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This neat old station is in Cleveland very near where the Presidential debate was last night. I hope it wasn't burned down in a protest.

Walt, Bill Snyder owned that Rolls coupe in the early 50s. The photo was taken in the driveway of the house he grew up in. The car still exists somewhere and has been restored.

Hey John, what happened to the mid 20s RR towncar that was in French Lick and owned the local VFW or something like that. They used to bring it out for car events at the hotel & park it out front. I think it was brown and had drum headlights. Nice original car. I rode in it close to 25 years ago. Is it still there?

I have what you need. Don't know about shipping it though. This one came from a 1941 Cadillac 62 series coupe. You have a private message waiting for you.

The local mafia visited our cruise in last week.

The cruise club that runs the big cruise in in my area got a cease & desist order from the county health dept a couple weeks ago.

jdome..... the maroon car pictured above IS the car that was in Akron. I know the guy who bought it in 1955 up in Chardon. It was originally all black.

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The car is a 1936 Cadillac V8 town car

Only 90 miles to Miami.

About 1/2 way through this video it's seen backing into a space at a 1961 Grand Classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biHKhVVB_V4 That proves the car is authentic & not a rebody. No one was making new bodies yet in the early 60's. I believe this is the car Badenhausen owned. He did a 15 part series in the CCCA Bulletin maybe 7 -8 years ago about the early days of the hobby. He also had the blue 1933 Packard Dietrich DCP.

One question though, as this car is a Custom Eight with the 356 engine, & trim all the way around the trunk lid, why doesn't it have the chrome trim on the glove box door? I know all the 22nd series Custom Eights do. Did they get rid of that on the 23rd series?

AJ, if you buy that Nash I have some authentic Nash Gabriel shock absorber fluid you can use.

I've had a several early 1950s cadillacs, including 2 1950s. Here are answers to your questions. 1. it overheats after about 15 mins but drives great. maybe a stuck thermostat or something? - take the radiator out & have it boiled out. Very simple. Just undo the upper & lower radiator hoses & it comes out with 6 bolts - 3 on each side. Should cost around $150. Don't take it to RadAir, find an old, dirty, inner city radiator shop that looks like it has numerous EPA violations. They do the best work. While that is out, take the threaded plugs out of the block on each side and flush the whole thing out with water. Don't be surprised if when you do this nothing comes out. You'll have to take a coat hanger or screw driver to unplug the crap in the holes. If you want to check the thermostat, it's under the water outlet on top of the waterpump. 4 bolts hold it on. You'll need to cut a new gasket when reinstalling it. 2. tranny shifts in all gears fine but shifts hard, - Several things at play here. It's a delicate balance of engine RPM, how heavy a foot you drive with, and the adjustment of the linkage from the carb down to the transmission. After you get the brakes fixed & it running cool, you can drive it around with a 7/16 wrench and stop periodically to adjust the linkage one way or the other to find the sweet spot. The shop manual talks about this. Buy one on e bay. They are plentiful and cheap. 3. brakes are manual drums and lock up easy. -they seem worse then normal. You can do a complete brake job on this car for under $500. New master cylinder, 3 new brake hoses and 4 new wheel cylinders. Just buy all new & do it. The brakes are very simple on this car. You probably have one or two sticking wheel cylinders from the car sitting and not being used. Properly set up, the brakes on your car are safe. 4. engine has a lifter tick The car probably just needs driving. Change the oil & put a can of Rislone in it. It may cure itself. 5. column shifter broke on me last night and now its stuck in drive. - no idea how to fix this... You're screwed. You broke the potmetal piece on the steering column. Its actually part of the steering column. You'll have to buy one from a parts car. To replace it you'll have to take the steering wheel off and then you'll have access to disassembling that part. It's not a quick job. You can shift the car by having someone sit in it with their foot on the brake (so the car doesn't move) while you open the hood and manually move the shift lever on the bottom of the steering column. Make sure the person sitting in the car has their foot firmly on the brake when you do this. ( I had this part break on a car I owned in college and I did this procedure myself using the emergency brake to hold the car. Not smart, but hey, I was 21). One other thing. How do you know it's overheating? Does it just stop running & won't start for an hour? it may not be vapor lock but instead crap in the gas tank floating around & plugging the pick up line. I had this happen on one of my Cadillacs. You may want to pull the gas tank andhave it boiled out as well. The inner city radiator shop may be able to do this for you too. Your car looks like a nice original. It's a 61 series sedan. Your serial number should start 61 19 and then a 5 digit number for the car #. 61 is the series and 19 designates sedan. You can drive this as an everyday car if you have the cooling & fuel systems functioning as new to deal with the heat & humidity you have down there. You may need an electric fuel pump just as a back up in case it vapor locks on you. You can buy 6 volt ones and there's plenty of room on the frame just in front of the gas tank to locate it. Get the kind the mechanical fuel pump can 'pull through." You won't need to run it all the time, just when it's real hot or you're sitting in stop & go traffic on a hot day. Good Luck!

2 summers ago when I drove out west, remember?

I'm the only one who has seen the Pierce in person. I want it.

The following is the correct answer to your question Matt. The car you have there was originally a funeral home car in Cleveland. I know this is a fact as my dad was very good friends with the long time NE Ohio owner, and even knew his father, who bought it from the funeral home in the early 1950's. It was in pristine condiiton when they aquired it, and only used it on Sundays. While most 356 powered Packards of the 1940's have overdrive, this car does not. No need for O/D in a funeral procession. Also, the "One Sixty" script emblems on the hood sides were added later. The funeral home either ordered the car with them deleted or Packard didn't put them on cars being sold for commercial use. How do I know this? My dad is the one who gave the long time owner the "One Sixty" scripts to put on the car. He pulled them off a car in a wrecking yard in the late 50's/early 60's. I dont believe the long time owner ever got around to installing them. I think they were sold with the car & the current owner may have added them. If you look up old photos of this car in NORCCCA newsletters from the 1980s' & early 90's there will be a lot of photos of it, and you'll see those hood scripts aren't on it. Another thing that may have been altered is the top cross piece on the middle of the front bumper. Does it say 160 or 180? It may have been plain originally. The long time owner had the bumpers re chromed in the late 1980s and I remember some conversation about that but don't remember the exact details. The fact the car doesn't have a radio also backs up the funeral home provenance. I believe it had seat covers on the front seat for a long time as there were a line of snaps running along the top of the seat surround in front of the division window opening. The car only had something like 33,000 original miles on it in the early 1990s. Glad to see the car back in NE Ohio where it belongs and I hope some one local buys it.

That's honestly the first time I've ever seen that car outside. I thought it was just a garage queen.

What is this horn ring to? Part# cast into it is 7271A 1115624

That's a series 9 Franklin automobile, built from 1916 to 1921 in Syracuse, NY.

Join the Lincoln Owners Club. There's a bunch for sale in theie newsletter.

This was listed for sale in Chicago in a 1976 Flying Lady magazine. Serial # S 294 FP. It's called a 1928 Springfield by Bewster. This had to have been updated in the 1930's, right? I can't seem to find any recent photos of it online.

See my reply to you in the main forum. Private message sent.

It originally came off a 1928 Stutz as that's the one year they used the white emblem. 1926/27 are the same except for the emblem. Starting in 1929 the radiator and shell are a different, wider design. So it fits 3 years of cars - 1926 to 1928. The radiator shell is chrome plated steel and they rust over time when left out in the elements. I sent you a private message.

Walt, exactly where in Central Park is this location? As you know, quite a number of cars were photographed at this location. The rock formation should make the location not too hard to find if not completely overgrown. There are several roads that cross Central Park running East/West. Which one was this photo taken on?