Thread: Classic Cars

Amen tom.
Broke my heart that she sat outside for the last two winters just as you see her. Needs a fuel pump before I can move her. Like I said the owner was a certified recluse and near impossible to actually meet, but everything happpens for a reason and she’s finally mine now. I have permission to change the pump where she sits and would rather drive her home than tow her.
Dignified and all, hehe.

Sitting 2 years? Doda brakes work? Sure it's a fuel pump?
Flatbed tow, my man. Get it home and play. JME

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Got me some goodies from the previous owner tonight.
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Original 1951 maintenance manual and applicable triumph manuals for the upgraded engine components.
The guy who looked after it the last 30 years was a pharmacist by trade. Meticulous notes inside the covers of the Haines books on all the mods to the engine, pistons, differential. Stroke, hp, everything I could hope for in a log book.
And before I lost the light, I snapped a pic of the actual car.
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All the chrome hubs are safely locked away for the winter still. As is a toolbox filled with strange British Tools I’ve never used before..
Can’t wait to get her home.
May start a restoration thread,,,,
Cheers..

I think you should be banned from this forum.

You're going to be having enough fun without messing around here.

The car is beautiful!

Originally Posted by Utopian

I think you should be banned from this forum.

You're going to be having enough fun without messing around here.

The car is beautiful!

Thanks Ron,, I think...

And Tom, I could almost push it home. It’s been only two blocks away from my house as long as I’ve lived here. Was garage stored till only two years ago, then it sat there, begging me to take her home and love her again, every time we walked by when we walk our dogs.
There were dozens of notes under her wipers from interested parties over the years that slowly dissolved in the seasons.
My wife happens to work with the owners neighbor so was able to learn about the woman, the car, and the ex husband, a local pharmacist. I did the legwork to find him, and that eventually got me here.. but I never would have gotten here without my wife having the inside scoop.
Yet another reminder, 32 years later that I met the right gal for me..

Two blocks! IF the brakes work, tow strap?

Pulled-up at work the other day and saw a strange sight.
A few friends and some hired-help were pushing a Camaro home from the body shop after nothing was done for 6 months. 7 long blocks.
Laughed my ass off. Told him not to take it there!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Two blocks! IF the brakes work, tow strap?

Nothing like opening up a brake's master cylinder and finding 'coffee grounds'--

The guy with the thumbs up really makes the photo!

Originally Posted by MikeB52

The guy who looked after it the last 30 years was a pharmacist by trade. Meticulous notes inside the covers of the Haines books on all the mods to the engine, pistons, differential. Stroke, hp, everything I could hope for in a log book.

Can’t wait to get her home.
May start a restoration thread,,,,
Cheers..

I got a good chuckle when I read about the records you got. I have an Indian motorcycle that I got from my cousin that was his dads. Uncle Harvey had passed away before a friend of his told me he had been told that the pistons in it are from a Studebaker truck. I don't know for sure and I am not going to take it apart until I need to find out!

It doesn't look to me from the pictures that you have much if anything to restore.

Originally Posted by 32t

I got a good chuckle when I read about the records you got. I have an Indian motorcycle that I got from my cousin that was his dads. Uncle Harvey had passed away before a friend of his told me he had been told that the pistons in it are from a Studebaker truck. I don't know for sure and I am not going to take it apart until I need to find out!

That an automoble's piston would have been used is of no surprise to me as when I was 14 I worked after school for a machinist and he told me that he'd once used a car's piston for his Harley Davidson and had cut the cast iron rings for that piston on his lathe.

Originally Posted by Utopian

The guy with the thumbs up really makes the photo!

That is our neighborhood 28 year old 'Kid'.

Guy 'driving' is 61. Laid-off designer. Knows it all. Ask him.
He is from Fargo. Dad served on Seawolf class subs, had a car lot, a bar, and a whorehouse.
Whatta guy!

NO brakes on the car.