And likely with more to follow.


There are a couple which I hope to catch when they fall.

That many cars? Seriously??? How quickly we have forgotten the Abelove hoard, recently liquidated.


I have noticed an ad or two over the last year of cars which I suspect may have come from it, but I ain't doing the research.

No bids on the wrong red Super. Oh well . . . .

I paid thousands less for my running/driving '46 Deluxe.


Here's a Super on eBay at $14.5K and hasn't gotten its first bid - yet.


Edited to exclude the link which blew up the page. It's Wrong Red. You can't miss it.

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Okay, I looked through the pictures of this car with a good load of coffee on board. There's pretty much no body left on it. Floors and rockers are history. If a body wanted the drivetrain and the a/c parts, I reckon that it's worth it, just not to Wat.


Pity is, I found a good bodied Clipper 6 last fall and the guys were losing their storage, and I may what I consider to be a reasonable offer, but they were holding out for some guy from TX who was coming with a truckload of money to pick it up. I wager that he was mythical and that it went to the crusher along with the two 50-something rustbuckets. That would be a damned shame.

I would have to take off my socks to count the spare engines, I think.


I would have asked since it's not too far from Out West for safekeeping, but it'd be better to go to a forever home. Like as not, I'll never own something from that era. Besides, I prefer monoblocks.

Agreed.

What I have deduced so far, they're Ford engines. Like half of a 239 v8. Even a few of the parts interchange.


My forst Ford ever.

I suspect that what the owner is full of isn't chocolate pudding, Jello brand or otherwise.


I have had my 1946 Clipper with its 282 engine over 60 MPH before, and it does keep pulling like it wants some more throttle, but it may as well ask for a pony for Xmas, because it ain't gettin' one. I think that 55-60 is sufficient based on its lack of o/d.


I think that those engines will last longer and be happier if kept below 3K RPM, and not being sure where that is, I keep the speed down and trust my ear and my 5+ decades of driving experience, some of which was stupid.

Scored a tractor engine yesterday. Cheap. It's off the truck. May have a line on a parts tractor about an hour from here.


I know, they aren't Packards, but they're L-head engines and of the same era.


I did inquire after a parts cars. It's kinda far away but the price is very reasonable. I'm trying to talk my nephew into making an uncle-pays-expenses road trip to collect it. We'll see how that goes.


Unlike Ethyl the Cat, he can drive . . . .