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Re: There are rumors in circulation...
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We had a '72 BMW 2800 (awesome but finicky), and later on a '74 BMW 2002 w/ 4 spd manual, we loved that car! But it was notoriously terrible in snow, so we went to a SAAB 96 and never looked back... nothing stopped that car! One time we got on I-70w after a concert at Kennedy Center in DC in the middle of a wicked hard blizzard, maybe 6-8" already on the highway, blowing snow, so we went 20 mi at maybe 30 mi/hr. and finally got off at our exit, and the MD State Police were blocking it... the road had been closed for hours... he couldn't beleive that we had gotten through!
We still have a '77 SAAB 99 2 dr "ducktail", my "summer" car in Vermont!

OK, let's get back to ZIL/ZIS/Chaika! Anyone know if the factories that made those cars are still producing vehicles? I loved Gorbachev's huge square looking ZIS (?) back in the 80s... it reminded me of a Dodge Polara in the front. Is there a successor to that car?

Posted on: 2013/12/18 12:39
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Re: There are rumors in circulation...
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No offense meant, but to set the record straight, beer WAS available at BMW assemebly plant when we toured it in 1976, still in the '80s according to this, and as recently as 1992 or later in Germany, according to the Spartanburg SC newspaper when BMW opened their plant there, don't know about now.

http://www.digest.net/bmw/archive/v7/msg10707.html

Posted on: 2013/12/15 16:52
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Re: 1947 Radio
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Howard Sams Co put out their SAMS Photofacts for these old car radios, you can Google them and get them from their website... all Radio/TV shops got SAMS as part of a subscription service, they have voltage measurements, schematics, and list of all parts. I use them to restore vintage tube audio equipment, and prefer to use Sprague Orange Drop or Illinois capacitors in the vintage equipment. The voltage rating needs to be equal or higher, the capacitance should be reasonably close to original, but can go a bit higher if equal is not available. Do one at a time and make sure there are no cold solder joints. A good de-soldering tool is handy also.

Posted on: 2013/12/12 16:18
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Re: A museum in a long forgotten country
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The flaw in the Triplex locomotives was that as the tender emptied they lost considerable traction as the weight over the 3rd set of drivers was reduced, which sometimes did occur on some lines because of distances between re-fueling stations, one reason they were an evolutionary dead-end and only 3 were built, around WWI. The Big Boys which came later didn't have that problem and were used from 1941 all the way to 1959...when I was in 4th/5th grade!

Posted on: 2013/12/12 15:58
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Re: 21st series bodies... weaknesses?
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Thanks Wesley.

Posted on: 2013/12/10 12:42
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Re: A museum in a long forgotten country
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Sorry to usurp the thread... here's one last one, more of interest to us old car fans: some very early historical film footage is here, a "living museum" if you will, of the most famous US car company and man:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaDprRfAYzg

Posted on: 2013/12/10 10:10
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Re: A museum in a long forgotten country
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What great models, thanks Gerd!

I'm also a big train nut, my wife's Mom and Uncle both worked for the B & O, the first railroad in the US, RIP.

"starting torque of steam locos frequently outbids modern diesel-electric" ... yes, especially this one! and it weighs 1.2 Million pounds!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8f9VFlNyDQ

Posted on: 2013/12/10 9:48
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Re: A museum in a long forgotten country
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That last picture is interesting... it reminds me of open gear-drive steam locomotives often used here for logging back in the steam-age days (how I miss them):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-q45o3akWE

Posted on: 2013/12/8 17:12
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Re: 21st series bodies... weaknesses?
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Thanks Mark, the illustrations and description are very helpful!

Posted on: 2013/12/8 17:04
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Re: There are rumors in circulation...
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GM has blown it big time, believe me I'm no defender of them, and what they did to SAAB I won't forgive! I liked that Admiral in '76, and still think it's a handsome car, wish we'd had them here. So wondering if German's still consider Opel as home grown cars after GM control since the '20s?

I guess the point I was making is that based on sales figures Germans seem less disposed to buy cars from other countries than most others, but it's not hard to understand when they have some good ones of their own and local parts/service makes sense, though for US driving imo the Benz and BMWs I've owned seemed overly complex, finicky, and repair prone compared to rear drive V8 US cars, which, like Packard, are our classic type car, and engineered for our driving conditions over vast, sometimes very remote, distances, and not at all for efficiency, when gas was 30 cents/gallon... traditional big US cars were comparatively heavy and more crude in some respects, but they were more mechanically rugged and less needing of maintenance with their big lazy understressed iron V8s... kinda like big ZIL &c Chaika USSR cars, which took it to an even further extreme... (and I still want a UAZ 469!)

Around 1958 some of M-B's top engineers, Rudy Uhlenhaut among them, toured GM's engine machining plants and their vast transfer lines, and were astonished at the precision of the machine work to be found in the typical US car engine being produced in such huge numbers. The assembly quality fit and finish of the bodies was not up to Benz standards, but they were strong and durable. M-B (ZF?) even licensed the Turbo-HydraMatic 400 design for the S class's transmission in the 70/80s. It was when GM etc downsized and got away from the traditional type of US car and into small FWD cars that they got into real problems, it was not what their hearts were into. Many Americans drive big pickups and SUVs today mainly because they are the most like the big rear-drive V8 cars they were used to, pretty much extinct domestically.

As to beer consumption, I can guarantee that I personally do better than the 132 liter/yr of the Czechs... but prefer to not have my car assembled by someone who does!

Posted on: 2013/12/8 16:36
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