HarryJ

motoring....I would suggest you join the Lincoln Owners Club as there are several "L"'s for sale in the club right now.

I'm glad someone brought up this subject as I have been thinking about it for some time. I love to drive my antique cars and have driven antiques for nye on forty years. My very first car (of any type) was a 1929 model"A" Ford which I still have. Of late however, driving my cars in modern traffic has at times proven to be somewhat nerve racking. I live and have my shop in downtown Atlanta Georgia and let me tell you the nature of traffic has changed in the last ten to fifteen years. Atlantans zip arround even on quiet residential streets. The vehicles built in the last ten years I feel can almost out handle Ferraris of the 60's. Coupled with that most modern younger drivers I think don't have any idea of the limits and capabilities of their automobiles. As I said I started driving an unrestored model "A" and learned sometimes you have brakes sometimes you don't. I feel today us antiquers are facing a situation like that faced by the quakers in Pennslyvania in the late 60's. Alot of you I'm sure live in small towns or out from major population centers and can drive at your leisure; however people like me are becoming increasingly aware how out classed our cars are on today's city streets. Again I own cars of the 20's and today my mechanical brakes work just fine; but dealing with people who zip arround you right before a traffic light or stop sign and end up 15' stopped in front of you is unnerving. I don't intend to stop driving my cars. Driving in Atlanta's traffic has become a chore and not much fun.

They're right this was a hot car for it's day and came with hydraulic 4 wheel brakes. What body style is it? Can you post a picture?

Matthew...Make me an offer

52deluxe....Thanks for the thought...Yes I don't have time to put the stuff on E-bay and I have tried contacting a few commercial dealers. I do have an inventory of the parts cabinet; however, it is long and is primarily after market supplier parts numbers requiring catalogues to translate the part numbers to make and model. I thought someone in the AACA would take advantage of this opportunity to pick up a load of parts at a good price. One hobbyist/dealer did contact me although I haven't heard back from him. Over the years I have bought out several auto parts houses of their old inventory. Basically, about 10% of the parts will move fairly quickly and the other parts will stay with you forever. Again these parts fit cars of the 60's, 70's and some 80's, which seem to be in good demand from collectors today as these vintage autos are being perserved and restored.

Jack, the FEDCO numbering system is based on a letter to number code. WPCHRYSLED 1234567890 There is no date code in the FEDCO number. It is only a coded serial number.The FEDCO serial numbers on the series "62" ran from LW-000-P (81-000-2) to LS-101-C (87-101-1). for cars manufactored in America. I don't know if the Chrysler Historical Data Collection has a date of assembly for each car; however, you might be able to extrapolate roughly the month the car was produced by estimating so many cars per day over so many months. I believe production started in July of 1927 on the new models for 1928. I don't know when production stopped. Your serial # translates to 858104 making it a later manufactured car.

52deluxe .....Thanx for the thought. Yes, there are other venues of which I could avail myself; however, I thought I would give some AACA members a chance to get a deal.

Alright, what if I throw in 1200+ NOS sets of spark plug cables? They fit mostly cars of the 70's and 80's.

Matt..I agree with you 100%. The guy in the video is just a preacher, not an engineer. World consumption of oil is rapidly increasing. Let me tell you the oil companies would be pumping it out of the ground and making money if the supplies were there. I said many years ago we should cap our wells and use up their oil. The day would come when we had it and they didn't. The situation boils down to we need to develope another energy source and dare I say curb the world population growth.

What if I throw in the Weatherhead cabinet and it's contents with the deal?

DBBilly....Make sure the atmospheric vent on your vacuum tank is clear. This is one of the most common problems affecting vacuum tanks yeilding problems like you are experiencing.

Again folks, this is the Buick forum.

mikzjr....It should not appreciably affect the function of the vacuum tank; whereas only 3" of vacuum is required to lift the gas the 30"+/- to the top of the tank from the bottom of the gas tank a normal engine produces 16"+/- of vacuum.

Mark ....That is an excellent idea. I know of the guy you're talking about that rebuilds early thermostats. It took me a month's worth of phone calls to find him. I am always looking for services ans parts and a quick reference to this site would be quite handy.

jollygreen....Try Ben McAdam at 304-242-3388. He deals in early ignition parts and is quite knowledgable.

Dan...Thanks for the expensive lesson. What do you reccomend for an upper hose filter media as I have two cars with cellular or honeycomb radiator cores? Sounds like you have explored repairs to these types of radiators very extensively. Since I am presently in the process of restoring a 1928 Chrysler which has a cellular radiator the responses you get here are of great interest to me. What do they recommend in this early radiator repair manual you have?

1929Chrysler....I have never priced recoring a honeycomb type radiator; $2,500 sounds high. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia has instructions in how to repair cellular and honeycomb radiators. I have seen repairs done on early units that consist of plugging up individual cells or tubes. I think repairs to this type of radiator must have been common in their day; thus there must be someone out there that can deal with your repair.

Come on folks, I need to sell this load of stuff!

All I can say is WOW! The interior is a work of art.

Let me just remind everyone we are discussing this on the Buick forum??.....

Folks, I remember when I started college back in 1970. My fraternity subscribed to all kinds of publications including the Harvard Business Review. An article in this publication quoted some interesting statistics which stuck with me. It seems at that time America had somewhere arround 18/20% of the worlds population yet consumed 75% of the world's natural resources. We set the price then as the competion for the resources was somewhat weak. Today as Matt points out, other nations vie for these resources; not only oil, but copper, iron, tin, magnesium, etc. All of these comodities are going rapidly up in price as the nations compete for a basically fixed supply.To further complicate the math the dollar is losing value on the open market every day. Countries of the oil producing world and China are awash in dollars making them worth less and less. Folks,unless we get off our collective a... and get our production base back we will lose. There is talk in the commodities market of basing the price of oil on the Euro. If this happens; you'll wish for $4/ gallon gas. Don't blame it on the tree huggers, liberals, capitalists,or whoever. Fix the problem not the blame. Wealth is built on creating it through manufacturing not flipping futures, real estate, or whatever. I tell people Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, Andrew Carnegie, Charlie Nash and titans of industry didn't go crying to our government saying; the Europeans have the automobile, the Europeans have the steel mills; they built bigger and better. Face it folks, oil is a limited resource that is rapidly being used up and under great demand pressures. We are in a recession and may be headed for much worse....America no longer dominates the world markets as it did for so many years. Now is the time to compete again

Tom....Great car....Great preservation!

Dan....Here is a closer pic of the cabinets contents.

Quick reply Wayne.....I am in Atlanta, Georgia.

Folks...I recently closed down an ignition and carb business I own. Now I want to sell the contents of the shop. I plan to sell each lot to the highest bidder on this forum. My rules will be 1) You must pick up the lot, I am not going to pack and ship anything. 2) No detailed inventories will be supplied, only pics and general info. (You are welcomed to get a local AACA member to view the lots) and I will answer any questions as best as possible. I will leave this posted for aprox 60 days. 3) Terms cash when you pick it up. The first lot I have for sale is a cabinet full of NOS ignition parts (the cabinet goes with the deal). This lot consists of NOS DIST caps, Rotors, Points, etc. You can see from the pics it is full to the brim. The vast majority fit vehicles of the 60's and 70's, some earlier. I am setting a minimum bid to start at $100. All of the parts are identified by manufacturer's part numbers and I don't have a cross reference, so don't ask me if I have a part for your 1967 model X.