John_Mereness

crankcase breather ?

Auburn parts rarely if ever interchange - people talk about it being a component built car - yes, it was component built but the holding company owned a significant number of the parts manufacturers and a result it all tends to be petty unique. As to the blocks, on an 8 cylinder car you have two common styles - one with a bolt on water jacket and one with 5 freeze plugs. Then you have the block with the three freeze plugs and I believe a fourth style that has a mount for the supercharger or something like that (I have never seen one of these in photos or in person). As to the 3 other 8 cylinder styles I have owned each. As to the 6 cylinder cars, I do not know if multiple styles or not, but my opinion is any style would be fine as this car needs to get back on the road - it was a very well restored car that had a bad day.

Cool car - it is going to need some wood, metal, and welding though. I thought they sold that a year or so ago - thanks for taking the pictures.

Looking at your photos 1-2, 3-4, & 5-6, and it may be an optical allusion or ..., but 3-4 looks a little suspect around the piston area - did you personally ever check to see if the head was actually torqued down properly ?

Correct - car should be one way or another sold with the top on it.

Packard played with this style earlier on - the first introduction was in an early Darrin and then they played with it via the Brown Bomber or Phantom http://theoldmotor.com/?p=156813 Some creative people have added their touches to Packards over time - they are pretty much interesting and find their niche with certain buyers, but ... And, periodically something truly unique to the period shows up. Your knowledge crowd though is at Hershey this week and not playing on this forum much.

You may want to revise the listing to mention in the title that it is a boattail

You should be able to get double whites for your Imperial in period correct tread pattern Firestones or Bedford brands and they tend to be available in 20", 19", 18", and 17" sizes via Lucas or Coker tire. There is also enough interest that a run could be done of 16" for Auburn and Cord cars in the 6:50 x 16 size. And, if not currently made the Ford script tires would also have enough interest again.

By the way, I have always put some cut pieces of duct tape on the rims to give the teeth in the hubcaps something to better bite into - radials on 50's cars at times can be hubcap throwers.

Pontiac ?

I would start with seeking a replacement fuel sending gauge unit (I have had everything from floats that would not float to floats stuck to gas tank sealers, but mainly they tend to just be in gross condition), then work my way to gauge , and I assume you have a new wiring harness.

They fit a variety of things from 1929 or so to 1950's - just tend to be a little more generic than specialized.

I always refer to whitewalls as a "keeping up with the Jones'es," "one upping the Jones'es," or "my dog is better than your dog" kind of thing matched to some good conversation at the Country Club. In actuality though, it really just depends on the car itself and its colors and ... - some cars are "made" by whitewalls and on other cars they detract.

A fine car on the "Super Eight" platform/wheelbase and at a great price too - a 740 quite the car ! The only thing larger would be a 745 series and that is one really rare beast that would be significantly higher priced.

Yep, been there done that. Also, slipped a few times to stab the gaskets.

That was another 10 years ago. I know there are pros and con's, but a flat on a front tire at even 35MPH is a pretty dangerous thing - I would not have these tires on anything I owned unless it was just sitting quietly in the corner of the garage. As mentioned, the tires on the 41 Packard were SCARY dangerous (and they could have been much more ancient, but ....) and we were lucky as literally there was little to nothing holding the tires to the rims.

The "period" auburn photo is a Vogue tire and often it is a little confusing to identify at first glance as the logos are somewhat similar to what would have been B. F. Goodrich Double Eagles. As to location: I would say California via sign above the car on next building over. Vogue was and still is a BIG west coast thing.

Paul, I use to just pull the tip of the wire bail out of the cage - when I decided I wanted my CCCA First Junior it was the best way to avoid chipping the paint on the covers.

I thought the Lesters we had on various cars (ex. 1931 Cadillac's) were a little squirrel-ey in the rain - nothing to get too concerned about, but a little squirrel-ey nevertheless. We had them on the 31's as they fit better under the sidemount covers than Denmans which were somewhat more boxy via tread and width (Lesters and Denmans were near the only game in town in the 1970's and early 1980's).

Tom, oddly the outer bumper clamps look very "Packard" like all be it my best guess is Peerless ones are more smooth on tops verses the Packard ones more mirror the Packard grill shape - just a thought as Packard reproductions in brass have been done before many times and you stand a good chance of finding a pair (and perhaps a "Packard" set could be modified slightly modified to fit).

When I saw his pictures on Facebook it looked to me like the cork gaskets under the value covers were perhaps 1/6 inch thick and as a result not thick enough for the wire bail to get good tension on the cover. If I recall the vale cover gaskets were pretty thick - 3/16 inch plus.

This post also needs put out on the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club forum under the Auburn page (I will do the post for you). And, also the Horseless Carriage Club website.

Given the video, I would agree to full investigation of a cylinder head issue is due

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