John348
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On 4/7/2023 at 10:24 AM, Brass is Best said:
But the world caters to the 1% for every other thing so why not keep AM?
Because company's are not advertising on the stations and the stations are going out of business. The companies are not advertising because they are not seeing a return for their investment, same as with newspapers.
It's nothing personal, it's only business
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15 hours ago, rwchatham said:
Just wrapping up the paint work on a 53 Cadillac restoration and the total bill for paint materials from start to finish came in at 12 k ! This is getting insane .
That sounds about right. It's not just the paint, there was plastic, sand paper, primers, more sand paper, more primer. I bought a gallon of prep-sol over the summer and it was near $80, how many gallons of that did they go through? I spent close to that in materials 5 years ago, and I was very happy with results. It might be the invoice for all of the materials for all the tasks being performed on the in the shop, not just the paint aspect.
Quality materials will contribute to a better job in the end. If your happy with the results and the vendor is comfortable and know- legible working with a certain particular product.
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7 minutes ago, dodge28 said:
There is a small group of people from around the world who sit in an office in a city in France ,Called Dove or Dobe or
somethin like that , I cannot remember , and decide what is best for the billions of the world and which direction the world should go. May be that is the 1% this person is refereing to .
The noise heard coming from the radio in the car is from the Generator . (segments of the armateur) Not much from the Alternator. It was possible to buy a suppressor condenser from automobile parts suppliers and ground the BAT, to the body.
Harry in Toronto.
WOW ......THATS DEEP! I heard the real reason is that nobody is spending money for advertising and the stations cost more to operate because nobody listens anymore. So why would the manufacturer install a radio that cost more to manufacture if nobody cares? If i were given the option to pay more for an AM radio I would think about it, to be honest,
But your explanation sounds real cool, but also way out there!
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I just took took delivery of a 2023 Cadillac 3 weeks ago, I don't even know if has an AM band on the radio. It really would not matter if it doesn't. All of the AM stations that I need (local news traffic weather) have an FM equivalent, I have the XM sports package so I get to listen to local baseball teams that would otherwise be on AM.
Unfortunately AM and FM radio stations along with newspapers are rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
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My son owns the the 53 Chevy 150 on the left that has been in the family since new, certified HPOF, The only restored was the chrome back around 25 years ago (it was real nasty) and the wheels were painted. The 54 Belair is mine. This photo was taken last year outside Charlottesville Virginia last fall.
Happy a Happy Holiday Everyone, and safe travels. I'm down here again visiting for the holiday (with out the car)
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Very sad, RIP my friend
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31 minutes ago, avgwarhawk said:
Valve. It's the weakest link in the system.
Depending on the vehicle it can be the hard part to find and needless to say expensive when you do. Hopefully this one is common. Regardless I would make every attempt to replace it if I had the heater core out in my hands now.
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21 minutes ago, Walt G said:
Austin Clark knew Caruso and the junkyard that was located south of the railroad tracks in Hicksville. Austin and I would drive by the location when ever we were near there. Apparently Caruso would get Bugatti engines and cut them in half to get two 4 cylinder blocks/engines and fit them to midget racers. Apparently at the time ( early 1970s) at least one or more of these race cars survived. when we would visit the location the junkyard was long gone ( at least by a decade ) . My memory is faulty but I think we looked at one of the race cars too. Believe it was located in the area? can't recall exactly.
to many memories/experiences and things we did to remember everything exactly for all details. Austin did often talk of "Caruso's junk yard" as one of the places to go for pre war car stuff. There was also a junk yard I believe in Valley Stream NY as well that was well known to old car guys in the pre 1960 era.
If it is the same yard in Hicksville it was north of Old Country Road just east of Wantagh Parkway, just off the exit ramp. It is now the site of a distribution yard/sub station for PSEG. There was a great bar across the street from that yard named Ebbet's Field filled with memorabilia from all three NY baseball teams from the 40's and 50's. I used to visit in the 70's and 80's. That yard has been gone now for at least 25-30 years now. There was all kinds of cool stuff there.
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Rule of thumb was if it was used on an AMC it was sourced from one of the BIG 3, I think the parts will be pretty common
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A little late for this thread, but I was busy the week of the 17th! One green and one part green
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5 hours ago, Ray62 said:
We all realize that every historic building related to the early days of motor cars won't be saved, especially some of the huge old factory buildings, but I've always hated to see a vintage gas station disappear, especially when it could have been repurposed fairly easily. At least for once, a vintage gas station, located in Philadelphia, was saved from being demolished, even though it cost the property owner 1,000,000 dollars to move it. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you spread the cost over the square footage of the new Chubb Insurance high rise office building, it probably added very little to the overall price tag of the new building. Just nice to see a neat old gas station saved.
While a million dollars sounds like a lot of money (and it is!) but with inner construction it is really not. I was shopping for a new vehicle last week for my wife and with a million dollars you can't even buy 10 new Escalades! So looking at all of the skilled manpower, specialized equipment, permits, and engineering involved, I feel it was a bargain!
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On 3/23/2023 at 9:11 AM, Steve_Mack_CT said:
A tip for anyone attending Greenwich, spectators and trailers vie for very limited parking while rocket scientists in town have a weekly farmer's market play out in the same very limited space. In other words, a zoo...
I had a car up there several years ago and trailer parking was a cluster. If there was an app at Greenwich the day I was there they would have figured a way to screw it up
It is such an important aspect and the people that manage trailer parking at a few of the Concourse events that I have attended no idea what is needed, others were spot on.
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Here are a few photo's of it I took at the Hemming's Concourse at Lake George a few years back. The marquee class were 348/409 cars and we were parked next to each other in the class
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25 minutes ago, Pfeil said:
If the person is still living at home, can't drive a car, can't drive a stick shift, mow the lawn, etc. The person wouldn't be my heart doctor.
I don't want a heart doctor that has to cut his own lawn.
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23 minutes ago, Pfeil said:
If the person is still living at home, can't drive a car, can't drive a stick shift, mow the lawn, etc. The person wouldn't be my heart doctor.
It all depends on your medical insurance plan
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17 hours ago, dalef62 said:
I sell at Hershey and any offer someone gives is fair game with me! I'm not offended or insulted. It is part of the game and I enjoy it. Same goes for when I go shopping for parts, I may offer 10-50 precent less for any item just to see how bad someone wants to see that item gone.
No harm in asking. If you are offended you don't understand the flea market mentality.
It all depends how the offer is delivered, There is a way to offer a lower price and insult the seller and if people don't understand that they don't understand the flea market mentality. Some people are just plain rude and presume I am there to make a living.
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15 hours ago, TAKerry said:
I am pretty sure that the Corsica and Beretta were made at Boxwood road in Wilmington. I had many a friends that worked there putting them together.
I know they built Corsica's in Linden NJ as well, I went through a tour of that plant and that was in the late 80's. That plant has been gone awhile now.
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Mark,
GREAT JOB! and great determination! I found working on a mid-70's GM Bendix EFI unit pretty frustrating. That car looks fantastic
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1 hour ago, 60FlatTop said:
I get a kick out the defining of upstate and downstate New York. I heard Poughkeepsie was upstate. Some say Albany.
To me it was Yonkers. I grew up in the Bronx, when my Grandfather went to shopping at the A&P in Yonkers he used to say he was going upstate, it was maybe 5 traffic lights to Yonkers and the Westchester county line, but it was always known as upstate to us, and I am sure we were known to be "down in in the city" to the people of Yonkers.
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9 hours ago, ted sweet said:
in upstate ny there are very few daily drivers over 15 years old
In downstate NY (lower 9 counties) there are very few daily drivers that are under 10 years old
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21 minutes ago, 8E45E said:
Craig, thanks for posting those links, unfortunately you cut my quote short. What I mentioned is everything those articles mentioned, but nothing had to do with the car looking old or not.
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9 hours ago, 8E45E said:
In some states, they are talking about increasing the age of an "Antique Vehicle" from 25 years to 50 years because cars now last longer and don't look 'old' anymore.
Craig
Craig, I think that is a false assumption, It is hard for me to believe that someone riding around from DMV or a state legislature noticing a car and saying "that car looks too new to be considered antique." I am sure that there is a disrupted revenue stream at the state DMV's when these vehicles turn 25 years old and the owners apply for historical/antique registrations which is at a discounted price. I would tend to think the insurance companies notice there is a rise in claims as well, and I am sure that they are not to thrilled with that either. People are buying 25+ year old cars and trucks, registering them as antiques and then using them for every day use and ABUSING the privilege of collector/ pleasure use insurance and taking advantage of not having emission testing in certain states.
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Did you try coasting in neutral and moving the clutch in and out? Removing any torqued load coming off of the driveline to see if the vibration changes any?
I agree 1939 Buick 80+ year old mounts can cause all kinds of vibration to be felt, and also can cause some severe geometry changes that could stress that front U-joint angle.
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I know this is an old thread, but I figured I would wake it. I came upon the 1971 Film Duel on TV last night with Dennis Weaver, I never realized that this was a Spielberg film.
This 1970 Valiant stood it's ground in this one
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How are your ethics (honesty in selling)...really.
in General Discussion
Posted · Edited by John348 (see edit history)
Selling a late model used car and vintage car are two very different things. On my late model cars I would trade them in. I used to offer them to people I know for that same trade in price plus the sales tax difference, until someone I worked with purchased my 1992 Buick Roadmaster Station Wagon in 1997 that I was trading in for a Suburban. Four months later he was complaining that I screwed him and knew the transmission was bad. He did not want to understand that I was getting the same money on a trade in that he paid. I gave him $2000 back in an attempt to make it go away, he only saw it as an admission of guilt on my end. Now I just trade them in. I did not know the transmission was was going to fail
I just traded in a car about month ago, I went to Carvana for a price and to paid me 1/3 more then Cadillac dealer offered. Came to my house with a check left with the car and the title. Late model cars anything can go wrong at any given moment, I really do not want to deal with the gen pop.
Vintage, why lie? I very seldom sell a car, if I did it was to make room for something else. It's a small hobby I feel I have been it involved in it a long time, why tarnish a reputation for few bucks? I am in the mental process of beginning the "sell off" There really is nothing to lie about on any of my cars. I will send as many photo's as possible, and I highlight all the faults, but it is best that they see it in person or have someone else look at it.
What about the buyers who lie to the sellers?