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I don’t think I would let my kids eat ice cream in a Pierce Arrow.

Quite a few of my dream cars showed up on this thread. As for my guilty pleasure: the 64/65 falcons, preferably sedans with a 6!

For all we know $100,000 dollars in 2050 won’t be enough money to care about.

I also don’t buy the “cars from their youth” theory as a start and end point. Many people new to the hobby start there (so inflated prices of an era follow people of a certain age coming into disposable income) but many a guy I know started with the muscle car they wanted when they were 16 and ended up in a Model A that was an old car before they were born. It all comes down to actually getting into the hobby.

From the mouths of babes: I told my sixteen year old that there was another conversation about young people having no interest in cars and she suggested that if someone on a tour would have a conversation with her about anything other than young people having no interest in cars it might be more fun. Honestly though, aside from the knowledge that most old car rides involve restaurants or ice cream stands, she has no interest in cars.

I do not buy into the theory that the younger crowd has no interest. They lack access. I assure you, if the 50-70 year old guys stopped buying up the cars as the 80 year old guys pass, the cars would eventually trickle down the socioeconomic (and age) ladder and find homes. Perfectly usable antique cars at prices below, say, 25% of the US medium income are not sitting around waiting for someone to care about them. Another part of it is: most of the young people I know in this hobby participate in zero national events. I believe cost is the main factor, but others exist. First experiences for young car guys as they interact with the more established crowd are often bad, disheartening, or intimidating... even though I believe we are all trying to be very supportive and accepting.

I dropped in there once several years ago, have spoken with the guys at Hershey, and have heard from people that have purchased from them. I don’t think they are a place that you necessarily need warned about, but I will say that a lot of cars in their buildings/yard look worse now than they did when the pics on the site were taken. I do recall seeing a lot of very poor “restoration” work. If a car was a good car when they got it... them making the car shiny with a $300 paint job won’t make it a bad car... it is just a car with a crappy paint job.

Welcome Jay, First off: great Stude! Secondly, congrats on becoming an Eagle Scout! Very few positive things from your youth can stick with you and be relevant into your adult years. As a side note, you will find the old car hobby flooded with us!

While I completely agree with zeke that the enclosed Maxwell would be more appropriately called a coach or sedan, rather than a touring... it is a Chrysler product and they eventually called everything a touring! Beautiful car. I love all things Maxwell!

Keep us posted. It’s a few hours drive for me and I am hoping it will become unavailable since the last thing a guy with a significantly reduced income at the moment needs to do is buy a car. Hell, when the Maxwell comes home from the Gilmore in July I won’t even have a garage space for it.... but I keep looking.

While I completely agree that the whole concept of running these speeds on public roads is irresponsible and dangerous, the pandemic has nothing to do with me feeling that way. The people trying it before Coronavirus were just as bad... that said, I couldn’t look up what kind of car was used fast enough. Audi A8 with some extra fuel tanks in the trunk.

If they keep the schools closed my kids will be eLearning from the chocolate field! It would be the first Hershey that I spend more on chocolate than car parts.

I am fairly familiar with the 8cyl Chrysler’s of the era and was curious as to how much less you got from the 6. I irrationally have myself convinced that I need a prewar “beater” that is close to interstate capable. I know the 8’s will do it.

If you can come up with one, posting a pic and measurements of the correct steering wheel would greatly assist you in your search.

What is a comfortable driving speed for one of these cars with (or without) overdrive?

I apologize, I misread as that a type 30 was cut down for a midget racer in the 70’s, rather than purchased then... and made a joke. Always good to see someone ready with a personal attack on the internet though. Cheers.

I have heard there were a lot of drugs in the 70’s.

I have two of those engines, radiators, frames...who is really good at welding old cast aluminum? I wonder what that crankshaft would cost to reproduce?

That’s a good color. According to the authorities on here... better go with red. You will never be able to sell it if you paint it green.

The text of the ad says 1919. The title says 1915.

Looks like a Mascotte. A Mercury would have four single jugs. Possibly a model 22. With that we are getting a little modern for my knowledge base.

not successfully.

As a guy that buys well used cars And finishes them off... I miss the days of fixing a bad window with a 79 cent plastic roller.... or just using a stack of washers.

you drop the valve stems through them to keep them in order.

Thanks George.