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You don’t have a 1 3/8........... 1 5/16 is later series Packard. I have half a dozen in the cabinet in Indian Orchard.

The Stearns is on the back burner for a few more weeks........somebody left me a 851 SC Speedster to play with for a month. Nothing wrong with it. He just wants me to make a list of things that need attention or improvement.......so I get to put five hundred miles on it and don’t even need to turn a wrench........that what I call a bargain! I also recently pulled out a Jolly out of a garage on Palm Beach..........underpowered little golf cart..........still in the original owners hands...........I had more people ask me if it was for sale while driving it than you can shake a stick at..........and it’s rather ironic that a Fiat Jolly will bring more money than 85 percent of the Pierce Arrows that are on the road.......go figure.

I guess I would ask for photos and info of someone who has an identical Buick. It’s gonna be faster and easier to just buy one off the shelf from the rebuilders........most of them are six months out or longer on service. Since you need the most common magneto in the world...........it’s really just a matter of writing the check. Working used units may appear as a good value.......but unrestored units often develop condenser issues when they get hot for the first time in fifty years. Since most units are well over 80 years old........the true value is buying one rebuilt already and concentrate on other parts of the car. Rudy at Rebuiltmags.com has a fast turn around service for 45 dollars more. He overhauled my bad DU4 and got it back to me in less than 12 days. I requested he NOT do a cosmetic restoration because my car was a preservation class vehicle. Worked out great. He has a nice web page. The other two guys in the northeast also have excellent reputations.......Maine and Connecticut shops. I used Rudy because I was in a hurry. Give Rudy a call.....he probably has a good core on the shelf available for sale.

AHa.......you should buy a car because you like it. Not because it’s a good deal. Buy a 80 year old car that just finished a 1000 mile tour, and start it up the next day.......it may need an engine, clutch, or anything under the sun. It’s part of the hobby. After fifty years of hard lessons...........you get very discriminating with your purchases. I’m too old to restore cars now.........so I only grab stuff that I can live with condition wise. Mechanical work doesn’t bother me............a V-12 engine job is just an inconvenience.....and the time is always worse than the cost. More and more, I am only interested in windshield time..........shows do nothing for me now.

How many do you want?

One way to enjoy the hobby at little to no cost........get your buddy to buy a cool car and leave it with you to sort out, No capital expenditures, and you get the enjoyment of ownership and use.......just keep telling him it has a “few small issues” so you can keep it ten times longer than anticipated.......just like a restoration shop. Works for me! 😏

The car hobby is the same as playing the slots............one in a million get lucky, the rest are dumping cash for entertainment with no expectations of a return. Nothing wrong with going upside down in a car....as long as you realize it. People spend money on golf, 2500 dollar bottles of wine, hotels that are 3000 a night. And they don’t expect anything but the enjoyment and experience...........why should a car be different? Being careful of your “in and out” cost on a car is a reasonable concern. Most any car that is properly serviced and maintained will hold it’s value in some reasonable way.

It’s about ten times over the number...........it might make 50k. Maybe. Without dating from England, it’s a 35k car.

You need to look at the points to determine rotation, and it’s easily reversed.

Too small to be Cadillac, or Buick. It could be Stude, Chandler, Oakland.......one of the “off” brands. Looks to be around 1922-1924.

Funny how someone taking shop class...........ends up as a very successful engineer. Pattern making, forge class, wood shop, metal shop, construction methods......... common high school classes back in the day. Today’s educational system says no shop class, no working with your hands, get a four year degree in basket weaving. 98 percent of the people with a four, five, or seven year degree are so helpless they can’t change a tire on their VW, and they making 17.50 an hour. Meanwhile, plumbers are billing at 150 an hour. The guy who pumps my septic tank is making six figures as an employee. My nephew graduated law school with 285k in debt. He’s working his ass off full time for seven years and still drives a twenty year old car and lives in an apartment. Real work is rewarding, pays well, and is ten times more satisfying than any code or programming. My high school did away 100 percent with the trades by 1990. No shop, no home economics, and the kids today are all helpless. Things are about to come full circle. Only difference is after high school, people are going to pay for the trade schools.........It also wouldn’t hurt to teach kids to get their ass out of bed before six AM. PS- most of the young engineers I know don’t have twenty percent of the talent or five percent of the experience that Gary has.........

The term is master craftsman. Casting and pattern making is a long lost art now. Not more than fifty years ago, it was taught in high school.

Gary.......I’m guessing it’s too cold to drive the Indy car today? 😏 The grill looks great. Triaxial ellipsoid........and I thought covid gave me a bad headache!

The more things change......the more they stay the same.......

F head engine.........in 1919.........they were a bad idea in 1912.

Don’t make me call your wife and tell her you bought another car............😏

George.......good call. Rayfield it is! Terry was fast on the Google book search......three thumbs up Terry!👍👍👍

Shit......I thought it was my charming good looks and wonderful personality! 😝

This one is for Jon/Carbking..........ID that carb please! 👍

If you want your car to have more curb appeal, just have me sit in it. 😎

My boy Josh N has Nova Scotia covered for me........he has hit the jackpot a few times..........being an undertaker........he gets his foot in the garage door while their still warm..........we call him Digger!

Kenworthy power plant, eight..........thoughts?

All right, let’s add to the legendary cars from 1919-1921 that no one has any information on........ Tossing down the gauntlet.......Kenworthy.........4,6, and 8. Big car, interesting coachwork, unusual power plants. What does anyone have on them. They built about 200 of them, and two survive. Thoughts? Photos? Ed. Not to be mistaken for a Henway!

Ontario, Canada. Near Toronto.