Recent content by binkbee

Seen multi-dozens of them in the forties & fifties and never-ever a mention of "TITLES"! Was brought up in the northern tip of NYS and the doodle-bug was the norm for raking and drawing off loose hay to the mows. I had a 46 Studebaker with the biggest rear tires you could imagine and if ya lived...

I.P.STANDING WAS A WRITER OF NOVELS! "THE YELLOW STREAM" by I.P.STANDING!

Use that machinists straight edge rule with a good strong flashlight being held behind it! Then if you see a spot that shows light, use the gage!

I moved from Northern New York to Bowling Green, KY in 77 and went to Smith's for a job. Was explained to me by Mr Smith that he was phasing out the business and that he actually was going to terminate some, real soon. He was last using a V-8 engine, running on four and pumping with four. He did...

Be alert in the north country at the present---there was a 1930, I think tudor, stolen yesterday up in Carthage NY! Trying to get the numbers from the NY State troopers but haven't yet. Was green body with black fenders & trim and yellow wheels. Just be sure what your look'n at!

Frank is exactly correct! Look on the exterior of the alternator and you will see the required---"NEG GROUND"!

Just pick out about a half dozen of the more informed individuals in the site and "acquire" their personal email address and you can be assured that you will get all the necessary help & info you need and it's a whole lot more satisfying in the process! Just send them a note through the Barn...

Facebook is absolutely the opposite of all the above suspicions! It is only what you want of it--just the people you care about and want to contact. I have kids hundreds of miles in most directions and it puts all "IN THE NEXT ROOM"! It has "PERSONAL" message values that allow only the one or...

Went by 78yrs just 5 months ago and can't do but 40% of what the past years were! Just do a little and sit for five anymore! Got a real nice 31 tudor that was only out twice, again, this summer. Have decided to let the little car go to somebody younger! When ya get to this time-in-life, it's...

Just be sure to fasten the belts to the body structure---never the frame! One can imagine what it would be to have a body torn off---it and the seat leaves, you don't!

I have two used five bearing cams that were removed from freeze damaged blocks that I'd let go for $50. Just need cleaning--no rust---been in an old parts barn for fifty plus years! binkbee@twc.com

I owned a radiator repair shop for several years in northern New York state and never, never painted a core unless it was on a vehicle that it was going to show. All paints, even the stuff meant to be, causes heat to be "trapped", not able to pass through. On newer tractors and big trucks I...

The tires were goodyear "diamond treads"----much used in the thirties in snow country. A new 32 stewart fire pumper was purchased by a nny volunteer dept and it came with them also. And believe this: It still has them all on it yet!

Just picture this in your mind before you do anything with belts in your "A". YOU ARE IN YOUR "A" SECURELY HELD IN WITH THE BELT FASTENED SOLIDLY TO THE VEHICLE FRAME. A SERIOUS ACCIDENT OCCURS AND THE "FLIMSY" WOOD-FRAMED BODY IS TORN OFF THE FRAME AND ENDS UP NEXT TO THE CHASSIS, IN THE...

Normal is when all the doors stay on! It's where the term "RATTLE-TRAP" came from!