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    1908 Brush For Sale

    in Automobiles and Parts - Buy/Sell

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    7 hours ago, Cgarv12 said:

    Hi I've got a 1908 brush that has been sitting in my garage for a long time car will start but does not have much compression so it won't hardly move. Its in excellent condition and all is origanal except the seat was redone in the 80s. Curious where I should start with selling or if it is worth selling.

     


    certainly worth selling and there will be plenty of interested people. The Brush is a fine little car, although not particularly valuable, enough were made and still exist for there to be a following with some knowledgeable people.  I seem to recall there being some part of them that tends to not hold up (rear end or transmission... something)... creating a situation of there being a lot of running but not roadable Brush cars in existence. Wooden wheels, wooden axles, woodnt run. 
     

    If you want some armchair appraisals, post some images and more thorough description.  

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    what museum is in the old briscoe plant ?

    in General Discussion

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    I believe the Hackett museum is in the Argo (cycle car created by Ben Briscoe) factory. I have no idea if the Briscoe car shared the same address, but the standard catalog has Mr. Briscoe unloading the two car companies about three years apart, making me think they were not run as one company under one roof. 
     

    An interesting note on the factory, taken From Smithsonian Magazine: “The Hackett Auto Museum in Jackson Michigan is the only existing site in the world where all three varieties of historic automobiles: STEAM, ELECTRIC and GAS were made:v1902 Jaxon Car (Steam); 1911 Standard (Electric); 1914 Argo (Gas).”

    How many tools to do a car restoration?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    34 minutes ago, Bill Boudway said:

    Hi,

    Here's a tool that I inherited. Marked "Cole Tool MFG, Chicago Heights, ILL".

    Have only one clue as to what it's supposed to do. It looks like something I might use to take out the screws that hold the field windings in a starter or generator.

    Have it for over 30 rears and never used it yet.

    Any other guesses?

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    You are correct as to its use.  A useful tool the one or two times in your life you might need it. We let ours go to a guy putting together an “old time” repair shop display.... the cars we play with now don’t have starters or generators!

    Ok... its a little souped up, but still cool... (humor)

    in Automobile Humor and Interest

    Posted

    My father and I used to do “manifold meals” with some regularity. Usually it was meat balls or sausages and some sauce wrapped in foil, and wired or rested near the exhaust or on top of the head at a stop roughly an hour before you wanted to stop and eat. We set others up to make lunch that way on a tour we were hosting once (not well received by all, but done by a few participants).  We even have a cast aluminum roaster made to mount to a model A Ford... have never used it to my knowledge as I think cleaning would be a nightmare. 

    Pre war car service at modern dealership.

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    13 hours ago, Fossil said:

    How are the mechanical brakes on those?  On the Model A I had they weren't real good. 


    model A brakes are wonderful once correct. There are a few wear parts that don’t get addressed on a lot of them. As Ed and a few others have pointed out many times, people don’t realize how good many cars were when new... so something shy of correct gets written off as being “how an old car is.”

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    1955 Hudson Wasp Score!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    We never had the car apart to have any real knowledge, but am certain we would not have switched to synthetic. We got it out of the Auburn car corral as a runner and we ran it. As my father and my taste in cars got older and into stuff my mother doesn’t like to drive, he has always made sure there is one “modern” car with an automatic for her to drive if she so chooses, something for her to do a local tour with grandkids in, or escape a car event with in favor of an outlet mall with the ladies. Eventually, she decided the Wasp was just too big. There was a brief stop by a corvair convertible and she is now in a stude Daytona. Of those three, I enjoyed the wasp the most. 

    1955 Hudson Wasp Score!

    in General Discussion

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    We had a wasp with a 202 and Hydramatic for several years...Our friends called it a Hash or a Hush... because it was half Hudson and half Nash.  They really are a great car. I was always amazed at how well it moved down the road, as well as how well it stopped. We could cruise down the interstate all day in it... and did. I believe ours was a 56. The one issue... it is WIDE.  On the rare occasion it does need a trailer... it doesn’t fit between the wheels on many of them!

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    Advice on selling 1984 HJ47 Landcruiser internationally

    in General Discussion

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    As to the OP’s original question, nice driver quality and presentable (as in, already “restored” to some degree) hj47’s seem to fall somewhere in the sub $25,000 range with some fairly nice examples in the mid teens. Dumpy projects (that don’t look as good as yours in pics) seem to still bring 5k. There are of course examples with six figure asking prices but it seems like you can get one much more capable and pretty than new for under $40,000. Everything I am looking at is left hand drive. 
     

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