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Not a best, but a good project jeep. I am told this runs, but has been gutted and is missing the rear hatch. I guess it was a project, he said he would take $700 for the hole things or $400 for the engine with accessories.

http://cosprings.craigslist.org/pts/4359647406.html
 
OMG ...... Awesome find. Locked away for years in a semi trailer....

http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/4366179044.html


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Well.... Red wheels and wide sidewalls were "trick" back in the day. If I were healthy and had the spare bucks to spend, there would be a Buick in the garage... You would not believe the ride those monsters give.

Worthless in the corner, but smooth as silk on the open road. only thing better than a Super would be a Road Master.
 
O-Gauge Steamer said:
Well.... Red wheels and wide sidewalls were "trick" back in the day. If I were healthy and had the spare bucks to spend, there would be a Buick in the garage... You would not believe the ride those monsters give.

Worthless in the corner, but smooth as silk on the open road. only thing better than a Super would be a Road Master.
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To this day, I wish I'd have put red wheels with moons and rings and wide whitewall Cokers on my '54 Buick Super..........

Indeed...... the ride. Nothing to compare it to other than like a boat moving across glassy water.

Power was good - mine had a 500CI Caddy and Turbo 400 trans and a '73 LeSabre rear axle with 3:73's. Would do 15's in the quarter.

Stopping was a WHOLE 'nuther issue ...... as was slow-speed turning.... "Armstrong Power Steering"....... LOL.

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Baby moons were my favourite...

Stopping. Why on Earth would anyone want to stop? It is a wonder that anyone survived considering the shear mass of metal that was flying on the highways. Didn't the Super weigh in around 2 tons?

Can't remember, too bloody old...
 
I imagine it had to weigh close to 5K lbs.

I got a whole lot of crash course learnin' with that car. At 17 years old, when everyone else was dealing with fuel injection, disc brakes and struts and rack & pinion..... I had to learn front drum brakes, king pin replacement, knee-action shocks, and those threaded "joints" that came before ball joints..... Also replacing the felt window seals and guides when I installed tinted glass.....
 
Knee action shocks.. Wow, been a LARGE number of years since I have thought about those.

Well, let's see... At 17, I was building Model T Fords with my Dad and my Brother. Back then, parts were everywhere and we were doing ground up reconstructions. I can not say restoration as we never started with a complete car... A frame here, an engine there...

It was during this time that we built our "Speedster". I know it sound odd to say "Model T" and "Fast" in the same sentence but...

We built our with a Frontenac aluminium twin overhead cam cylinder head which meant that we had to add both oil, fuel and water pumps. Neither of which were stock to the Ford. Henry viewed pumps as unreliable so he just eliminated them. The stock T was oiled by the crankshaft splashing in the oil, cooled by thermosiphon and fueled by gravity. All well and fine for the stock engine... Would not do for the race engine.

We backed the two speed semi-automatic transmission with a Warford three speed overdrive transmission and a Ruxtal two speed differential. This gave us a total of well a ton of gearing choices as both the Warford and the Ruxtal could be shifted at any point. What we usually did was to get the T into High gear then start cycling the other two sets of gears, doing the axle last.

Clumsy? Nope. State Of The Art for 1927. My Brother and I were coming back late one night from a Club Run when we got pulled over for speeding. Fortunately for me, my Brother was behind the wheel as we got tagged for doing 125mph in a 55mph Zone. By this time, I had been in the USAF for about three years and was home on leave...

The best was when we went to Traffic Court but... That is another story entirely...

Keep in mind that we had not yet converted from artillery to wire wheels. This means that we were zooming along on wood spokes...

Now that I think about it, that is insane.
 
125 mph???? That's suicidal! :laugh:

Ok Dave, you win. You the craziest........
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I have never said I was sane. AND, no seat belts, no windscreens. OK, it had a "monocle" windscreen for the driver. I was wearing goggles.... So was my Brother as the windscreen was mostly for looks.

And of course, we had Dusters and caps on as well as gauntlet gloves. Fully period as was the norm for the bunch of insane asylum escapees we drove with. The Mid Peninsula Old Time Auto Club.

It still exists: http://www.mpotac.org/

Today though, I am here in Colorado and my Brother lives in Kingman Arizona. So it is sort of hard to do things together...
 
Actually, you have a very good point there as the two of do dangerous things when we get together.

I can attest that even though my Brother is 72, he is still a terror on the road...
 
ehhh, might not have frame damage... my 96 had worse bends in the bumper than that after I put it into a guardrail RF corner first, and all that happened was a little of the inner fender around the headlight got wrinkled and the tab that the two front bumper bolts go through folded a little bit. A few minutes with a deadblow and a pair of channel locks and you could barely tell it happened.

I'd expect the front bumper mount tabs to be mangled a bit and maybe the front crossmember pushed in slightly. Easy to fix.
 
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