auburnseeker

Even if the buyer were earnest and had all intentions of restoring the car, unfortunate events can happen and then the car is dumped on the market to cover life expenses that take president. Especially if the party that was in love with the car with the best of the intentions is taken out of the picture and the family/ estate is left to deal with it. This could happen to one of any age, so you can't even say, well that young guy is the best choice because he has the longest amount of time to actually finish it. Actually the older guy might be better because it won't be his first endeavor and he may have the finances to see it through, Even if you can do a lot of the work yourself, A cord is still not a cheap catalog car to restore.

The one George Albright mentioned was a buy in my opinion and as such sold very quickly. I agree with both the other 2 values. Both those cars need a lot to make them correct before you even get to the point of restoring them. A lot of Convertible only parts that are going to be very expensive to acquire. I would have to get atleast 65G for my car to turn it loose and that may or may not include all the extras I have acquired for it. Eventually hopefully it will be the only one left really worth restoring so the market will adjust accordingly. Though the survival rate on these must be over 80%. I figure the only realistic way to an Auburn for me is to find the guy with one that wants a Cord, or someday I'll bit the bullet and buy a donor sedan to make it correct, unless I get bored and just get it going as is. There are a lot of things that need to be improved upon wit hate conversion before I felt comfortable driving it though and realistically that is probably wasted money.

Blades and arms add another $100. That's $700 just to have the wipers work. On a car like that, you will find alot of those needy parts.

It actually looks like some sort of frame horn sticking out under the passenger side front fender that's definitely not Cord.

I've been trying to make the best of the cold. -10 last night and the day time high of 6. Because we got freezing rain right before the cold, the driveway is a solid sheet of ice, but with just a tad of texture to it. We got snow on top of that and I plowed it. Being so cold you actually have traction in the snow and you can drive up our drive in 2 wheel drive without spinning. I usually keep the 600 foot driveway clean, with no ice or snow, but since it hasn't thawed since, we have gone the other route and have been using the 300 foot hill at the top with the 300 foot flat at the bottom before the road as a sledding trail. I even dug out an old runner sled and filed the rust off the runners. That thing is pretty darn fast and tricky to steer with your feet to keep it in it's path. (its a pretty good hill) with a 9 degree corner in the middle. As a bonus it's an older drive so it has 2 rutts from years of traffic and this year, dump and cement trucks. It gives you 2 pretty dedicated runs to race on. I have been out with the kids the last few days giving them a little exercise. I even grabbed it and took it down to get the mail yesterday. What else are you going to do. I have been working on the garage outside a little at a time. Another week of -5 to -20 and then we are suppose to get balmy. in 12 days we might see 34.

Number one question on a reserve auction seems to be what the reserve is. When asked this point blank, I say it's around a certain number. As Matt mentioned, you really need to sort out the dreamers, because you will spend all day on calls with people that can't afford the car. Usually especially with eBay, there is travel involved for the buyer so I want them to be pretty sure this is the car they are going to buy before I waste either parties time or money.

"25K tires, small parts, instrument repair.." I think he meant all the small stuff including tires, that will add up to the 25K. Wire harness, new battery, new glass, rubber bits, I'm guessing nothing is really nice and will just need a little cleaning to look new. This car looks like every piece needs heavy rehab. That front fender needs alot of help and that's from what I can see in the photo. I see day light through the firewall. I'll bet there is alot missing from this car. You would be better to buy mine than try to restore this one and restore it instead. I'll take the money and start looking for an Auburn. Besides it's guaranteed that as soon as I sell mine, the value on these will sky rocket.

Looking close at the other picture of that phaeton, it looks like it might be a rear wheel conversion, but the tires and wheels on it as well as the stance. It sits High in the rear. Probably the reason he has the sedan was to do a conversion.

I'm pretty sure it's a phaeton as well. That's alot of room between the the top of the rear tub and the door line. I can't imagine a sportsman would be more than 2 feet for the folding tonneau. I wonder if that car is rusty in the lowers. There is alot of surface rust on the cowl and door and those are the places that rust last. That floor pan just loves to collect water. Nothing to say that it was always a western car either. I see alot of missing parts, they hopefully have, in relation to the interior.

It would be a big gamble. That engine looks a bit scary to me. Is it seized? Cracked? I know it would need rebuild either way but there is a lot of corrosion on that engine and the way the dash is rusty, that tarp has probably held in more moisture than it kept out. The right car will come along some day, Or I'll trade it for an Auburn as is. Of course I keep buying stuff for it, so the deal gets sweeter or I have a much easier restoration as time goes by. It's in my 50 degree dry shop under a clear cover right now that doesn't go to the floor. That's with the outside Temperature at -10, so it should look the same or the next several years, unlike either of these cars.

If you decide to pass. I have a Father that might be interested in it if the price isn't too crazy. He does his own work so the reviving part wouldn't be as expensive for him as for a guy who just writes Checks. We are in Upstate NY.

I could touch it when I listed it. But in 10 years we've grown apart. Call it going our separate ways. Most marriages don't last that long!

He is storing a Cord outside under a tarp? Looks like the bumpers were rechromed at some point, now going to crap from tarp storage. Wrong coast or the sedan would have potential for me for parts. But I spent my money , On the Garage First.

I'm with John in part on this. I have some "store items" these are the worst thing one can have. My original thought was a good way to move auction items that didn't seem to sell at auction. Well the problem is those items have been in that store for 10 years now. Since that time I have sold and moved both my house and my shop. I hate to say it, but I should terminate every store item and close my store. Every once in a while, someone will buy something from it. Maybe once every 2 months. Almost everything in it is a 10.00 item with the occasional pain in the butt to ship piece of trim at 20.00. I haven't had my hand on most of these items since I moved plus a relisting glitch that has let me relist items that sold (I know it exists because it has happened about 2-3 times a year just about every year since I started selling and research has shown the exact same listing sold to someone else months earlier ). Sometimes things do get lost or broke. If the seller refunds your money within a day of payment with an apology of why, I'm perfectly fine with that. It's happened to me as a buyer as well. It has never been something rare or valuable though. I've never left negative feedback for this, and fortunately I don't think anyone has for me. Think about the number of times even recently you went to a retailer that was suppose to have something in stock that they didn't. I've even checked online inventory before going to the dealer and they showed the same at the store scratching their head as to why the number was off. I would be sure to follow up on the negative feedback. I always do, especially if you have a legitimate reason why the sale couldn't be completed.

It is starting to get to be a bit trying as I'm listing 30 items a night to generate funds to pay money off and buy supplies for my shop, expecting them to sell in 7 days, then a couple days to ship, but some of the bulk buyers, snag those and they sit on the shelf for up to 30 days, so that's 37 days before they may get paid for. Hopefully the robbing Peter to pay Paul at the end of my project doesn't come back to bite me too hard. To add insult to injury, my computer died right at the end of the job and the batteries went with the bitter cold in my diesel. So an extra $1500 I wasn't planning in my budget which was already over. When it rains it pours, right?

We actually bottomed out at -21. Should mean 2 days records fell, but they are saying the low for today is -6. It was -21 at 2 AM I guess someone needs to go back to school to figure that one out.

It's -18 right now according to Accuweather which also has the projected low at -9. I find it interesting that they never change the projected low, even when the current temp is way above or below it. Should also set a record as the old one was -8 for what is now yesterday and -11 for today. They are saying it's going to get colder as well. -23. We seem to be running 30 + degrees colder than last year.

Geeze I just built the big barn. What are the dimensions again? LOL

That's a 46-48 Olds horn ring I believe they used for the steering wheel.

It all depends on what make and model boat it is. A utility is harder to sell than a runabout and a race type boat is like a Corvette. There are buyers, but they are getting few and far between and most want repliboats, because like cars, fewer people know how to keep them running with the original power plants. They also get used so little that if left in the water, usually have a dead battery or no fuel because it dried up. Many are merely beautiful to look at because they were freshly refurbished, but no one ever touched the engine which is a 70-80 year old flathead that needs atlas a valve job if not a full rebuild and has crappy compression so it won't run with the updraft carburetor because there isn't enough suction to pull the fuel up to the cylinders from the carburetor. No different than many of the pretty cars we see, except they are harder to work on, because the engine is usually stuffed down in a hole that requires a lot of agility to access. Gee you would think I actually worked on one at one time or another.

I wonder if Alsancle's boat started life to be as he mentioned then got sold before it was actually finished and the next buyer turned it into an outboard? Does it have 2 substantial stringers that could support an inboard? They would have been installed as the foundation so even if reworked into an outboard they would still be there. Even as an outboard I like it. How tender is the bottom?

It's getting to be the dead of winter and below zero in the Northern part of most of the country with daytime highs struggling to hit the single digits. I think this thread is just the right dose of medicine to help ease the blues. Besides they share a lot with cars especially woodies, they just don't have wheels. Just about everything else. I would welcome discussions on vintage planes as well to which I know very little. If you are a real gear head, you have oil in your veins. That same oil that flows through anything that floats flies or drives with the help of internal combustion. Those of us aforementioned like it all with atleast a passing interest.

Do you have any other pictures of the transom?

I think the biggest vintage outboard (pre WWII) I have is an 18HP Johnson. From what I see from here, that looks like an inboard. Is there a prop shaft or strut or spots where one was mounted? I have seen several this style and one were outboards. My guess is you would need atleast 35 HP just to move it at any speed besides trolling. and more like a minimum of 50 to actually look like a speed boat.

My tractor has chains on all 4. 3rd, year and I finally figured out the easy way to get them over the AG tires. The big marks are the tractor tires. Good thing for the chains, as right before this snow storm about 8 inches, We had 1/4 inch of ice after it rained at 22-28 degrees all day. I could even feel the tractor spinning once in a while, Mostly sliding sideways on it even with the chains. The smaller tracks were from the wife's truck. Being so Cold I parked, my diesel till it warms up a bit. I had to get her Christmas present out of my truck. A shiny new pair of 100 lb Propane cylinders. Her expression wasn't quite the same as a nice sparkly something in a little box. Last year it was a new set of snow tires. Boy do I know how to treat the women.