It pays to Advertize in the Bugle!!!

[Dandy Dave]

After a year and a half search on the web, several recent months of wanted ads in the Buick Bugle turned up that much wanted "Buick Reference Book for 1915 Models C-36, C-37. It even has the original sleeve that came with it. What a find. Way to go Bugle and Buick club member who responded. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Thanks, Dave! How have other fellow Buick members made out by seeking items by means of the bugle?

Does anyone know who this fellow was??? Wm. Pifinnekuchen, Ritzville, Washington. Box 167, 1914

The C-36 as printed in the Book.

[budDynabuick]

Nice find! Sweet car!!! How does it drive? A little history?

Now thats a Buick!

Keith

[Dandy Dave]

Bud, The car was restored cosmetically but was a mechanical mess when I got it. I have only been able to trace the History back to the Tallahassee Auto Museum in Florida but do not know if the car was owned by the Museum or was only on loan. I tried to contact them a while back but never got a responds. The car then ended up in the Rochester NY Area where a very dear old friend of mine purchased it. He past on two weeks after buying the car and a year after his death his wife put the cars he owned up for sale. She offered the car to me for what he paid for it and I decided to take it after begging, borrowing, and robbing the piggy bank to beable to do the deal. I knew what I was buying when I puchased the car so there was no real supprises on the mechanical end or things. The fuel tank was full of rust and trash, the wiring was a disaster, It was missing a regulating resistance coil which I made and I also made a new water pump shaft as the old one was rusted and leaked very bad. The cone clutch was relined and I disassembled the motor and cleaned and checked everything to find that it had lost a rod bearing at some point in it's life as there was babbit pieces laying all around the inside of the motor. The bearing was replaced as the motor did not knock but things were never cleaned as they should have been. Last August it broke an axle. If you look back about four or five pages you will come across the post "Can't buy it? Make it! 1915 Buick Axle. Where you can see the process that I went though to make new rear axles for the car. It now runs and drives like a dream. Next winter I plan to redo the king pins and some other front end work to make it even a little better. I chalk all this up to the joys and fun of owning a 93 year old car! <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Dave.