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Dave Henderson

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  1. A great old time kind of meet that just gets better year after year. It's like those of the good old days with friendly laid back vendors, reasonable prices, and less often seen stuff from out of the murky past with some of it just spread out on a tarp on the ground. Sure hope I can be there again this year.
  2. Originally it was to have A 16 cylinder engine, thus the long hood. The body is considerably larger all over than an original L29 sedan's. Plans were revised and became for it to be a 12 cylinder car. Later it was disassembled and the engine for a while was used to power a dynamo or other device at the nearby power plant. My recollections are a bit fuzzy but a comprehensive history of the car is known and could be addressed by ACD Museum staff members or the L29 historian of the ACD Club.
  3. States have their own requirements pertaining to the condition of yom plates. In Virginia restored plates are in use routinely, and I have never had difficulty with them being approved at the DMV. Admittedly, using fiberglass to make reproduction parts is best done where there is a need for multiple copies of a part, all the same. I made a part I needed using the process, then made and sold several copies, and finally sold the mold to a parts supplier.
  4. I remember that reversing switch, the one on my dad's new '41 Chevy broke off of the starter before the car was even a week old. Funny how you remember things, I was 10.
  5. This, a '20'S Boyce Radio motometer with a winged hinged base, the pride of my collection, also features a head, possibly inspired by the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922.
  6. Here's another approach, assuming your state allows repainting yom plates the same colors as when new if needed and otherwise in good condition. Do a little experimenting on something small before going whole hog... You'll need fiberglass cloth, resin, release compound such as thick cook pan spray, and paint. Apply release compound to the plate you wish to duplicate, cut a piece of fiberglass cloth a little bigger than the plate, saturate it with the mixed resin and lay it onto the face of the plate, pressing it down around the numbers so there is a good contact. After it cures remove the fiberglass from the tag and; viola, you have a female mold to use to duplicate the tag. Employ the same process and materials as in the first step. When cured separate the pieces and carefully trim the duplicated tag and paint it. Last step is to shrink wrap the two tags back to back. Both sides will be visible, look identical, and the DMV probably won't require unwrapping them for further inspection.
  7. All passenger Model A's originally had black fenders, This A's body is black but it has light color fenders, maybe primer, or just some leftover house paint brushed on, a car at or near the bottom of the pecking order. In the era short skirts prevailed in better times, long ones when the economy was off. Could be a hint that this picture was taken during the '37-'38 downturn.
  8. Specifically it's a P8 limousine of which only 98 were produced as per The Production Figure Handbook by Jerry Heasley.
  9. Looks to me like it could be a '35-'36 3 window Ford coupe but the rain gutter doesn't look right. If in fact it is Ford the dual wipers would likely make it a deluxe.
  10. Amen. I just tossed my Toastmaster toaster a year ago, it had been given the fix several times but it was finally done. We had gotten it as a wedding present. So what? Jean and I will be celebrating our 70th wedding anniversary later this year!
  11. By the '40's even good running cars of this ilk became viewed as obsolete gas guzzling dinosaurs. The term "classic car" hadn't come into the vernacular yet, and their monetary value was chump change. But pragmatic filling station and repair shop owners saw a use for them. They could be inexpensively converted to service vehicles or wreckers by selectively removing rear body sections, installing a hand crank crane and a big hefty oak plank at the front for use to push start stranded cars. Oh, and a big old headlight mounted high at the rear for night work. I'm of an age that I was able to have seen these conversions, one I remember in particular was a '34 Super 8 done by a nearby station owner. Now, wouldn't that be a cooler thing to do with the subject car than parting it, making it into a ratrod, or having it become yard or garage art?
  12. The Alco was made under a licensing agreement from Berliet.
  13. The 1936 Lincoln Zephyr "twin Grille" custom sedan was sold at an auction of cars accumulated by Lee Roy Hartung and presented at his rustic museum, during November 3-5 2011 at Glenview, Ill. by Auctions America. The modification was designed by Willard Morrison, who was described as a prolific inventor. Interestingly, he is credited with designing the coveted aftermarket three-bar grille and hood trim for 1936 Fords made by Pines Winterfront Company. Another interesting car up for auction was the 1949 BMW Veritas with coachwork by Spohn.
  14. Interesting. Assuming it was previously installed (and not never-installed, which granted is in the realm of possibility), it was somehow capable of being removed. Could it be that it won't unscrew because of a malfunction?
  15. That isn't how I composed the above but it came out messed up this way, I hope you get the gist.
  16. 1946, '35 Pontiac, found up on blocks in an alley, no wheels, few windows- $15. Cars were still hard to come by due to WWII-caused shortages. Jacked up my dad's '41 Chevy and took off 2 wheels and the spare, then the spare from my pal's dad's '41 Chevy as they were the same bolt pattern as the Pontiac and towed it to my friend's grandmother's garage. Worked on it for months to ease the shock before telling them and bringing it to my parent's house. 1949, '35 Ford deluxe coupe, bald tires, running with a '41 engine, working R & H, and cool Lyon discs over the 16" spokes, - $75. 1950, a frontal-wrecked otherwise good '40 Buick Roadmaster torpedo sedan with a '46 engine for $75 and a running '40 Roadmaster rust bucket convertible for $50 that had been overturned and had no passenger door, to combine and rebuild the sedan out of the two. 1962 A '52 Chevy sedan with a blown head gasket and broken door window- took the owner out to lunch for it. 1969, 1953 XK 120 Jaguar roadster, engine out but a rusty complete car, "come and get it if you want it"! 1970, Another XK 120 roadster, this one a '54 with no engine, had Boranni accessory wire wheels, $15 and a 4' 2 tube overhead florescent light fixture. 1972 1961 Peugeot 403 sedan, $50. And they all had titles.
  17. In any event just hope that after you pass your wife doesn't sell your cars for what you told her you paid for them...
  18. At their low point running Model A's were characteristically 50 dollar cars. But during WWII things changed, the Office of Price Administration had to impose a maximum price for them at $225. That made a $42.95 rebuilt engine for one reasonable. Because 19 and 21 inch tires became more difficult to find, scads of A's were changed over to '35 Ford wire wheels that took 16" tires. However, to obtain new ones you still had to deal with the rationing board. And it was illegal to have any extra tires!
  19. Because of wartime shortages of cars some even worse than these, usually common cars from the big 3, were fixed up and put back in service with parts supplied by Sears Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, Warshawsky, Western Auto, Pep Boys, and junkyards. I get a kick out of looking at car parts in a '43 Sears catalog. Prices? Rebuilt EV8 engines , '32's $64.95, '39-'41's $73.95, Model A's $42.95!
  20. A tough challenge, what is the car in front of it? Looks like it was a sedan and may have had wood spoke wheels. The bumpers and beltline are clues that should help. Since both cars are ca. '29-'30'ish the Studebaker seems to be too beat up for this to be a picture from the depths of the depression but rather somewhat later.
  21. Read 'em and weep.... Yup, hard to believe, Model A Duesenbergs for $35 to $100. Jan-Feb 1935 Kelley Wholesale Blue Book
  22. Also resembles the '30 Commander Eight Regal brougham pictured in the Standard Catalog of American cars 1805-1942.
  23. Some semblance to Jordan, ca. '29. The hood may have had the sides cut out and the radiator shell may be missing, can't tell for sure what the shiny thing where a cap would go is. Wheels with fine spokes could be right, perhaps the large hubcaps are from another car. Houses in the background are as dilapidated as the car, but what interesting architectural features.
  24. The CCCA classic was advertised in a large city's leading newspaper and there lookers, but there was just one willing buyer. No one wanted to take it on as a project, accordingly It sold very reasonably. Desirable parts salvaged were made available and were quickly purchased at fair prices by buyers happy to have even found them. A much better result than having the complete project car go to the crusher.
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