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AJ.....your Stutz is currently parked in a Moon car dealership.......since I sold the building, indirectly you ARE directly contributing to a Moon dealership. 🤩

Call me......do NOT try and take it apart.

I NEVER sin against the Pierce Arrow gods............maybe Packard.

Not yet........but I'm sure they will recycle..........and the rest of my comments can't be posted here.............for someone with too much money and no taste.......It's a shame to cut up a rare restored car.

Ted Fosgate drove his car well over 300k miles. His license plate was CCCA. About three years ago, we were at the track in Connecticut and there was a small swap meet. His grandson cleaned out the garage twenty years after he died. We got all the stuff by accident...........most of it is now on other cars............I have a video of his car taken in 1955. George Holman was hitch hiking back in 1957 on Rt 2 in Central Mass and Ted picked him up in the car.

And I know which dealer found it in a barn...........🤐

Check out this thread.........

It’s not a Series 42..........

Orin, what am I going to do with you...........really.........post war. Tisk-tisk.

Actually it's not the car I was thinking of............so no, I have not seen it.

It will be some Pebble Beach special class winner with a story to match.

I actually need to update it and add some stuff.........🤔 Does that mean I can’t list Stearns Knight wrench?

What is a CV? The list of junk at the bottom?

Thats easy......with good tin and wood, we would have assembled all the missing pieces and tried to sell it as a project. A two door car that is a project will still sell at the right price. We recently parted out a very solid 1932 sedan. The body and fenders went to a family that had a car with bad wood and some rust........they are swapping bodies, and then selling their original. There are a lot of Pierce Arrow cars......well over 2500. Fact is half today are now probably parts or dead end projects. The supply of finished cars is large enough to keep the market saturated.......that goes ten times for Cadillac and Packard.......and also for Lincoln. Fellas.....there is NO SHORTAGE OF CARS, just a shortage of turn key cars.

I was on a tour with it......can't remember where, it was either in England, or at Amelia Island. Interest car and an honest unmolested original unlike so many others. Owner was a nice guy.

Carburetors anyone? Notice finished hardware correctly plated and read to go for rebuilds.......we usually do 5 carbs at a time, so we have tons of parts and hardware ready for an immediate turn around. Last count on Delco distributors is more than 80 of them....... There is probably 25k just in plated hardware in the cabinet........

You don't comprehend the scope of our inventory. We can deliver great bodies with good wood, great fenders, ect. Fact is, the car in the photos is 10 times worse than you think. When a running driver V-12 is a 50 k car...........the rusty pile of scrap has no value. We do save everything that we can sell, and after 35 years we know what is in demand, and what is not. Little things like brake shoes are saved.....not to sell, but to send out ahead of time so when doing a brake job we can disassemble and assemble in the same day. All hardware, fittings, special linkages, ext.....are all saves. Would you like to buy a Pierce V-12 engine? We have more than thirty of them on the shelf from 1932 to 1938. Probably have 75 wheels. forty transmissions. Fenders, doors, hoods, radiators, the list is endless.........."we got that" for Pierce Arrow.

Steve....no worries or complaints........todays world is a bit insane.........never say die......keep the show on the road. We have comitments in Philly we can't change. Research at Simeone Museum, and visits with several substantial collections, and visiting family members. We will attend the meeting next year. I will try and post some photos of the collections we visit if they allow them. Phil and I will bring a bottle of Crown Royal so we can do shots at Gino's and Pat's.....as well as a few others.

Bruce Meyer runs this show for years.......on the street.

Thats the first type 57 chassis with new coachwork on it.

Agreed! Dandy Dave is a friend who has visited our shop, and I have visited his. He's a good guy. 👍

It's interesting....many people are ready to JB Weld it.......an asinine repair. Fixing it with heat could work....but not a good idea. Ultimately the customer who owns the car didn't have a broken cover when he brought it in........thus the ONLY correct repair is to replace the cover......which Dave did. Too many people take the easy way out and it's always half assed. I work on lots of stuff.....accidents do happen. In my shop, we don't have idiots working on antique cars.......thats why things are so expensive to repair.......tractor mechanics get tractor rates for a reason..........shit like this happens. It's why professional repairmen are worth twice what you pay them.......for the stuff that doesn't happen.

More photos of the ghost of a Pierce Arrow...........understand anything not saved is because we have half a dozen better spares inside, inventoried, cleaned, and inspected. We only toss stuff beyond redemption.....

You can buy a 90 point car for less than the cost of doing the wood......not to mention the two years to get it done. Economics dictate most projects today as parts cars.......

Four inches is fine.