?? I tried to get this question answered when I was there, but the good folks manning the tents didn't seem to know and I was sent to the main Chocolate tent, back to the White tent, then one fellow there said I had to go back to the Chocolate tent and another said the Blue tent.
I've heard that I first have to give up my White space, something I can't see the point of doing, before being considered for a second space. Why would this be necessary??
I'd sure appreciate an authoritative answer from one of the good Hershey region officials.
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HVS, I don't mean a run-of-the-mill magazine article aimed at the general public but rather scholarly reference works which reprint, summarize, or quote the factory sources. What about those?
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Last year someone asked if he could park his handicap scooter on my space while he walked around. I thought that maybe he had some condition in which he was able to walk for brief periods, but he was gone almost 4 hours.
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I am a strong advocate of seatbelts, even though a friend of mine would have died in a rollover had he been wearing his. Returning home for the weekend late one night while a student at Penn State, he fell asleep and went off the right side of PA Rt. 153, rolling over and coming to rest upside down atop a large tree stump which had crushed the driver's compartment. Had he not been thrown to the passenger side during the crash he'd have been crushed along with it.
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OK; how about factory information reprinted in a secondary source, i.e. serial numbers lists, records of production/changes, etc.?
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If factory documentation is unavailable (due to the age of the car, not because the equipment isn't truly correct) are published secondary sources allowable? Or is it up to the individual chief judge?
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Since license plates are required to legally drive a car (they're a pair of original 1914 plates), does the AACA deduct points for having them along with period brackets if none were on the car originally? Removing the front bracket would require removing the radiator; something I'd rather not have as part of the "show detailing" procedure the night before.
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Here's one for you. My college student loan was sold a couple of times; no real problem there. But a month after I made the last payment and got my "Congratulations; you paid it off" letter, the outfit that bought and then resold my loan wrote, telling me that they had made an error when they sold it 2 years before and wrongly credited the co. that bought it with an extra payment, so would I please "return" the funds that the other guys kept?
In the real world, which I borrowed the funds to prepare me for, I have to cover my own mistakes, not ask my customers to do so 2 years after I make them.
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I've done this myself, including giving talks on the Model T and early American motoring in general. I'm glad to see you're thinking about it, but let me tell you: stop thinking about it and DO IT. NOW. These folks won't be around much longer, and believe me, as much as they will enjoy it, YOU will be a major beneficiary of the experience!!!!
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Dave, you could be right, but here's a quote from that text:
"(the Great Lakes) contain the best preserved shipwrecks in the world!"
"That is a powerful, world-renowned claim, not to be taken lightly. A letter...received in 1988 from a marine museum curator in Fremantle, Western Australia, contained the statement: 'I have, of course, heard about your amazingly well-preserved [Great Lakes] shipwrecks..." People in the rest of the world are aware that the 'submerged cultural resources' in the Great Lakes are definitely unique."
While the more fragile components are certainly long gone, I'd bet that more than one would expect could be salvaged. Who knows??
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That could have been the railroad ferry "Milwaukee" which went down with all hands (crew of 52) only a few days before the "Senator" sinking. Its cargo consisted of railroad cars, one of which contained a shipment of autos. The "Milwaukee" wreck was discovered in 1972.
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I recently read in a book about the Great Lakes that on Halloween of 1929, in a Lake Michigan fog, about 20 miles northeast of Port Washington, WI, the 410' steamer "Senator" sank after a collision with another ship. It carried 240 Nash automobiles at the time. The wreck as of 5 years ago has not been found.
Who's gonna find it and post some photos of that cargo? I don't know WI law but the wreck may be considered an "underwater historic site" and the recovery of any items would then be illegal "in the interest of preserving history."
Seems to me that the best way to "preserve history" would be to recover and restore those cars, but that's only my opinion. I will freely acknowledge, however, that since 7 lives were lost in the sinking there may be other considerations.
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Fees and gratuities are paid for services rendered. How is it a service to me to jack every last nickle out of my pocket, if possible??
I will never attend an auction that requires me to pay for services rendered to someone else. Period.
Buying a Canadian car--help!
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My dad finally took the plunge 22 years after watching me have all the fun. He's arranged to buy an unrestored original Model T from a fellow in Canada about 3 hours from where he lives. Can someone who's been there & done that give Dad some advice, legal-wise and paper-work-wise, about buying the car, bringing it over the border to the US, and then registering it here? The car has a good, current title. Thanks in advance.