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· Sep 15

Steam Cars

According to the Standard Catalog of American Cars, there were more than 450 different steam automobile manufacturers in the United States.

The king of the steam cars is clearly the Doble. After that, you have Stanley, Locomobile, White, Grout, and hundreds of other makes—many of which most people have never even heard of. With some of these obscure makes, only one example survives today.

So here’s the question for the steam-car crowd:

If a Doble is off the table because you don’t have a spare million lying around, what steam car would you most want to own and why?

I’ve owned four Stanleys over the years: one condensing car and three non-condensing cars.

Random picture from the internet I saved at one point.
· Sep 15

1933 Raleigh LDV differential assembly.

Picking away slowly.

I dismantled both sprockets, the one that was vulcanized together came apart easy with some heat and the individual rubbers are all in good shape.

I decided to put the diff that came in the axle back together and use that. Both looked good. The serrated lock washers for the differential bolts are falling apart so I left them out and used a dab of Loctite instead. Bolts were torqued to 12 foot pounds.

The operations manual only says "oil" for the diff, no other explanation. I'm just going to grease it, for all the moving the spider gears will do, grease will be fine. I imagine the fitting was for an oil gun and since I don't have any British Standard threaded grease fittings, I machined one of the oil gun fittings down and made it an adapter for a 1/4-28 grease zerk.
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· Sep 14

Prewar Speedster Builds

Someday I’d like to build a period-correct speedster of some type. A Model T or A gow job could be fun, and would certainly be the easiest route. Something a bit more different might be more my style though. This Studebaker Commander on BAT checks a lot of boxes. Looks like decent execution and I’d bet at 100hp in a 2500 pound car, it would be plenty quick. I’d go a bit more period-correct on a few things and black tires with an aggressive tread would look more fitting on a car like this. But still really cool. It’ll be interesting to see where the bidding goes.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1931-studebaker-commander-2/
New forum topic posted to Tesla Forum
· Sep 13

Telsa HW3 to HW4 Upgrade is hard

A facebook post discussing the HW3 to HW4 upgrade and how painful it is explaining why Tesla will never do it officially.  No link or background so take it for what its worth.

For you HW3 guys,  would you try the upgrade or just trade up to a HW4 car?

The first successful conversion of a Hardware 3 Tesla to Hardware 4 is complete, with a 2022 Model 3 now running FSD Supervised v14 on upgraded hardware. The work was carried out independently by enthusiasts rather than Tesla, and it required considerably more than swapping a computer. Alongside the HW4 unit itself, the project involved ECU modifications, camera adapters, different camera mounts, headliner modifications, and a full windshield replacement. The builder described the process as a nightmare after the early optimism that followed the initial attempt, when it appeared the camera cabling could be reused and the job might prove straightforward. Some refinement work remains outstanding. The achievement is genuine, demonstrating that HW3 vehicles can technically run the newest software stack given enough effort. What it also demonstrates is why Tesla is unlikely to offer this as a paid upgrade. A retrofit requiring windshield replacement and interior disassembly across roughly four million vehicles presents a service burden that would be difficult to justify commercially.

https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=tesla%20hw3%20to%20hw4
· Sep 13

Other Bad Habits

Men have hobbies and collect stuff.  Its what we do.

Besides the bad habit of occasionally buying a car and then eventually selling it for less I collect photos.  This started 30 years ago when I got Ted Billings photo albums from his wife Winifred.   Ted is mentioned quite a bit in the topic on the Bring A Trailer Duesenberg from last week.  He ran a restoration shop in the 50s/60s/70s and took a lot of photos.  He also liked cars that I like so the albums were very cool to me.   My dad started in the 50s also and he gave me all his stuff too.  Then I started looking and buy photos.  

eBay made it easy to blow money and I swear I have personally built the market for prewar photographs.    These days I have become very particular and maybe buy something on eBay once a month.   Maybe.

This is maybe 25% of my stuff.  I have it organized in albums and bankers boxes.  Along with the photos I have collected auction catalogs (I have hundreds),  original owners manuals, and other junk.

I know @SteveMackCT collects petrolina,  @Hupp31 had photos and sales stuff like me,  @DuesyGuy has corned the market on Model J parts.    Do you guys have collect other stuff (and maybe regret it?).
· Sep 12

2003 Saleen S7

I've always loved this S7. The proportions and styling are just perfection. And how about that startup and rev.
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· Sep 12

No Reserve Estate Sales Cause Me to have Dumb Thoughts

RM Hershey has become the magnet for no reserve collection sales.  Each year they have at least a couple of collections, often from an estate selling no reserve.    When there is a collection of cars, especially from an estate, those are are selling.  Regardless of the bid.   Problem is that dealers know this and they are buying the good stuff at what looks like wholesale.

This year's auction is no exception with some very cool cars selling with no reserve.   I want to pick out a few of the ones I like.
https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/hf26/lots/