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4 hours ago, J.H.Boland said:
You've got high ceilings !
Just shy of twelve and a half feet. The Maxwell is on a four post lift so I suppose in the current configuration I could get a fourth car in this two car garage!
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@J.H.Boland Please don’t show me pictures like that, my garage is too full to take on the project!
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1 hour ago, J.H.Boland said:
Only once did I try for 40 MPH ! It felt like the top and windshield were going to part company with the car at any minute. If it weren't for the fact that I had the engine balanced, I think the whole thing might have shaken apart. It's comfortable at about 25-28 MPH.
I rather thought that might be the case. The incredibly light chassis always made me think about a 490 based speedster but the 1/4 elliptical springs on each corner don’t look like enough! -
I have always wondered what an early 490 would be like on the road. The first HCCA eligible car my father had was a 1915 Chevrolet Baby Grand, which by appearances is a very similar car but in reality is a lot more car (a lot more suspension anyways!). The Baby Grand was a wonderful car with ample power and gentle handling. I have been curious if the cheaper car would feel like a cheaper car from behind the wheel or if it would behave well at speed. By speed, I am talking about something near 40mph.
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1 hour ago, Machinist_Bill said:
If you loan your car to a director, hope it's a movie worth watching, wait 76 years for the value to increase, you will be how old?????
About the age of most of the guys here now!
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A half a million. I have seen 475,000 and 522,000 so I assume the second number is after the juice from the auction company.
I need to loan my car to a director.
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6 minutes ago, JV Puleo said:
Which shows how disconnected I am from the world of (to use an oxymoron) pop culture. I wouldn't pay an extra dime for a movie car regardless of who once sat in it. I do have a question about the McFarlan. I've never seen one much less taken one apart. Was it any good? I know other expensive cars were extremely well made. I've worked on numerous Silver Ghosts and PIs and I'll take Ed's word that the top end Pierce Arrows are in the same category. I'd say the same about the FRP/Porter we've discussed simply because the original designer was so well known and respected. I'm sure Locomobile fits this description as well, at least through the early to mid-20s. What I am certain of is that none of the movie star type buyers of the McFarlan were impressed by much more than the price. A lot of people presume that more expensive means better...but that is often not the case.
until very recently a good friend of mine had a McFarlan touring car, it was an absolute muscle car for its era and a couple eras after it.-
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1 hour ago, 1912Staver said:
A McFarlan for 17K ? That seems very low, even if the body is of questionable originality.
I think the odd body made the car bring less than the chassis was worth. The flippers were asleep on that one.-
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3 hours ago, Minibago said:
I stand corrected Mark, you are quite right, my belief was through experience with current cars on the road here in OZ, my 1917 has 25 inch wheels with steel felloes so I can only think that as these cars have been restored, steel rims from later cars (or perhaps other brands) have replaced the timber felloe originally fitted.
We do more here than just “roll down the road straight” so I guess I for one am damned. 😂😂😂
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This car would have been 65 when I was born. Not my oldest car, but by far my favorite.
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We have put up for the winter in a friends barn but could meet you out there. My schedule is the least predictable. Do you have my father Joe Goss’ number? @gossjh
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Mike, we did a model A station wagon with automotive clear but didn’t use enough of it. At about ten years later we are gonna have to re-apply. The car is in Lafayette if you want to take a look.
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I intend to get the dodge in the background to get certified as original, but it wasn’t up for a trip to Hershey last fall.
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I wish Dodge came up with the idea first and bought me his friends.
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The value of that jack as a jack greatly exceeds its value as a collectible. I cannot guess how many hydraulic jacks have shared garage time with our old mechanical jacks but are now in a scrap heap somewhere. it may not be the most convenient jack to use, but if you keep it around your grandchildren will still be able to use it.
I used one to get a car turned sideways a couple days ago.
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I just paid for it. Thanks Guy!
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8 minutes ago, JV Puleo said:
I haven't thought of anything I can make out of that piece!
I think it would make a pretty awesome flagpole holder on the side of a building.-
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My fathers 2cyl (5x5 with 3speed trans) Maxwell will just barely get you above 30 mph and cruises rather comfortably at 25…. It gets up to that speed in about a city block. Slow, but quick!
The T will outrun it but I very much so prefer driving the Maxwell.
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The following states require uninsured motorist coverage, so even though you have liability only, if you insure in one of the below states your insurance company will pay even though you run liability only. Oddly enough, this list is incomplete as Indiana requires it too, or at least used to. You should verify your states laws and your liability policy because most people do not realize they have this coverage. I had a 65 falcon get hit in a parking lot many years ago and caused 5k damage on a 2k car. I had liability only but the person that hit me had no insurance, so my company spent 5k on my 2k car. They said on Uninsured motorist they have to fix it if possible rather than total it out.
Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
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We have one that came to us labeled “Marmon” …. But, Scott Bonesteel is correct that it is Plymouth. A customer sent his Plymouth parts to us for woodgrain and that is how the one we already had got a correct ID.
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10 hours ago, auburnseeker said:
Thanks. I'll pass it along so he can wire up the later coil he has to get it running. They can worry about authenticity later if desired.
We had a ‘15 Baby Grand years ago and I can tell you that the original coils are out there as we managed to find a spare or two but let them go with the car, and because of the year or two looking way back then I still recognize them at swap meets from time to time.
20 years ago good tested units with the switch attached brought about $600 bucks.
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17 minutes ago, oldcarfudd said:
If you decide that repainting it to a color you like is inappropriate for this car, don't buy the car. If you don't like the color now, you'll come to positively loathe it the longer you own it.
This is very true. My first car was a very nice unrestored 1950 Chevrolet styline given to me by my grandfather before his passing. The original paint had thinned to showing the primer in some places but the car still presented well and I absolutely loved that it was a 44k mile all original vehicle. A minor fender bender created the need for a repaint. We gave the painter a paint code, a sample panel, and an aerosol can of the correct color for the car, he flipped through a paint chip book and picked something he thought was right. It was metallic, off, and just wrong. The car looked great and the quality of the work was better than expected, so I took it…. But it wasn’t right. Within a year or so I had dumped my grandfathers car in a trade just to not look at it anymore, because it began to bother me more than owning it brought me joy. I miss the car, often wish I still had it, and all the same know I would either end up dumping it again… or spending more than the cars value making it right. -
As a quick work around, just get liability coverage from any normal car insurance place, you only need to pay for a month. Get your plates and storage unit, then call one of the reputable collector car insurance companies to have the car covered. I use Hagerty and have been happy but have nothing negative to say about any of the others. Explain to the insurer that the car is safely stored off site and is therefor clearly not your daily transportation, which is what they care about… they don’t care how you get to work or whose car you use daily. With that conversation you might not even need the original liability policy I mentioned.
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What’s really awful is that the original car was a perfectly good road car with a bulletproof drivetrain.
I wouldn’t do it, but I at least understand when someone does this to a difficult or expensive to maintain vehicle, provided it isn’t overly rare in need of preservation. My buddies Chevy powered Wraith is a lot more pleasant to drive than it was pre conversion, and a hot rod shop did it for a fraction of the cost of rebuilding a Rolls engine.
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