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Wed Feb 9 09:14:07 PST 2022

Roger 

See you in August if you like.  If nothing else, we can compare 2019 Eqinoxi.   We are really lose to Cazenovia and if you have a room in Syracuse we are about 2 miles from either of the two main arteries to Cazenovia from Syracuse, between US20 and NY92.  Offer is open.

Carl

From: AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> On Behalf Of Roger Moffat
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 10:36 AM
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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 <mailto: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 <mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> > On Behalf Of Roger Moffat
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 10:19 AM
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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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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