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Great Car!! I remember a green 1934 Packard Super Eight in a garage next to Tom Warth's home in Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota. Is this the car?? Your car is in good hands with Tom Rassmussen.

It is a totally bogus 1930 Packard 734 speedster runabout. The ad copy says there are only 11 boattails known to have survived. Of those 11, only seven or eight are completely authentic with 734 bodies, 734 chassis and 734 engines. This car does not have any original 734 components on it, only a few 734 reproduction pieces. Actually, a better completely fake reproduction just sold at RM's Meadow Brook sale for $121,000, to give you an idea of its actual value. http://www.rmauctions.com/AuctionResults.cfm?SaleCode=MB07# Click on lot #268 A completely authentic 734 speedster runabout is valued at more than $500,000.

Remove grille and radiator Remove water pump, remove water distribution tube. Hook up a homemade copper extension to the garden hose (the extension should be the length of the block, and should have a bend at the very end so that you can spray around each cylinder. I'll try and post a picture of it if I can find it.). Turn on hose full blast. (the copper extension, being much smaller, will have quite high pressure if you crimp the end). I just kept feeding the hose back and forth, up and down, right and left, until the rusty silt stopped coming out, then I did it a little more. This is also a good time to rebuild a possibly bad water pump and radiator.

When I had my front end all torn apart, I flushed the engined extremely thoroughly. I took out the water distribution tube to check, cleaned it, and put it back in as it looked practically new (50,000-mile car). On cool days (60-70 degrees or so), the shutters hardly even open when I just do some calm in-town driving, and the temp gauge stays right in the middle.

Thanks, Peter, I've already told him to do that, and he said he would. He'd like to find another car so that he can see and photograph it as well.

Sorry 'bout that. I put something on those pages that evidently was censored once it left my desk. Steve might have some uncensored copies in his office.

Dark in the evenings and through the night, with chances of widely scattered light during the day.

While I have a '40, I have the 356 as well and it uses the Silphon thermostate to operate the radiator shutters. No engine thermostat. Some people run both, but I don't seem to have a need to do that.

HELP! We have a Jeffery six touring car (1914-1916?) in our shop being restored. We could use any information available from any source about anything related to this car. Ideally we would like to find one that we could take pictures of. ehosier@juno.com NY 845-454-1299 days - ask for Ed

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Shop Rat</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: stock_steve</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mrpushbutton</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <span style="font-size: 20pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">"...VEE-HICK-ICLE..."</span></span> </div></div>

My dad was told that if he voted for that guy, 50,000 troops would be sent into Viet Nam within the first year. He voted for Au H2O and sure enough, 50,000 troops were sent in.

... Third place, but actually my personal favorite, 1930 Packard 734 speedster.

... Second place, 1934 Packard 1106 speedster by LeBaron.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 1948Lincoln</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I should rephrase, What is Your favorite? </div></div> Oh... that's entirely different. I'll still stick with Packard, but the most beautiful car of all is this, designed by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky (probably the finest industrial designer of the prewar period). 1934 Packard 1108 phaeton by LeBaron (this one is a replica).

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: tbirdman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Remember these compounds remove paint and the less you remove the better. </div></div> Ken I agree. But if you've got a lot of oxidized paint, plain polish (and certainly not wax) is not going to give you the deep luster you're wanting. And if it's just oxidation (no scratches), use a fine-cut compound. Don't get confused about the differences between compound, polish and wax (or glazes). Again, be careful when buffing around peaks and edges, even if you're working by hand. Compounds can take paint off very fast in those areas.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Paul Dobbin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Often the real numbers don't surface until long after the smoke clears. (meaning the Buick's leave) Paul </div></div> LOL. Actually, if anyone was following me downhill, they got a good dose of smoke. Rick was only kidding about his car belching smoke. I had the pleasure of following him all morning on one of the days, and I didn't see any such evidence.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mrpushbutton</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Marshall Merkes, who bought up all of the part stocks of Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg when they went under, and was the only show in town if you owned an ACD car and needed parts. The Cord engine was fitted to the Frankin engine. Marshall even operated out of the ACD headquarters building in Auburn, now the ACD museum. </div></div> I hate to take this off on a tangent, Mr. P., but the way I understand it is that... ... Aviation & Transportation Corporation (ATCO) bought the failing ACD company. Dallas Winslow is the man that bought it from ATCO (Norman DeVaux received the spare body parts and body tooling rights to the Cord, which he later dealt to Graham and Hupp to build Hollywoods and Skylarks). It wasn't until after the war that Merkes bought just the Duesenberg rights from Dallas Winslow and offered Duesenberg parts and services through his Imperial Manufacturing Company in California. It was Dallas Winslow's company that was operating out of the ACD Auburn showroom supplying Auburn and Cord parts and services, even restoring cars. Winslow owned Auburn and Cord until 1960, when he sold it to Glenn Pray.

I've heard that there's been a Dagmar in the Hagerstown area, so that's where I suspect they are. However, the reported owner of the cars is from Connecticut.

One of your friends that's doing careful measuring and research has politely (sort of) corrected me. He believes a still life with fruit will work much better than the dried flower arrangement. Sorry. I'll get serious now. Here's a solution, and you don't even need to modify anything under the hood. No, I'm not talking about removing the hood (and body). What about using one of the oil-bath units??? I'm assuming that there isn't the chance of your manifold being from a bigger series Buick. Would that be assuming too much?

If you "got to the video," your questions will be answered. The cars have been sold to a single buyer, and are already "out the door". In my opinion, it's not a "barn find," since the cars were owned by a collector (AACA and CCCA member). I doubt the cars were bought "on the cheap," though since they were bought in bulk, the buyer probably got a good deal on the lot. For a look-see of what that Renault town car will look like when its restored, go here: http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2733644560077698672ndxjoQ Although the car is a 1938 Packard (in the Blackhawk Collection, Danville, California), the body came from a Renault, and looks to be identical. Many of these custom bodies were built in threes, so its possible the only differences would be in trim selection.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: R W Burgess</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Let's hope the "editor" took plenty of pictures for our Philly Picture Rerun this year. Wayne </div></div> 300! Including the 1932 V8 roadster above. The photo below is my car (from Minnesota) with the 1st Minnesota Infantry monument at Gettysburg in the background. "When Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, commander of the Union Second Corp, rode up to assess [sickles botched meneauver], only one regiment was at hand to stop the Confederate tide – the 1st Minnesota ... with leveled bayonets, the Minnesotans crashed into Brig. Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox's Alabamians who outnumbered them 4-to-1." "The charge successfully accomplished its object. <span style="font-weight: bold">It saved the position and probably the battlefield. </span>The loss of the eight companies in the charge was 215 killed and wounded (more than 83 percent), 47 men were still in line AND NO MAN MISSING. In self-sacrificing desperate valor, THIS CHARGE HAS NO PARALLEL IN ANY WAR. The next day, the remaining men participated in repelling Picketts Charge, losing 17 more men." For many, many years, it was believed that my great-great grandfather Erickson had fought here with the 1st Minnesota. It wasn't until recent research that we found out he was fighting for control of the Mississippi River at the time. He signed up in 1861 (at age 16) and survived the whole war, marching with Sherman on his way to Savannah.

Haven't done any compression testing, but I really don't think that's the problem. I have been doing some thinking, though... 1. Timing may be a little bit off, although it really runs smoothly. Wouldn't it run kind of rough if the timing were off? 2. My tires are oversized 7:50-16 rather than 7:00-16, causing an odometer error, but that wouldn't make a difference of more than about a 1/2 mile per gallon (mathematically). 3. New gas doesn't give as good mileage as the old.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Restorer32</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Used to be you would see NOS Tucker heaters at almost every large flea market. </div></div> ... and radios.

With three air cleaners now at your disposal, you could put together a nice arrangment of dried flowers by turning them upside down and placing them on your dining room table for a nice Fall decor. This could be used all the way up through and including Thanksgiving. Don't forget to use a doily under your unique vases so as not to damage the table. (This is directly from page 35 of the lastest issue of Martha Stewart's <span style="font-style: italic">Living Behind Bars</span> magazine.)

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Paul Dobbin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As far as I know all of us finished the 6 days of touring without major problems with the Early V8's. </div></div> Ahem... Ironically, Radford's tour number was "13." Also from North Carolina... Kitty Hawk to be exact. At least it's a Ford V8 roll-back rather than a GM, or that could have been embarassing.