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When I first insured with hagerty I told them the car is stored in a secure garage on my property… but if there is no salt on the roads and I have somewhere to be… it’s getting driven. They were fine with that.

if steering towards “modern” for automatics and a/c, square body chevys shouldn’t be completely overlooked. The parts suppliers and aftermarket love them so nothing would be cheaper or easier to keep on the road. I am amazed how many I see on the road nearly every day. Short bed 4x4’s are getting pricy but a nice long bed 2wd would cost less than the tax on some of the trucks you are thinking about.

Sometimes while out on the daily drive your passenger will find a more appealing seat and ditch you.

He cropped the photo to not show all the curb rash on the white walls.

Never gotten a ticket in an old car but been stopped many times. Usually they just want a closer look at the car… some police will accept a ride around the block… no matter how many times I offer “you can drive mine if I can follow in yours”… they won’t go for it. Year of manufacture plates get questioned a lot! in my teens it was a fun thing for many of the local car club guys to have me drive their cars unsupervised…. Some of them fairly valuable… I got stopped all the time! Police just wondered what a punk kid was doing with a 56 bird, full classic Packard, or Chrysler T&C convertible. Always friendly encounters.

Every chance I get. It goes to the grocery store, it will go out to dinner, it will go out for a beer, it picks the daughter up from school and goes straight to the ice cream stand every day I get off work early enough to do it. I have a few maintenance things I really want to do to the car, but the thought of it being down a week or so saddens me too much to get around to it.

These have been on my mantle for some time. I keep saying I should play, but the instructions in both are very fragile.

The answer is simple: stick with prewar cars and never face this issue.

I would just get one of the two oils myers or Romar offer based on them both being used successfully in a whole lot of dodges. I got the 600 and am happy. Same oil for the rear end.

2cyl and friction drive are positives to me. My father had a couple Cartercars in years past and I am more than comfortable with the platform. My guess is the price is about double or more what it should be with how long it has been static. Still a very neat car. Did you happen to take any pics that aren’t from when the restoration was fresh?

I likely have one sitting around that is better than a bent one.

I think it would have to be a fairly fresh restoration (or a very well maintained older one) and running and driving to command a number like that, but if it were correct, shiny, and ready to enjoy that would be about the number.

I think this boils down to the towncars being about the most rare of the most common car. The model T guys need something to covet just as a Model J owner might long for an SJ or a guy with a closed Pierce 8 looks at an open Pierce 12. The T that I really wonder about in the auction is the couplet…. A closed car and an open car, hcca eligible, coveted by the t crowd, rare and attractive enough to hold your head high on a tour with more prestigious cars, and model t maintenance cost. 13k seemed cheap.

20 horsepower is a big 2cyl car. 1&2 cyl cars tend to be on tours of their own and this lambert would be one of the big cars. A large 2cyl, friction drive, Indiana built brass era car checks all the boxes for me, but I am not in a position to pursue. Two brass era cars is already too many for me in the child raising years.

About a half an hour ago I found myself without enough battery for a second start… so my 9 year old and all the people at the local ice cream shop got to see a car get crank started. Magnetos are a wonderful thing!

There are some cars there that if I thought the high estimate would actually buy…. I would be having a fire sale to free up the money. 2x the high estimate on some of the brass lights right now. Gladly.

These are covers for plumbing. As of the last time I had to purchase one in brass vs pvc, your pricing is still very reasonable.

Mine has a button to let it know it is attached to a dry cell battery… other than that everything is automatic. My only gripe is that I have to wait for it to decide if it is attached to a six or twelve volt battery.

I am certain that is the case, but when I need to walk away I like that the smart charger turns itself off if it thinks something is wrong, as a guy that might not make it back to the garage for a few days I also like that it turns itself into a battery tender once it finishes charging. The smart charger and cordless impacts are perhaps the only tools I prefer modern to old.

We had an Edison battery box with several glass jar sections in it that took and held charge (I was testing horns with it at Hershey last year)… so… 100 years or so!

My smart charger had an error on my dead-flat 12 volt battery a couple weeks ago. I put an old charger on the battery for about ten minutes and then went back to the smart charger as I like the turning itself off feature if it doesn’t like something. It told me I was at 12% and proceeded to charge. Couple hours later I was driving.

They were available standard on many cars and as a common aftermarket accessory. My understanding is that it was to reduce the back pressure of a muffler as it could negatively impact performance and economy so you used the cutout when out on open roads but ran the exhaust through the muffler when in town to be polite. This is not at all unlike a street/strip car in the muscle era having capped side pipes and exhaust out the rear through a muffler. Simply remove the caps to go racing! It is also my understanding that the back pressure argument only applies to very few situations nearly non of which were true in the early low compression era, so the cutouts went away for a few decades until they were needed again.

Your friend has a problem I cannot relate to as I find the only way for a vehicles value to significantly appreciate is for me to sell it, but, there is a bit of joy in ownership to a poor condition version of any car. Doing repairs or even regular maintenance around a nice paint job or pristine interior is stressful at best. I thoroughly enjoy working on a car with a finish you can set a greasy wrench on without worry, equally fun is hopping in for a test drive in the same clothes you were just under the car in. If a car represents a significant or life changing amount of money for the owner, it needs to be protected and monitored just like an investment portfolio. I am glad I have a 401k and an ira, but neither of them bring me any joy whatsoever and their maintenance is a stressful but necessary evil. Not being able or willing to take on the financial hit to repair a car if something happens can be another deterrent to enjoying ownership. There is likely a large number of Porsche collectors out there that would give him a Porsche he can enjoy in significantly better condition with a glove box full of cash and everyone could get on to enjoying the hobby more.

The difference is degrees of turn between clicks.

I believe the warranty is still there, but he would be trading a good old tool (granted, a broken one) for an inferior new tool. If you like the exchange idea: Ace hardware also has craftsman now, if they are a more local to you option. Gas money might be better spent cruising yard sales for an inexpensive replacement.