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Posted By Discussion Topic: What I did over Christmas break -- page: 1 2 3     deuce_roadster 01-02-2011 @ 9:54 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 284 Joined: Oct 2009 Bill, Every club has someone who is like the person you described. In our club it is someone who has never finished anything in his life but runs down everyone else's work. Ignore those type of people, they are just insecure fools. If you had 4 NOS fenders he would have wanted proof the air in the tires was original. Alan, The amount of new post war stuff sitting around boggles the mind. alanwoodieman 01-02-2011 @ 9:47 AM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 868 Joined: Oct 2009 also one of the engines was NOS when installed. I took pictures of the Stude engine and sent them to a friend who is into Studebakers carguy 01-02-2011 @ 6:51 AM reply profile send p.m. New Member Posts: 167 Joined: Oct 2009 Interesting thread. My '34, to the best of my limited knowledge, is almost perfectly original and the more I learn about originality the more I appreciate the efforts of the unknown person who restored it. Years ago, at a EFV8 meet in Branson I met a man who was badmouthing a '34 that he knew of that had evidence of an original LF fender that had been damaged and repaired. Unknown to him that is my car. I could replace the fender with a new reproduction but I kinda like the idea that it still has the original, repaired, fender. Bill Brown '34 Cabriolet deuce_roadster 01-01-2011 @ 10:37 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 284 Joined: Oct 2009 Alan, no I wasn't aware of that. I do recall that there was something different or special about the superchargers on it or maybe all the late planes. I have seen static display radials that had Ford script on the main case. alanwoodieman 01-01-2011 @ 9:23 AM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 868 Joined: Oct 2009 Deuce did you realize that you riding in a B17 with three Wright engines and one STUDE, yea made under liscence by Wright, wrosenkrans 12-31-2010 @ 12:23 PM reply profile send p.m. New Member Posts: 134 Joined: Oct 2010 I worked for about 6mo. at the airfield in Geneseo, NY, back in '84 on their B-17, Fuddy Duddy, and PBY. Actually got some right-seat time in the 17 going to airshows in Albany and upstate Jersey - life doesn't get much better than that. When the planes were home somebody had to crank the engines up twice a week and move them around to avoid flat spots on the tires. An old A&P mechanic and I got that distinct pleasure. Also got rides in the rear jumpseats of a P-51 and a P-40. At the "Wings of Freedom" airshow in '86 we had four B-17's, a B-24, and the Canadian's Lancaster do a flyby with 6 Mustang's, a P-47, and the P-40 on top - what an amazing sight and sound. The photo is a banked shot of Fuddy overhead. Wayne & Barb '42 Super De Luxe Tudor deuce_roadster 12-31-2010 @ 11:07 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 284 Joined: Oct 2009 Allenwoodieman, Since we are this far off topic ( I DO like the tool display) I wanted to let you know that last year I took some of my swap meet earnings and paid the 300 some dollars for a ride in the Aluminum Overcast when it was here in Seattle (where many 17s were built). Well worth the money, got to go up in the nose where the bombidier sat and took pictures as we flew over flattops at the Bremerton Navy yard. The 4 radials were really cool--like a big Harley with wings! So next opportunity you get--DO IT! Besides the ride, your money gets you a year membership in the EAA and their magazine has many good articles about building homebuilt airplanes which I think would be interesting to anyone in this group. alanwoodieman 12-31-2010 @ 10:12 AM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 868 Joined: Oct 2009 this fall I took my 11 year old grandson to see"the aluminum overcast" a B17 that was on display, one of these days I am going into hock just so I can ride in one, love to hear a radial engine plane and imagine what it was like to be under a group of them flying overhead-would be awsome to quote my grandson wrosenkrans 12-31-2010 @ 7:31 AM reply profile send p.m. New Member Posts: 134 Joined: Oct 2010 My daughter, 21, is very into history, including the cars and era fashion - particularly the '30s and '40s. We attended the Model T Centennial a couple years ago and she met several young folks like her, that's where the Speedster idea was born. The plan is to have it finished by the time she graduates college next year and take it on the Speedster Run in Monterey. She's names all of our cars (the '42 is Ellie, short for Eleanor), and creates all of our descriptive posters. She's also become pretty proficient at doing '40s era hairstyles which has come in handy with the theatre productions at school. My son, 26, likes the cars, but just isn't into them to the extent she is. However, he can name most WWII aircraft on sight and still looks up whenever he hears a radial engine going over. The picture is her sitting on the runningboard of grandpa's Model T last year. I have a similar one of her at age 2 sitting on the same running board. Wayne & Barb '42 Super De Luxe Tudor alanwoodieman 12-31-2010 @ 6:22 AM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 868 Joined: Oct 2009 you know what is the best part of your last comment was? MY DAUGHTER AND I, great staement, it means somewhere out there is a younger generation forging a love of old cars and things and of Father's and sons and daughters bonding-you have my sincere congradulations!! ps-both my sons have a love of old cars-just my luck, not Fords but bowties

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