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Thanks all for your nice comments. Right now I am waiting for the car to be delivered tomorrow afternoon or Friday morning. Once I have my hot little hands on it, I’ll take some pictures and post them.

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Great, just post a message when you get back north.

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I received my ten copies today and already gave two away to friends!

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I have to totally concur with David. I had an absolutely great time! The people in this organization are so friendly that the whole weekend was just wonderful! I finally got to meet David Coco after swapping all of the posts on the forum. Thanks to Dave Stevens and John Wozny, I passed the “Driving a Pierce Arrow 101” Class. That could become addictive. Interestingly enough, coming home Sunday afternoon, coming up I-294 just south of O’Hare Field, what pulls alongside me but a 1950’s Bentley woody Shooting Brake, possibly a Harold Radford conversion. What a weekend of nice people and interesting old cars!

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I have to totally concur with David. I had an absolutely great time! The people in this organization are so friendly that the whole weekend was just wonderful! I finally got to meet David Coco after swapping all of the posts on the forum. Thanks to Dave Stevens and John Wozny, I passed the “Driving a Pierce Arrow 101” Class. That could become addictive. Interestingly enough, coming home Sunday afternoon, coming up I-294 just south of O’Hare Field, what pulls alongside me but a 1950’s Bentley woody Shooting Brake, possibly a Harold Radford conversion. What a weekend of nice people and interesting old cars!

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Two days to go. The bag is half packed, the maps are updated on the GPS, the cooler is in the back of the car for the Plainwell Ice Cream…..

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Looks like this is probably a re-engined car. That explains why it sold for $38K at the Barrett Jackson auction. The average selling price for a car like this is about $55K, so it looks like the seller picked it up on the cheap and is trying to flip it. My email remains unanswered, and no answer to telephone calls with no voice mail. My interest in this car is rapidly dwindling.

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Thanks Stu. Except for the drivers door handle sagging a little more in the later pics, its seems to be the same car. I appreciate the link to the Barrett Jackson Auction, it appears that the car was well bought. It also gives me an idea of what I should offer. I tried emailing and calling, no response to the email, no voicemail on the phone. I saw that there were four of these models registered to members, and I’ll try and contact the former owner for any info. Thanks again.

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Here’s a link to the online Hemmings ad. In the pictures, the car looks beautiful but the comment “has great potential”” kinda scares me. What do you all think?

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/pierce-arrow/1703/1973465.html#&gid=1&pid=3

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Rub it in.

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I am bound and determined to make Gilmore this year. I could retire now, but if I hold out another 18 months, that means I can get another old car!

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I was hoping to go but the job had other ideas…..

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I’d be interested in one of the larger ones, but would also be interested in a bumper sticker sized one for my daily driver. As for security, I just post up old targets from my last firearms qualification. Quite effective living in the city.

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Paul,

I also really enjoy this thread. I love to daydream about the “what ifs” with various companies. Personally, I would have thought that a Chrysler takeover of Pierce would have been a good idea. Chrysler struggled for years to elevate the Chrysler Imperial, and later the Imperial, to world class status. but they never quite achieved the acceptance of Cadillac or Lincoln. They built some magnificent cars, and I much prefer them over the contemporary Lincolns and Cadillacs, and buying Pierce as their “halo make” would have given them an entry into that market. Agreed, their styling wasn’t as advanced as the other makes, but they were early proponents of body sharing. I believe most Chrysler vehicles from the late 1930s on shared base bodies, with longer hoods and front fenders for the higher end models. Both Pierce and Chrysler were engineering oriented companies, and I wonder what would have happened if Walter Chrysler had not had his stroke and carried on for a few more years in hands on control of Chrysler.

I’ve long admired the British Daimler, and feel that the Daimler Majestic and Majestic Major give an insight into what a mid 1950s Pierce might have looked like in spite of a somewhat unfortunate rear end styling.

Moving up to today, could you just imagine a Pierce V12 R/T Hellcat Roadster?

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I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear the last post over the color of that interior.

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On a similar note, did anyone see this article on today’s Hemmings Motor News online blog this morning:

Ford to launch e-Dsel electric vehicle division

Dave LaChance on Mar 31st, 2017

[Editor’s note: The information in this story was leaked to us with the understanding that we wouldn’t publish it until after 12:01 a.m. on April 1, but since we don’t publish a Saturday Daily, we’re opting to run it early.]

Ford Motor Company is poised to launch a new division to build fully electric vehicles, Hemmings Motor News News has learned. The new division will be called e-Dsel, putting a high-tech spin on a widely recognized name, and will make its debut in a locked room in the bowels of the Javits Center at the New York International Auto Show in April.

Corporate insiders revealed that the new e-Dsel division will offer a range of four sedans, to go on sale on September 4 of this year. Judging by the leaked studio shot of a pre-production prototype shown here, these will feature retro-inspired styling. There will also be an SUV, a pickup truck, a delivery van, a moped, a garden tractor, a unicycle, a pogo stick and a line of designer earbuds, all offered under the e-Dsel brand.

The e-Dsel Division is the result of a $4.5 trillion investment in electrified vehicles announced by Ford earlier this year. Production will take place at the automaker’s Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Michigan, which plans to add at least seven new jobs, some of which will be part-time. HMN has learned that the technology the vehicles will employ will rely on electric motors and batteries of some kind, and that the cars will have a range enabling them to make it from one charging station to another, so long as they’re no more than 25 miles apart.

The new name is certain to stir controversy, and has already generated some dissent at corporate headquarters. Many alternatives, such as Utopian Turtletop, The Intelligent Whale and “Mercury,” were considered before e-Dsel was arrived at. “Look, we all know this is commercial suicide,” a source, who was calling from under a table in the boardroom, whispered. “We’re not idiots. But Fieldsie [Ford president Mark Fields] was absolutely insistent – apparently, his uncle Failor Olp once had an Edsel, and he had fond memories of it. Uh-oh, I think he heard me. Gotta go.” Executive Chairman William Clay Ford Jr. was also rumored to be lobbying heavily for the choice, wishing to have his grandfather’s name remembered in a better light.

GTB, Ford’s advertising agency, is believed to be working on an animated rendition of Edsel Ford in a Tron-inspired outfit, to be used in a massive television ad campaign.

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The car in question supposedly was restored in the 1960’s, and had a recent mechanical go over, so wonder if could have been that bad.

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Dave, I’d be happy to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn that you can drive the first production model across!

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Just amazing that an original engine so old could be found in such good condition!

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Thanks everyone for all of the information. I wasn’t seriously thinking of buying this car, but wanted to get an idea of the costs involved. When I do eventually get a car, I’d want a nice driver where I wouldn’t have to worry too much about mechanical issues. One thing I like so much about the PAS is that people are so helpful on these items. Greg, once I do get a car, I’ll be sure to contact you first of all to get some model specific recommendations about service intervals and storage. I’m sure there is a lot of maintenance that I can do myself. I’m also worried about the best methods of off season storage. For the time being, I don’t have a heated garage, but that might well change after I retire in a few years. You guys with farms are lucky! Not much room for storage in a 2 1/2 car garage on the back end of a city lot! In any event, I’m sure that I’ll have a nice relationship with my Pierce when I eventually get one. This year I pulled rank and seniority and am going to take off for both St. Louis and Gilmore. See you all there.

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