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Yeah. If you want to bug one of your friends, put a marble in the ash tray of his old car at a car show!
 
No snow here, yet, on North coast of Lake Erie. Not even a decent frost, yet. We are thinking of harvesting our bananas this weekend. LOL
 
LOL, that don't mean anything when you're on the highest point of land just 3500 feet South of Georgian Bay. We catch clouds and they stay here with Lake effect snow.

Could be worse though, Watertown NY is forecast for 71" of snow this weekend off of Lake Ontario with an East wind.
 
Hey-O said:
1931 Auburn Eight-98A Boattail speedster
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When I was 16 (in 1963), I bought my first car; a 1939 Buick Special coupe. It was a running, operable car, but the old Straight Eight smoked quite a bit. But, what do you want for $60? I lived out in the country on my parents' farm, and put quite a few miles on the old girl, driving dirt and gravel local back roads, with no licence plates or insurance. Those were the days!
At that time, our county employed its own police force. One evening, shortly after one of my illicet, and illegal drives, the Norfolk County Police cruiser pulled into the laneway, and the officer knocked on the door. I immediately thought this was going to be a " Go directly to Jail. Do not collect $200. " situation. The officer asked if I was the owner of the Buick, and I replied that I was. He further inquired if I was interested in acquiring a pair of front grills for my car, as it had none. I said, "Sure", and he said, "Hop in the cruiser. I know where there is a set." At this point, I had not yet seen a pair of handcuffs,, so I figured that things were O.K. He drove me about 20 miles away, to show me a twin to my car sitting on a cleared pile of stumps in a farmer's field, sporting a good pair of grills. He talked to the farmer and got the O.K. for me to come down on the weekend to strip anything I wanted off the car, which I did. Upon returning me home, the officer explained that he had a small collection of old cars, and invited me to visit his place to see them. This was the end of me driving the Buick around without proper licence and insurance.
When I eventually visited Gerry (first name basis, now), he took me to the big shop in his back yard, where he had a pair of 1927 Studebakers, a 1928 Willis-Knight convertible, with sleeve-valve engine, and a 1939 LaSalle 2-door sedan. In the 2-car garage attached to his house, sat his wife's everyday driver, a 1939 LaSalle coupe, and his pride and joy, a 1931 Auburn Boattail Speedster, as pictured. My eyeballs almost dropped out of my head! Gerry's Auburn was a glistening Black, with Red highlights. It was likely the most beautiful car I had seen in my young life! This car was powered by a Lycoming Straight Eight, and had a 2-speed rear end controlled by a second floor shift. In 1932, a V-12 became an option. On the floor, beside the Boattail, sat one of these Lycoming V-12's. Lycoming was a member of Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg Corp., and survived after the car-building portion of the company failed. Lycoming built a large variety of engines during WWII, and I think it survives to this day. After the war, American La France Firetrucks bought the rights to produce and develop this V-12 engine design for their use, well into the '60's. It was one of these enlarged, improved fire truck engines that Gerry had.
Gerry took me into his office and showed me a wall map of Norfolk County that he patrolled. It was dotted with different coloured push pins, each colour denoting a different make of antique car in his county. Yes, my Buick was there, too. Gerry and his wife are both long gone, and I heard that a friend in the ACD Club in U.S.A. ended up with the Aiburn.
 
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Dave6T4 said:
When I was 16 (in 1963), I bought my first car; a 1939 Buick Special coupe. It was a running, operable car, but the old Straight Eight smoked quite a bit. But, what do you want for $60? I lived out in the country on my parents' farm, and put quite a few miles on the old girl, driving dirt and gravel local back roads, with no licence plates or insurance. Those were the days!
At that time, our county employed its own police force. One evening, shortly after one of my illicet, and illegal drives, the Norfolk County Police cruiser pulled into the laneway, and the officer knocked on the door. I immediately thought this was going to be a " Go directly to Jail. Do not collect $200. " situation. The officer asked if I was the owner of the Buick, and I replied that I was. He further inquired if I was interested in acquiring a pair of front grills for my car, as it had none. I said, "Sure", and he said, "Hop in the cruiser. I know where the rear is a set." At this point, I had not yet seen a pair of handcuffs,, so I figured that things were O.K. He drove me about 20 miles away, to show me a twin to my car sitting on a cleared pile of stumps in a farmer's field, sporting a good pair of grills. He talked to the farmer and got the O.K. for me to come down on the weekend to strip anything I wanted off the car, which I did. Upon returning me home, the officer explained that he had a small collection of old cars, and invited me to visit his place to see them. This was the end of me driving the Buick around without proper licence and insurance.
When I eventually visited Gerry (first name basis, now), he took me to the big shop in his back yard, where he had a pair of 1927 Studebakers, a 1928 Willis-Knight convertible, with sleeve-valve engine, and a 1939 LaSalle 2-door sedan. In the 2-car garage attached to his house, sat his wife's everyday driver, a 1939 LaSalle coupe, and his pride and joy, a 1931 Auburn Boattail Speedster, as pictured. My eyeballs almost dropped out of my head! Harry's Auburn was a glistening Black, with Red highlights. It was likely the most beautiful car I had seen in my young life! This car was powered by a Lycoming Straight Eight, and had a 2-speed rear end controlled by a second floor shift. In 1932, a V-12 became an option. On the floor, beside the Boattail, sat one of these Lycoming V-12's. Lycoming was a member of Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg Corp., and survived after the car-building portion of the company failed. Lycoming built a large variety of engines during WWII, and I think it survives to this day. After the war, American La France Firetrucks bought the rights to produce and develop this V-12 engine design for their use, well into the '60's.
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Love the story and thanks for sharing. Those stories can only be told by a lucky man, and you are one of them!!! Ulli
 
guy gadbois said:
Always really liked these - way ahead of their time.
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I remember the funny magazine ads they ran for those back in the day, touting their four wheel drive. Saying things like "Quicker than a Mustang (on soft sand)"
"Better acceleration than a Porsche 944! (in loose gravel)."
 
Kern Dog said:
This ought to be familiar.
I'm looking to include a scene where I look to buy a car from a man with a similar background as seen here:

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Here ya go @Kern Dog , right here in my neighborhood. My neighbor and I talked about putting a bid on this 1 acre property up to $125k. It got bid up and sold for $271k. This is 6 months after it sold. There was probably 30 cars or so scattered amongst the fir trees.
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