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  • in reply to: Spark Plug Wires #403234

    https://www.brillman.com/

    Brillman, right down the road from me in Virginia, is also a good source for early style wire and fittings….

    in reply to: Extensively Modified Pierce Arrow Cars. #403182

    Good advice, Ed, and it applies to any old car, from early Model T to Pierce and so forth….I walked Hershey one year with a fellow really in the know on early cars, and it was an eye opener, the number of early brass cars that were re-bodied and/or downright replicated….and the problem is that, as time goes by, fake becomes real as knowledge of history is lost..

    in reply to: Cowling Needed #413027

    Great project! Just to be nit picky, those hardness markings on the bolts wouldn’t have been there originally, and the heads and nuts would probably be “heavy”, which is higher than new ones. I’m putting together a 1910 Buick, and the hardest part is finding good heavy bolts and nuts.

    Thus, don’t throw the old ones away!

    I’m really enjoying this thread, really didn’t know what a “Fleet Wagon” was! Nice!

    in reply to: Fleet Arrow Wagon Steering Wheel Hub Removal #403135

    Yes, thanks Dave, that’s it! He’s done a couple of steering wheels for me, super nice work, and as you mention, very reasonable…at least I knew it started with an S!!

    in reply to: Fleet Arrow Wagon Steering Wheel Hub Removal #403132

    Wooden steering wheel rebuild, I think I have a card somewhere, Snyder? perhaps, has done a couple of wheels for me, nice work, I’ll see if I can find his contact info…

    in reply to: Awakenings #413021

    As many of you know, a few years back I found a 1936 club sedan on a farm in Virginia, about an hour and a half south of Winchester, off I-81. I bought the car, put new tires on it so it was mobile, then a friend of mine and his father took the car to get it running. It had been in the shed since the early 1950’s.

    They not only got it running (after cleaning the pan and servicing other things), but I drove it on to the Hershey Red field and sold it, next to the PAS booth.

    I could not believe how well it ran and drove, they said it smoked a little and made a little noise at first, but after a few minutes the lifters settled down and even the original mufflers were OK. As one woman said as I drove it on the fields at Hershey, “wow, that car doesn’t look like it should run!”

    Great engines and drivetrain. I was incredulous at the way the car ran and drove, after being in hibernation for 60 or so years. The car referenced above now lives in a nice collection of cars owned by a friend of many of us in the PAS.

    in reply to: Awakenings #403111

    Congrats, always a good feeling to hear a long dormant engine come to life!

    in reply to: Hershey 2016 #413014

    Well, I had a friend who frequents this forum (I won’t mention Bob Coates name, don’t want to embarrass him), who asked me to pick up a few things at Hershey for him.

    Pierce cap from museum, sure. Tool role from Karl, no problem. A Rat Fink…uh, what? A two foot tall, cast aluminum, painted, Rat Fink? Really!!

    Strangest thing I ever bought at Hershey!

    Of course, my big “find” was being able to hug my Pierce ice box, thanks to Stu and Greg!

    in reply to: Change from right hand to left hand steering #413012

    I’m not going to Google it, which would probably give you some theories and history, but talk off the top of my head.

    In the days of stages and carriages, it was very convenient for driver to be on the right, he’d pull up in front of the stop or local saloon, hop down to the right and discharge his passengers.

    When cars first started being built, it just seemed correct to keep the steering on the right, as you could judge how far you were from the edge of the road to the right. In some cars, it wasn’t really for the driver’s convenience, as all the shift and brake controls blocked him from even getting out on the right side.

    Henry Ford, bless his soul and his idiosyncrasies, for some reason put the steering wheel on the left on Model T of his design (and please note, I did not say “The Model T, if you go back and read period literature, it’s always “Henry introduced Model T”, not “the Model T”, subtle difference but more correct). But, still, you could only exit the front seat of Model T from the right, curb side, there was no door left front. I assisted a curator of a major museum (Peter Jakob, Air and Space) with the acquisition of a wonderful 1914 Model T, and still tease him about the first time he saw the car and reached for a door handle on the left front!

    As time passed, manufacturers realized that people preferred the steering wheel on the left, for one reason, to better judge where driver car was in relation to oncoming car.

    This is not an authoritative answer, but rather observation from reading and studying early cars for years. Pierce, of course, resisted the change, and I believe it was 1920 or so before PAMCC produced a left hand drive car.

    in reply to: 1928 Fleet Arrow Wagon #403058

    Thanks for pictures, I have a Fleet Wagon emblem in my memorabilia collection, but don’t think I’ve ever seen one….nice and a worthwhile project, can’t be many left!!

    in reply to: Hershey 2016 #403057

    A great Hershey, the best weather and the best friends to visit!

    in reply to: 1925 series 80 at AUCTION 9-18-16 #403001

    Well, it IS an open car now, you know, and they bring the bucks….

    in reply to: ’27 Series 80 Coach Interior Light #402965

    You know a car needs some serious work when you can take a clear overhead picture looking DOWN into the interior of a sedan!!

    in reply to: 1925 series 80 at AUCTION 9-18-16 #402954

    Poor old Pierce, was once a family treasure, now relegated to being a burden on it’s owner. So sad…

    in reply to: Correct topping material for a1937 coupe #413004

    Well, going to bring this subject back up to the top.

    I’ve had a couple of discussions with Eric Haartz over the last year, and getting something replicated is probably very low on his list of priorities, and his production facilities are very busy so getting a “short” run inserted is not feasible, it seems. He’s usually at Hershey and I’ll probably discuss it with him again, but……

    So, in light of that, and the fact that I need material for a 1934 top insert now, has anyone come to a conclusion of what an acceptable material would be?

    in reply to: 1933 Pierce for sale, not mine…. #402905

    AACA forums, he has a lengthy description of it on that site. I’m in no way endorsing the accuracy of his description, nor endorsing Matt, just passing it on…there are apparently (according to a well known PAS member) only a handful of this body style out there….

    in reply to: CCCA New England Caravan. #413003

    Wow, gams, yep, that’s what they are, but ask a young’un these days to tell you what gams are and you’ll get the “you’re an old guy” stare!

    Ya know, it’s probably good to have a left hand drive in a right hand drive world, at least you’re far as you can be from the crazy guy in the approaching lane! As far as women in uniforms, Peter, methinks you might be a bit obsessed, but in a good way……

    in reply to: The starting party is close! #402895

    Bob, he’s going to beat you! To those of you who don’t know, Bob gave his engine to a good friend of mine to rebuild, and I told him at the time, though the machinist is a good friend of mine, slow to return work doesn’t even describe it. I think Bob’s engine has been there, ummmm, 3 years maybe? Don’t feel bad, my machinist friend had one of my engines for 7 years, has to be a record…

    in reply to: The starting party is close! #402894

    Great to hear from you! Absolutely, take a video of the start, and when you take the video, make sure you accidently show us the body colors! Great news, welcome back!

    in reply to: 1933 Pierce for sale, not mine…. #402890

    Matt Harwood has it for sale, a dealer, very nice fellow…

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