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Mine is similar. Instead of chrome finish, it’s matte black, and the pattern is somewhat different. About the same size.
Thanks all. It appears that the correct installation would be a speaker/microphone installed at face level in the headliner just beyond the third window. The layout of the vanity on my car is the same as the 1935 pictured, so I would assume that the speaker/microphone would also be identical. Got to look around for one! My car has a speaker for the driver over the driver’s head in the drivers compartment. I mentioned the expensive system that was on eBay to a friend and he mentioned that he had seen a similar unit to that one in an original mid teens Pierce limousine.
Eric, Congrats on your new Pierce! As I’m learning, half the fun is working on the car yourself and learning your way around the car. Thanks to Bill Morris and Scott Stastny, I am getting a guided tour of my car as we’re going over all mechanical systems before taking on tour. I was hoping to have it at Auburn, but we didn’t quite make it. So far we’ve gone over the engine, good compression all the way around, cooling system, new distributor, new water jackets, rebuilt water pump, lubricated everything else. Under Scott’s guidance, I pulled the front brake drums and bearings Friday, cleaned them up, and tomorrow I have to take out the brake bar in the front axle and clean and lubricate that all up, and put it back together. The car runs so much better now, and Bill is going to rebuild the carbs so it will run even smoother. I can’t stress how much fun I’m having with my car really getting involved with it rather than just driving it!
Anyway, enough about my car. What did you get Eric?
Thanks Eric! I wound up hitching a ride with Dave Kirschenbaum last night at the Welcoming Party. Let’s see what happens Friday. Thursday is bus day.
David, now who am I going to ride with? My car isn’t finished yet, so I had to go modern.
Recently had the same kind of surprise when putting a new set of tires on my 1933 1236. I ordered 6 Goodrich Silvertown 7.50 x 17s from Coker, only to find out after taking the spare tire covers off that the spares were actually 7.00 X 17s. Coker gracefully let me return two of the 7.50s, and let me exchange them for Firestone 7.00 x 17, which they had in stock. They did not have the 7.00 x 17 Goodrich Silvertowns. The spares that were on the car appeared to be never used, but they appeared to be ancient. I was wary of having to drive home from Indiana next month on one of those tires in case I had tire problems. I had never heard of Gillette tires before!
I’m surprised they didn’t tell you “Ran when parked,” or “Looks good at ten feet.”
The archer and lenses he sold me were a lifesaver for me too!
Lots of silicon used in lieu of gaskets. Most of its gone now.
There is some mention of Pierce Arrows being shipped to Russia in the new book out on Charles Clifton.
I wonder if Greg is going to be working the Starbucks concession at the lodge!
Sure you can get extra foam, but it would be Sea Foam!
A sure test would be if there was scalded milk in the cappuccino, or Rotella 15W-40.
It not only sounds warm, but gets warm. I tend to use it during the winter months and not so much during summer! I believe the 4000 was the top of the line SABA that was ever built. Shortly after they went to transistorized chassis. I’d love to get a SABA car radio from the 1930’s for my car, but I have to settle for a Philco.
Craig,
The caps are usually the problem with the old German radios. The electrolytes are usually good though, unlike the American radios. You also might want to gently clean the slider contacts with DeOxIt. Many times one of the biggest problems with those chassis is oxidation on the slider contacts. I have a huge SABA 4000 in my living room myself. Three separate chassis. Wired full remote control. Now, THAT is a radio!
OK, as long as we’re off topic, I’ll just share this somewhat bizzare story that’s not even about cars. Before getting the old car sickness, I used to have the old radio sickness. Had hundreds of radios. My father used to complain to me that he had an old National radio that the family had purchased right at the beginning of the radio era, but his mother threw it out when he was in the service in WWII. Had a friend in later years who worked for Motorola, and was also a radio nut. He was more into military radios, but snagged a neat old radio that his next door neighbors had thrown out for me. I drove out to his place to look at it, and it was the same model National my dad had as a kid. I pulled the chassis, found an old repair ticket, and it turned out to be the very same radio. My dad couldn’t believe it until I showed him the ticket. I repaired it for him and he enjoyed it for years.
This is the car that I kicked myself in the butt over. I hesitated before making an offer on this car, and called Merlin the day after it was sold at Hershey. If I had the room…….
The KS fuel gauge in my car was registering gas when I first got the car, but stopped working the following spring after sitting all winter. Is there a chance, that driving the car around with 1/2 to 3/4 tank of gas, it might start working again?
Here is a close up of the fuel gauge on my 1933 1236 EDL:
Just wanted to repost a simple solution to wire two of these Optima batteries in series without any wiring change to your car…
Lawson Products (www.lawsonproducts.com) offers 2/0 gauge battery cables which have a regular terminal on one end, and a terminal with a standard battery post on top of the terminal on the other end. This allows you to hook up your batteries in parallel and connect them right to the cables in your car.
Part Nos. are 84816 for positive and 84817 for negative. Cost is about $25. each
