Driving Again
After six or seven years of being more or less down, I took the '29 on a tour successfully this past Saturday. Recent tour attempts have ended with the car returning home ingloriously on the end of a hook. The last bit remaining to do was John Meadows carb float bowl. With that installed, short trips around town were made and lengthy sessions running the motor pretty much burned the old gas down.
This tour was a short one, only 25 miles round trip, but it was long enough to get some sense of the many improvements made since Geoff came over several years ago. With a tank of fresh gas, the motor does run better than ever before. It will potter around at very low speeds in top gear, but it really needs to be stirred up to get much power out of it. The motor pulls nicely at 40 to 45 mph but is very busy by 50.
For the first time since I have owned the car, the throttle acted more like a progressive control than an on/off switch. With the choke out just slightly, the motor never faltered or missed. What a pleasure it was to drive!
The tour itself was out to an old farmhouse built in 1898 called the Key House, now a County historical park. After a tour of the grounds & a picnic, we drove over to the Olinda Petroleum Museum, another County facility. There we saw current operating oil wells, some going back to the 1890s along with pieces of equipment going all the way back to the beginning.
The tour leader was Jack Smith from the Orange County Model T Club who grew up on the lease and new it backward and forward. The Model T club was great as always and turned out about 20 cars, more than half Ts.
On the way home, I found myself smiling while driving along and just plain enjoying the ride. After so long as a project with no end in sight, it almost seems like the Hudson wanted to please that day.
Only one thing blotted its copybook. It has developed a fuel drip out of the aircleaner while parked with the motor off. Turning off the fuel tap on the bottom of the vacuum tank stopped the drip, but it shouldn't need this. Perhaps it has something gummed up from the bad gas, if so, maybe the new gas will free things up.
Paul O'Neil
SoCal
1923 Ford Model T Runabout
1926 Hudson Anderson Coup
This tour was a short one, only 25 miles round trip, but it was long enough to get some sense of the many improvements made since Geoff came over several years ago. With a tank of fresh gas, the motor does run better than ever before. It will potter around at very low speeds in top gear, but it really needs to be stirred up to get much power out of it. The motor pulls nicely at 40 to 45 mph but is very busy by 50.
For the first time since I have owned the car, the throttle acted more like a progressive control than an on/off switch. With the choke out just slightly, the motor never faltered or missed. What a pleasure it was to drive!
The tour itself was out to an old farmhouse built in 1898 called the Key House, now a County historical park. After a tour of the grounds & a picnic, we drove over to the Olinda Petroleum Museum, another County facility. There we saw current operating oil wells, some going back to the 1890s along with pieces of equipment going all the way back to the beginning.
The tour leader was Jack Smith from the Orange County Model T Club who grew up on the lease and new it backward and forward. The Model T club was great as always and turned out about 20 cars, more than half Ts.
On the way home, I found myself smiling while driving along and just plain enjoying the ride. After so long as a project with no end in sight, it almost seems like the Hudson wanted to please that day.
Only one thing blotted its copybook. It has developed a fuel drip out of the aircleaner while parked with the motor off. Turning off the fuel tap on the bottom of the vacuum tank stopped the drip, but it shouldn't need this. Perhaps it has something gummed up from the bad gas, if so, maybe the new gas will free things up.
Paul O'Neil
SoCal
1923 Ford Model T Runabout
1926 Hudson Anderson Coup
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