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31 Chev would explain all the wood... not sure I'm seeing the similarity in the dashes... I'll try to get a better shot of the "tear drops."

This one might be a bit of a challenge... unfortunately I only got one side so it's wall art now. It appears to have been a landau coupe (doors had window frames) that used a lot of wood. There are tack holes all around the edges of the panel. From what I saw of the trunk lid, there was no metal under the sheet metal for framing. The windshield is obviously Model T, but maybe the dash will help someone out, it seems to have an unusual arrangement.

I'm not sure... it came up on another site and someone asked if I could ID it... it's not a picture I took personally.

Hmmm.... never mind.... 34 Dodge Brothers.... lol.... seen it on the hood when I blew it up to attach here.... who needs reading glasses?

Can anyone ID these two four-doors in the center of this pic?

circa 1919?

I'm looking at the character lines in the front fenders... any chance that could be circa 1919 Dodge Brothers? Also the splash aprons... the REO seem move convex....these are more concave like the Dodge...

Well... considering that REO stood for Ransom E Olds... maybe I'm not too far off...

Doesn't look mainstream to me... maybe an Olds/McLaughlin?

Well...now I do have egg on my face... I was thinking 50's or early 60's. You nailed it... thanks.

When I first saw this one, I was thinking Mercury Monarch, but they had the picture of the god Mercury on top instead of the Griffin. This is killing me because I know I should know it....

That looks like it alright, but yours is a lot prettier! Over a year later and that piston is still soaking. Unfortunately I chipped the one good one so it's probably not of much use to anyone now. The water manifold looked good when I took it off, but developed a crack down the center in storage. They really are a light and fragile casting.

Best guess.... crimping tool for wire fittings for different sized wires?

It's been a while ( 2 yrs since my last post) since I checked in on you, but I'm glad to see you're making progress. Those stumps are very heavy to move around the shop. I've got a couple that I'm using under my anvils, and I want to make a forming bowl and one with a stake plate (for holding sheet metal and Hardy tools) as well. The greener the stump, the heavier it will be. I use a 2 wheel hand truck to move them around and it works quite well. In warmer climates you might want to consider removing the bark so there are less chances of insect infestations. The blacksmith boys will also scorch the bottoms and seal them with an appropriate wood product to keep them from holding moisture against the concrete floor and forming mold.

My understanding is that they were hunting buddies, and that the shorter one is my friend's father. It was most likely taken in Canada so a Canadian built car is quite probable.

Hmmm... OK... I was thinking the hood vents looked too far back for a Model T. Thanks.

A friend of mine was asking if this was a Whippet 4... looks much earlier to me, maybe a 1914 era car? This should be easier to ID than the usual pile of rusty parts I'm trying to work with...

I know some guys that are into "ultimate" wiener roasts... they launch a lit wad of rags soaked in diesel fuel with a potato canon into unwanted buildings stuffed full of dead limbs (trees boys, think trees...) . Obviously they live out in the country where there are no park staff involved, but the resulting flame has been seen from miles away.

I'm late getting back to the question, but yes, the 228 did come out of a 54 Canadian built Dodge pickup so it is the long block version. My Mopar mechanic is currently putting the 54 pickup on a late model 4x4 chassis which would make a few guys around here cry a little. On the bright side I was able to score a mint running flathead with the 4 spd transmission for $300. LOL... I just noticed the remnants of the tree in the wrecker when I was about to say that wrecker ( oh man, is that a hand powered winch??) might have some resale value. Guess it comes with free fire wood?

A couple years back, one of the rod magazines ran a series based on the premise that it was faster to complete a car by buying a restored car, doing a chassis swap to a modernized one, and hitting the road without all the bother of new paint, interior, etc. It seems the concept has caught on with enthusiasts with deeper pockets, but lacking the time or talent to restore a body. The slump in the antique car market has also helped to make it more economical. He would be hard pressed to get three grand out of that chassis around here.

Too bad you weren't closer... I'm looking for the same truck for it's front and rear axles (with 5 bolt hubs). Time does fly... 2 yrs later and my Whippet chassis just barely made it into the heated shop before the snow flew...

If it doesn't hop out on it's own pretty soon I'm thinking more extreme measures might be called for. I hate to do it but since the block is toast anyway, I might take a cutoff blade around the top of the cylinder and see if I can relieve the metal that is hung up against the rings.

Strong rust too.... 2 weeks later and I'm still soaking. I've tried heating the outside of the cylinder walls twice, putting the acetylene torch down the coolant ports and melting snow on the piston... no budge. I had to take the rod cap off with the air chisel and I've beat up the rod with the hammer anyway, so I might have to cut the rod below the piston. I'm a little reluctant to do that because then all I have is the remaining rod/wrist pin to hammer on. I wonder if soaking coke down the walls around the piston would dissolve the rust enough to free it up?

Lacquer thinner is another possibility as long as the original finish wasn't lacquer... which in the case of the Jeep is unlikely. The problem with all of these suggestions is that if the underlying paint is badly oxidized, you will probably rub through before you get all the house paint off. I wish you luck, but I've been faced with this predicament on a customer's car before, and ended up doing a complete repaint.

LOL... looks like you have the same luck as me!