AUTOS CARS CUSTOM

found among various posts on http://fifties50s.blogspot.com

 Some very cool innovations in spark plugs were tried in the first couple decades of automobiles
 the one on the right is a primer plug.. you'd drip a little fuel into it to help it start... because fule pumps hadn't been invented yet. Fuel tanks were gravity feeding the carbs, which were frequently low on the side on the engines
here is the advertising for the primer plug https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf6x5cOnL8RGFhyjDfriMSQV8ZFo14iiOOz7TZscOc8LvKwfAu5myN8sur-3LeyOb8DkH8Hh7BpAh5EiptPNV7n4mWZrPgg5xCeRJrCl1P9RYpvcPiQiK-NNTc6U1Qb9W_F3NvNJ3OCG8/s1600/1918-Champion.jpg
 This mirror is helping to show the fan that the designer thought would help cool the spark plug... but it wasn't very well attached and fell into the cylinder often enought to bankrupt the company in lawsuits.
 here are a variety in electrodes
 the above at left are both mica... because no one had perfected porcelain.. and now the material (according to Wikipedia) in sintered alumina.
The middle has another variety of electrode
 the long electrode was near enough to the piston to get a spark... how I don't know, as the piston to con rod is oil film insulated, and so is the con rod to the crank, and also the crank to the block. So how the electricity in the ignition was working is a mystery to me
 terrific variety

found on http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/car-reports-values/auction-sold-prices/contents-of-long-closed-wisconsin-service-station-auctioned

found on http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/

"... the story behind them, to me, is wonderful"
talking to Henry Ford






Part of Jim's spark plug collection




These are both examples of the "Hit or Miss" put-put engines


1921 Studebaker Limo Light 6, with body by Fisher (before they were bought by GM)









38 Chevrolet busisness coupe, and Jim made the fender skirts, the wallet photo is of this car, and Jim's daughter



1938 Chevrolet Business Coupe


1919 Dodge Roadster



Why he bought this 27 Model T



1929 LaSalle that a pair of twins sold, to raise money to put them through dental school



Notice the windshield wiper goes side to side
Bustle Back design with trunk

Spare body for the #38, below are tires on the trailer with the #38


Rare California manufactured early motorcycle, notice the flat steel framework
Leaf spring looking isn't it?
Tank to one of the Jawa motorcycles
This Ariel square 4 was sold to jim for $50 when the last owner didn't want his soon to be divorced wife to get it in the settlement

Triumph T-100c (competition)
Jim tried for the Motorcycle test when he was 80, and did great until the very last cone was tipped by the rear turn signal










1921 Dodge Screenside pick up






1959nBMW Isetta 600 Limo (has 3 doors and a back seat)


58 VW bug with the W engine cover

Nash Metropolitan above, 1953 Land Rover below, and when he went to ask if he could buy it the guy he approached flew off the handle and accused of him "are you the guy who's been seeing my woman?!"




1927 Ford 2 door sedan above
This is Jim's first car, a 23 Model T that he bought for 8 dollars, the video is below with other photos of this 23.



More shots of the 1927 2 door sedan
This 23 T above and below photos, is Jim's first car. There is no door on the drivers side, because the parking brake was in the way of the driver entering on the drivers side.

1956 VW bug, canvas top

1918 Dodge Brothers Touring Sedan
are rare, it stands for Dodge Brothers of course


VW Barry Mini T

1953 Corvair