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The suspense is killing me.
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54 minutes ago, Rusty_OToole said:
Seems it took him a while to save up for the other 4 tires.
It took me a while to save up for the last set of old car tires I bought.
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I say the only real improvement is all those whitewalls!
Sorry, I had to say it.
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I actually saw a very similarly bodied Duesenberg... sitting between another J and a Tucker last Thursday and didn’t take a picture for you guys. I feel a little bad about it.
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Once again... my only issue is the location.
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5 hours ago, George Albright said:
This gentleman left me a voicemail last week stating he has a 1905 maxwell for sale. I was not interested so I didn’t return the call. Lebanon ,Pa. Mr Patrick Campbell 717 272 6886.
The car George is mentioning is not a model A, AA, or AB but rather a model H. It is a very special car with a large 2cyl and a 3 speed sliding gear transmission. The sellers last name Gamble, not Campbell, and the car belonged to Clay Green before he passed. I am absolutely in love with the car but unable to make it mine at this time. I truly hope whoever becomes its next caretaker tours it far and wide so I can admire it for years to come. -
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My guess is trophy or dealer display piece. They certainly wouldn’t have used the “standard of the world” line prior to 1908 and I doubt they cast it into anything prior to the early teens.
When was they heyday of using the line in advertising? Could it be dated by the font?
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I like everything but the location.
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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.
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14 minutes ago, padgett said:
Personally I'd probably go for a 1904 Stanley Runabout but that would require a different universe.
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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.
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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!
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On 6/29/2020 at 7:48 AM, Rusty_OToole said:
It's quite true that hand stitching an interior is a slow laborious process. But if you price a new leather interior you may decide it is better and cheaper to resew the old stuff even if it takes you a week. Besides it should only be necessary to resew the bad spots not the whole thing.
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Well, I thought this was funny.
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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.
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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.
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This showed up on Facebook. @gossjh
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2 minutes ago, John_S_in_Penna said:
Another one: "Air conditioning needs charged."
("Needs charging" or "needs a charge" is correct English.)
Well, why not charge it then, and offer the buyer the
enticing luxury of cool fresh air on a hot summer day?
I think it's possibly because there's more work to be done
than merely charging the system.
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.
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23 hours ago, Terry Bond said:
I also have a "collection" of T-shirts (and sweat shirts). It's hard to pick a favorite but this one brings back memories galore. Do you remember the year of the "BIG MUD" at Hershey? 1976. In 1977 a vendor brought out these and they sold out quickly. Mine is pretty well worn and stained now, but is a souvenir from those days that I'll never get tired of looking at. May eventually frame it, or make a pillow, or something. Anybody else got one?
I think it was shortly after I bought this that sales of souvenir items became restricted. Think I'll contact Hershey Region and see if we can come up with some ideas for next year's shirts.
Terry
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This one is just funny.
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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.
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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.
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My new technically antique tow vehicle
in General Discussion
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I found something I have wanted for a while.... a 3/4 ton, 454, 2wd, suburban with barn doors.
This one is a 1995 with 78,600 miles on it and it came home today! I got a way better truck than I was expecting and it being just old enough for historic plates and collector car insurance makes it even better.
We can now go back to refreshing the thread with @edinmass big reveal.