Recent content by Old182

Brian, I hear ya and this could have been presented better - sorry it wasn't. Next time around your No vote might count without an explanation - but it will likely go into the "No" vote bin and die there because there will be no way to address your concerns without your input. I just don't see...

For clarification: A "No" vote for the changes to the Constitution will NOT invalidate your vote for Board members. One more time: A "No" vote for the changes to the Constitution without the reason behind it is useless. Voter suppression would be if the Board changed the Constitution and handed...

Gentlemen - calm down! My name is Joe valentine and I'm the former secretary who is responsible for the text in the Constitution changes. They were handed to me in draft form in 2014 and our Board worked on them for the years following to arrive at this proposal. Thanks to Mr. Terry and Mr...

MARC wrote to Ford a couple of years ago requesting permission to reprint the book. They wanted money up front for the license and it died there.

The benefits of owning the member album are no less than buying a T shirt from Atlantic City or Disney World. It's a souvenir photo album of the membership of your club at a point in time. I wouldn't equate it to the benefit of a new set of spark plugs or even an oil change but it will outlast...

Well, it seems there's a negative vibration regarding the MARC members album. Although the announcement timing could have been a lot better, the book itself is very much like the one published about 10 years ago for MARC by the same company. Harris Connect is a legitimate publisher that has...

FWIW: I run a vacuum gauge in my coupe and at idle it reads about 15"Hg with the spark fully retarded and about 17"Hg lever down (it dithers a bit). There are a few hills around here that my car doesn't like and it tends to barf coolant out the radiator cap near the top of one of them at full...

Gasolines are made up primarily of aromatics (toluene, xylenes), paraffins (isooctane, butane, heptane, etc) and olefins. Aromatics and paraffins are very stable but olefins are like molecular nymphomaniacs and want to react with everything. They are the precursors to gums and varnishes and...

Kevin in NJ (and others): It's not much but I use a piece of round split foam that's made to insulate pipes on my rumble seat rails. Like I said, it's not much, but it could save some facial surgery on the grand kids. Oh, and I pray a lot when they're back there too (but they love it!).

FWIW, I agree with Mitch. Ethanol has been around long time and it's not going away any time soon thanks to an out of control EPA (but that's another issue). Because of the oxygen, ethanol "chemically leans" the mixture (reducing CO) so richening the mixture with the GAV makes sense. If your...

The 180A Deluxe Phaeton has flush doors also.

Kerosine, or K1, is a middle distillate and has an end boiling point (~550*F) between gasoline (437*F) and diesel fuel (640*F). Essentially, kerosene is jet fuel (Jet A) and becasue it's nearly all straight-chain paraffin, it has no real octane number and will lower the octane rating of your...

This video's been around awhile and I wouldn't put a lot of worry into it. Not to side with EPA (perish the thought!), but with a nickname like "The Car Coach" working for that world-renowned scientific thinktank: AAA, well, she just has to be an expert on fuels and mixtures of gasolines and...

Will, you are correct in that final decisions have not been made yet (sorry about the dancing). It would be very difficult to police the membership requirement, and in the end I suspect MARC (and the insurer) would rely on the honesty of the Regions to comply. However, ultimately the insurer...

Will, the MARC Constitution requries all Region members to be MARC national members. Our Region (Hudson Valley) has always required MARC membership in its Bylaws so that all new members came in knowing they must join MARC as a requisite to joining the Region. As others do, our treasurer collects...