Godsal Automobile

[Bruce Day]

For lovers of the unusual:

[Roundsworth]

Is that a 60 horsepower V-8?

[Dean Romig]

Looks like a pre-'48 Ford flathead with a Stromberg carb.






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[Brush Buster]

Very Neat Bruce , is it your project ?

[Bruce Day]

No. I have an old Mercedes and the garage is known for doing good and reasonable work on vintage automobiles and this was there getting a brake overhaul and a radiator flush . This car is hand built and the engine is a truck model Ford flathead with 85 hp mated to a semi automatic trans, like the old Chrysler planetary gear ones .

Next to this car was a 1990s turbo Bentley getting new head gaskets on both banks. On many cars that is a one day job, it certainly is on my straight six Mercedes, but on the V8 Bentley, it takes 80-100 hours.

[edgarspencer]

I miss my old diesel Benz wagon.

[Bruce Day]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

I miss my old diesel Benz wagon.

You can find another. Some Mercedes models are lifetime cars, certainly the case with the mid 1980's 300 class diesels. A person who is handy and learns the cars can maintain them themselves.

[edgarspencer]

Bruce, my last one was a 124 chassis 6 cylinder turbo diesel 300TD. I sold it with 250,000 on the clock and it's still going 10 years later. I just couldn't keep up with the rust.

[Bruce Day]

I have a rust free 1985 280SE with almost 200,000 on it and my father's 1980 450SL with 90,000 also rust free. I know it's hard to keep cars rust free in the northeast. Unfortunate for keeping things up. Out here we can get lifetime plates for $25 and insurance for them both is less than $300 a year. I can do all normal maintenance and some work like brakes, belts , etc .

A person can get another and keep it for good weather , would give you something to drive to the Southern SxS .

[edgarspencer]

My 31st and 32nd Land Rovers, along with one of my son's, are way out back, on the edge of the woods. I have reframed and rebuilt several of these over the years, but not in a long while. I had a '61 Jaguar MK 2 that sat on a trailer from the day I brought it home, and a '52 MG-TD and Mini Cooper (a real one) that got mangled when the barn they were stored in collapse with 3 feet of snow on the roof. In 2000, I bought a Land Rover Defender 110, that had an engine fire, thinking I could make some good money, but ended up bringing it back to new, and drove it for 13 years. Paid $6K, sold it for $38K. I swore I would never do another collector car, until I swapped the crushed Mini, for a new Land Rover frame from Rovers North. on and on it goes.