Marty Roth

Some years ago I ordered a custom built Forest River enclosed car hauler. The dealer was Trailerworld in Kentucky, and the trailer was built in Indiana. The dealer emailed, and then sent me a hard copy photo of the VIN. I brought the paperwork, including MSO, Bill of Sale, and both a photo, and a pencil tracing of the VIN (anal retentive?) to the HQ for Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles, but it could vave been done at a local office, or by mail. They issued my permanent license plate which I brought along when the trailer was ready for pick up - no issues!

So true ! B. B. was a true gentleman, and Miriam was indeed a gracious and a lady in the truest sense. Their home, as well as the office/collection were exceptional. That huge car with the engine driving the generator which in-turn powered the electric motor was amazing. The Locke-bodied Chrysler roadster amazed me with the side entrance to the rumble seat, and auctioned the '52 Studebaker convertible was one my wife even tried to win. Speaking of collections in Baton Rouge, Estelle and John Copes come to mind, as well, along with their expertise in AACA judging. I was in process of buying their 1924 Buick Model 55 Touring when his collection succumbed to fire. Speaking of the hobby and friends, David Coco and his family are, and since the 1970s, have been a major part for us, sharing weddings, birthdays, Ides of March jam sessions, and other family functions almost any excuse to get to visit, eat, and enjoy!

Looks exceptionally clean, and really nice, except for the Air Conditioning not working, not working This is a year when there was a very notable LACK of power, and exceptionally poor fuel mileage- especially if compared to our (former) 1970 deVille convertible.

Hi Flyer, My preference, and I believe the safest way, is a Bank-to-Bank Wire Transfer, sender usually pays, and I think our most recent one was $20- well worth it for the immediacy and safety

And I'm Just Down the Road from Dandy Dave - well, maybe 1500 miles down the road... Welcome !!

This was frequently the case when working in the dark, in the cold, in an apartment parking lot, on my 1967 Citroen DS-21 Pallas

Welcome to the Oakland Family https://www.oaklandowners.com/ Assuming you come to HERSHEY, we have an active Oakland Owners group - exclusive to Oakland (not a slam to POCI, but we're Oakland, not a subset of Pontiac ) OOCI - Oakland Owners Club International Please PM me next week and I'll put you in touch, as well as get the time and place for our get-together on the Chocolate Field to meet some of the folks

Paint his deck? He doesn't have the time to paint the deck- Keiser is busy full-time helping old-car nuts with nuts and other stuff- and lots of great advise !! Thank you , John !

Some boyhood dreams never fade

Buick called the color "Sequoia Cream", and I've always liked it - especially with wide whitewalls on a late '30s and '40s car- seems the same, or very similar color to my '41 Cadillac convertible

Nah, it is for an Austin-Healy Sprite --- or both of our old Citroen 2-CVs (cut along the dotted lines) And, You just described my schedule, one or two for me, but mostly for my wife's medical appointments - but at least she's still around to occasionally judge, to noodge, and navigate and aggravate on tour- It is almost 4 years since a bad 3-month diagnosis from one oncologist, and then finding the right surgeon, now almost 4 years later, holding steady and achieving one family milestone at a time

That is one fantastic grouping, and especially the drop-top Imperials ! a '58 is still my ultimate - white, please ...

Since late 1956 when the '57s came out, I've been in awe of the 1957-1958 Imperial - especially the convertible a former girlfriend's dad had me drive after he saw my '49 Pontiac convertible. While I absolutely love the styling, even in 4-door sedan guise, of the '57 & '58, to me the '59's grill looks "clunky" - heavy and less well styled. Is this Imperial, a 4-door sedan, really a bargain at less than half the price of a dramatically more desirable make and model convertible? Let the market make that decision - and maybe it already has.

It was intended to mimic Columbo's disheveled personal appearance, and ostensibly so that the person being investigated might feel Columbo might be a Bumbling, less effective investigator, at least in my opinion.

Exceptionally nice looking, and maybe exceptionally optimistically priced. I am in awe of this era of Imperial, and still regret the 1958 convertible that got away, but this one seems a stretch - maybe an example of "Throw it on the wall and see if it sticks"? or "Run it up the Flagpole and see who Salutes"?

and it has lots of optional equipment such as tabletop and floor model radios, and a Silver Eagle Lollipop microphone (I still have the Gold-Plated version of this from my 1970s CB Radio days to go with my Tram D-201 base station and Diamond-60 mobile units for the Citroens, and in the long-forgotten past, all capable of "sliding" to 10 meter band) Nonetheless, some real potential here and 1932 Chrysler was a "Looker"

Decreased octane ratings? I would think just the opposite . Maybe it depends upon where applied?

??? Thanks, Ed, I needed a good laugh this morning, and hadn't heard that word/phrase since my grandparents' days back in the 1940s - 1970s. I take it to mean a non-coordinated conglomeration of add-ons - do this here - do that there - stick this over here even 'though it doesn't match- and the end result is that the whole is less than its parts. PS: you're probably right about a great many Shined-up but not so road-worthy Packards, but my 1930 733 Touring is probably one of the exceptions, proven with a great many tour miles, surprisingly decent handling, dependability, and good looks for the era, along with a pretty fair provenance.

I'll Drink To That !!

Depending upon your car's make, model, and year, and the relative location of the gas tank, and if absolute originality is less of a concern than knowing actual volume, A broken yardstick, a ruler, or a twig with notches at full, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, and empty could work, as it did on our '27 Chevy for 26 years of touring.

Bob, A decent Middle-of-the-road Motel is best for us, BUT- More and more important to find them with multiple Handicap Accessible rooms as more of us find such a need for family members. Thanks for seeking out our thoughts, and for continuing to plan tours. What area are you considering? and for what vintage of cars?

Mark's looks dramatically better, and I wish it could be mine, but am unfortunately out of space

Do NASA rockets get left on the launch pad with a key in them?

Mot me, but one of the "mechanics" in a friend's foreign car shop where I served as parts and service manager while in between computer administration assignments. The company sold and serviced Citroen, Peugeot, Alfa-Romeo, and Renault products. Renault had just released the USA version of the Renault-5, marketed as Le Car. Sidney was not the sharpest of our technicians, and was assigned to do a Le Car oil change. A few days later the customer came back with a very noisy transmission, and the car smoking badly out the tailpipe. Turns out the technician had drained all of the oil out of the TRANSMISSION, and overfilled the engine crankcase by three and a half (3-1/2) quarts, doubling the correct amount. That was a costly mistake and required a tranny rebuild/replacement - not his only foul-up, but one I recall.

Back around 1987 My 1969 Pontiac Custom"S" developed an engine "miss", sounding and performing like a dead cylinder. With no identifiable ignition issues, the next step was a compression check which yielded minimal numbers at the 2nd cylinder on the passenger side. Removing the rocker arm cover and having my wife spin the engine, one rocker arm moved less than desired but the pushrod was still good - time to dig deeper into the Pontiac 350. Suspecting a worn camshaft lobe or a collapsed hydraulic valve lifter, I proceeded disconnecting first the battery and then all linkages and fuel line, and removing the carburetor and intake manifold as a single unit. My diagnosis was correct, but the face of the suspect lifter was flush with the face of the bore, so I couldn't grab it with my trusty Vise-Grip. I didn't have any specialized tools, but reasoned that since either a cam lobe had worn away, or that the lifter had gone bad, in either case I needed to remove the lifter to make the determination - but how to do it ?? The easy way "SEEMED" to be that I would bump the starter to spin the engine to get the cam lobe to raise the defective lifter just enough to grab it with my Vise-Grip pliers - so I connected the battery cable and bumped the starter. Did I mention that the car was in our 2-car garage, directly under our two childrens' bedrooms? Well - with the intake manifold and carburetor removed, but the distributor still in place, the (now open) metal fuel supply line shot a dose of gas straight at the distributor which of course ignited the spurted gas, and here was an open fire directly below the kids' rooms! I hit the button on the garage door opener and pushed the Pontiac out of the house and into the driveway and smothered the flames with a blanket or something close, avoiding shooting the extinguisher into the internals of the engine - maybe not the smartest or safest move, but solving the issue, and at least not having to disassemble and clean out the engine.