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  1. A very neat car and a great stash of goodies to go along with it. Glad to hear the car is in good hands, I did notice quite a few other pre-war cars in the background of one picture. Would love to see some pictures of the car out and about in the area you live. Not too often you see pictures of American pre-war cars out and about in Brazil.
  2. Unless there is a section on the proper consumption of Crown, it's not a book Ed would read.
  3. The 1933 Pierce Arrow Silver Arrow.
  4. I'd be pretty horrified, too, if I saw that Gremlin on an airplane wing.
  5. On the plus side, the police station is right next to this horrible idea so they don't have to travel far to take accident reports.
  6. There is an episode called Mr Bevis and he drives a 1924 Rickenbacker. The Rickenbacker even ends up on its side a one point.
  7. Back in HS, in electronics class we would charge up huge capacitors with wire lugs on top and call someone's name so they turned around. We then tossed the capacitor to them and your first reaction is to catch it. Always good for a laugh but people catch on after a few rounds. But the new guys in class always got initiated. We even built a massive Tesla coil in class. It was a ton of fun in that class. Learned everything from basic electronics theory to troubleshooting to radio to microwave transmission. We even did a little bit of wave guide study over the fours years I was in the class.
  8. That is a very nice tester. If you don't have a spare magic eye tube for the indicator, you may want to find one now. They are getting very hard to find.
  9. FedEx did the "attempted delivery" lie with one of my sites at work. It was a delivery of over $6k worth of network patch cables for a million dollar plus network equipment project we just started. The location is a school so they figured they'd lie and say the school was closed for winter break. Problem for FedEx is the on site warehouse has been open every day with normal delivery hours. Our cameras showed no FedEX truck ever pulled up to the gate on the date they claimed to have attempted delivery.
  10. You weren't kidding about the number of convertibles. Just about every car is a convertible.
  11. Looks like a neat place to visit. Never knew it was there, I may have to take a day trip out there to see it. Have you been to the gas and steam engine museum in Vista? They have one day a month where they run a bunch of the engines for visitors. https://www.agsem.com/
  12. You will get far more interest and maybe even offers if you post a complete set of pictures of your item.
  13. Sorry to hear about your injury and not being able to participate in the auction. I've had some minor back issues for years and the condition never gets any better, really. It just gets more manageable. Hela up properly or you'll be back to square one in no time.
  14. Here is the Rickenbacker Motors stock certificate that I have.
  15. Only course I have taken was a two week Motorized Equipment Training Academy when I was prepping to get my commercial driver license. It covered Class A Equipment and all sorts of construction equipment like loaders and graders. Plenty of classroom and practical exercises.
  16. That is very sad to hear. It's always a big loss when a very prominent place suffers catastrophic fire or storm damage.
  17. That Hudson is a good looking car. Very nice proportions.
  18. I have seen a few in cars at shows but have never heard of anyone actually using one while in motion.
  19. Since I grew up around pre-war cars, I have always loved cars of that era. The lines, the smells, the handmade portions of those cars always seemed like rolling artwork. In my early 20's I was into muscle cars and bought a 1964 Malibu SS convertible 327/4 speed car. I drove that car all over creation as it was my daily driver for many years. But, even while I was pursuing muscle cars, my interest in pre-war cars never waned. Growing up riding around in my Dad's Rickenbacker attending shows, my Dad always looked at the rows and rows of Ford Model As and said, 'Model As are like elbows and a**holes, everybody's got one' so my Dad is probably rolling over in his grave since I have been hankering for a Model A to drive the wheels off of.
  20. Getting old stock certificates for your orphan cars is always neat. Years ago I gave my Dad a Rickenbacker stock certificate dated 1926 to match the year of his Rickenbacker. When he passed, I inherited the car and the preservation framed stock certificate.
  21. The craziest thing my cars ever had was the loose nut behind the wheel.
  22. As a kid, I remember thinking the lap robe rail was to hang onto when the car was driving down the road. None of the prewar cars I grew up around had an actual lap robe on the bars or braided cords hanging from the back of the front seat.
  23. That is exactly what I would be looking for. A decent, driver that I wouldn't have to worry about driving it as often as I could.
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