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  1. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I know the owner of a local garage who rebuilt a 1941 Plymouth for a customer. When the car came in the customer inquired about changing the transmission or rear axle for better performance. When it went out with the new engine, there was no more talk of any other changes. With the engine...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I may have a spare manifold. Does your car have the original engine and manifold? I believe they changed the design of the manifold at one time. The earliest ones have the exhaust outlet at the very back, the newer ones have the outlet 5 or 6 inches farther forward. If I have one it will be the...
  3. Stanley Doble

    "Architectural Ghosts of Detroit's Past"

    Original post deleted. You are right. I apologize for the inappropriate comments. It's too late to do anything anyway.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Old flathead Chrysler products will continue to run without complaint in an advanced state of disrepair. Apparently your car ran fairly well with no bad clanks or bangs. Any modern engine with half that many things wrong, would have been a rattling smoking ruin. This fools people into thinking...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Speaking of culture... Canada was supposed to combine an English government, French culture and American technology. But somehow we wound up with a French government, American culture and English technology :(
  7. Stanley Doble

    Franklin Automobile

    Parts are available for most old cars. You won't find them on the shelf at Pep Boys but they do exist. Joining the club for your make, or the AACA helps. If you don't want to bother, buy a Ford. Practically everything for them is still being made. But please don't gut a nice old car with the...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    By they way I had a 98 Lincoln Town Car, they are very dependable and service is not difficult, many parts interchange with Ford Crown Victoria and big Mercury. They are a favorite of livery and limousine operators who think nothing of running up 300,000 or 400,000 miles on the clock.
  9. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Then it is even easier. Pick up a few junkyard key fobs and reprogram them.
  10. Stanley Doble

    Pro and Cons of Mortgage Strategic Defaults.

    Don't worry about dumping the financial burden on the government and therefore on generations of taxpayers unborn. The US national debt is now over $16 trillion dollars and growing at a trillion a year. None of it will ever be paid back. Not the principle, not the interest, none of it. Nobody...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    There is a workaround for the key. Open the black plastic end and there is a pill or chip inside. Glue this pill next to the key switch with a hot glue gun and any key that fits the lock will work. So glue the pill inside the plastic housing and have some spare keys cut for $1.79 at the hardware...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Role of Brown Suits in the Golden Age

    It seems that England had stricter rules on business dress than the US especially London. A brown suit, soft hat or tweeds may have been correct in the country or village but in the city the bowler and black or blue suit was de rigeur. The old rules were thrown aside by the younger generation in...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Pro and Cons of Mortgage Strategic Defaults.

    I still say a person has no obligation to live up to a contract that they were tricked into signing by fraud, or that the other party has not lived up to. Unfortunately in recent years the mortgage and banking business has become shot through with fraud. That is why I suggested the questioner...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    A good place to get flathead parts, Vintage Power Wagons. They have NOS pistons for your car for $75 a set. http://www.vintagepowerwagons.com/pdf/parts/01engine.pdf Remember your Canadian made engine is the larger DeSoto/Chrysler block with undersize 3 3/8 bore. If the cylinders need to be...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Pro and Cons of Mortgage Strategic Defaults.

    The real estate bubble didn't just happen. The mortgage industry is not the innocent victim of some black swan event. Everyone who is underwater on a mortgage is the victim of the real estate bubble. The real estate bubble was engineered by some very rich, very unscrupulous people to scam...
  17. Stanley Doble

    Pro and Cons of Mortgage Strategic Defaults.

    Repaid to who? In millions of cases the original lender got their money back, with a profit, within days of writing the mortgage. They sold it to someone else who sold it to someone else, who packaged it in a mortgage backed security and sold it to someone else. In some cases the same mortgage...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Pro and Cons of Mortgage Strategic Defaults.

    That is why I suggest doing some research such as checking the status of the mortgage at the courthouse and doing some online research about the mortgage situation. You don't seem to realize that the whole system was a scam from top to bottom. Predatory lenders induced borrowers to buy houses...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Pro and Cons of Mortgage Strategic Defaults.

    To make my position crystal clear, I do not condone cheating or robbing. But I do condone defending yourself against cheats and robbers whether they use a six gun or a fountain pen.
  21. Stanley Doble

    Pro and Cons of Mortgage Strategic Defaults.

    I have been a real estate investor for 40 years and never missed a payment and never defaulted on a mortgage. I say, if it will do him any good he SHOULD default. There is so much chicanery and outright thievery in banking and mortgage circles today it would make you sick. The collapse of the...
  22. Stanley Doble

    anti-hat article | The Guardian UK

    Who takes fashion advice from the Guardian?
  23. Stanley Doble

    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Not to mention all the cars from the 30s, 40s and 50s with "flat six" engines. Did they swap in a Porsche, Corvair or Subaru powerplant? They never make this mistake with Fords. Everyone knows they had a "flathead" engine. I have never been able to figure out how they know the right term for...

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