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This 15 dodge brothers got placed around a holly tree in my back yard some years ago. It brings me joy every time I see it, and the chassis that is no longer under it has provided parts to three other 15’s so far, mine included.

@mrcvs I am a brass era car guy still in the raising children and working all but two weeks a year stage of life. When do I use my brass era car… whenever I can! I don’t particularly like car shows, because the cars are not nearly as fun when stagnant. I take it to the store, I take it out to dinner, I take my daughter to the ice cream stand more often than a responsible parent would buy their child ice cream… but sometimes the desire to go on an old car ride with her means I need a destination that peaks her interest. I take a lot of backroad cruises just for fun. Actually… from the time of spring commissioning to fall decommissioning… I use an old car for 90% of my driving and modern cars sit unless: high speed, long distance on a timeframe, bad weather, or sketchy parking. I will admit I have always had access to a trailer (my father is an old car guy) so one was available if needed… but I don’t do anything with it that an AAA membership couldn’t cover. I primarily run around in a 1915 dodge brothers, which is about as capable and reliable as you can get in the brass era, but intend to treat my 1910 Maxwell the same way (perhaps with some brass lamps left in the garage). Just get one and go have fun. Buy the most mechanically sound and well sorted car you can get. Projects are no fun if you are not a retired guy with an abundance of free time, not to mention the financial aspects of… an expensive good car is way cheaper than making a good car out of a cheap bad car.

And can become shorter driving too fast in cars with nine square inches of tread on the ground and two wheel brakes. our 2cyl Maxwell is a 5x5 with a sliding gear transmission and could run circles around an AA… but I cruise along at about 25 miles an hour.

I think Romar has rims for your dodge. Make sure you know which you are after, there are Dodge parts, stanweld parts, and Kelsey parts that all look about the same. They can actually be purchased quite reasonably. Ed is absolutely correct about the 26” rim. It took me years to piece together a set and once I had what I needed all the wrong stuff I had purchased turned into a small fortune that all sold to one guy with zero hesitation or haggling.

One thing to note on having a tank made, should you end up going that direction… none of the sheet metal shops around me would make a fuel tank… all were happy to make a “water tank” to the exact specs and reusing the fittings from the old gas tank I brought in. Some steered you towards the correct verbiage… all accepted it.

If you drew a line from the model T’s through the camera lense to 75 feet behind it in carnucopias picture… my family was gathered at the tailgate of a pickup. The grass overflow parking at the museum.

I was 75 feet away from you.

I was quite a slacker when it came to taking photos, but my family all gathered together at the Model T museum in Richmond, IN because they just happened to be right in the thick of it all and it's an excuse to go to the model t museum. A surreal experience shared with both my daughters, both my parents, and dozens of strangers from around the country. The ring of fire was awesome, as was standing in the dark with light on the horizon in all directions. The drive home was a bit congested.

@AHa what technique did you go with and how has it survived the last five years? I just paid the invoice in an online auction for a long searched for badge to replace an incorrect reproduction on my 15 dodge brothers. As this badge ended up costing me over 10% of the cars purchase price… I really don’t want it to fall off and this car sees more road time than some peoples modern daily drivers.

My 10 Maxwell 4cyl uses engine oil, supplied by a lubricator and drips right on top of the clutch plates. Level eventually works its way up to the rear main and makes its way into the crankcase to get drained periodically.

This conversation has been happening for decades. Today we have plastic cars but at one point nobody thought anyone would collect a car with plastic radio knobs. As a proud life member of a club that accepts everything 25 years old as an antique, I am compelled to support the mission that they began long before I was born. Do I think of my 1995 Suburban in the same light I think about my 1915 Dodge… not at all, but I like them both. Oddly enough, I run historic license plates on the 95 and not the 15.

I think less pictures of the house might help with the sale.

A loss for all of us. Roger helped me a great deal with my 15… when we could keep the conversation on task enough to do so. A friend to many that will be missed.

Many years ago I made the one block walk to my father’s garage on a day where he was feeling particularly ready to have less projects in his life and this 30 horse t-head 4cyl Maxwell became mine. Through the entirety of my ownership I have been too busy with too many children and not enough leftover funds to really take on a brass era project… but… before my fathers ownership it belonged to a local car guy that was like an extra grandfather, it’s an open front detachable toy tonneau, and it’s not likely I will get another opportunity to have a 1910 Maxwell model G, so it plays garage art for the most part while I dream about more free time. There are occasional spurts of progress. My currently less overwhelmed by projects father has recently expressed some interest in playing with it so some real progress may be near.

Finding the crack bothered me! Pulling off my first stitch was a fun learning experience, but a pristine block that didn’t need it would have been more fun. That said, as soon as the repair was done I put more evaporust in while the stitching stuff was still out and handy.

One word of warning with evaporust, it helped me find a crack in a block I didn’t know about. I wonder how many years it would have been before I had an issue if I never cleaned the rust out of the painted over crack.

All my car buddies are enablers.

This product will make paint stick to a breeze blowing by. I have used it many times on plastics and a couple times on chrome… but I was spray painting a large chrome area with an edge taped off. No idea how chrome treated with adhesion promoter would clean up if it ended up on a not to be painted area.

It’s two hours away from me. I must state clearly that I have no space for it and would leave it outside and drive it on salted roads. Now is the time for everyone who cares about preserving old cars to tell me not to buy it.

Those certainly are Maxwell engines and the rear end on top is Maxwell. Where are they located and are they available?

This car showed up on Facebook the day after I sold my spare set of 26” tubes and tires… if it had show up before then… I likely would have used using the tires as an excuse to buy it. It’s only 90 minutes away!

Well what do you know, John Bloom comes from my neck of the woods. I looked at that house long and hard. Buying it would be easy, owning it was far outside of my financial capabilities.

I also have a pic of the car… wounded on a flatbed… and will leave it to the owner to post if he desires. The news I got is that driver and passengers came out without serious injuries. Great car and great owner. Very happy to hear all are well.

I have circled the chocolate field in the ‘15 Dodge Brothers and sold enough to pay for one of our seven spaces, already willing to declare this Hershey a huge success.

I just drove past, from the toll road it looked slightly more occupied than that… slightly. They were open for business and vending though!