[AT] Now shop mysteries -

Wed Feb 9 08:01:59 PST 2022

Roger:

Lovely cars, but WOW that new shop!!

Best regards
Steve O.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 10:35 AM Roger Moffat <rogerkiwi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Carl
>
> Thanks
>
> Yes I’ve been to “Trek” in Cazenovia twice - 2019 and then 2021 - both
> times I took my modern car as neither time I had a Franklin running. My
> plan going forward, once the 1931 Coupe is running, is to drive that the
> 650 or so miles to Cazenovia since I don’t have a trailer, and if I did, I
> don’t have anything to pull it with.
>
> Yes, it’s the biggest gathering of Franklins each year - the first year we
> went there were almost 80. Last year, still in Covid mode it was less -
> around 40 I think it was.
>
> We are planning to attend again this 2022 year, but it’s unlikely I’ll
> have a car running by then, so it will be the 2019 Equinox again.
>
> Ultimately the plan is to be able to drive it all over the country. When
> it’s running right, it should be capable of 65mph all day long - it does
> have a set of “after market” high speed gears in the rear end.
>
> Cheers
>
> Roger
>
> On Feb 9, 2022, at 10:25 AM, Carl Gogol <cgogol1971 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Roger,
> Beautiful cars!  Do you ever go to the Cazenovia, NY Franklin show near
> Syracuse?  I’m told it is the largest as Franklins were built in Syracuse.
> If so, stop by as we live only a few miles away.
> Carl , Manlius, NY
>
> *From:* AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> *On Behalf Of *Roger
> Moffat
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 9, 2022 10:19 AM
> *To:* Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >
> *Subject:* Re: [AT] Now shop mysteries -
>
> 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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