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Thanks, Chris!

I assume you have reasonably equal compression on all cylinders, and that the ignition is correctly timed to fire at or after TDC on the cylinder with compression. It’s easy to have the timing 180 degrees off. If you’ve checked these things, read on. I have a 1912 Model 35, basically the same small ...

Is there any chance, however remote, that the members might soon learn who their new directors are?

Hangovers come from prior overindulgence. Before I could have a Hershey Hangover for the sixth year, I had to – once again! – OD on Hershey. I began my binge on Friday. Since my Stanley’s wheels were loose, I took them to Mel Draper to have new ones made by Noah Stutzman. IMG_2637.jpg Business compl...

The kids are in Skip's BUICK, not his Cadillac. Sorry 'bout that!

Gil

Doug and Beverly Tomb ran the 2017 Eastern National One-and Two-Cylinder Tour last week in Orange, Virginia. It was their debut tour, they did it alone, and they did a spectacular job. There were 28 cars (including three Stanleys!) signed up, from Florida in the south, to Maine in the north, to Miss...

It might depend on just how oddball a coil you need. If you're talking buzz coils, R. V. Anderson makes them for single-cylinder Cadillacs, I believe. He may do others. If he doesn't he'll probably know who does.

Gil Fitzhugh the Elder

Darlene and Steve Bono created this year’s North Jersey Regional Group tour. As has become practically a tradition, it happened outside North Jersey, this year in Hamilton, NY. As has also been a tradition, we had participants from the Southern Ontario RG, who were deemed for the purpose of this tou...

Great story! Thanks for posting.

Gil Fitzhugh the Elder

There's a lot of rant on the Model T website, because a lot of Model Ts appear to be going to be excluded from a festival that wouldn't exist but for the Model T. The folks who run the Lansing-Dearborn, which the OCF no longer supports, are considering whether to change the location and/or venue of ...

There are several good books on specific makes of early cars. For Model T Fords, Bruce McCalley's book. For earlier Fords, Carl Pate's. For Franklins, Mark Chaplin's. For Pullmans, a little paperback called "Path to the Present". For Curved Dash Oldsmobiles, Gary Hoonsbeen's. For Stanleys, Kit Foste...

My guess is Metz, maybe 1912-13

Welcome back to the affliction! Keep us up to date on your progress, and post lots of pictures.

Gil Fitzhugh the Elder

I have a Stanley advertised in the classifieds. You might enjoy this correspondence. Gil Fitzhugh the Elder Subject: 1911 Stanley Model 63 12/15/16 Hello Seller, I saw your post concerning 1911 Stanley Model 63 for sale which price is $98,000 and i'm seem to be most interested in buying it.However,c...

There's an active discussion on the mtfca website on this topic as we speak (or post, or blog, or whatever it is we do here).

Back in the day, a single chain under the middle of a car was subject to horrible abuse. If the wheels were slogging through muddy ruts, the chain might be cutting a path in the hump of dirt between the ruts. Owner's manuals would tell you to remove the chain once a week, clean it in kerosene, and t...

This is the tour that almost wasn’t. Tourmaster Bob Barrett, working alone, had health issues this year that delayed his putting the tour together. But with registration help from Belinda Singe, and with improved health, Bob was able to pull it off. We were treated to four fun days with lively compa...

We got no rain at all, but early mornings were cloudy and chilly. I drove my '12 Buick.

GFtE

This year’s Hershey Hangover was another international touring experience. While there were no Aussies or Irish, we did have the Van Dykens from Canada with their Buick, Willem van der Horst and Hans van der Wouden from the Netherlands (via the UK) with the Buick they keep in the US for touring, and...

I just read on the Model T Ford Club of America that Ann Bothwell has died. There is an obituary from Autoweek on that site.

Gil Fitzhugh the Elder