RED Noob Questions

[Rocket]

I have a 1919 Ford touring T and a 1922 center door T.

Awesome! Did you restore them yourself? I assume so, I had a '54 Chevy Bel Air that I was building, then last year I got married and had to sell it (not even for a Red funnily enough, but for a diamond ring). No regrets though, at least I got my chick, I can relax now and not worry about the car, or stringing a Red One around my neck.

 

[Cail Young]

For what it's worth, the HPX500 will not be upgradable to use AVC Intra, the fancy new codec Panasonic is shipping for their P2 cameras. So, I would not purchase the HPX500 just yet... wait for the inevitable revision that supports AVC Intra.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Awesome! Did you restore them yourself? I assume so, I had a '54 Chevy Bel Air that I was building, then last year I got married and had to sell it (not even for a Red funnily enough, but for a diamond ring). No regrets though, at least I got my chick, I can relax now and not worry about the car, or stringing a Red One around my neck.

Actually, the 1919 touring car is all original, right down to every last nut and bolt, no restoration and still looks pretty darn nice. It belonged to a friend of my great grandfather. At some point after my great grandfather and his friend had passed away, my grandfather bought the car from his father's friend's widow.

The 1922 is all original except for the interior upholstery. My grandfather pulled a 1934 pickup out of the Blue River at some point and had it restored -- this was in about '79. He then traded it to someone for this car. IMO, it was a poor trade, but still a fun car to have around. I actually had to pull the carburetor apart and flush the gas tank a couple weeks ago to move the car as it's been sitting for several years. Unfortunately, mice had got inside and made a real mess... I'm going to try and clean the upholstery, but it may need to be redone, the carpet will definitely have to be replaced as the mice chewed and shredded it to make a nest. There's also a couple leaks in the radiator due to corrosion, even though it was always stored drained. But it's 85 years... Funny thing is after I cleaned the carburetor bowl and got the float un-stuck and flushed some clean gas through it and dropped in a new battery, the car fired right up. There was quite a bit of grey dust to blow out of the tail pipe along with some rust, so the first couple puffs of smoke were purple. It was kinda magical.

As for restoration projects, I have a 1919 White C-Cab truck that's in terrible shape. But my great, great grandfather was the original owner and he was still driving the truck the last time my father saw him alive as a boy. He was a coal miner and would use the truck to drive his coal into town. We have talked about restoring the old truck, but it's very far gone and would be a very time-consuming project. I've also got an old Indiana truck, about 1940 or so, IIRC and two '48 Ford pickups. The '48s are in rough shape, but one good one could be built out of the two pretty easily and they would make one heck of a nice street rod with that 1100HP flathead engine. :matrix: