[AT] Now shop mysteries -

[Mike M]

Wow, that's impressive!!

Mike M

On 2/9/2022 10:25 AM, Carl Gogol 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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