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Generally speaking a call to Romar or myers is the first step towards finding out what your options are. As often as they will offer to sell you something they will steer you towards a private individual that they know will have what you are after.

I refer to it as Saint Me Day, and do have a green car to share! I don’t suspect it will stay green for long though.

I have, for some time, been impressed by the man. He has reasonably priced cars on the market with stunning regularity. He has to be better than anyone I have ever met at finding them and negotiating a purchase price, or he just loses money on a car five times a year.

He is mildly active on these forums as well. He sold me my 15 DB and sold my father his T touring. Very smooth transactions and a nice guy to deal with both times, even after the fact helpful when one car had a title issue.

That is absolutely true.

That’s a neat jack! I know nothing about the jack collecting market so cannot offer advice on if this style or model has a strong collector value, but… I and several of my friends use old mechanical jacks because we trust them more than cheap hydraulic jacks and high end hydraulic jacks are freakishly expensive. A good mechanical floor jack is worth two cheap ones when I am buying… so 80-150 bucks.

If committed to the change, pressurize the system with nitrogen to about 300 psi, soap and water will find the leak. as for replacing the refrigerant, I am not a huge fan of 134a in an r12 system. 417c is a drop in replacement that does not require getting the oil out or you can still find jugs of r12, I recently sold one for $575, you usually see asking prices closer to 1000. 134 is over 500 for the same size jug now as well, which sucks because I need to buy another. Do not just add 134 to the r12 system without a full evacuation. 134 is a blend, mixing it with 12 creates a new unstable blend… even if it works, as it leaks out it will be daily changing as it will not leak out uniformly. Eventually it will turn itself into a compressor killing blend. Modern car technicians are not equipped to service or repair old car AC, find a refrigeration service tech.

I don’t believe so, but it was outside on a pallet in GA for some time before I left it outside on a pallet in IN. I did get a few good valves out of it for a 16 I owned briefly last year.

You should specify which model of Studebaker, as the needed parts will be different on the four or six cylinder cars.

fuel pumps on these dodges tend to be problematic. Any chance you are forcing gas past the “choke” and never really metering any? Vacuum leaks at the butterfly can make you starve under load too. Dodges can pop and buck rich as well, so keeping and feeding ye on plugs and exhaust is a good idea while troubleshooting.

James, If you want to make the drive to Lafayette and visit the ‘15 you used to own there is this carb is attached to an engine and transmission from a 17 or 18 and just about every piece of it could be spares you may need some day. I will trade parts or handshakes if you want it.

A couple of years ago I used one of the parts store ceramic coatings that cost about 1.5X the price of a normal spray bottle of quick wax. Worked and looked fine, but I wasn’t blown away and don’t think it stayed as well as a good wax job. I have a friend at work that had a detail shop ceramic coat ($1300) his brand new car about the same time and it looks new and freshly detailed after every rain.

The Woodrow Wilson 1919 Pierce in the museum is fitted with a limo body and they have pictures of what is supposed to be the same car with a touring body on it. The story given is that the car made the trip all the way to Buffalo every spring and fall for the body swap. I find this hard to believe and must have then as well as I remember that story from my visit to the museum nearly 30 years ago.

I am a fairly active reader on suburban and square body forums, although I don’t have a square burb anymore (for now). The 6.2 has a strong following. The lack of towing power reputation is present, but I don’t think it is a function of not having enough power as much as not having the power where you wish you had it. A manual trans helps there. I have seen 6.2 trucks for sale with over 300k miles and have seen plenty of claims of over 20mpg, making them something I wouldn’t mind owning some day but am not actively chasing, yet. you can tuck a lot of fuel storage under those trucks (both sides and center tanks: over 100 gallon) making a 6.2 popular with the over-land (not Overland) and prepping crowd. A part of this following may have to do with the existence of factory 6.2 4x4’s where 454 gas 4x4’s were not made, at least in the suburbans I follow. as for the rig in question, it will likely still be a running workhorse serving you well many years after an off the lot $30k used pickup has returned to the earth.

I was recently gifted a bottle of crown that predates you drinking it legally, hopefully is survives until Hershey.

I am sure if will find a buyer eventually, even if for some of the restored components… somebody has a nice running same year dodge that has rough fenders and needs seats and a top and will be willing to roll the dice on this car. I have seen some decent DB touring cars priced about where this thing is lately, so the seller is going to have to come down, but perhaps not too drastically. I think it would be worth close to ten with the doors and hood mounted and all of the conversion removed… essentially a restored car missing an easy to come by engine. My guess is you could come up with a viable engine in two phone calls and not a lot of money, you might come up with a ready to go engine on the same two phone calls and 4-5k. Finishing the electric build would be fun, but not a project I have time, space, or extra funds for. I would like it a lot more in black or a darker blue.

This 15 Dodge Brothers has had a rough life, but a well documented one from new. Every panel on it has been in a collision of some kind at some point, but despite the dents, tears, and creases… is very solid. I don’t intend to ever restore or get rid of it. I often call it my first 15 Dodge… I don’t have a second… yet.

The guys at paper pulleys are surprisingly well versed in dealing with oddball and one off applications. When we needed new friction material for a Cartercar they provided us with instructions on how to get them measurements that would turn into a successful part being produced…. And it did. They have no interest in making an expensive one-off part nobody can use, they want to get it right.

@LongTraveler You can remove the front cover to get access to the full chain (and rotate it to an area where removal of master link will be possible)Keep in mind, the front cover is your front motor mount, so we are not talking about a small job… but less of a job than pulling the engine. I could be completely wrong about this being possible, as I have not worked on a sheet metal pan car in 20 years, it is possible on my 15.

Should be priced $15051$

The newer of the two is about two weeks of production off of my car that was sold new in MN, wish you found that bill of sale!

Every now and then I run across a Chrysler AC still in use. The Air-Temp name is used to this day but is a Nortek product.

It was another great Hershey! I bought more than I sold, but sold half the stuff I bought while still there. Troegs beer, steaks from Giant, and Hershey chocolate were the biggest expenses of the trip… well, until we send the brass I found off to Britten (It will be worth it). Reconnecting with old friends and making some new ones was the real highlight. It made me happy to see that some of the guys from Florida that lost cars or homes a few days before still came and had a good time. My Hershey thought to ponder… but will be shot down my herco (as well as most sane people)….. Hershey should be five days of good weather… we have a start date and stay until we get our five good days… if it takes all month so be it!

Sure looks like a cabriolet.

If it doesn’t get taken care of before hand, I have way more spaces than I need and am right next to a bunch of other model A guys, would be more than happy to give it space and wrench time during the swap meet if it got dropped in the chocolate field. I will even run out and get some crown and a chair to help Ed supervise the operation.