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Exactly.

I have, they had good color choices so it was pretty, but the execution and equipment was sub par. I have studied as many or more original dashes as anyone and although exceptions certainly exist, Auburn was not at the front of the woodgrain game.

Having worked with a collector car broker for a while and having used the services of a couple of them, I can say that there are some advantages. We can make fun of a used car salesman but a guy that knows how to close a deal might just close it faster and for more money than you can on your own. If a guy sells a car you want 50k for at 55k and takes a 10% cut, you did just fine. The broker is not emotionally attached to the car and will not have the last minute resistance that kills a deal. The broker is experienced in marketing cars and will know where and how to get the job done. Often times the broker will take possession of the car until sold, getting it out of your hair and eliminating storage issues. The brokers often have relationships with auction houses that can get your car put in a prime time slot that the auction house would not give to an individual with one or two cars to sell. Most important, tire kickers suck and a good broker can weed them out quicker than you can, it is a skill they need to develop to survive. All that said, and this next point will have different numbers for every broker, the car needs to have enough real world value to make their cut worth their while. A good broker should be able to maximize the cars sales price in a given market, but they are not magicians.

And selling a 5k car is ten times as much work as selling a 50k car.

foul the spark plugs and let some air out of the tires.

I am sure there is a more correct answer, but a very pragmatic answer is: no show checks ownership papers. People enter cars they do not technically own all the time. Who cares whose name is on a title when you enter the same car you have been entering for years? There could be an issue with changing the name of who enters it as you work towards senior grand national, as I do not know if those titles transfer with ownership.

Our A has much nicer woodgrain than any Auburn did when new.

It would go great with headlight shades, mud flaps, chrome visors, and all the other tacky stuff that’s on other peoples A’s. I suppose the wood grain dash in a station wagon and juice brakes makes ours just as custom.

I had never heard of these, but a neat accessory. dunn aristocrat dash for model A.

I really wanted a good humor model A until I tried to fit in one.

Alas, I only have an 8 foot door on my garage. Gonna have to pass.

At 6’4” I have had a lot of disappointment discovering (when finally in a position to make a move) that a car I have dreamed about is an absolute impossibility for me to drive.

I have noticed little correlation between wheelbase and driver room aside from an inverse relationship on expensive cars, or rather cars that were big and expensive when new. The guy driving the car would often be “the help” and nobody cared if he was comfortable.

The radiator shell, bumper, and front fender combo would be worth $100 just to set in the yard and grow flowers around. Not sure it would be worth $100 and a drive to Springfield, OH.... and I really don’t live all that far away.

While I do not own a fire truck (or engine), I did recently find myself on the board of a firehouse museum which afforded my daughter a ride in the Christmas parade in a 1936 Ahrens Fox that ran out of the firehouse long before it was a museum.

Although many would recognize it as being Ford, you can get a reproduction model t muffler from the model t suppliers. It would look authentic enough to not stand out like a modern muffler.

My idea is more fun.

This might be my favorite pic so far. I have many times pondered a northern winter tour.... Christmas lights by gas lights perhaps. I wouldn’t be able to get anyone but my father to go with me, but what fun!

One year after the introduction of the priest-o-lite tank and all the way up in Alaska, headlights requiring an acetylene generator might not have worked. The water in the top tank would freeze.

The brackets were often riveted to the frame and a part of the car even if lights were not ordered. The same can be said for brackets to mount a top being installed on the body when a top is not included. This flyer has those as well.

It says Thomas flyer on the rear tire and the radiator looks right.

If the vehicle has good storage now, I would not really concern myself with protecting the metal for a few years until you are ready for a paint job. If the car stays dry or gets dried off relatively quickly after being caught in the rain, the metal will not rust significantly. Water does get behind the flaking paint and touch up attempts can create a pocket to hold some moisture. Wax it, wd40 it... I wouldn’t do anything that makes the eventual stripping process more complicated.

I believe the 500 museum had one. I don’t know if it was retained when things got thinned out or not.