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[Roger Moffat]

Here you go…

1 - 1926 Franklin Series 11A Sedan. I bought it “fully restored” and it seemed like it was, but alas the main bearings in the engine weren’t touched, and so the original 90+ years old babbit main bearings were broken in to pieces. So I need to get the engine out and off to a guy in upstate New York who has been doing Franklin bearings for years. The block is aluminium, as are the connecting rods, so it’s not something that “any old babbit shop” can handle. This is when I was still driving it, oblivious to the bearing problems, about to head off the 35 miles to a car show at the Gilmore Car Museum.




2 - The second is a 1931 Series 15 153 Deluxe Coupe. It came from Oregon - a guy there had been working on restoring it for 10 years, and passed away before it was finished. He’d done the chassis, running gear, paint work and almost all of the chrome, but it needs a complete new wiring harness, upholstery, brake lines and a whole bunch of little stuff to finish it off. This picture is delivery day - a day in January 2020 with Michigan snow on the ground. It was about 30°F that day, and I had to wash it when it arrived to get the salt spray off it that had leaked into the guy’s trailer that brought it from Oregon to Michigan. That was a cold washing!





Here they both are together in the new workshop I spent the last 12 months finishing off after I had an Amish construction guy put up the shell and finish the outside of it.





> On Feb 9, 2022, at 8:45 AM, HERBERT METZ <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Roger,
> A pix of your two Franklins, and brief description.
> Herb(GA) 
> 
> 
>> On 02/08/2022 11:19 PM Roger Moffat <rogerkiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> And there’s the problem I currently have…
>> Just before Christmas I had a surgery to remove a possibly, but turned out it wasn’t cancerous kidney. After that I was on a restricted activity regime for almost 7 weeks - including not lifting anything more than 10lbs.
>> So I only went out to my shop a couple of times - each time I had to have my wife lift up the big overhead door so I could get my 1949 Cub out to clear some of the West Michigan snow off my driveway, then she had to come pull the door down again.
>> Anyway, after getting clearance from the surgeon yesterday to resume normal activity I went out to get my lawn tractor and snow blower going to do a better job on the drive, and couldn’t find the battery charger it turned out I needed, then when done, couldn’t find either of the TWO hearth brushes I have to clean the snow off the tractor before putting it away. 
>> I shudder to think what will happen when I get to start working on my 2 Franklin cars in the new workshop any day now.
>> A mind is a terrible thing to lose LOL
>> Roger
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