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All my car buddies are enablers.

This product will make paint stick to a breeze blowing by. I have used it many times on plastics and a couple times on chrome… but I was spray painting a large chrome area with an edge taped off. No idea how chrome treated with adhesion promoter would clean up if it ended up on a not to be painted area.

It’s two hours away from me. I must state clearly that I have no space for it and would leave it outside and drive it on salted roads. Now is the time for everyone who cares about preserving old cars to tell me not to buy it.

Those certainly are Maxwell engines and the rear end on top is Maxwell. Where are they located and are they available?

This car showed up on Facebook the day after I sold my spare set of 26” tubes and tires… if it had show up before then… I likely would have used using the tires as an excuse to buy it. It’s only 90 minutes away!

Well what do you know, John Bloom comes from my neck of the woods. I looked at that house long and hard. Buying it would be easy, owning it was far outside of my financial capabilities.

I also have a pic of the car… wounded on a flatbed… and will leave it to the owner to post if he desires. The news I got is that driver and passengers came out without serious injuries. Great car and great owner. Very happy to hear all are well.

I have circled the chocolate field in the ‘15 Dodge Brothers and sold enough to pay for one of our seven spaces, already willing to declare this Hershey a huge success.

I just drove past, from the toll road it looked slightly more occupied than that… slightly. They were open for business and vending though!

Drinking a really bad soda, would be more fun sitting on a horse with a steering wheel.

I took note of that as well, if you see an early Dodge in the parking lot, it’s me.

Yep, HPOF.

This announcement came through the Maxwell email list today. The annual gathering of Maxwell people will be Wednesday of Hershey at 1:00 pm, C2E 39-42. I suppose I will be there since it’s my fathers spaces, right next to my spaces, and I have a Maxwell.

I and my ‘15 will be cruising around at Hershey.

It’s row C2E and C2F. Not nearly as many of them as their used to be.

I don’t think it has been offered, as I get hit up for ice very often when I drive off site.

For the record, there is nothing about recovery equipment that makes it refrigerant specific other than perhaps marketing for its original application or a sticker. Recovery machines set up for auto shops often specify a refrigerant but that was just to get shops to buy a dedicated machine. Right before 134 came around recovery machines started getting stickers that said they were for 12… then the 134 machines came out. if wanting to keep a vehicle running the original refrigerant, which I highly recommend doing (converting has a high failure rate), source yourself a jug of r12 and when work is needed have a refrigeration or appliance repair guy help you. They will be more qualified than an auto tech. With the cost of r12, having someone that knows what they are doing run a pressure test with dry nitrogen and a decay test under vacuum will pay for itself over losing $500-1000 worth of refrigerant.

Here’s a screenshot of an ad in the HCCA classifieds. I don’t know the guy, but believe he does a bit of hauling for a friend in the same town.

You can order Moxie off of Amazon. All of the specialty soda retailers have it, they tend to include it in most samplers.

You might be well off to put the words free and Detroit in the title. Lots of guys with trailers going to be at Dearborn for the old car fest this weekend.

The best advice I can give is to bring lots of money. Also important if looking for specific things is to grab a program and track down people early. Take time to talk to guys that have stuff “like” what you need even if you can see they don’t have what you need. It’s a big event full of small communities.

I will put a stupid price tag on my car for the show. The car will be out all week (depending on weather), and it decreases pointless conversations…. Or are pointless conversations half the charm of the week?

I am bringing cigars and vintage crown because I owe you a “thanks for being a nice guy” present for talking me out of leveraging myself on an expensive acquisition a couple years ago. Other than that: sample Woodgrain dashes, some Maxwell brass, a 15 dodge to put in the show (hpof), perhaps some early dodge parts, piles of pig iron that never sells, and some supposedly very nice v8 packard stuff for a friend but I have not seen any of it yet. I am on the non rolls Royce side of rolls Royce row. C2E40-ish.

I would try driving it with the spark greatly retarded and see if it’s less hot… or just static test timing. Cars with heavy flywheels behave great with too much advance but get hot fast.

Two houses on my block in Indiana got stickers today.