I'm a fan. I use them on my motorcycles with the idea of making the bikes brighter so as to communicate with the st000pids on the road more effectively. So far so good. Of course, those are both modern 12v systems.


Since it's just me these days, as I was driving the Deluxe home from its second outing, I pulled through a shopping center to check the back lights in a storefront window while I watched through the mirror. Sure enough, the left tail/brake (1154) has a bad brake filament. (The tail light works, so I assume the socket and ground are sound.) I ordered a couple of replacements from the Bezos bunch, but I got to wondering about LED bulbs since there's just that tiny light back there in all that sea of 76 year old steel.


Anybody tried them? Found a source? Opinions? They certainly don't overtax the electricals, that's for sure.

Took the old girl out for its first spin as mine and for its first tank of petrol. Had to settle for ethanol-laced petroleum, but I did some guesstimating and figure that if I drive this car 20-50 miles per week, I doubt that a tank will last much more than 6 weeks or so, depending on MPG - which is not why I bought it.


I think that fuel tank is about 20 gallons, it filled slowly, as I recalled it would. Ten point five or so of the 87 stuff. Then we went for a wee cruise.


It's got a bit of git-up-n-git, a pleasant surprise. Not much road noise. No rattles. It has less of a floaty feeling at 50 MPH than my old '65 Polara did. Brakes are adequate. And I have an excuse to go out later, too.


Poor thing sure could use another gear . . . .

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And Fred agrees with her.


I'm with you. I love them-there aluminum engines.

Nothing halfway close to the house. I guess that I'll be limping along on 10% for awhile until I sort this out. Maybe there's a station along a route somewhere which would make a nice regular cruise.


Also, it seems to be a dollar higher from what I saw.

r1lark is a Very Bad Man and makes all kinds of Trouble.


;)

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Said process seems to be quite a pain in anything over very small quantities.

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I think it was more outright sarcasm.


There are some ornery people here.


"Wat, why are you so mean???"

I suspect that if your car is stored away in conditioned space, it is most likely to avoid collecting condensation in the tank.


Mine is not, nor was it nor is it likely to be in the very near future.


I always heard to keep the tank full anyway, and I do drive in winter like I ride the H-Ds in winter. If it's kind of civil. Yesterday wasn't. Tomorrow might be.

I searched this and didn't see any threads. That doesn't mean that there aren't any, it means that I didn't see any.


Now that I have a regular driver 282-powered car which seems to be a happy runner, it seems to me that finding a good source of no ethanol (as long as it is also no water) gas would be in order. This is in light of the fact that a tank might take awhile to burn through and to avoid storage of several gallons of fuel and the attendant junk-n-gunk with comes with it and which it created. Kind of like the small engines and for the same reasons.


I'm thinking no Sta-Bil or similar additives if it can be avoided.


What do you do in yours?

Fred's new ride is now street legal - title, tags and insurance.


Speaking of, the commonwealth allows one to register his/her antique with a good plate from that year. I hunted one down on eBay, cleaned and repainted it, and used that. The commonwealth has had two plates for every year ever except for 6, and 1946 was one of them. So was 1945. I'm guessing that the war had something to do with the price of steel for anyone not building Garands or Shermans. The 1947s were aluminum. I think the 1948s were, too. They came in pairs, so business as usual.