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it is missing it rear door wing handles and It is listed as a SIX cylinder car and not an EIGHT.
I already sent him a message on the SIX vs. EIGHT matter.
Other than the woman acting as a distraction, did I miss something else?
I am referred to by some P-A Series 80 guys as “the Bling King” for the amount of brightwork on the exterior of my Series 80, but yeah, yeah, yeah! That is how I got it.
Depending on the amount of exterior brightwork, you should up your estimate by 50% to 100%.
If you do it piece by piece and the hit seems smaller, but it seems that you wish to eat the whole elephant at once.
There is a lot of prep work on each of the pieces, acid stripping, polishing, plating with copper, polishing, plating with nickel, polishing, plating with chrome, polishing.
Your guy may be good, but he still has a lot of detail work to do.
The advantage of having a nickel car is that polished stainless steel has the same patina. Not so for chrome.
The best tack is to walk in to your plating guy with the pieces, give them to him, walk out, come back when he tells you that they are done (at least 3-months) and with a BIG smile on your face, pay the BIG bill.
Just appreciate that you are not paying for a middle man.
That is one fancy runabout!
Yes, a mini Pierce-Arrow to start your wee-tyke into the collector car hobby, and a value at between $3,000 and $10,000 in the current market.
Top speed, 3.5 mph. Fred Flintstone two-foot brakes, no 5-mph bumpers, however the engine can still overheat in hot weather. 
I would buy one at up to $2,000, if anyone has a good project quality car for sale.
Hi Chris,
Nice job.
For those interested, a good read is: The Unreasonable American: Francis W. Davis, Inventor of Power Steering.
Best,
Peter
Skinned Knuckles did an article on masking your own wiring harness in the August 2013 issue.
It is worthy of review.
Chris,
Thanks for the work you do for The Society; oh, and for the AACA!
We all look forward to meeting you at the Meet in Warwick.
I trust that you are also bringing your Pierce, that is, your Son Pierce.
Peter
Ken,
I believe that i have a spare generator, but it is a DeJon.
It will fit and work with your Series 80, even if it is not a Delco.
It was rebuilt a few years ago but never installed because I have a rebuilt Delco generator.
DeJon made high end electrical equipment for our cars in the 1920s anyway.
I will check tomorrow and you can determine if you have interest and I will think about selling it.
Send me an email at [email protected]
Peter
Yo Jak,
Bill has the correct idea, but his price is out of sight!
I wired a 6v to 12v INVERTER into my Series 80 under the dash and out of sight for running small electronics.
I believe that the price was $99.95 USD and I got it from The Classic Car Radio Doctor.
http://www.classiccarradiodoctor.com/inverter.htm
HOWEVER, the DRAW (amps-wise) on an air pump may be serious and could blow fuses and smoke OLD wires.
The website above has both inverters and boosters, but you should call them with your application.
Personally, I also have a 12V jumper pack (Wagan Power Dome EX Compact Generator) that has a built in air pump. They have a short air hose, but it is good enough. The Wagen Power Dome coasts about $125.00 USD.
However, you should look on Amazon.com, as I just did. They have a bunch of cordless / rechargeable air compressors (Black & Decker ASI500 12-Volt Cordless Air Station Inflator / Goodyear i5000 Cordless Tire Inflator and 12-Volt Power Pack / Campbell Hausfeld CC 2300 Portable Inflator) for not much money.
Otherwise, you can keep looking for 6V tires.
Cheers to the Oz-man.
Peter
Thanks, Karl.
It is a nice video.
You can meet Chris Ritter this Summer at the Rhode Island Meet where he will give a presentation on the Pierce-Arrow collection at the AACA Library.
Or, I guess that you could go out Karl’s way and meet Chris at the AACA Library.
BTW, Chris named his son, Pierce!
An excellent name selection.
Ed,
Quite Excellent!
It is nice being an Uncle, eh?
Peter
I have the Mitchell in my Series 80 thanks to Greg and it runs fine.
I have yet to use it on any PAS tours, but Jak, if you come up to Rhode Island this year for the 2014 Annual Meet, there will be at least one Series 80 with the Mitchell overdrive installed that you can test drive.
Cheers to those in OZ!
Peter
Excellent presentation!
Jim,
Why not send copies, electronic (on disk) or otherwise to Arnold Romberg and he might publish them in the PAS Service Bulletin.
Peter
It is not a Series 80 because the headlights are too large.
It is likely a teens Pierce-Arrow. It is a right hand drive and the Policeman looks like a New York City boy.
The hood also looks quite long. No cowl lights and it has a glass eyebrow.
It also appears to have “Barn Doors”” on the back of the car. Maybe they are the divider amidships on a limousine.”
Here are some bracket headlights for you boys!
Hello Alan,
The 1929, Model 133 or 143, Convertible Coupe belongs to Robert & Betty Reenders of Michigan, or at least did at the time of the Lexington Meet.
Find them in the Roster and asks them about the details.
Good hunting.
Peter
Here is another.
Let’s see if these pics load.
Don’t tell anyone, but I swiped them from the PAS website pics of the Lexington Meet.
I understand that the New York DMV “outlawed” outboard lights alone somewhere in the later 1920s, as they were perceived as a nighttime traffic hazard (looked like two motorcycles coming at you).
I think that it was a Packard plot.
After that time, cowl lights and supplemental bracket lights became mandatory on Pierce-Arrow cars registered in New York State.
It is all truly amazing, considering that Pierce-Arrow was manufactured in the Great State of New York.
In any case, one did not NEED to have bracket headlights, just cowl or bracket auxiliary lights that were lit when the headlights were lit.
I have cowl lights on my 1925 Series 80 (a family car since 1928 and a NY State resident for 80-years) and the lights are on a separate switch. I do not know if the later cars have the headlights and auxiliary lights on the same switch, as are my “city” lights and “country” lights.
