Thank u for the clarification.

Packard V8-I bought it through my own store, and like most everything you get today, there is really no way of telling what you're getting till you get it. As I said it was a Raybestos part in a Raybestos box. A quick survey of whats on my shelf shows some have country of origin printed in very small letters or others will proudly proclaim ASSEMBLED IN USA. Not Made in USA, just put together. We are very rapidly loosing all of our "hot metal" industries due to reasons as much political as economic but thats another subject altogether.

"I ordered in a new cylinder, Raybestos part # WC18291. Took it out of the box, and no casting numbers like they used to have, just Made in China and the bleeder fitting is METRIC Not that I'll ever have the car judged but it was nice having a vehicle that only required one set of tools. "

Hmmmmmmmm. i wonder if this is in the clubbies rule book for judging cars at shows.?????? Rather ez to reach behind the wheel of a show car to see if it has a metric hex on the bleeder.

Brian-everything else was OK. Flex line and mounting bolts went right in. Probably just a case of the factory in China sourcing the bleeder screw locally rather than build it to Raybestos specs. It just aggravates me that even the "brand name" parts are being bastardized. I've been in the auto parts business for 30 plus years and I can remember when there was a difference. Brand name and quality actually meant something besides what box the part came in.

I don't know where u ordered the cylinder from but did the seller indicate it was metric or an "Import" product????

Better check the threads for the line fitting.

In fact, you might wanna look the entire part over very carefully. Sometimes the same basic casting is finished differently (thread pitch and diameters) for a variety of applications. It's not impossible to have the wrong part in the right box.

Gerd -

Nice to see that this project is attracting interest from around the globe, and thanks for the pointers on generating maps.

I can't remember exactly where I saw it, but I seem to recall a utility used in conjunction with GPS devices and Google that converts street addresses into coordinates of latitude and longitude.

Of course, we shouldn't tackle mapping head-on until we build the basic database, but I'm glad Kev decided to provide street address fields. We have to be mindful of future extension of the data to ensure we collect just enough - before it gets very big.

Meanwhile, I suspect Kev may take some of the sample data from the page posted above and play around with Google - as his busy schedule permits.

I got lucky in refurbishing my front brakes, a little bit. The left hand side came apart very easily, steel line turned right out of the flex hose and the cylinder bore was like new even after sitting for 15 plus years. A quick hone and a fresh set of cups and it was good to go. Took the right side apart and its a different story. The cylinder looks like it was soaked in salt water for a 100 years. I ordered in a new cylinder, Raybestos part # WC18291. Took it out of the box, and no casting numbers like they used to have, just Made in China and the bleeder fitting is METRIC Not that I'll ever have the car judged but it was nice having a vehicle that only required one set of tools. Even the last bastions of what was once a mighty industrial empire are giving way to globalism
Ah well-end of rant
MikeG

On color schemes in particular XB.

When I got my 526 2/4 coupe from California in '82 I noticed in hidden places there were remanents of the car being painted Black. The car when received had been painted a black primer and the wheels a grey primer. When I removed one of the wheels I carefully removed the primer and what was exposed was the green wheel in accordance with scheme XB but yet at the time, it was not listed as a color combo in the Salesmans Data book for 1928. When I removed the rumble seat back spring, there marked in chalk from the body shop was etched XB-308..the paint scheme plus 308 for the body code. When attending Hershey some years later, one of the literature vendors had a 1929 Salesmans Data book. Lo and behold..there was paint scheme XB for the 626. so evidently it was introduced in 1928 and carried over to the 6th sereis.

the exact description of XB is as follows:

Entire car Black
Window reveals
LOWER MOULDING
and wheels Baskt Green

Stripe, standard position and
size below the upper moulding
and on wheels, also on 1/8" stripe
through center of moulding Straw

Upholstery Standard broadcloth
Where leather is used in Staionary
coupe and Convertible Coupes
colonial grain # 713

colonial grain # 713 is Green. This is also confirmed by remants in my coupe where the leather was green and along with green leatherette on golf club door and also on the kick panels in th passenger compartment. In addition the floor linoleum is also green. The broadcloth is grey with a bluish/green flour d' lil pattern. and the door panes are solid. Carpet in the rumble seat are is a grey hogshair square weave pattern.

Also note that many folks when painting the wheels do it incorrectly. Where the lugs go thru the wheelm that area should be black..Ive seen this error time and time again not only on the 5th series but on folks who have 6,7,8 and 9th series cars. Examination of factory photo's will show this as being correct, however thats not to say it wasn't done at the local level as described earlier or perhaps by the custom body builders.

regards
Sandy Mitchell

Ja it does get cold here in Africa as well sometimes. Here in Johannesburg we are approx 2500 metres above sea level on the highveld savannas. It seldom goes below freezing but because our houses are not designed for cold weather we feel it worse. I see you guys install heaters in your garages...I dont even have one in my House!
A few years back we had some "snow":

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