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I have been told that the club in England is fairly strict with Americans and American cars when it comes to getting a car approved for the run. I have never attempted to register a car for the run so I have no first hand knowledge, but it would be a real bummer to haul a car across the Atlantic only to be denied because your documentation didn’t meet their standards.

If having a London to Brighton dream, I think a Winton Bullet would be my choice.

I prefer to call them a Hush, but it really is more than 3/4 Nash so Hash is correct. We had a wasp of the same year and it was a wonderful car, behaved nicely on the road and never gave us enough problems for me to know a thing about the mechanicals.... but.... I wouldn’t pay anything near step down or tri five Chevy money to have another one.

The small 2cyl Maxwells you are looking at are great little cars. They will go anywhere a Model T will go but they will get there slower. The little Maxwell is not underpowered by any means, it is capable of more than any road of their era would have allowed. Getting into a 2cyl vehicle that truly keeps up with a small (t sized) 4cyl car will require some searching and likely 3 times or more the purchase price of a good Maxwell with a planetary transmission. As mentioned by oldcarfudd, Buick model F and the 2cyl Reo’s are the most common candidates. Northern and Cartercar can run with them. The larger Maxwell (H or N with larger engine and 3 speed sliding gear trans) comes close but not quite there. That is a small list of others... there are likely hundreds of options. I prefer 2cyl touring to larger car tours. That said, all of my 2cyl touring has been in a car that outperforms most cars on the tour and I have always had small 4cyl cars on the larger car tours. Perhaps ego creates part of my preference. Lots brass car guys have both a 1 or 2 and a 4 or 6, so you are spending time with the same great people no matter what kind of touring you choose to do!

depending on the interior, one week may be optimistic.

Well, I thought this was funny.

Hand stitching through the original holes works but takes forever. I recommend adding a strip of heavy cloth to reduce the damage to old material as you pull the thread. I have done this to save original leather and also to replace cloth inserts on 60’s cars when the vinyl was still in good shape. Nothing about it is difficult, but it is tedious.

Unless given information to the contrary: I always assume 1.7 million US and located somewhere in the former Persian empire. That said, those are wonderful cars and at a reasonable price somewhere near me, one I would entertain making my next daily.

This showed up on Facebook. @gossjh

As an AC guy... I assure you.... refrigerant is not a fuel that gets used up... if the system needs more of it... it is because the system lost it somehow. I do not agree with doing r12 to r134a conversions. I have a limited supply of r12 and am happy to share it with friends in the hobby that are willing to make their system leak free. Generally, I am too busy to want the work but am happy to put some pressure on the system and help identify the issue... with the warning that it cannot be used at all between the test and a proper fix. So far my dad was willing to let me do the work... everyone else wants to put some gas in and see how long it lasts.

I cannot wait for all the unofficial Hershey 2020 shirts we will see in 2021. I already have a design in mind for my dad and I.

This one is just funny.

They will be wanted, even if just for rollers during a restoration, and I wouldn’t give them away. Charge enough to make it worth your time to package for shipping or to wait around for a guy.... so, 25 bucks and whatever 2-3 hours of your time is worth. The price would still be low enough that anyone that wants them will be thrilled to pay, but some cost weeds out the time wasters.

Taking the time to bundle anything with scripts on them into lots could be useful if unloading them is the goal... but filling flare rate boxes is certainly the way to do it... with enough tape on the outside of the box to hold the titanic together, because a box full of tools is a box begging to fail. also, the hog ring pliers you can buy today are mostly awful. You have good ones in that box. Save a set for yourself, you might need to stretch a seat cover on some day.

not a Mercer guy, but the only Stutz I have taken out ran hot enough to roast the pig from where it sits.

I don’t believe full elliptical springs are the only way to get the ride you are after. Yes, franklins with full ellipticals ride nice, but so do many other cars that ran 3/4 or 1/2 rear and 1/2 front. If you flip through the pages of the standard catalog, you will see full elliptical springs to have been very common on cars not good enough to be produced more than a year or two. Challenges to making that setup work well are likely more numerous than you expect.

Absolutely file a police report. In the area in which the money was handed over as well as the area in which you live. Ask the police if they will be pulling video footage from Walmart. If they will not, make a plea to Walmart yourself. When they are not helpful, be public and vocal about their unwillingness to assist. They care lore about their image than the police do. You are already 3k out, give it two or three more hours of your time. I doubt you will collect anything, but... it is a small world and you might go out to dinner and see this guy tending the bar some day and it is the police report that the police did nothing with that will give any possible action some possibility. I had a friend get money he was owed back in full because a three or four year old police report said he paid a guy for a job and the guy never showed up. He got a judgement on an alias that wasn’t even the crooks real name. When the guys drug, stolen property, and cash stash was seized by police, an honest effort to return stolen property included the cash (although it came in the form of a check from the county jail of all places).

I finally paid up to become a life member today. I figured it was less money than the week off work that I won’t be taking and the AACA could likely use my small bit of cash this year more than most.

Is this the one Shawn had?

yeah.

As I have said before, I always tell myself I am going to go to the AACA tent at Hershey and buy a life membership with my swap meet proceeds... but always spend more than I brought so it never happens. This year, I get a life membership out of all the money I will save on not going to Hershey. Paid for it immediately before this post.

That is an old trick. Cap full or kerosene in a bucket of warm water and rub the car down. No need to rinse. I have no idea what it does to paint in the long term, but it does work great in the short term. I have heard that it is for black cars only... I have no idea why. I was first told of it as a passed down trick from chauffeurs looking to make a car really shine on the quick.

I have for many years had a dream of owning a Model A Duesenberg... and taking it to a MARC national meet.... and acting completely oblivious to it not fitting in.