Great looking car.
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It’s sensory flooding when it comes to smoothness. Shifter, brake pedal, engine note, steering, bump management are all buttery smooth. atsa nice.
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But then we have to find a few pearls in the bag of shells.
Great car and not like the new models that don’t have their own character anymore. In some cases, it is no longer possible to identify the manufacturers of the cars.
Long, long ago Lancia were craftsmen of the highest standard.
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Especially when teamed wit Zagato.
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I need to wash my car. I haven’t driven it in five weeks.
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This guys shop is just an hour or so north of me. He makes some really cool, high HP, high dollar builds
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What sounds better than excellent 2 channel soundstage, incredible imaging, & deep Bass extension with excellent mids, and sweet top end ?
This…Engine # 2 let go one year after it was back on the road due to a manufacturers defect on the valvetrain which in turn damaged a piston. Our engine rebuilder is Frank Beck Racing Engines (BRE Racing) here in Phoenix who built Engine # 2. He did my Son a “solid” by going after the manufacturer and only charging my Son the labour involved in the rebuild. Yes, the the whole Engine was redone from bottom to top with only the damaged parts replaced (and of course all new bearings, cam, lifters, & Pistons). Yes, some new parts my Son did pay for but the whole re-rebuild cost 1/3 of what was charged originally.
It took 6 months as he’s backed up with work and doesn’t take anymore off the street rebuilds. He wants to retire.
Its amazing when you treat people with respect in a very tense and expensive situation (for my Son). They in turn in my experience will look after you. Of course nothing is for free and compromise is needed sometimes.
The Video speaks Volumes (get it…try the Veal folks) 
Cheers,
Joe
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This has been in the family since new 92 or 93 years ago.
It would be interesting to see what condition today’s vehicles will be in when they are 90 years old. The Model A still runs and drives and is about as simple as it could possibly be.
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on the speaker casters?
WOW! That is a 1930 Model A Ford truck?
Yes. It is titled as a 1931. My great grandfather or his father bought it new in 1930 or so.
He owned a blacksmith shop that turned into an auto repair shop when horses went out of favor and gasoline powered vehicles became popular.
The blacksmith shop was started sometime in the 1875 range. They repaired buggies, wagons, harnesses along with farrier work.
In later years they had a steam powered line shaft running overhead.
In the early years everything was man powered. A brutal existence but it is what led us to today’s technologies.
This truck had a Model T or Model A powered generator welder on the back at one time but it is long gone.
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Of course. 
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My father was born in 1913. He dropped out of grade school after the 7th grade to get a job and help the family with having enough money. That would have been 1925 and he was 12 years old. The job he got was driving a HORSE drawn wagon the delivered ice for iceboxes.
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The only reason we stopped using horses for freight hauling is that trucks could move freight for 10% of the cost of horse drawn freight.
The speedy evolution of the petrol powered engine and manufacturing advancements made the horse obsolete in pretty short order.
Can you imagine the amount of livestock needed today for freight deliveries?
I still have a few of the hand held (mostly hand forged) tools from the shop and some wagon making tools too.
A spoke shave, adz, hand operated forge blower, swage block, nippers, drills, and two anvils. One anvil has an 1865 date stamped into it.
I also have a hand operated wood frame rotary whetstone. I’ll post a picture maybe tomorrow.
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Or maybe you could open up for tours 
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I’ve had my coupe for 12 years now. I’ve had several unsolicited offers and can’t bring myself to sell, even though I drive it around five times per year.
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Your mention of inherited hand-wrought tools, reminds me to get a copy of a photo that my uncle has of him, my father and their cousin as toddlers around their grandfather’s smithy behind his garage in Queens New York pre-WWII. Earlier on, he was a tool maker for making vacuum tubes at the American De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company. Before that he played violin.
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Why sell an appreciating asset? Especially one that you can drive?
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