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Wow, I never received the CCCA “what’s your net worth” questions, they sure would have been disappointed with mine! I’ve pondered the last few years about not re-upping with CCCA, habit keeps me on the list. They’re diluting the original goal of the club, and with a lot of Classics being high dollar, pushing out the “little” guys….

That’s one thing about our Society that I really like, most everyone seems down to earth….and a great bunch of people…

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Free wheeling aside, that sure is a beautiful 1919 roadster that was first discussed…I noticed it when it first came up for sale and thought then, as now, that it’s a very handsome car. I would hope it’s “real”, and I’d say it’s worth more than 100K and, apparently due to no sale yet, less than asking price. Sure would like it myself, but my ship’s still at sea….

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I understand from another forum that the parts have been located, still on the property…..

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My ’31 phaeton was originally green body, khaki fenders, green interior. Original, but I hated the color scheme.

I remember once on a tour in Texas with Fred Tycher, he looked at the car (still green and khaki) and said “That’s a very correct Pierce color scheme, not attractive, but correct”. When I had my engine fire and decided to freshen up the 1960 restoration, color change was the first thing on my mind.

I also agree that the car shown is not only a great body style, but very tastefully done….nice, nice….

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Based on comments, I guess my “firmly believe” will need to start changing! I have a slight case of shimmy every now and then on my ’31, but know that the previous owner restored it the first time in 1960 (after driving it in original condition from New York to New Orleans), probably not doing anything to the front end, and then drove it tens of thousands of miles. I know the front end on the car is worn, if not quite worn out….as one gets older, one has firm beliefs, but one should also be able to use the wisdom learned with age to learn and change…

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My opinion is that any steering shake is due to worn out parts or unbalanced wheels/tires.

Too many cars are restored cosmetically but when it comes to front end components such as king pins and tie rod ends and so forth, “it’s good enough”” is brought into play.

I can’t believe they shook when new….and firmly believe it’s worn out parts that cause the issue.”

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Awful news, so sorry to hear….not the kind of stuff that a pawn shop will take, so one would think that it would be advertised or Ebayed….a good friend of mine had his missing Stoddard Dayton stuff (pins, pictures, that kind of stuff) show up on Ebay, and it was recovered, as it had been stolen and sold to a local antique shop….so there’s hope….

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…and ’36 as it was first seen as I drove onto the farm property…

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I’m sure not the oldest restart, but some of you will remember the ’36 club sedan 8 that I had at Hershey, 5 years ago, maybe a little more? It had not been run since 1953, and with no disassembly other than dropping pan to clean, was started, ran, and driven onto Red Field….soliciting the comment from one young lady, “That thing doesn’t LOOK like it should run….”””

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It’s be great if Rich got it, and we could follow the restoration! His posts on the ’29 have really livened up the forum, thanks RL!!

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Maybe this works better….

http://www.prewarcar.com/magazine/previous-features/clasicauto-madrid-2015-025578.html

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Wow, what a great find and a great car…thanks for the pictures, man, am I wishin’….

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Congratulations to both men, fine efforts and well deserved!

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Nice! Thanks for posting the pictures….

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Early convertible coupes just never have the good look of a roadster. Not to offend anyone who owns one, they’re still great cars and open! I recently acquired a ’27 Dodge Brothers fast four cabriolet, the first “convertible coupe” made by DB. Top up, it looks great. I had it at a friend’s recently, we decided to put the top down, yikes….we couldn’t move fast enough to get it back up, it was awful looking with the top assembly hanging everywhere….

Ed made a politically correct remark, but the message is that there are a lot of fake convertibles out there, not saying this is one…

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One of the pasted in illustrations…

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Interesting…very similar to the one I have, though mine has illustrations throughout instead of three at the end….interesting too that the 1901 shown in library even has the note that it may be a “draft”, just as I was thinking about this one….

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Thanks, never thought to look there, appreciate it….

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Man, I’ll tell you what, for $3000 I’d be making a little vacation trip to El Paso and knocking on someone’s door. The website makes it seem like it’s still in business, and even if it’s not, there’s an owner that lives in that area I’d track down. Yes, have heard bad tales about this place for a number of years….. http://empiremotorsinc.com/

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I agree on the wood sealing, then it’ll be good for another 80 years. I really like West System, but I’m sure others do the job well also.

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