Larry Schramm

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The other benefit to buying new is you can specify what you want on a trailer. When shopping for a trailer I noticed that most on the new lot trailers had 3,500# axles and some of trailers had brakes only on one axle. ( I was looking at & bought a 24 ft enclosed trailers) When I ordered my trailer it has 5,500# axles and brakes on both axles. Think safety to buy more than you "think you need" to add the extra margin of safety. Just IMO. PS: two spares are a must. I keep two spares and as I wear out a tire on the trailer I take one of the "spares' and put it on the trailer and buy another spare. This way the tires do not go out of date.

I looked for over a year for a good used enclosed trailer and finally went out and bought a new one because a decent one was almost the price of a new one or they were just junk. Buying a used trailer IMO you need to plan on new tires, rewiring the trailer, and probably putting brakes and that is just to start. Cheaper to just buy a new trailer IMO and that is what I did.

Pick what you like unless you are into judging and that is another whole animal. Personally I have some of my cars with natural wheels (some stain) with polyurethane varnish and others I have painted. When I get new wheels I stain and varnish all of the wood wheels even if I plan on painting them. The reason is if I should ever decide that I would like natural wheels the paint will not have penetrated the wood making the change more difficult. Just my thoughts.

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Hugh, Fabulous car with you excellent work. Are you coming to the old car festival this year?

I do not remember Buick at that time using a York A/C compressor. Should be a Delco Air or GM tagged compressor. With the aftermarket compressor that might explain you looking for the radiator shroud. I would agree with the others that the shroud is not the cause of your over heating. Others are making the correct suggestions on what to look at.

Simple, an item that a willing seller will sell to a willing buyer. That is what the item is worth.

Obviously you do not know many individuals in the brass era and their cars. The cars of that era are not "Mostly used as a parade car". There are huge groups with those cars that tour them all of the time, especially the Model T owners. This sub group of owners drive hundreds of miles per year if not thousands in their cars and never look back. My wife and I are part of that sub group(s) and we have seven tours scheduled this summer, and most of the tours are for vehicles 1915 and older. We have driven our 1913 Buick between 7,000-9,000 miles in the last few years. Some of the groups we tour with have cars up to the mid 1920's. The "Slow, can't get out of its own way" group that could be classified as such would be the 1 & 2 Cylinder early cars. Usually before 1910. Those individuals have tours that cater to that group and drive on rural roads. It is an experience not to be forgotten. Driving hundreds of miles in these old cars give you an experience that you will never get in a faster/modern car. Driving in these vehicles gives meaning to "slow down and smell the flowers" because you can driving in the country at their designed speed. I spend my money on the old vehicles instead of going to professional sports games, no casinos, etc. The money I put into the cars is my "entertainment" value and the cost of good family time meaning my wife, grandsons, and other family & friends. Good family and friends are the most valuable asset in life.

I believe that #2 is for a Weston-Mott axle. Looks similar to the Buick and Peerless wedges along with some not marked. On the left side of the wedge does it show a WM impression?

The 45 spark plug is a mid heat range spark plug. Used on everything from high performance cars to lawn mowers and boat motors in the day.

I spent three years working in all phases of spark plug manufacturing while working my way through school. I learned a lot working for AC Spark Plug Division of GM.

I can not tell you exactly, but it is after 1978. When I was working at AC in the 70's we were still putting the green rings on the plugs. I worked in that department that was called print & glaze. The reason for the deleting of the green rings is if there was a small imperfection in the ring the green would not cover the ring evenly and it was considered a scrap plug. It did not hurt the performance of the plug, just the appearance. No green bands, all of the bands looked good and performed as designed. As background, the insulator just before it goes into the kiln to be fired into the ceramic insulator they are very fragile. Think pressed powder like a compact. If touched something, it would be easy to damage the ring. After firing, no problem, it is before firing the issue was created. R-45 plug probably came out of a small block Chevy.

I also have a couple of AC kites, but not like the one shown. They are white with a sparkplug and the fire ring.

Those were known as belly pans and they were not there to catch drips of oil, but to try to keep the mud and such from being splashed up in the engine area. Remember at that time virtually all of the roads were dirt when dry and MUD when it rained. As the roads got better they eventually went away.

I do not seem to have a "tight fit" problem with my 1915 Buick truck. Lots of room, but the Model T, that is another story.

And the lawnmower is a REO. My parents had one.

That is the best type of sale/trade where both parties are happy.

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Sounds similar the Riddler Award at the Detroit Autorama auto show.

I have been told that Wix filters are good.

IMO, the reasons most of the smaller companies went out of business was not being able to achieve the economies of scale. In that time if a fender die costs say $100,000.00 to make a fender and you make 1 fender/car the tooling cost is $100K FOR THAT ONE FENDER. Two cars, $50K. 100 cars $1K per fender. Multiply that by all of the thousands of distinct parts for a particular manufacturer the tooling costs eat up any possible profit. Commonizing all of the parts like engines, transmissions, rear axles, and the list goes on that customers might not see gave GM, Ford, Chrysler the economies of scale, yet different designs looking vehicles and the ability to stay in business during the depression. I know that during the depression GM would go out the plant and tell workers that the workers need to take a pay cut so they could stay in business. They told them that there was a job at this hourly rate, but not a higher rate. Everyone felt the pain of the depression. On a side note if you look at the video at 7 minutes 31 seconds during the Duesenberg discussion where the race cars are, that picture was taken in France at LeMans. My great uncle, Ernie Olson is on the passenger side of the #12 race car. He was a riding mechanic. I think the picture was taken in 1922 or 1923. My wife and I were fortunate to have him and his wife at our wedding.

Have you taken the fuel pick up tube & filter out of the tank? Could be plugged.

Looks close to correct spot. The top photo with the house just left of the two/three gable roof looks the same in both pictures.

The dealership labor rates from what I have heard are about $180.00/hour here in the Detroit area which are probably representative of any large metro area.