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  1. TexRiv_63
    I'm not an expert but "West Seattle" would indicate right on the seacoast. Salt water and sea air can rust a car from the inside out just like salted streets in the midwest unless the car is protected. I bought an Ebay car from there and it was one of the most rusted cars I ever owned.
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    Happy New Year! Thank you to all who viewed and purchased our humble Automobilia items in 2023. Here is our current batch of Ebay parts auctions, these are available right now and many will end on Friday, January 26. These include Prewar enamel radiator and other emblems, threaded hubcaps, very rare 1929-30 Peerless, 1924-30 Auburn radiator emblems and a 1941-42 Buick Limited rear door emblem, a Durant branded Deluxe Boyce Motometer, a very nice nickel brass dogbone radiator cap and other Automobilia. Makes included are AAA, Auburn, Boyce, Buick, Cadillac, Chandler 8, Chrysler Imperial, DeSoto, Dodge Brothers, Durant, Essex, Ford, Graham, Graham - Paige, Hupmobile, Mercedes Benz, Nash, Oakland, Oldsmobile, Overland, Packard, Peerless, PMF, Saxon, and Star. Please take a look: https://www.ebay.com/sch/rusty_packard/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
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    I love the bullet birds although I prefer the 61-62 style. Seems like a very good deal but there is no mention of how the car runs and drives. With a west Seattle location the underside of that unit body needs a good look.
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    A bucket is too small...
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    My Dad definitely influenced me to be interested in cars in general and in working on cars. He was born in 1915 and directly experienced most of the prewar car period, starting to drive in late 20s and learned to keep cars running on the cheap during the depression. Later, when I was growing up I watched him work on older cars and just assumed that was what everyone did. He never had the time or the money to collect or restore cars but he would take me to car shows and drool over mid 30s Packards. I dived into working on and flipping cars at age 16 and never looked back, he thought I was a little nuts to spend so much time and money.
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    Thanks, a lot of my old cars badly need some repairs!
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    I love these Eldos but I agree this may be too far gone to fix without extreme expense. Hard to tell but this may be an original no-vinyl-top car...
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    I love the 32's. Doesn't say anything about whether it runs and drives. With the last oil change in 2019 sounds like it needs to be "sorted".
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    First I have heard about using Elmers, makes sense. Does it have any longevity problems?
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    That's it! Thanks Terry. I guess they moved down the block in 1913...
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    Why would it say "Motor Car" ?
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    I did just find this 1912 Alco print ad which does show a Broadway address in NYC, but it's 1883 rather than 1886
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    This appears to be a motor or car number plate, nickel plated brass 3 1/2" by 1 9/16". The only listing I can find for American Locomotive is for the Alco car built from 1905 to 1913, but that was made in Providence RI, not NYC. Can anyone confirm this is from an Alco, or if not tell me what it is from? Any help is appreciated.
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    Thanks for the info. I did not notice those cracks, guess I'm lucky that is the only issue after 61 years of not very great storage!
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    Cunifer is great to work with and can be polished to obtain a nickel color. I have been very happy with Fedhill as a supplier of both tubing and fittings.
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    With a weather prediction of a Texas "Blue Norther" headed our way I took the car out for a ride yesterday. Sunny and in the mid 60s and so clear I stopped and took some new photos at my photo spot overlooking an elementary school yard and local park. As promised I got up this morning and it was only 12 degrees!
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    I was glad to see this forum added as I am a fan of scale model cars along with all the other junk I save. I always liked car models as a kid but from age 5 to 11 I played with them violently and destroyed them all. From age 12 to 17 I wised up and got seriously into building, customizing and saving them. If this is appropriate I will share some of those saved ones here once I dig them out and photograph them. Today I do have pictures of the one factory promo car I did not destroy, a 1/24 scale 1963 Ford 500 XL squareback. My father got this from Elmwood Ford in Mount Prospect, IL where he bought his last new cars. I have heard these were made by AMT but there is no maker ID. It's molded in metallic blue similar to a Ford color and has a highly detailed bucket seat and console XL interior. The coolest thing is on the undercarriage where many of the car's advertised features are spelled out in addition to amazing detail down to the weld marks on the frame. Were the features callouts common on promos?
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    With a weather prediction of a Texas "Blue Norther" headed our way I took the car out for a ride yesterday. Sunny and in the mid 60s and so clear I stopped and took some new photos at my photo spot overlooking an elementary school yard and local park. As promised I got up this morning and it was only 12 degrees!
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    Cool car, love the taillights, but that interior is scary and the price is pretty high.
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    Valuable with the feather intact.
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    Nice looking car, price is about what I sold my 63 Starfire for a few years ago, although my car was a lot more loaded. The seats are definitely NOT original or leather, which they should be. The 64 has a lot of hard to find diecast chrome trim and I would want to see pictures of its condition. That horrible trunk and bald spare don't help the sales effort.
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    Even with all the language that is a smoking deal for someone who is handy.
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    Is it possible to very carefully insert a pry bar at the door bottom from inside or outside and shift the door slightly upward while trying to open it? Old lube plus sagging can bind the latch mechanism.
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    Don from Texas. I'm 75 years old and have been obsessed with cars since I was 12. I grew up in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago but have been a Texan since 1992. I have owned 79 cars in my life of which only nine were imports. The largest share (42) were GM cars, I have owned 7 Buicks including my one current hobby car, a 1960 LeSabre 2 door hardtop. I have done just about every type of repair and restoration task with the exception of transmission rebuilding and upholstery. I still do what I can on my car but am limited by age and mileage. I love old mechanical things and automobilia, collecting radiator emblems, data plates, and threaded hubcaps. I am also an old movie buff and recently fulfilled a lifelong dream of acquiring a Mitchell 35MM Hollywood camera with all the accessories. I have been an AACA and forum member since 2007 and sign in every day as this is the most eclectic and knowledgeable car information source on the Internet.
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    Don't know how I missed this, what a nice original! I agree with all of the previous posts, preserve rather than restore. That will clean up to be a gem.
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