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  1. Stanley Doble

    Recreating hard-sided luggage

    It used to be that you could buy fitted luggage for any car, even a VW beetle. It was sold by the dealer's parts/accessory counter and it was in the accessory catalog. A quick search turned up this. http://www.hillsalive.co.uk/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=11
  2. Stanley Doble

    Tail fins (cars)

    A Name You'll Never Forget Most Powerful Brass Era Car, pre-1916 1907-1908 Apperson Big Dick, 96hp For those with $15,000 to spend, Apperson would put their race engine in a 50hp Jackrabbit runabout to create the Big Dick. A 96hp racing runabout, the Big Dick actually had the highest advertised...
  3. Stanley Doble

    1972 Triumph Bonneville Barn Find

    Could you put a seal on the crank and plug the holes? The separate primary is better. I don't know why they changed it. I gather you are an 'old hand' and know your way around the Triumph. Good to know you will treat it right.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    From the south, usually shortened to 'mother'. Tom Wolfe reports it as being common slang around Southern stock car racing tracks in the early sixties, as in 'look at that mother go'.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Recreating hard-sided luggage

    There are 2 in my local thrift store right now. A big one about 24 X 30 inches for $30 and smaller one like an overnight case for $10. So they are still around. I don't know where to suggest looking in your area to find them at a decent price.
  7. Stanley Doble

    1972 Triumph Bonneville Barn Find

    Greetings from an old Triumph man. I ran them when they were just another late model used motorcycle and found them to be a lot more reliable than people gave them credit for. But, there are certain secrets to making them reliable. For one, buy a manual and maintain it properly. For another...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Tail fins (cars)

    Tailfins aren't necessary in the sense that you can get along without them. But they do aid in straight line stability especially in cross winds. This has been proven many times. Some tailfins were too small or badly shaped to do much but the ones on Chrysler products from 1957 to 1961...
  9. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    I live in Ontario and not only do I remember paper dollar bills, I remember when candy bars were 5 cents for a small and 10 cents for a large. And I remember when "Frost bite" came in too. Back then it was 3% and they promised it would never apply to the necessities of life like food. What a...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Tail fins (cars)

    If tail fins don't add stability why do they put feathers on arrows, or tail fins on airplanes? They definitely do aid stability and reduce wind wander. It is a matter of moving the center of pressure behind the center of gravity. Get a load of this Lotus race car from the fifties. Colin...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Tail fins (cars)

    There is some truth to the idea of planned obsolescence but tailfins had a function. They stabilized the car at hiway speeds especially in crosswinds. This became important with the building of interstate hiways and the higher speeds possible with new V8 engines. Chrysler products were wind...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    In the 1920s Chrysler had quite a vogue in England and in Europe. They won their class in the Mille Miglia and finished in the money in the Le Mans and Spa 24 hour races. They had the first high compression engine, they pioneered 4 wheel hydraulic brakes and had quite a good chassis design.
  14. Stanley Doble

    Things That Never Seem to Change

    Airstream trailers. They have evolved slowly since 1934 but you can still buy the iconic polished aluminum torpedo shaped RVs that were the Cadillac of trailers in the fifties.
  15. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Made a big pot of vegetable soup with kale, carrots, parsnips, onion, celery, a red pepper, green beans, a can of tomatoes, 2 vegetable stock cubes, season salt, regular salt and Worcestershire sauce. It tasted like something was missing so I sliced up some smoked sausages and put them in...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    You forgot the little cookie, on a paper doily, on a plate that some places gave you. The last place that served milk shakes like you describe, was Moncrief's Dairy Bar on Charlotte Street in Peterborough Ontario. It burned down in the late 80s. Even then, I don't think it made any money. It was...
  17. Stanley Doble

    Is/was there a "color code" for suspenders/braces in corporate US?

    Do you know why firemen wear red braces? To hold their trousers up (ancient joke)
  19. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Richard Dawson told a story about taking his shirts to a laundry that advertized "24 Hour Service" on a Monday. The clerk told him his shirts would be ready on Thursday. He asked "what about the 24 hour service?" the reply "we're only open 8 hours a day".
  20. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Now they are called Dollar Stores.
  21. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Perogies, sausage, kale, and French cider.
  22. Stanley Doble

    Good dinner jacket movies

    Song of the Thin Man, last of the Thin Man series has a couple of swanky party scenes on a gambling boat. A lot of movies from the twenties up into the fifties had such scenes. The original Ocean's Eleven with Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack had one or two scenes in Las Vegas in full evening...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Recreating hard-sided luggage

    They used to sell the latches and hinges in hardware stores but that was a long time ago. You also used to see such suitcases in thrift stores and they may still turn up from time to time. The material may have been untempered masonite. I believe it can be steam bent or dampened and bent. Not...

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