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  1. Thanks everyone for the good information. And thank you Wayne for the heads up regarding the brass plated steel rivets. That sounds like an important thing to know ahead of the job rather than later on riding down the road. Thanks again guys, Dave
  2. Hi all, I'm putting new brake linings on the brake bands of my 28 Buick and I'm looking for suppliers of brake rivets. Any help is appreciated. Dave
  3. Hi all, I'm looking for one 700 15 BF Goodrich Wide whitewall tire in good or better usable condition. Dimensions: rim size 15", outside diameter 29", tread width 5 1/8", WW width 4 1/8" I'm currently running two good ones, one almost new one and one with the wear bars showing. The venders are all back-ordered indefinitely. I'd hate to have to buy a whole new set. Anything out there? Dave
  4. Hi all, I'm looking for one 700 15 BF Goodrich Wide whitewall tire in good or better usable condition. Dimensions: rim size 15", outside diameter 29", tread width 5 1/8", WW width 4 1/8" I'm currently running two good ones, one almost new one and one with the wear bars showing. The venders are all back-ordered indefinitely. I'd hate to have to buy a whole new set. Anything out there? Dave
  5. JimmyG, While you have the windshield out it would be a good time to replace the flat plate glass with safety glass. Your insurance company will appreciate it, not to mention your family. Cheers, Dave
  6. Denny, Grimy has the method. If your car has wood spoke wheels with a split rim and tire there is a counter weight on the wheel to compensate for the weight of the split rim latching mechanism. So, it has to be balanced as a unit, tire, rim and wheel. You also may have to back off the brakes so the wheel spins freely. Dave
  7. Rod, Here is someone else's idea. Maybe this is what you're thinking? Dave
  8. Here are a few pictures of a car I'm working on. I flipped the intake and set up the carburetor linkage. This is a popular way of setting up the linkage. The carb is a Carter BB1 bolted directly to the manifold without an adapter. I picked up the air filter at Hershey last year. I think it is a Plymouth or a Chevy. If anyone recognizes it please chime in.
  9. Did you try Dave Tachney? He might have a transmission. Call between 5 and 7 pm. He doesn't do email. 763-427-3460 Dave
  10. For something like this I like Kanter. Their after sale service is way better than Bob or Cars. Not even in the same league. Dave
  11. In her book on Marr, Kimes did say that he bought Marvel stock at the the suggestion of Billy Durant. She says that “Billy had given him sage advice that would work out very well: buy Marvel Carburetor.” This could be thought to mean buy the company but I think it meant buy stock in Marvel. This happened several years before the 1920 recession when Durant lost GM the second time, according to Kimes. Later “Marvel fell victim to a takeover” and Marr sold his stock for $126,000 which he used to pay for the construction of his new home on Signal Mountain Tennessee. This happened in the late twenties. Although Kimes doesn’t give a date she does say that is happened while the law suit regarding construction of the home was going on and that was in 1929. None of this leads me to believe that he owned the company, to the contrary, only that he owned stock. Dave
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