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Wes: your car was on the early 110 inch wheelbase frame and so you need any body suitable for 110. The change to 114 wheelbase was slowly introduced at different serial numbers for different body styles, generally between 95489 and 110000 or so. Any body will fit your frame. This is a terrible situation as these early cars are so rare and desireable. If you want to send the particulars of this theft to me, the editor of the magazine, please go to the Dodge Bros website and do so. I will publish this horror. There can't be too many people with these early cars so maybe we can capture this thief (unless it's for a hot rod!).
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...but doesn't this class have a sliding "25 years and older" provision as well? Meaning today's lost antiques will be tomorrow's 25-year old "antique hot rods?" Actually I must confess ignorance of first-hand knowledge of this class as all Ihave heard are frantic and hysterical cries from our own club members and others I know. Also, by the way, is anyone aware of VMCCA's attempt at this about five years ago and (so I am told) the near destruction of that club as a result?
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You all seem to be taking this new "hot rod" class so lightly. Don't you see that by adding this class you now have condemned yet thousands more surviving antique autos to meet their end and become hot rods? Up till now, just about the only arguement that any of us had who have been trying to slow down this horrendous carnage was that the major clubs, who were dedicated to PRESERVATION did not condone this practice. Now that last arguement is taken away from us. Exactly how do you folks recommend any of us approach our pleas to preserve these cars. The fact is, any "hot rod" constructed today is not and never will be an historic artifact. It is a facsimilie of a unique practice dating from the 1940s and 50s. Hot rodders today are simply removing precious American antiques forever from the surviving pool. I understand that the antique grammophone club, encouraged by the AACA action, now sanctions the removal of the original wind-up motors and installation of CD players inside. They will get more younger members that way, and the music sounds oh-so much better. Also antique dealers across the country are chopping up Chippendale hutches to make them into entertainment centers.
-----Editor, Dodge Brothers Club News
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That link is to Andy Burnbaum, f.y.i.
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What is yours? Staff car (touring or roadster, winter top or not) Light reprair truck, 1/2 ton truck?
I have an open touring staff car, military number on frame. There are two or three presumably authentic of these known, several others have been made up to be military. Also possible that many 1918 cars in the hands of collectors today were war surplus military issue with that history being long forgotten. The difference is impossible to tell short of the number on frame as they all were standard production. A little grease and paint and that number is hidden. Also, many were never numbered before the war ended.
There are three to five light repairs known to exist and possibly a few 1/2 ton trucks. Have you seen the ones in the series that ran in the magazine? Problem with many of these is that they are in the hands of people who don't seem to care for them but won't sell at reasonable prices. They can't distinguish between "rare" and "valuable."
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Are your intentions to hot rod it or keep it stock?
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These used a Kingston vacuum tank. Our tech advisor Harry R says they are wonderful. I suggest you advertise in the Flea Market of club magazine and ought to find a vacuum tank easy enough. I have had various Victory Sixes (year earlier than DA) that previous owners tried substituting electric pumps. Most always trouble. Go back to original, rebuild it nicely, and you will be happy. Does the owners manual show this tank? Romar sells a repro manual and repro parts book for the DA, probably worth the price just for the pix.
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About 16 months ago I went to a local parts supply (NAPA I think) and he brought out a box of springs, all categorized by "inch-ounces". These suited my 10846 North East 6-cyl distributor weights. I took two rated at 22 oz and things are working fine. Try doing this locally and see what happens.
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Do you have the original engine, axles, etc? Your selling price would make it tempting to return this car to original?
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I'll jump in with the 28-29 Dodge Bros Victory Six guy. I have two I use as daily drivers in all but winter weather. One a coupe, one a sedan, both snatched from hot rodders before they could do their magic. Both cars are fully stock except points plates that allow use of modern points instead of the North East and new (nonNorth East) coils hidden behind the dash so no one's to know. The vacuum tanks are terriffic and let no one tell you to substitute an electric fuel pump. These will never duplicate the gravity feed from the vacuum tank, for which your carburetor is designed. Between the two Dodges, I am on the road at least twice a week with them. This is out in the country, 50-55 mph, 15 miles typical trip. Dodges such as these toured with the Dodge Bros club this summer in 101 F heat. The owners over heated, the cars kept going. It's nice that the guy who wants to put a Pinto engine in these cars is confessing to the world his inability to rebuild and maintain a pre 1930s engine. These cars crossed the continent in 1928, Arizona hot to Buffalo snow, why should they not do so now?
There are many of us driving pre 30s daily. I suspect no so many are members of AACA.
How do we make this thing work?
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To Buicksplus (and also the guy on another thread commenting on no 55 year olds):
I am an on-and-off member of VMCCA, also AACA, and occassionally HCCA. I am in my 50s, own six "pre-depression" cars, non classic, and drive them regularly, weather permitting. I have one more awaiting restoration, which I do for the most part, by myself. I am attracted to these cars, not out of nostalgia, which was the case for the previous generation, but out of appreication of them as historical artifacts--antiques. I avoid meets predominantly filled with 60s and 70s cars, because the owners and I have little in common to discuss. I despise the practice of hot rodding and those who do so. I finally said my last "goodby" to VMCCA when you tried to instigate that hot rod classification about five years ago.
Having said this as a way of introduction, I would love to find a national, all-marque club that catered to my interests. By that I mean held shows like the former Hale Farm show in Ohio, held swap meets that presented a reasonable chance of locating pre-war and especially pre1929 parts (like Chickasha), had a leadership that did not assume that anyone interested in prewar cars had to be over 70 years old (which is an absoulte misconception) had a regular magazine that provided me with help and encouragement in restoring, repairing and maintaining cars of my era, and held tours of cars of the age of mine so that the basic driving rhythms would all be compatible.
VMCCA provides the latter, to some extent, nationally. None locally for me. But mostly I am describing VMCCA and AACA of the 1960s. There are thousands of us out here, now not terribly loyal to any national club, because none is worth the price of membership. I have so wished for a national prewar club, and so long hoped that eventually VMCCA would give up being a "me too AACA" and find a special niche that would be of use for me.
I know it will never happen.
Oh well. Maybe I helped answer your questions about lack of interest in your website forum, questions going way back to the "tap, tap, tap..." posting.