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LobsterboyX posted:I tried to find a decent Roadmaster locally but none were to be found (ok there was one nice wagon but I'd actually prefer the sedan). They look so majestic from this angle. Delivery McGee posted:I browsed the Roadmaster forums a bit when i was looking at one, and those guys had lists of the exact Home Depot SKUs for ABS sewer pipe and joints to replace the stock intake tubes and their power-robbing silencers, whereas the Crown Vic forums debate over which aftermarket/factory police package intake is best (they seem to lean toward cop tube with Mercury Marauder filter box). Deliver McGee, I sent you a PM a while back. Take a look!
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LobsterboyX posted:
What the hell, how did the US get its hands on one of Canada's royal hudsons. Give it back right now dammit 
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| # ? Nov 28, 2010 17:02 |
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Lots of love for the 50's and 60's stuff. I guess I don't understand why everybody hates on 70's cars though. Granted they are slow, and the build and interior quality started to plummet, but there is some really good styling from that era too! Furthermore, I can honestly say that I have yet to see a single pre-war car which inspires me.
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| # ? Nov 28, 2010 19:32 |
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Since everybody here is, in essence, a typist; I thought you might appreciate a recent find of mine. I got it at Value Village for $20. Dirty, and kids had the keys all jammed-up. After a good cleaning and oiling, everything works beautifully. Getting at exactly what model it is has been difficult, and I still don't know for sure because looks/features just don't quite match serial number references that I have found. I feel confident in saying that it is a Royal Portable from 1934-35. BorkTron fucked around with this message at Nov 28, 2010 around 22:14 |
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Wow. Is it hard to find ribbons for them these days?
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| # ? Nov 29, 2010 04:25 |
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Wow. Where do you guys get all this old 50s stuff? I want some of that. Do you just go to antique/thrift shops? Or flea markets or what? Also, I've been browsing my local craigslist, and found something I really want. The 1955 Ford F-100 Panel Van. $3000. I have the money. But I'm not sure its worth it.   Also found this for $2000. But I don't want it as much.  1954 Dodge Meadowbrook. ExplodingSims fucked around with this message at Nov 29, 2010 around 06:28 |
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The Cubelodyte posted:Wow. Is it hard to find ribbons for them these days? Not as hard as you may think, but you can't just get them at the super-market like you used to be able to. If Royal didn't set the ribbon standard, then they at least adhered to it. I have heard mention that some of the more archaic machines are hard to find ribbons for. Anyway, I found a local shop that has ribbons (I kept the steel spools from the ancient ribbon the machine came with) and I'm typing like a motherfucker. So you want to over-use exclamation points? Try typing an apostrophe, hitting backspace, and then typing a period.
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| # ? Nov 29, 2010 05:08 |
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I really like that ford pannel van - ive always wanted a panel or a suburban for motorcycle transport... depending on the engine thats in it, and if he has the fenders that may be worth it. it also looks like someone grazed a white pole on the passenger side rear quarter.. thats an easy pop out but because of how plain the side of it is, it may be a bitch to get back to laser straight... go check it out. that dodge on the otherhand is a little cutie. I wouldent call myself an expert on 50s mopar but i do know that they have a tendency to rust like swiss cheese. the only expierence ive had with 50s mopar is this - its my girlfriends 56 dodge royal lancer..  Typewriters are awesome too! This beauty was in the train car behind the locomotive i posted a page back (btw - I really dont know how he got his hands on the train - but the tour guide told me that there are some things not on display in the museum that are so rare and valuable that no insurance company would cover them - so nothing for him was out of reach including a canadian train.) but i thought this had to be the most beautiful type writer i had ever seen  no info on it other than that its beautiful now after seeing that, heres our remmington rand streamliner  I bought it a few years ago for 10 bucks. - i then gave it to my mom, who is a writer. it does not work, its got some hold up and ive never really taken the time to see what the problem is with it. its just in beautiful shape. I forgot about this too, its my only wooden body radio. this was restored about 15 years ago and im guessing that its probably from the 30s. it works great  on top of it is an original 1930s copy of bambi, a life in the woods.
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LobsterboyX posted:I really like that ford pannel van - ive always wanted a panel or a suburban for motorcycle transport... depending on the engine thats in it, and if he has the fenders that may be worth it. it also looks like someone grazed a white pole on the passenger side rear quarter.. thats an easy pop out but because of how plain the side of it is, it may be a bitch to get back to laser straight... go check it out. I'll have to go check them out IRL, but from what they've described, they're both in fairly decent condtion. The van sounds like it needs a lot of engine work though. As far as the Dodge goes, it allegedly only needs a radiator. But its never that easy. And it obviously needs cosmetic work too. However, the nice thing is, these have been sitting in Central Florida for at least 10 years, so they shouldn't be too rusty. I hope.
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LobsterboyX posted:now after seeing that, heres our remmington rand streamliner Thanks for those typewriters! They are my new thing until ADD takes over and a I get onto something else. They are definitely machines and discussion belongs here more than other places. That Remington looks great. What I did with mine (it had a hang-up too) was to go over all the joints that I could reach with acetone and q-tips (you'll see some in my photo.) Then after the acetone evaporates, get in there with 3-in-1 and q-tips. If that doesn't work, and your mom is keen on using the thing; you can send it to this place: http://www.bluemooncamera.com/Typew...ir_Services.php They are local to me, but they take stuff from all over the world. Service charge is $55 which is sweet. Problem is that shipping far outstrips that service charge.
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i know there is something wrong with the entire mechanism - im guessing its the shift function - every key wont go past a certain point to strike the ribbon. its either with the shift function or maybe some travel lock. shes had the thing on display for all of her old bat friends to gawk about, no plans on using it...
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| # ? Nov 29, 2010 07:11 |
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Awesome thread! I recently moved into a place that uses my parents inherited 1950 Wedgewood stove. Its an absolute beast with 4X dual burner simmer, enough BTUs for each burner to singe the handles on my big wok, a perfect temp oven with RobertShaw thermostat, a loving griddle, burner-specific grease trays, and heater on the side! Its definitely a bit war-torn and a mind-bending bastard to clean, but it works so well and looks cool too. Its needed the nickel plating to be re-done on the tops under the burners so I'd love any tips if you have for that. The original light bulb even works! I do need to fix the timer on mine, I think the mechanism is stopped with gunk.
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| # ? Nov 29, 2010 07:40 |
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Pictures! If we get into cooking appliances, I could sport the cast-iron skillet that my dad took with him from a Forest Service bunk house (he was with the FS, not a theif). It probably dates back to 1900. That's some old iron, boyee.
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ill take some photos of the okeef tomorrow...
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| # ? Nov 29, 2010 09:21 |
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This thread owns bones, as do all of you guys submitting stuff.
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| # ? Nov 29, 2010 13:55 |
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Cool stuff in this thread. About the only old things I own are safety razors. 1910 GEM SE razor and 1929 micromatic, as well as gillette NEW 1920s razor are my favourite and used daily. Everything else old I have owned has broken or rusted out, but they are like new still.
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Really like this thread. I have a tube public address system with speaker and microphone, and this 1950's-1960's giant mono speaker. I couldn't find manufacturer info on it, but it's the best sounding piece of audio equipment I have. (The front mesh portion could use steam cleaning)
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| # ? Nov 29, 2010 18:32 |
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Oh my ! cool PA. Show us the mic - ive seen so many cool old pa mic's for sale at antique stores and swap meets, for some reason i guess they see me coming with those things. I have about 8 of these guys...  Funny story of how i got them - I was still in high school and in all the classes had these pa speakers, all of them worked just fine and sounded great. the only bad part is that a lot of them had been painted over. when i was a senior, my school was modernizing their system by installing tvs, electronic bells and all types of bullshit that did not need to be replaced. all the old stuff was working just fine. so i found a pile of these things sitting behind the abandoned auto shop on the campus. i asked a few people who had no idea what i was talking about, or who actually cared about old wooden speaker boxes, so i pulled my 69 nova around piled the trunk up with them. in hindsight, i should have taken every last one of them, but i have enough for every room in my house (when i get around to buying a house)
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| # ? Nov 29, 2010 18:53 |
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LobsterboyX posted:Oh my ! cool PA. Show us the mic - ive seen so many cool old pa mic's for sale at antique stores and swap meets, for some reason i guess they see me coming with those things. It's a 1948 Allied Radio Corp. Knight 93-350 PA amplifier/speaker. I don't have pictures of it at the moment, but it's this model, working and in mint condition, with speaker and microphone.  The mic is a Slim-X Shure CX-77. Looks like this model, but with an upright stand.  (it looks like this stuff might be worth something, I bought it at an estate sale for $10) http://www.harmonycentral.com/reviews/130045 http://bluesmics.com/zencart/index....products_id=112
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| # ? Nov 29, 2010 19:34 |
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Lobster can you post your Nova next?
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sure.. Im going to have to fire up my old desktop to get more pictures of it. but heres a quick story of the car.. I had always known i wanted an old car as my first car. I really wanted a 50s car but my mother was adamantly opposed to that idea. It had been in my mind of a long long time that the second i turned 15, i would get my drivers permit, buy a 50s cadillac or buick and be on my merry way. i saved and saved from misc jobs and by the time i was 15 i had about 1200 bucks that i was allowed to spend on a car. my grandmother loved to scour the papers for good deals on anything she could get her 89 year old hands on. my mom told me to give my grandmother a list of the cars i wanted and she would look for me. the list was filled with things like 60 oldsmobile, 58 buick, 59 chevy, 64 rivi, 50 buick, 54 buick, 65 bonnie, 65 wildcat and just for kicks, the 68-72 nova. so sure enough she found it for me. it was burgundy and had a rebuilt 350 with some cool old wieand hop up parts. edelbrock carb and a hot loopy cam. it had some weird cragar mags on it and i was in heaven. it was 2500 bucks and i was very disappointed. in those days i would ride my bike to school and one day when i came home, i noticed that my moms car was parked on the street. when i opened the garage to put my bike away, there was my nova. i walked in and my mom hugged me and said "go get your money" i came in and gave her the money and she gave me the keys to my very own car! 8 years later, 2 accidents, 2 engines and 3 paint jobs later, i watched as the car was flat bedded away to a new life with another 16 year old kid. LobsterboyX fucked around with this message at Nov 29, 2010 around 20:12 |
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LobsterboyX posted:sure.. Your mom owns.
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| # ? Nov 29, 2010 20:59 |
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LobsterboyX posted:8 years later, 2 accidents, 2 engines and 3 paint jobs later, i watched as the car was flat bedded away to a new life with another 16 year old kid. That doesn't sound like a happy ending  That car is awesome. My dad had a '72 in dark green which he sold awhile back, I wish he hadn't. I would love to have been able to try my hand at rebuilding it. Oh well, some day.
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Id say it was a happy ending! I got the car fixed after the 2nd accident, i drove it for awhile but by then i was doing well enough for myself that i could afford to get in to the cars i have now. the car was languishing, it didnt run well, the power steering pump was shot and there was a list a mile long of things to do with it. the guy who bought it was buying it for his kid (dont know if it was son or daughter) but he said that it was going to be a surprise and that they were going to make it a father son/daughter project. so im sure wherever it ended up some kid somewhere was making GBS threads themselves. i was a bit emotional to see it go though.
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LobsterboyX posted:Id say it was a happy ending! I got the car fixed after the 2nd accident, i drove it for awhile but by then i was doing well enough for myself that i could afford to get in to the cars i have now. the car was languishing, it didnt run well, the power steering pump was shot and there was a list a mile long of things to do with it. the guy who bought it was buying it for his kid (dont know if it was son or daughter) but he said that it was going to be a surprise and that they were going to make it a father son/daughter project. so im sure wherever it ended up some kid somewhere was making GBS threads themselves. i was a bit emotional to see it go though. Well that's good then, but yeah I was referring more to letting go of a car with sentimental value.
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| # ? Nov 29, 2010 22:24 |
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Ha. Typewriters. (Not pictured: two or three more Selectrics in the biggest size.)
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MATLAB 1988 posted:Really like this thread. I have a tube public address system with speaker and microphone, and this 1950's-1960's giant mono speaker. I couldn't find manufacturer info on it, but it's the best sounding piece of audio equipment I have. (The front mesh portion could use steam cleaning) That cabinet was likely made by one of three manufacturers, JBL, Jensen, or Electro-Voice, during the golden age of Monaural Hi-Fi, the Mid 1950's. Take the back off and look for a manufacturer label on the magnet. It also may have been custom built from plans purchased out of a catalog. Judging by the legs, It's most likely a JBL. That speaker would go great paired with classic Mono receiver like the Fisher 500.  EDIT: Found it. It's a JBL C-37.  Click here for the full 600x1063 image. MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at Nov 30, 2010 around 05:18 |
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That Nova sure is nice. Always liked the shape of those, but the nose kind of seems a bit short from the side profile. Not a problem you have with any of your current cars. Also I kind of don't like how they have pillared windows. Still, a classic shape. You keeping up with Aaron's Nova? e: Oh, just noticed the filename. 
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Argh. Where do you guys get all these cool old Fifties radios and stuff? Craigslist? Thrift Stores? Flea Markets? Tell me your secrets!!! 
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Swap meets, flea markets, thrift stores, antique stores, craigslist, garage sales, old people that know im in to old poo poo.. The list goes on - you can find this anywhere, you just have to know where to look. I hate the american pickers, pawn stars, auction heros, storage thieves - these new shows are ruining the things I love.. Its basically allowing every rear end in a top hat that has anything old to think that they are sitting on a gold mine. As soon as the bubble bursts, there will be a lot of cool stuff ripe for the pickin... I mean buying. Found more pictures of the nova. I worked at a hot rod shop in high school and i became friends with the guy that mixed the paint at the body shop we used at the time. i knew i wanted to paint my car so i would go after school and work over to the paint shop, I did all the body work and even mixed the paint myself. the only thing that i didn't do is lay out the stripes - i didnt trust myself and id have someone to blame if they turned out wrong... I learned on this, it wasn't the most beautiful paint job, there was a lot of bondo and during the painting process, i had a nasty injury that put me in the hospital for a few days, the guys sprayed the rest of it for me and brought it to pick me up...  The hood was like that because they were rushed to get the car back together for my release... I just never got around to adjusting it. It was awesome for a few years when this happened..  I had a glancing blow at 60 mph by a drunk driver. My car was stopped waiting to make a left. Her car slammed in to mine and carreened out of control in to 3 other cars, it was one of those times where your life flashes before your eyes, I tensed up and held on and it was over. she turned at the last second. it was fixed and i painted it a stock color "Cortez silver" The second accident I was not so lucky - that was a full head on with a dude talking on his phone who blew a light, got spooked and hit me head on. I walked away from that. The car needed a new sub frame and a new front clip. Heres the car getting fixed from the first accident:  the cortez silver after the 2nd accident  Im pissed at you guys for making me want a nova again...
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The paint looks great. How much did something that good cost?LobsterboyX posted:the only expierence ive had with 50s mopar is this - its my girlfriends 56 dodge royal lancer.. You said you met your gf at the car show, right? Was she already into and owning old cars, or did she buy this after becoming your gf?
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| # ? Nov 30, 2010 09:10 |
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that picture was taken the day i got it home - it only took a few months for it to start deteriorating - it was a cheap single stage that they did at the body shop after the 2nd accident She was in to cars before i met her, her dad is almost as bad as i am, i think thats why we get along - his 2002 race car and a 67 sedan deville - my girl drives the 2002 all the time, they sold the 67, missed it, and a few years later bought the 70 - that Fleetwood75 recently bought from them. 
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For car ads, I remember reading that AMC's motto during the "Race on Sunday, sell on Monday" 1960's was "The only race we care about is the human race"... That is super cool to me. Here is a digital copy. It's even a Rambler. 
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Not to be "That annoying guy on the internet", but Lobster, do you still want that radio? I haven't gotten a PM yet! Oh, and I just got hired at a pretty good job, so even if the shipping is mind-numbing I'll eat it, you may just have to wait a bit.
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What are the odds? I got that same radio from my Grandfathers house after he passed, had it serviced and then spent hours cleaning and polishing it with Bakelite cleaner (Glayzit) and plastic polish. I gave it to my father who had listened to it for endless hours when he was a kid. He listens to right wing pundits on AM radio every day now with it...Huggable Bear King posted:drat this thread! I just bought one of these off ebay because it looked so cool. Apparently it turns on but doesn't pick up any stations, is that an easy fix or I'm going to be pouring over a schematic trying to figure out whats wrong? After that I had two of these fixed up: A pair of German made, 1962, SABA (Schwarzwälder-Apparate-Bau-Anstalt) 300 Stereo Automatic 11 AM/FM/Shortwave radios with iPod hookups (not an original feature :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuXWLlVv2hk  100_8860 by ggosson, on Flickr  100_8862 by ggosson, on Flickr ManWhatADork fucked around with this message at Dec 1, 2010 around 01:47 |
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Beautiful setup - its always refreshing to see them all lit up, no matter what music is coming out of them, it makes me all warm and fuzzy. bad news: vespa sale on the rocks... we will see. i suppose ill just keep riding my 80cc 2 stroke motorbike. 
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How old is the motor on that bike? Looks a lot like the ones available nowadays on ebay.
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I am beyond jealous. I wish I could find these old bikes and what not. I swear Iowa has to be the worst for old bikes, boat motors, well, much of any thing. The rust has pretty much had its way with everything. Though we have alot of old tractors.
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Mike Wolfe, American Pickers, on his love of bikes. http://www.collectorsweekly.com/art...-vintage-bikes/
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Saw these, thought I'd drop a link or two. http://bringatrailer.com/2010/09/27...llac-sedanette/ http://bringatrailer.com/2010/11/22...cadillac-sedan/
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