auburnseeker

Surprising it's that new, but now I remember Dodge hung onto the older body style longer than Ford and GM.

The 0 percent probably actually drove the price up, as they could sell the car for more because the payment could stay the same with you paying less in interest but more for the car. I know prices have gotten ridiculous. I bought a brand new 2005 Ford F350 Crew Cab diesel Dually 4 wheel drive fully loaded Lariat including the moonroof and all in August of 2004. I ordered it from Ford. My Mom was a Ford Employee at the time so. I got it for about 40,000 out the door with her employee discount. That was only 10G more than they wanted for 5 year old trucks needing new tires with 50KMI on them. The sticker on the truck when it came in on the carrier was about 49,000. That same truck Today I believe is near if not over 70,000. Mom doesn't work at Ford any more, but even if she did, I can't justify spending that kind of money on a truck. I actually sold it 5 or 6 years after that when I replaced it with a stripped diesel work truck with 100KMI on it. The 05 was too nice to Work. It spent all the time in the garage and only got wet when it went to Hershey. LOL I decided I'll spend my extra money on old cars and a better garage, rather than a new truck.

I'll check on that radiator when I get back there. I can measure the cores. We can compare that to someone with a special and a century to see which it is. As I mentioned. I wouldn't be surprised if it was recored, to have been done to a larger capacity. Usually not much difference in cost on the whole job.

Dodge offered a lot of trim packages on their trucks. This one is quite similar. The wheel well moldings seem very close. May be a match if you find the right year. I think this came up under a 1979 Dodge image search. Some used signal light/park light housings that were different but some matched this one.

It looks a lot like truck trim from the '70s. Similar but not right for Ford and Chevy was a fair amount different. Possibly Dodge or even IH. The single/ park light surrounds I'm sure will positively ID it. They aren't cast parts with a number, are they? I know you said no numbers, but they look cast to me so they would have even a casting number if so.

Nice work. I still have your piles of goodies here. I'm trying to get back to that place to check on the other stuff before I have you make the trip up. I'm sure there will be more freebees if I get back there as a lot of the stuff is in box lots so I get stuff. Idon't really want but is still quite useful to someone doing a car like yours.

That's what the Jake Brake is for

I walked by a 1950 Fastback on my way to school everyday and that was about 1990, Watching it slowly deteriorate in front of a one car garage. That's up state NY as well so it was a pretty rare sight indeed. Really broke my heart as I was about 15 at the time. It was for sale but of course priced at about twice what all the others I had seen in traders were priced. I'm not sure if it was a super or a Roadmaster. It eventually disappeared. Why are they always parked in front of the garage or beside it and never in it? Seems when they are , there is never a good car being saved in the garage. Usually just a bunch of junk. I would have loved to have bought that car and got it on the road to drive to school. Seems the one above is atlas overpriced X2.

Probably one of the roughest ones left that still resembles a whole car and is not just a body shell without a chassis, will run 10G or so especially if it's mostly complete, but everything has some rust or damage. A mint body shell with no rust but all important parts such as dash firewall garnish moldings etc. Could easily run 20 if it's really mint with no rust. Complete cars that could be used but obviously far from pristine probably start near 30 and go up if you want pretty. I imagine restored ones that look and run good start at 50 and again go up a lot from there.

Those garage building projects always look so great on paper (including the budget). They are a whole lot different when you start writing checks and the concrete starts getting poured. I know, I'm half way through mine.

Here is a link to that thread for anyone interested. It's intertwined with the thread. I didn't start a separate one. As well as a few photos of the stage I'm at. I'm also thinking of building nice custom wood sliding doors for the garage door. Has anyone had any experience good or bad? I am thinking of a 2 inch foam core in them for energy efficiency. It's a 14 foot tall by 16 foot wide opening.

I was hoping for more style in my garage, but size was the first factor to consider. When you get up to the 4300 square foot size with a 16 foot ceiling, You really start getting expensive, just for the shell. I'll have at least 100 grand in mine, just for the shell, shingled roof stick framing 2 by 8 construction all plywood no OSB with a frost wall. I have $5000 just in gravel. My floor is going o be another 20G just for the concrete and I imagine at least another 10G for the infloor insulation and tubing for radiant heat. I've got the board and batten siding already pre stained and stacked inside, stickered. I just need to get the windows in before I can side it. I imagine electrical will run me another 10 to 15 G and that's with me doing a lot of it. Those numbers really add up fast. As it was, I ran out of money getting the shell up before winter and had to put some materials on my credit card and earn the last payment (only about a grand) on the labor to get the guy I hired to build it paid off. Only took about a week fortunately. I had paid him by the week so I could keep a handle on expenses. It was a lot better than getting one huge bill at the end. Of course the size kept me from doing a lot of it myself. You really needed a crew. I think the roof had 160 sheets of plywood. Just the thought of that makes me want to grab a tube of muscle rub. LOL I did have a thread going, but haven't posted much as not a lot has happened lately. I wanted to post it with costs so a guy building something similar at least had an idea of how big that much money could build you as well as how much real 3 dimensional space that would give you inside. I'll try to post a link here to that thread incase anyone is interested. I really like what you are doing with yours. Looks great. Keep up the good work. ironically my wife has a degree in historic preservation for architecture. She loves old buildings. Yours really looks the part. It's kind of like the difference between the guy who builds a kit Cobra with a 350 chevy and pinto suspension and the guy who puts a real side oiler in it. One you really have to look to tell it isn't real. The other screams it. Yours really looks like it was built in the day. Oh by the way no Buicks at the moment, but I'm sure atleast one if not a few will go through it. I did have an all original 39 Special Convertible coupe a couple of years ago. My Dad has a 39 Special sedan that I hope he gets on the road one of these days. I'll take a 41 Convertible any day. I've looked at a few, but none came at the right time or price. Lots of other great Buicks I wouldn't turn down either. A 64 Riviera is on the bucket list. Of course the 57 and 58's. are nice ,but the price is getting out of reach on those as I really like convertibles. Second choice would be a Caballero. But those are in Convertible price range. We'll see. I'll let you know when the right one comes around. With the kind of square footage I have. Not enough room in the garage, won't be the excuse.

I did get a price the other day. Pella Proline Windows. Simulated divided light with wood grilles, raw wood interior Green aluminum clad exterior 3 foot by 5 foot double hung windows with screens for 504 each. That seems pretty reasonable. For my half windows I tried ordering just sashes but they were more expensive than ordering complete windows and taking the sashes out. I looked into fixed windows but they are 404 each and the lights won't match height wise. I decided to buy 6 extra double hungs and take one sash out of each. I can cut the jambs down and fix one sash in each, then I will only need to build 6 jambs from scratch. Since there are 6 to a side I can put the metal clad jambs on the sun exposure side and the ones I have to build out of wood, on the northern side that will get very little if any exposure. You also won't be able to see them side by side to compare them so I won't have to get the jambs to match exactly. That will save me almost 2 Grand doing it that way. I'll probably go up the week and get them ordered. Now I think I will check into the same Pella doors to see what kind of price I can get so they match the windows. After all it is just a garage right.

Email sent. Thanks.

Ebay gets the most exposure if you want to deal with it. I'm not sure how many may be on there for comparison or competition sake though.

I know this should probably be down in the literature section, but The ads get pretty dusty down there. Looking to buy vintage car dealer literature, including brochures, Showroom albums, dealer press kits, and dealer paper in general. Salesman bulletins, factory correspondence to the dealers about the new cars etc. Really looking for bulk lots but will gladly purchase a few pieces, if it strikes me. Interested in all makes through the early 1970's. The older the better. Domestic and Foreign.

I get his emails directly which showed the lower trunk door off laying inside the trunk. I think it was just a typo. It's a great car. I wish my Dad hadn't blown the money he saved up for an old car last fall, this would have been a perfect one for him. He loves Packard's as well. My garage has consumed all my funds and any I make into the near future. Beautiful car. I don't think it will take long to find a buyer. Just wish it could be me.

Someone did the same to my email address. Their email address somehow got piggybacked on mine. A friend notified me, that it was in his spam folder. I instantly checked my accounts and couldn't find any breaches. I also as a precaution changed my password from a difficult one to an impossible one for me to remember. The net, starting to become a necessary evil.

Looks like a horn button as the horn ring is missing.

From what I have read, I don't think they were planning on becoming a mainstay in the automotive industry when they built these. It almost seemed like a big pet project to me, to say here is what I can do. It definitely did accomplish that. Actually 1956 Oldsmobiles only have one script in the grille stating they are an olds. They do have the globe in a couple of other places, but on an 88 if you got the deluxe spinner hubcaps added, They didn't even say Olds. I think a few cars have been the same way, but not for with the intent of the Cord. Just my 2 cents of course.

There is one on the front of the tranny cover as well, but those sometimes come up missing. I guess with a car that was so unique when it came out you didn't need a big name sprawled across it. People would figure out fast what it was. There was a big winged hood ornament that had it as well but that was an option, that I think few purchased, as it clutters the clean design of the car up.

It happens all the time though. I buy and sell NOS parts, though I have been getting a lot pickier about what I buy and you just get inundated with the crap that you buy to get a little bit of cream. Most of this stuff is never stored well and often has flash rust or what not, so it all needs to be cleaned. Much needs to be identified as well. That takes an incredible amount of time even with good resources and a parts book collection that has taken 10 years to amass and would be the envy of many. I sold my shop a year and a half ago and emptied that and a tractor trailer body as well as a storage unit all at once. I made huge piles and sold them. Probably at or below scrap value to a guy doing just the same thing I did, but he was just starting. I made him a great deal ands made sure he got some cream. He hauled 3 truck loads away. Just this week I started pulling all the NOS parts I had identified cleaned and ran through eBay that never sold off my shelves. I filled several boxes and gave it to my wife. I said just wholesale it off and keep the money. I don't care what you get for it. I want it gone. I also have 2 storage units full of parts and the attic of a friends garage I never finished emptying out. I'm going t out it all in the units and get rid of those as well. I'll probably do an eBay auction and start the whole thing for 100 no reserve. Hopefully someone atlas takes it for that. If they bid more good. Of course I have been paying the fee of 100 a month for a year now and probably haven't sold even a years worth of rent out of them. Sometimes you just have to cut your losses, bite the bullet and don't look back.

Even needing everything mechanically, 4 to 5 seems to be on the pretty darn cheap side if the interior is as nice as it appears. Looks to have been redone. If so that's almost 4 G right there. Other than the bumper, the chrome doesn't look too bad to me. I don't see any real pitting on the grille or interior chrome. At 4 to 5 a hot rodder will snap that up in a heart beat if it comes to market. If the body is really nice with that interior, it's a buy at 4 to 5.

They don't mention pitching the line that I recall in the directions. Every ported aluminum block though has a drain and the water should settle at those drains. I imagine some may still stay in the line, but with a good dryer after the compressor they should stay pretty dry as not being iron, the system shouldn't sweat. I don't recall my ported blocks ever having a lot of condensation in them. Most was from my compressor as I only had a drier right before my blast cabinet. as far as leaks. The shark bite type fittings don't seem to leak. My leaks all seemed to be at the accessories I had threaded into the ported blocks. They weren't horrendous. My system at the old shop would leak down overnight so that when I turned the valve on in the morning you would get that quick blast and it would be charged. I had a lot of fittings in my setup for my blast cabinet though that I'm sure all leaked, including the cabinet itself. I was happy enough with the system I ordered two kits for this garage and even thought about burying a line to the new shop and running it off the compressor in the old, but I will probably just buy another compressor for that shop as it's almost 100 feet between buildings. Then that building is 72 feet long so I would be pushing air anywhere from 200 to 300 feet. For that I need a much bigger supply line. The best thing to do would probably be to put the compressor in my boiler building if I ever get one built and run lines to both buildings as it would be centrally located, then I wouldn't have to listen to the compressor run when I'm sand blasting or sanding. Now there is just that money thing holding me back. LOL

Looking good. I only wish I was anywhere near that point on my shop. I think I finally have the funds to order windows for mine this week. I would love to go the salvage route, but up here Thermopane windows are a necessity. I think I am going to step up to divided light I believe. I've decided to try not to settle too much. Settling on something as visual as windows will make you grumble every time you look at the building and think that the saving wasn't worth it. I have been searching craigslist like mad, but I need 12 matched windows roughly 3 by 5 foot. That's a tall order for something that also looks good.