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A topic for posting pictures of Stearns out in the wild.     Here is 11961 attending a car show and wining best of show last weekend.   Tom Slatton purchased this car in 1968 and restored it.  Bill Frye did the recent mechanical restoration.

Not a Doble but stupid cool.   The Bonham's auction at the National Auto Museum (formally Harrah's) keeps getting better and better.   Check this thing out.  Maybe Chris can explain how it works.

https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/32353/lot/50/1902-capitol-chariot-steam-car-chassis-no-dmv02611nv/

44.5ci Double-Acting Twin-Cylinder Steam Engine
6bhp at 160psi Steam Pressure
Chain Drive
Semi-Elliptical Leaf Springs
Rear Axle Mechanical Brake

Powered by a then-thoroughly understood double-acting two-cylinder steam engine, Goodwin's "Capitol" Chariot had an obscure early history but, according to his family, from whom the Harrah's Automobile Collection acquired the vehicle, it was built in 1889, patented, and offered to the public in 1902. The public, having by 1902 a range of other options in self-propelled vehicles, did not warm to Frank Goodwin's steamer and it remained in the family's barn until granddaughter Sheila Goodwin's offer to sell it to the HAC was accepted.

It remains today as it was acquired and displayed at the Harrah's Automobile Collection and the National Automobile Museum for over fifty years, an artifact with righthand drive tiller steering, an imaginatively carved wooden body with glass mirror panels, solid tires and a cyclops candle headlight.

Seating is imaginative, with three-abreast forward-facing seating on the main body and one more upholstered seat, a rear-facing perch atop the front-mounted boiler that must have been welcome during the depths of Little Ice Age winter but known as "the Hot Seat" in warmer seasons.

F30 was ordered by Marcus Lothrop without an auxiliary unit, why, we shall never know, here are two videos  showing a typical E type auxiliary unit, although in good Doble style there are several variants, and the second video  shows what happens when you do not have this unit, this video shows the tangle of pulleys and vee belts, all modifications in the 60s/70s and 80s not Abner's solution, my thinking is that biting the bullet and fitting a proper unit would solve everything,

This has been so long in the coming, we are all so happy that at long last we can get on with it........ did not take us long

Managed to score some wire wheels for my 1929 Six-81. Problem is that I only have one hubcap/grease cover.

Hoping to track down another 4 (need one for the spare as well).

At the end of the day if I can't find some I'm sure I could get the one I have scanned and 3d printed. But thought I'd put some feelers out into the world first.