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I just received my car after transporting back from a tour.   Trucker showed me a puddle of oil after I backed car out of the transport truck.   Here is a quote from Ed Minnie: "Engine oil 100 percent - From having it on incline, it came past the rear main slinger.  Normal on that car."

One sunny afternoon in 2013 I was out riding my bicycle and spotted an open door on a big old building that I always assumed was unoccupied. I stopped and peered in and what to my wondering eyes should appear but……. A room full of OLD car bodies and table upon table of spare parts. Very interesting. The caretaker was there and let me take pictures. I thought some of you would offer ideas of what these cars are/were. Also I’m curious about that motor. I am unable to identify and thought I lost the pictures long ago but recently found them. What do you think these are?

All year, I’ve been planning on taking my old car up to Mt. Greylock on a day trip. We just barely snuck it in at the last minute today because the auto road to the summit closes on Oct. 30th. Flawless driving weather. Used the heater on the way up this morning to take the chill off and just barely cracked open the windshield to cool off on the way back this afternoon. We did 135 miles round trip and the car did great. Even went up and down the mountain in high gear and still had brakes at the bottom. The colors are definitely past peak but still not half bad.

Meet the 1938 Minneapolis-Moline UDLX Comfortractor, one of the most unusual machines ever to roll out of an American factory.

The idea was simple but ambitious: build a tractor that could double as an automobile. Minneapolis-Moline gave it an enclosed, weather-protected cab, a surprisingly car-like design, headlights, and road-going features that made it look more like a streamlined sedan than a farm machine.

It was built for farmers who wanted to work the fields during the day and travel between town and farm in relative comfort. With its bright orange paint, towering rear wheels, and distinctive styling, the UDLX was unlike just about anything else on the road.

It was also expensive, and farmers weren’t exactly lining up to trade in their tractors for one. Production was limited, making surviving examples especially fascinating today.

Nearly 90 years later, it still looks like something dreamed up by an engineer who refused to choose between a tractor and a car.

Would you drive one to the grocery store?

https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/30560/lot/116/1938-minneapolis-moline-udlx-comfortractor-serial-no-310506/

Look at the peasants up front, driving me around while I relax in the back but having to raise my own windshield.   They were sacked the next day as they ignored my demands.  

1931 Duesenberg Model J Tourster by Derham.