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Just a simple cut and paste from the Maxwell group:
“Hello. I would like to let you all know that the 2024 MBMC Registry meeting will be held Wednesday October 9, 2024 at 11 am. Hershey flea market spaces C2E 39-42.”
those happen to be my father and my spaces so feel free to stop by to chat Maxwell any other time as well. We will be there all week.
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My father and I both got ours yesterday! Getting the stickers just makes every day at work in September feel a little bit longer.
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Gettysburg isn’t too far away and one could easily kill a couple of days doing the tourist thing and driving an old car around and looking at all the monuments.
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New floor Matt in the trunk.
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I picked this Stude up in January with great intentions to make a driver out of it, but seriously underestimated how much of my time my new role at work would take up and have two brass era cars that I would rather give my time to. I know very little about it. Reasonably solid but not without rust, apparently rebuilt and even detailed engine, I have not attempted to run it, new but only partially installed wiring harness. They painted the dash. Overdrive transmission. I have the doghouse and front bumper, I am sure some small pieces are missing. $2800.00 OBO. Clear Indiana title in my name. I kicked it out of the garage twenty minutes ago and have plans for the space. Offered on the AACA forums first. Send me a pm if interested.
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Summer is almost over… but if you are willing to drive a Maxwell around up there, I would bring one too. Badlands down by Attica might be more fun.
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22 hours ago, BradFoss said:
OK, overdue update.
I was able to get the wheels rebuilt by Calimers Wheel Shop.
He did a great job using kiln dried hickory, not air dried.
Due to circumstances I need to move the Dodge next week
I ordered the new tires, tubes, flaps and caps.
I understood that I also ordered the tire rims as they have been missing, probably since WWII
Unfortunatley I didnt get the rims.
The rims I need are these
Does anyone have a source for these rims?
I need at least 4, but I'd like to have a 5th one for the spare.
Thanks for being there!
My guess is you could get a set put together through a couple phone calls. Mainly myers and romar.
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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.
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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.
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On 4/30/2024 at 12:08 PM, mikewest said:
Drive it at 25 and save yourself some money. The old Maxwells had hinged connecting rods and
Ive heard a bit unstable. Enjoy the ride ... life is short.
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.
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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.
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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.
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8 hours ago, Larry Schramm said:
We were on the patio of Stiney's, next to Tiffin Air Cooled. Where were you?
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.
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On 4/9/2024 at 9:09 AM, CarNucopia said:
I went to an eclipse tailgate hosted by the nice folks at the Model T Museum in Richmond IN. It happened to be on my way home from Charlotte.
I’ve seen a partial eclipse before, but didn’t expect the huge change in light as that last 1% of the sun gets covered. I’m glad I made the extra time to see it.
I was 75 feet away from you.
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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.
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@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.
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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.
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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.
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I think less pictures of the house might help with the sale.
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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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, edinmass said:
I prefer not to drive cars with cracked blocks……..and yes especially on pre 20 stuff there are often cracks and castings flaws that evapo rust will find. Finding cracks doesn’t bother me, driving a car with a crack would.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.
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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.
Are there many women collecting cars or is it a man thing?
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This question is actually my headline on dating apps