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Their website shows that the show is on: https://www.carlisleevents.com/events The owners of the fairgrounds have spines.

Any Laurel and Hardy or any Little Rascals short.

For puzzle 1, is perhaps the wiring on the ammeter hooked up backwards? You say the ammeter hovers on the charge side when running, but running at what speed? At idle, the generator isn't putting out any current, so the ammeter should be showing a discharge, not a slight charge as you describe. When you put a load on the system by operating the windows with the engine at idle, the ammeter should show a big discharge, not a charge as you describe. This leads me to my opinion that your wires are reversed on the ammeter poles. When you rev the engine up with no electrical load, what does the ammeter do?

Love it! Was this (and the corresponding Chevy) the last of the true American station wagons?

Exactly- you were inserting you own political bias if you thought I was complaining.

As 58L-Y8 wrote, I also believe the sudden change in design was due to the retirement of Harley Earl. Earl loved cars with a Rubinesque quality- rounded and full figured- and he loved to dress them up. There's a story about when the '58 Buicks were being approved that two different side chrome schemes were presented in mock up to Earl, and he was asked which he would approve for production. His reply was "both".

In the shop manual for my '51 Buick, it mentions that you should get the camber and caster as close as possible to spec with the adjustments possible, but that the most important adjustment is toe-in, which needs to be spot on. Bad toe-in can cause tire wear much faster that bad camber.

Waiting for a nice downpour to wash the salt residue off the roads.

Ok, you're not allowed to drive a Bentley and complain about the cost of its keys. 😉

No, I'm going to put it aside to pay for the higher gas prices we're seeing. Thanks Joe.

If you think about it, we have no one to blame but ourselves for the blandness of modern cars. What makes them bland is that they are too perfect. Even the lowest price cars handle like a sports car from 50 years ago, the noise, vibration and harshness has been engineered out, 100k miles between tune ups, 6k miles between oil changes- neither of which you can do yourself. They have no individual personalities. What gives a car a personality is quirkiness, but nobody would buy a quirky car today. The car you look back on with the most nostalgia is the one that gave you an adventure- maybe because of a breakdown on the roadside that you had to overcome. Funky handling, a mechanical feel to it, the ability to raise the hood and do your own maintenance connects an owner to his car, but all that is gone because we demanded cars that handled better, ran quieter, had longer maintenance schedules ,were more reliable and the car manufacturers gave us what we asked for.

The clue was probably written by a millennial who was never taught grammar or punctuation in school. No need for those obsolete subjects when they're using emojis to communicate.

This is the kind of stuff that keeps emergency rooms, orthopedists and insurance companies in business.

Been there, done that. 1915 Ford Model T.

If a prior owner installed a kill switch, they may have also installed a master fuse somewhere in the wiring loom.

No. Briggs and Murray built other body styles too. For example, Briggs built the taxi cabs, the deluxe pickup, the town car delivery and others. Both Briggs and Murray built the Victoria bodies. The list goes on.

There's a seal on ebay with this part number: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1939-1954-Pontiac-All-Models-Rear-Axle-Oil-Seal-C412111R/333722699829?hash=item4db36c4835:g:ChUAAOSwRVRearTC

It's $4.99 a month. I predict that within 10 years, this is how we're going to get all our TV. Everything is going to be streamed- no more regularly scheduled programming on TV networks.

I've freed a stuck clutch by jacking the rear tires off the ground and supporting the car really well. Put the tranny in gear and start the engine. Push in the clutch and rev it up to get some momentum in the driveline, then hit the brakes hard while still holding the clutch pedal down!

Love it! We used to play Buzzword Bingo during the endless conference calls we had where I worked. Some off us would create sheets with the buzzwords in a grid, and if anyone said it, you x'ed the box. When you got five in a row, Bingo!

The old logo has an air of strength and confidence. The new logo looks weak and childish in my opinion.

You might want to get in touch with the Early Ford Registry guys: Their forum is here: https://earlyfordregistry.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=3 This club is for 1903-1908 Fords.

It was like that from brand new up to the time I traded it in with close to 100K miles.

My first car was a '69 Falcon with the 200 cid six. It never used a drop of oil. I recently had a 2007 Lacrosse with the 3.8 v6. That used a quart every 1,000 miles. The Lacrosse called for a thinner oil than the Falcon for fuel economy purposes (less pumping losses moving a thin oil than a thick oil), and I suspect that's why it went through more oil.

LOL! I was thinking the exact same thing. BTW, I love your tag line: Truth is not insulting. Reality is not an attack.