John_Mereness

I usually have just used stainless carriage bolts and figured out how to beef up the bolt shank - and used just about everything imaginable from plastic tubing to .... - seems I end up buying cars having replated bumpers and junk to hold everything together, so my first projects is to get the bumpers straightened around.

Nice car - I would say totally new interior and quite a bit of paintwork done over time, but looks like needs new tires and probably many some solid hours of tinkering and it should prove a truly worthy car.

Exceptionally good looking car and commend the owner in getting car more complete for the next owner. RM Auctions just sold a running driving fairly solid 1929 Lincoln L Opera Coupre for $10,450 and another exceptionally solid partially restored example for the same money at $11,550 (which both included buyers fee) - and the partially restored L probably had double that in new chrome matched to another 40K plus in restoration work already done. And, this was RM's second attempt to sell the cars too. https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/af19/auburn-fall/lots/r0212-1930-lincoln-model-l-179-coupe/797774 https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/af19/auburn-fall/lots/r0213-1929-lincoln-model-l-179-coupe/797776

We have brass plated the brass (on a whole car excepting the radiator shell) - the need came due to various different metals used matched to impurities in the metal and plenty of abuse/time, plus and unfortunately we believed the car would score low in AACA judging as a result. The good news is that brass plated brass holds up longer in finish and really did look stunning.

I posted this a few days ago regarding Greenwich Concours and Hagerty buying it. I have co-run a concours since 1992 (having been involved since 1981), and founded our not-for-profit and Board of Directors in 2006 - Cincinnati Concours d'Elegance (formerly known as Ault Park Concours d'Elegance) www.ohioconcours.com - we are the second oldest continually running Concours in the United States with Pebble Beach being first and Concours of America being third. Here is why I have a great Admiration - this is what it takes to "lean" run our Concours: 15 - Board of Directors 1 - full time Executive Director 1 - 3/4 time Administrative Assistant 1 - part-time Business Manager 1 - CPA firm 40 - Steering & Events Planning Committee members 40-50 Car Selection Committee members 1 - Advertising/Marketing Firm 1 - PR Firm 2 - Advising Attorneys 400 day of show volunteers 1 - Honorary Head Judge 1- Administrative Judge 40 day of show Judges (and another 30 or 40 Hagerty Junior Judging kids) 200+ gracious Car Owners each year 10+ Artists Countless GENEROUS Sponsors And, I am sure I have forgotten to list countless others. And, we run the largest Hagerty Junior Judging team of any Concours - because we want kids involved (and because they let us and we can do it) ! .

I helped with The Hagerty Youth Judging kids this past weekend at Dayton Concours d'Elegance

And, a Packard carb such as the one in the photo does not have an air cleaner or flame arrestor . Sidneote: Further researching is in order and possibly eliminating the carburetor pre heat spark plug feature - gasoline today is much more combustible = a question for other ppackard owners who regularly tour with their cars.

An oil rectifier actually works very well - its purpose is to scrub oil from exhaust and the more prevalent uses were on sleeve value engines such as a Willys Knight. They tend to gum up though and ... - many people just did not understand them and/or know how to care for them. And, of course oil rectifiers became obsolete as the technology in piston rings became better.

I saw it on a Model T Ford once - everyone was just plain lucky

I guess you could have had an air pocket. This was interesting: https://www.fillingstation.com/articles/cooling.htm I was taught to drill a hole in any sort of in-block/in-head thermostat so as to allow some circulation during warm up and to prevent air pockets. And, of course you could have a head or gasket issue.

Also, a spray on acidic wire wheel or aluminum mag wheel cleaner may work well too - you probably will have to clean off the white powdery stuff prior

And, if you do not have access to glass beading then I would simply start using wire toothbrushes on it

Given photo, I would glass bead the exterior and leave the interior alone (except any loose flaking and then I would wire brush that off.

I love the blue pre-soaped SOS pads - and used such to clean many a whitewall on a 100 point cars too. Sidenote. I usually use one per two tires and throw away thereafter.

I am a fan of undiluted Simple Green (matched to time and patience) and for eons a restoration shop here in town would use Easy Off Oven Cleaner or whatever other oven cleaner was on sale or handy - I have not tried it, but saw it done many times and looked great. One of those cars that had oven cleaner used on the block went across the podium at Pebble Beach Concours this year (in re-restoration though they glass beaded)

I have been buying it on ebay - vendor goes by " tons.performance " and search term is " Asphalt cloth wire loom original " great selection, great price, and super quick delivery

Try a couple hours of driving in a 1930's car - you can fry an egg on just about any part of the car - nice to have the heater shut off.

Dayton Wire Wheel makes fabulous tubeless wire wheels for British sports cars

By the way, I have seen some stupid stuff - 100 point painted radiators with no flow - someone accidentally put it in the wrong place in the radiator shop and they thought it had been boiled out.

I would never remove a thermostat - a cooling system is a very engineered thing. What you find happens via ellimination is you solve one problem to create another - the car of course will warm up slower, but you often find people who have done so get erratic overheating in certain other situation (ex. after highway driving and then hitting a stoplight in town traffic). I would quickly loose the 180 degree thermostat for a 160 degree though and I was taught real early on to drill a hole so as to allow some circulation matched to eliminate potential air pockets. Sidenote: Just because a thermostat comes out of a box off a store shelf does not mean it works correctly. I cannot tell you the number of times I have helped someone who is insistent that their new part works - and it does not. Best figure out what the real problem is and address that.

We have had an upsurge of attendance and I attribute it to such as earlier cars not being shown via other venues, plus such as quality of cars and ... While we do have plenty of earlier cars, whatever our feature is that will probably be one of the finest displays of X ever assembled (only Pebble Beach and Amelia Island are doing same or better). This year we did Mid-Century Modern and it was great, though one of our other features was MG and while it was not huge number of cars it was probably the finest assembly of Pre-War MG's ever in a single place. And, we are a highly populated exotic sports car area too. This year though we faced two obstacles - our advertising firm seemed a little too nuts and bolts mechanical on the social media (aka lacking passion) matched to bad weather - knocked down that younger attendance we were seeing and knocked it down quite substantially verses the past 3-4 years we were seeing a substantial upsurge in younger - and of course bottom line is that effects our charitable contributions. Sidenote: All the cars are not perfect - most are rare though and equally rarely ever seen. Glad you mentioned Judging - I edited my above comment to include them - I knew I was missing something in the above list

Tough lesson but very true and this stuff gets harder and harder to handle by the day. Lots of 30's cars still being restored today, but it was much easier in 1970-90's and basically even yesterday.

I have one, but it is a warehouse find - it has not seen the fresh air and sunshine in about 10 years ago and before that a few more and a few more before that ... - back to when restoration was started several owners ago in we believe 1969. What is funny is when someone "discovers" it in the warehouse - no it is not lost, there are just other projects being worked on.

As to the 1926 Lincoln - it has a very stylish pair of rear side curtains - would love to see a picture of them installed !

Both dad and I are over 6 foot tall and when we bought the Austin Healey 3000 one of the first things on the list was to remove the pedal extenders - well, on the drive home we found the pedal extenders to be pretty dreamy nice - instead of your legs being straight out (which is exhausting) you have a kink in your leg via knee and allows for hours of comfortable driving.