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In 60 years I suspect nothing will excite me.
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How to get running - 1917 Maxwell 25 Touring automobile. (PA)
oldcarfudd replied to mrcvs's topic in General Discussion
Check out the Susquehanna Valley Regional Group of HCCA. They run big tours that are pre-'16 only, but also a lot of small one-day affairs that welcome cars into the '30s. Contact is Jeff Lesher, jefflesher@outlook.com. Good guy. His wife, Tracy, edits the national magazine, the Horseless Carriage Gazette. -
Gen X drives a Model A - "Insanely Difficult"
oldcarfudd replied to Twisted Shifter's topic in General Discussion
Congratulations! You've just dissed the many hundreds of people who regularly tour in Model Ts! -
I bought an AACA National First Prize winner (!) sight-unseen from a well-known restorer. The car was very pretty, but turned out to be a lousy runner and totally undependable. I put a couple of hundred miles on it, and then turned it over to my own restorer to have it made mechanically sound as well as cute. He hauled it off to his shop. He called me, totally embarrassed, to say that the transverse front leaf spring had shattered in his trailer. The car had settled with the fenders on the front wheels, so the pretty fenders were now well-dented. I called the guy I'd bought the car from. He told me all the leaves in that spring had been broken, so he'd had them all welded. Sheesh! At least it hadn't collapsed while I was driving it! P.S. That was about 20 years ago. My restorer did a great job, and I have put many thousands of miles on that car in the intervening years.
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Quality of car for an AACA show, or "Is my car good enough?"
oldcarfudd replied to MKohl_VT's topic in General Discussion
That's a neat T! I have a '14 that's not that nice, but I drive it everywhere. If you go for DPC, you'll be in with a large number of much more modern cars. What I have done at Hershey is to enter my car in the appropriate judging class, but elect not to have it judged. You'll be parked with other Ts (if any show up) and early cars. Most of the others will be polished to a degree never seen when new, but so what? Their owners are friendly, and you'll have the best seat in the house.- 24 replies
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What kind of mileage do you get in your antique car?
oldcarfudd replied to Dave Wells's topic in General Discussion
1912 Buick Model 35 (entry-level touring car), about 15 1914 Ford Model T touring, 18-20 1907 Cadillac Model K (single-cylinder runabout), 22 1911 Stanley Model 63 (10 horsepower toy tonneau), 9 mpg on kerosene plus a mile and a quarter to a gallon of water -
Agree, a great story. As an aside, Peter Findlay trailered that sleeve-valve 1910 Russell out to an HCCA tour last year. It was in southwestern Québec province, between Montréal and the New York line, and many of us got to enjoy seeing it run. I understand he then took the car to the home of the original owner in Ontario. The home still exists. The owner, well, - - - .
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Leather license plates by Steve@leatherplates
oldcarfudd replied to 1910 Overland's topic in HCCA General Discussion
Russell is Australian. Be careful with time zones when you call! BTW, I presume that at last week's HCCA national convention, he got kicked upstairs to President. -
Time and Place: A St. Paddy's party in my residential community's clubhouse. Cast of Characters: Me, a fellow resident, and a 40-something woman guest. Opening scene: The other member has introduced the woman to me as a guy with a lot of old cars. Guest: I love old cars! Me: What era? Guest: Forties and fifties. Me: Yes there were some nice cars then. But I have 5 cars made before World War One. Guest: Oh, WOW! I guess they all had automatics back then, didn't they? Me: HUH??? It almost makes sense. She grew up when most American cars, other than the bottom of the line that she never saw, had automatics. Sticks were just coming back in a few muscle cars and hot exotics - that is, they were something new and exciting. They couldn't possibly have had them back as far as World War One, could they? I bought her a drink, but only because by then I needed one. SHEESH!
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A Model A Day! Not exactly a barn find but close enough!
oldcarfudd replied to pkhammer's topic in General Discussion
That's a wonderful find! After you evict the mice, I'd be inclined to leave the three holes. They're part of the car's story. -
I'm coming on Saturday afternoon, bringing a Model T for the tour following the swap meet. But I'll have spent the prior two days on the Jersey Shore tour with my Curved Dash Oldsmobile, and it will be in the trailer with the T. If anyone there is interested in a CDO, PM me and we can go for a ride. The car is date certified by the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain as a genuine '04, and did the Brighton run with its previous owner.
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Some serious, and seriously expensive, eye candy there!
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Status If Any of Marque Specific Clubs Falling Under AACA
oldcarfudd replied to B Jake Moran's topic in General Discussion
Some of the truly ancient makes have registers affiliated with the Horseless Carriage Club; single-cylinder Cadillacs, Chalmers, Cole, EMF, Maxwell-Briscoe, Pullman, Rambler-Jeffery, Saxon, Schacht, Sears, early (pre-T) Ford, Velie, White, Winton. -
Long distance driving/traveling with vintage cars
oldcarfudd replied to TTR's topic in General Discussion
Human-Potato Hybrid - I contacted the Rising sons (the father has died) and the Swanns. The Rising blog was taken down after interest in it faded. I got this response from Betty Swann. The blogs make for great reading! We made 2 long trips, both in the E-M-F. We never made any in a Model T. We made a trip from San Diego to Colorado Springs, CO in 2012 with three other couples for an HCCA meet. When we finished the week of touring, we headed across the middle of the country solo back to PA, even camping in the car a couple of nights. The travel blog for that trip is on the E-M-F website which is emfauto.org. When the website comes up, look along the left side of the page and click on Swann 2012 EMF Adventure. This blog starts with day one of the trip and ends with the last day. In 2015, we had our own travel blog for the solo trip circumnavigating the US with a side trip by car ferry up the Inland Passage to Juneau. I printed it out, Gil, and it filled a big 3 - ring binder! The blog website is: bswann1912.blogspot.com. Since I didn’t know all the tricks of the website, I posted each day’s adventures one after another. Made sense to me. However, the website postings are backwards, ie. the first post you see when you bring up the blog is actually the last day of the trip, followed by the previous day, all the way back to day one. In other words, to read the blog in actual order, you have to refer to the date listing on the right hand side of the first page. It shows the number of posting for each month. Open up the earliest month and day and come forward by day. That will get you through the trip in order of date traveled. It is a pain, but I don’t know how to fix it. If someone had been following the blog each day as we traveled, having the most recent day show up first made perfect sense. This trip was a four month solo trip of 10,750 miles. These trips were the highlights of our life. The second trip was so long it became a lifestyle. There were only two firm days on the whole trip we were trying to meet, with the balance of the trip just free and easy, no stress, just free-wheeling through life. We don’t believe it would be safe to make the big trip any more with weather and general violence to worry about. At the time we made the trip, we didn’t encounter any issues , except two weeks solid of freezing rain, blowing sideways. Luckily it happened at the very beginning of the trip and we were running on excitement and adrenaline and just laughed off the discomfort. The next three and a half months we had perfect weather. -
And , riding backward, the driver would be much less likely to be seriously injured when his self-driving car plowed into something solid.
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America's First Car to Exceed 100 MPH Is Headed to Auction
oldcarfudd replied to Reynard's topic in General Discussion
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What is the story behind your “handle”?
oldcarfudd replied to victorialynn2's topic in General Discussion
I'm an old (87 and counting) fudd with old (pre-World-War-One) cars. When I write stuff for the Horseless Carriage Gazette, I use Gil Fitzhugh the Elder. When I got back into the hobby after being away from it for decades, my son (also Gil Fitzhugh) was actively into cars. We have different middle names, so we're not senior and junior. I picked the GFtE handle so people reading the Gazette could tell us apart. Now my son has adopted a cruising sailboat and is essentially out of the car hobby, but I've kept the "elder" affectation because that's how Gazette readers know me. Besides, it becomes more appropriate every year! -
Period images to relieve some of the stress
oldcarfudd replied to Walt G's topic in Period Photos - Pre WWII
Alsancle, Gary's post seems to have vanished. He was referring to a picture I posted in the General Discussions, responding to a request from Steve Moskowitz for pictures of carts on tour. In that picture, the "gray" car isn't being towed; it's towing. It's an original, 1906-7 2-cylinder Buick belonging, at the time, to Mark Conforth. The maroon and cream car being towed is a single-cylinder REO on its maiden voyage since restoration by Jerry Chase. Hope this helps. Gil Fitzhugh -
Period images to relieve some of the stress
oldcarfudd replied to Walt G's topic in Period Photos - Pre WWII
Hi, Gary. Thanks for the sentiments. But they belong in the thread that Steve opened in the General Discussion section. I like your pix, too! Gil