getting there.

[John ED Renstrom]

still got a number of bugs to work out. but if we prime it we now can get the 53 to run. I even drove it for the first time today. not far mind you but it went forward about 20 feet and back. the kit I found off e-bay the throttle pump was kind of old we will see if we can get a better one coming. but I have ran it enough to get it up to temp and burn the old oil out of the engine. so we are getting there. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVQdhEuUegI[/ame]

 

[Josh Gentry]

Nice, sounds like that thing runs pretty darn good. I'm not a big Poncho fan, but I like the lines on that car.

Josh

 

[Rocky Fluegge]

sounds good, in no time we should see some videos of it cruzing the neighbor hood.

 

[Richard Vyse]

It is now in the hands of the MASTER who will work his magic on it. Looks great Ed.

 

[Mike McDonald]

Smooth!

The radiator cap sitting there during you walk-around without falling off reminds me of seeing an old Packard Ad way back when I was a kid (7 years old) where they had a glass of wine sitting on the hood of a running Straight-8 Packard. The next door town of about 60,000 people from the small farm town where I was raised had a Packard Dealer. In the Fall of 1954 when I was 7 years old we went over to see the new 1955 cars as they were traditionally "unvielded" in the first part of October as I recall. My folks were in the market for a new family car and stopped first at the Studebaker-Packard Dealership to see them as our small town VFD had just taken delivery earlier in the year of their brand new 1954 Henney-Packard Ambulance we are restoring now. Although my Dad was impressed, he was kind of a "died in the wool" Oldsmobile man and ended up buying a new 1955 Oldsmobile that we ordered from a local Dealer and then traveled from CA back to Lansing, Michigan by train to watch it being built. MM (A 1947 Model)

 

[John ED Renstrom]

it's coming out of hibernation slowly. but if I ever get it tuned to were you can stand a silver dollar on edge on the head when it's idling I'll know we are there. the fast idle is set way to fast for that right now. but it was fun just to let the clutch out and roll her ahead and back. a lot of mosquito killing at first but that has settled down. so I don't think we are in for any thing major on the engine. now if they just had not pushed it across the yard with the loader bucket the body would be a lot easier to fix.