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What a beautiful place to tour! Although, in spite of all the high-performance cars, my favorite is 007's Deux Chevaux with the bullet holes. Thank you for sharing these pictures.

Yes, indeed, there will be a brass car tour - the 16th BBC. (That name started out Brass in Bucks County. Then we moved, and it became Brass in Berks County. We've moved again; now it's just Beautiful Brass Cars!) There will be a pre-WWII flea market and pre-1916 car show at the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum in Strasburg (NOT Stroudsburg!) on Sunday, May 21. There will then be four days of touring, Monday 5/22 through Thursday 5/25, leaving from the Clarion Inn, our host hotel. This will be a good place to see the cars being cranked up for each day's tour; you can take pictures and ask questions. The tour is limited to 85 cars, and I believe it's full, so unless the weather is really lousy, there should be plenty to see. Last year's tour was a gem. I wrote it up for the HCCA website. You can read all about it here: http://boards.hcca.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=951&sid=c0e785d212f1e6d72cc3675d6f02e7a0 Come on out and see what the fun's all about! Gil Fitzhugh the Elder, Morristown, NJ

Try to figure out why my Stanley's oil pump weakens after a few miles of driving. The picture is from New Year's Day, 2016, when the temperature was 28. The driving should be a bit more benign tomorrow!

Calimer did my wheels for a '12 Buick. Stutzman did them for a Model T and a single-cylinder Cadillac. Both did top-notch work.

You might post this on the Model T Ford Club website. There's a fellow named Stan Howe who posts there frequently. He rebuilds all sorts of early carburetors, not just ones for Fords. He might know what it is.

John Nikodym in Nebraska is the contact person for the Velie Register of the HCCA. He may be able to date that panel more accurately.

Is pre-registration required, or can I just show up if it's a nice day?

David Deardorff in York, PA has a '10 Otto and sometimes tours with it. He was on last year's BBC tour.

I once had a '16 Briscoe with an ohv Ferro V-8. Pretty good engine, under-engineered car, fast little stinker when it wasn't snapping axles.

Looks like one to me, other than the home-made truck bed.

If you really want to go in style, there's a 1941 Lincoln Continental convertible with V-12 and overdrive for sale on the HCCA website.

There's a Connecticut couple who took a 1925 Flint on the Gladden Tour. I don't know them; I only saw their picture in the Bulb Horn.

The beginning of the Eisenhower Interstate Highway system! Little could he have known.

Is this a progressive tour, stopping at a different place every night?

I was the driver of the Cadillac in Chase392’s post. An old repair failed, the right front wheel spindle broke, and the wheel came off. This was on a 1907 single-cylinder car, so it was a slow-speed accident. I thought I ought to get off the road, so after slowing to about 15 mph (from about 25), I allowed the car to drift to the right. Until then, I seemed to have pretty good control. But then the un-wheeled spindle got to the unpaved shoulder and dug in. The rear of the car slewed to the left, and my wife (who was sitting on the left in this right-hand-drive car) was pitched out into the road. She hit the left side lamp on the way out; this caused her to half-roll, and she landed on the back of her head, unconscious. I was holding the steering wheel, and stayed in the car. The first driver to arrive on the scene was emergency-trained, and he took my wife to the hospital. She had a concussion, from which she recovered over about the next month. But she had also injured her rotator cuff, for which she had surgery six weeks ago; she’s doing well, but lost the ski season and won’t be back on a horse for a while. I’m not sure she’ll ever ride in an antique car again. Fortunately, this was on a dead straight road with no traffic in either direction. In this case, a seat belt, even minimally installed, would have kept my wife in the car. But on a twisting road, or one with a ditch or a curb instead of a shoulder, or in the event of a collision with another car, that high, narrow, short-wheelbase Cadillac could easily have rolled. There is nowhere in that car to do a serious seat belt installation. The world is not a risk-free place. We are skiers. We used to fly gliders. We have toured both in Europe and in North America on bicycles. My wife does horseback tours all over the world. We accept some risks because we enjoy the rewards. And we are well aware that we have been damn lucky. Gil Fitzhugh the Elder

Mel Draper in Jeromesville, Ohio, is a very good source of leather. He may know an Amishman in the area who will do the work. Several of us in the HCCA use an Amishman in Pennsylvania, but you might like to find someone closer to you.

A couple of years ago, before there was any serious noise about Trump running for president, the Trump national golf course in NJ had a car show to raise money for the Trump foundation. I took my '12 Buick. Trump was there, with his "yuge" helicopter, and so was a Rolls-Royce alleged to be his. There was a statuette of him mounted atop the instrument panel, and the NY vanity plate said: "ARRIVED".

Paul and Cheryl Vaughan in Willow Street, PA, have a couple of Pullmans. Gil Fitzhugh the Elder, Morristown, NJ

If you're rich enough to drive a Tesla (I'm not), you don't care!

dei - You don't have to wait any longer. I appreciate it right now! Gil Fitzhugh

If they start selling cars, I'd like first crack at that brass-era Model B Ford.

1938 Hudson or Nash.

I don't really have a dog in this fight. But the AACA membership card I just got doesn't mention the museum. Last year's membership card includes the museum logo "AACA Museum" and, in very small print, 'The Antique Automobile Club Museum". That would have suggested to me, a year ago, had I cared enough to look, that both the library and the museum were part of the AACA. By the way, the Model T Ford Club of America owns the Model T museum in Indiana. Both the club and the museum are 501(c)(3) organizations, club members are museum members, and the two organizations share a common board. So it's not an unusual arrangement. Gil Fitzhugh the Elder

I've seen lots of them. The only one I've owned was a 1916 V-8 Briscoe. I sold it 42 years ago to John Truman Briscoe. I have no idea where it is today.

Can a Rex-topped car be entered in AACA judging without a massive point deduction? It wouldn't have come from the factory that way.