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Excellent to hear that (from another Bellel owner)! Good work! Sorry I didn't notice this post before! 2013-now was a nonstop blur.

FYI - I would generally be interested in the car, but I'm saturated with cars right now. And my schedule probably won't let up until next July. However, I would really ...

Scott sent me this message before:

Hi - I have no idea if the entire car can be purchased. Sometimes the junkyard can sell, sometimes they can't. It depends on what manner the car came into their possession. If you want to contact the junkyard, they are:
Sun Valley
Pick Your Part
11201 Pendleton ...

How bad is it/is it scheduled to be crushed?
Some of it is excellent, interior not so good. It isn't a rust bucket. It's in an area that doesn't get much turnover, I would expect it will be around for a month or so.

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How bad is it/is it scheduled to be crushed?

I'd love to see something like put back together. Not sure if enough spare parts exist though.

The middle one is a Packardbaker, I believe. It's actually a prototype convertible, the production version only came in hardtop:

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Not a 'bad' looking car for America's 1950s, not a good one either. It looks like a fish, but not a good looking fish. I'm not sure who designed it, they probably don ...

dave wrote:Whoah I spy an Aussie back there!

W00T!

You could camp every day in that one, who needs a house?

KJB wrote:You should do some of this, Gricey. Coorong S.A.. No one within 30 kms. Beautiful!!!!!!!!!! (DMax recovery unit and Camper )
KB

Now that is camping! I'm not sure you can find many place in the US with no one that close (at least not in the eastern US).

Going on as we speak/write is the US National Pontiac-Oakland + GTO convention in Dayton. This moves around the country annually, when it was in Dayton in 2009 they had about 1,000 different Pontiacs. Here is a sample of what we've seen. Many of these are from the first few days (Friday and Saturday ...

I visited the Packard museum recently with my girlfriend and her father. Well, it's more like I brought them to this museum as I've been there many times and have a friend that used to run it. I thought I would share some pictures...

Kerry and Anne Marie have better pictures than I do, but this one is good.

I'm still looking to the body repairs; the SB (and a vacation to China) has taken the bulk of my time lately. I have a local body shop I want to get to know. The Bellel would be a good place to start before I bring my GTO (which needs more body work) there.

Incidentally, and more interesting ...

I'm still behind on getting most of the pictures of the car (the ones not taken by me) scanned; however these were scanned last year. I'm still trying to build up my database since one relative here and there will have a picture that no one else has seen. I do have my grandfather's collection of ...

I would to see even a picture of a wagon! I've only seen drawings of it in my manuals, even my brochures don't show a wagon.

Love this old brochure! I haven't seen one from Isuzu this old yet!

The TX 550W doesn't look too far off from our Kenworth...which hasn't changed its styling since 1961...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenworth_W900

Now those are good looking cars, the DMax isn't exactly my taste. But, it looks a lot better than our Chevy Colorado version:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Colorado

This week I made progress on my car and I got some help from some friends on fixing the steering. The gas tank is next, there's a local shop that restores them.

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I've had steering issues since getting the car. Once I turn it to the left, it won't let me turn back ...

As an engineer, the mechanic bits fascinate me. Especially an OHV engine in 1919. Here's a little comparison of my engine with some similar ones and with some earlier SB engines. Mine is a little worse for wear...but how many people can wrench on their grandfather's car in the exact condition he ...

Similar to my car is the Oakland 34-B (I actually have manuals to both, the Oakland's manual has more information in it).
Even with the Oakland and the flat front radiators, the family resemblance is there. Mine is a little worse for wear, but I'm not a one car guy, so I have to juggle my ...

Well, a lot is relative here... There are about 50-100 registered SBs, so more than 2 is a lot...

There are apparently SBs in

Guildford, W.A. AUSTRALIA;
Levin, NEW ZEALAND
Ingle Farm, S.A. AUSTRALIA
Plympton, S.A. Australia

Met a fellow and his wife at Hay, the week after Easter , and they ...

I wanted to create a real post about my Scripps-Booth instead of sandwiching it into posts on some of my other cars...

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My car was bought by my grandfather in 1976 and he restored it, but it didn't pass to me. The car left the family when he died in 1992; my grandmother was rather ...