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1915 Racer
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My apologies of this is off topic but there has to be a bit of Packard in this one somewhere!! Looks like fun!!

cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200406618438

Posted on: 2009/11/16 21:59
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$6000 radiator recore, that's BS if I've ever read it. He's got an aftermarket aluminum radiator in there for crissakes! Maaayybbee $1000 for it, but no where near $6K. If he did pay $6K for it, the he's the sucker of the century!

Posted on: 2009/11/16 22:24
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I think he ment $6k in recent updates.... for that price it beter be a platinum radiator!!

Posted on: 2009/11/16 22:55
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For cellular radiator cores, especially ones with unusual profiles or shapes, $6000 isn't an uncommon price.

Posted on: 2009/11/16 23:26
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"Although left completely original for these past many decades"...................

Hmmmmm, I question the originality of the electric fan with plastic blades..... but all in all an interesting ride.

Looks like it could belong in Jay Leno's garage.

Posted on: 2009/11/16 23:40
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I think he ment $6k in recent updates.... for that price it beter be a platinum radiator!!





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The following has been performed within the past 4 months:

Re-cored Radiator. $6000


Sounds like $6K for just the radiator to me.

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For cellular radiator cores, especially ones with unusual profiles or shapes, $6000 isn't an uncommon price.


Take a look at the last pic of the car, that's a plain tube and fin aluminum radiator. If he paid that much for that radiator, someone had him over the barrel big time. My local radiator shop quoted me $800 to build me a new aluminum radiator for my '48, without even looking at the old one. They told me that's the most they charge for non-heavy truck radiators like an Euclid. It was $600 to recore my old one, so that's what I did. The only thing "unusual" about that radiator is the upper hose nipple with the integral radiator cap. That doesn't make it that expensive, either.

Posted on: 2009/11/17 0:36
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Rusty O\'Toole
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The only LaFrance speedster I know of was built years ago by Ron Fawcett of Whitby Ontario. It sold for $17,600 in 2007.

It was way nicer than the one in the ad.

More on Ron Fawcett

wheels.ca/Article%20Category/article/31651

The sale

canadiandriver.com/news/2007/070918-5.htm

Posted on: 2009/11/17 10:02
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