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The cross bars are screwed into the roof 12 places (and supported on 4 curves and the drip rails), the longitudinal rails bolted to the cross bars, the chair and rider are both belted to the rails. Safer than it looks, but still relieved we encountered no local constabulary on our travels 🙂. Here are a few more photos...

Well, that's interesting. 31 views on the thread but only 6 hits on the YouTube. Clearly not a compelling initial post. I wonder if this screen grab will stir up more interest...

It was a very fun day! Joy Ride

Had I been thinking, I would have emailed you early in the week to ensure we would cross paths. I bought very little at the flea market but that was intended, as I have no big projects or needs right now. We watched the cars driving into the show field for an hour (and wow, was that great) and walked the show for about an hour. They we high-tailed it back to Canada to catch our flight home from Toronto.

HI Rich, I was sorry to miss you at Hershey. I had you down for Orange Field OAD 7-8, but when I wandered by Thursday AM I only saw a modern vehicle but no people around or parts for sale 😕. Was I too late or at the wrong spot? Chris

For those who do Facebook. Apologies for the near-total lack of Mopar content ☹️ https://www.facebook.com/EdmontonAntiqueCarClub/

From here, it looks like the first photo is where you disconnect. If that's not enough, then disconnect the second. If you are disconnecting more than one connection, I suggest you mark which ends connect connect to what. A dab with a paint pen on each component fr'instance.

It does. Thank you Robin.

A legendary attribute of early Rolls-Royce Motorcars was the ability to balance a coin on the radiator whilst the engine was purring quietly. While there is neither a R-R or 5-shilling coin in this video, here is friend Jerry's 1950 Plymouth with a Canadian Loonie riding the fresh air vent, radiator and cylinder head!

Fair point, and while most folks wouldn't, some encourage it 🙂. As it happens, a favourite annual event for me is the so-called Inter-Club Ride/Drive which is coming up May 25 (since 2017, Covid-excepted). Four clubs converge on a casino parking lot adjacent to a quiet industrial area on Saturday AM. Basically a "cross-cultural" car show with no public spectators and an unusual twist... No pressure, but owners are encouraged to offer a ride experience in their cars to others, and many choose to exchange drives as well. This is, for me, a total hoot. I've given many people their first Model T experience, riding and/or driving, and had the pleasure of wheel time in a Bugeye Sprite, Tesla X, '50s Rolls Royce, Model A roadster, Triumph TR4A, NSU Prinz, Tesla S, electric moped, MGB, '53 Buick and many more. Here is a photo gallery from the 2022 Ride/Drive. First photo is a young fellow club member giving a Rolls-Royce collector (front seat) and two sports car guys their first Model T ride in my 1926 Touring. The Rolls-Royce fellow brought the black and yellow RHD rig seen further into the gallery — and with somebody else at the wheel!

More helpful posts. Thank you all. Wise words from Booger, and in fact Plymothy Adams sent me a link to one of Randy's blog posts earlier today. Man, what an informative site. Very very helpful. Sad to read he passed several years ago. Loren, I get your point that the factory setup works well and why try to re-invent the wheel — in this case, the car is not mine, it doesn't have the full factory setup and hardware now, and my goal here is to gain a working understanding of how this particular install should be operated, strictly as an aid to the sale of the car. Having said that, I've had an R-10 overdrive in the garage for years, intended for my '47 D25. This situation with my friend's car is inspiring me to get on with that project. That unit too has no lockdown switch, and I favour Kencombs suggestion of an override that does not require a full-throttle lunge.

Thank you Robin. When I have experimentally pulled on the handle at speed in OD, it didn't want to move and I feared some mechanical mayhem if I insisted. To clarify: you can/do pullout the OD handle when the car is in OD and in motion at above the kick-in speed (and, of course, under load)? And if so, does the OD kick out immediately or wait until the accelerator is released?

Thank you Greg, on first reading that seems to make sense. I will study it up further and check the wiring further. But first a 200 mile round trip to the Red Deer AB swap meet tomorrow. Looking forward to the o/d on all that four lane.

Thanks guys. This particular car has no kick-down switch installed. I have since found some wiring and a relay and will investigate further. On my original question about shifting out of O/D without slowing down to the kick-in speed, the following note is on a George-Asche hand-written wiring diagram: "When moving cable in or out have the car pulling (not coasting) or have car stopped"

I am helping a friend sell his low-mileage 1950 Plymouth. The car was parked for 2-3 years, but fortunately had a fuel stabilizer treatment back then and last week started and runs fine. An overdrive was installed two owners back. I believe it was an R-10 type, can't be sure. In any event, electric controls were never part of the install. The fellow who sold the car to my friend gave him a tutorial and we used the overdrive regularly, including one very successful run down to the PNW in 2016. Anyway, friend and I have both forgotten the operating sequence for shifting out of overdrive. Shifting in is easy: push in the handle, let up the gas briefly above kick-in speed and we're in. Shifting down needs help... yes we can coast down to below kick-in speed, but that is counterproductive when approaching a hill (the period manual instructs the driver to engage the electric kick-down but that is not an option here). We believe there was a non-electric technique for shifting from O/D to direct while at speed, but I would rather ask the experts than chance doing harm to the car. Is there a safe technique using only the handle and gas pedal? Or are we remembering something that never actually happened?