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Car Production Numbers. They Made How Many? 1911

By Tim Sweet | October 21, 2011 - 10:31 PM |October 21, 2011 Antique Cars, Auto Restoration, Auto Technology, Car Art, Car Restoration, Cars, Willys-Overland

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1911 oh… that was a great year! Well I don’t actually have any proof of that, but there sure were a lot of new car makes that year. Here the list:

Alpena; ArBenz; Atterbury; Carhartt, Case, Chevrolet; Colby, Crow-Elkhart, Dalton, Gaylord, Havers, Hupp-Yeats; King; Lenox; Mighty Michigan; Motorette; Nyberg: Penn; Rayfield; R.C.H.; Roader; Rogers; S.G.V.; Standard Electric (yes electric); Stutz; Stuyvesant; Virginian; W.F.S.

So who were the leaders for that year?

Ford out-paced all with 69,762 Cars.

Second up was Studebaker/EMF with 26,827.

1911 Studebaker...you can't use just '11 any longer - someone might think this was a 2011 Studebaker

Willys-Overland up next with 18,745 and Maxwell about 2,000 less at 16,000.

One of the 16,000 Maxwells

Buick came in at fifth with 13,389, beating out Cadillac with 10,071 cars.

Hudson and Chalmers finish up the list with 6,486 and 6,250 respectively.

The 1911 Chalmers - look at that stance!!!!

1911 Milestones:

– International Motor Company was formed (MACK)

– Buick sets a speed record, running 20 miles in just over 13 minutes.

– First Indianapolis 500 was held and won by Ray Harroun in a six-cylinder Marmon Wasp – 6 hours, 42 minutes and 8 seconds of drive time.

The Marmon Wasp

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Tim

Car Production Numbers. They Made How Many? 1901

By Tim Sweet | October 4, 2011 - 8:35 PM |October 4, 2011 Antique Cars, Auto Restoration

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This is it. The beginning of it all. What were they making in 1901?

The top producer was the Locomobile car company with a total out put for the year 1,500 cars.

Winton was second with 700 cars.

Oldsmobile (ahh one we’ve heard of!!) was third with 425.

White came in fourth with 193.

Autocar was next with 140.

Knox was sixth with 100.

Rounding out the bottom was Packard and Stanley with 81 and 80 respectively.

This is a 1901 Winton Racer..what's the guy in the front doing?

1901 Autocar

The 1901 Autocar has a shaft-drive engine, powered with a water-cooled, two-cylinder, horizontal-opposed engine in the front of the car. The gasoline tank and battery box were under the front seat.

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Tim

Car Production Numbers. They Made How Many? 1922

By Tim Sweet | September 14, 2011 - 9:00 PM |September 14, 2011 Auto Restoration, Auto Technology, Car Models, Car Restoration, Cars, Chevy, Chrysler, Classic Cars, Corvette, Corvette C6, Dodge, Ford, Muscle Cars, Restro-Mods, Tires, Willys-Overland

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It is 1922 and the car industry is moving right along. Small start-up car companies pop up here and there in the 1920’s.

Here is how they stacked up for 1922.

Top spot was Ford producing 1,147,028 cars.

Dodge was a very distant second with 152,653 car rolling off their assembly line.

Chevrolet ran in third place with 138,932 cars made.

And finish up the list were Buick with 123,152; Studebaker with 105,005; Williys-Overland with 95,410; Durant with 55,300 and finally Maxwell/Chalmers 44,811.

Total passenger cars produced were 2,274,185 with 269,991 truck being made.

Rickenbacker was a new upstart beginning production in 1922.

Durant produce a car priced at $319 . Ford reduced prices to $298.

Balloon tires were introduced.

Hey fuel gauges began being installed in dash in 1922.

1922 Durant Star - An attempt to undercut Ford's prices

1922 Rickenbacker 4 Door

I love this one:

1922 Chrysler Panel Truck

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Tim

Future Mustang

By Tim Sweet | August 24, 2011 - 8:57 AM |August 24, 2011 Auto Technology, Car Restoration, Ford, Mustang

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More from the Mustang of the future images.

need to know about, definitely put them in the comments or drop us a line.

The Art Of Design – Creating The Mustang Of The Future

By Tim Sweet | August 24, 2011 - 5:59 AM |August 24, 2011 Car Art, Ford, Muscle Cars, Mustang, Restro-Mods, Street Racing

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The Art Of Design – Creating The Mustang Of The Future.

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Some people are visual creatures and some are more in tune with the mechanics of life. I am a visual creature. The shape and colors of things are what I see first. So the whole idea of designing and drawing cars just fascinates me. Since this is a Mustang enthusiast website, thinking of what the next Mustang will look like is a mini obsession of mine.

Back in September of 2009, I started following a blog on the design of the new Mustang for 2014. And what appeared on that blog just blew me away.

Now I realize that Area 51 exists for more than just concealing a crashed alien space ship. It is also a test area for military vapor ware that we may see 20 years or so after it is new, you know, after it becomes obsolete and is no longer top secret. Well, getting a glimpse into the design studios of a major car company is like getting a tour of Area 51. You may see things that amaze and confuse and things you may have thought only existed in someone’s twisted imagination.

So how would it feel to get a whole truck load of sketches of the 2010 Mustang, drawn by one of the designers, just months after the new design was introduced? Yeah, it was pretty special. Rob Jensen was one of the designers of the 2010 Mustang, specifically, the GT500. Now, maybe you have seen these sketches before. Maybe they amazed and confused you back then, as they were way too “artsey” for a production car. But some parts and pieces of them made it onto the 2010 cars and some of them were left on the drawing board, literally.

For the Mustang Enthusiast in the crowd that leans towards the visual, stunning design side of cars, please enjoy the collection of sketches in our gallery below. Some are from Rob Jensen, some are from others on the Ford Mustang design team. Still others are designs by professional artists and amateurs that put together some very impressive Future ‘Stangs.

One thing to keep in mind, if you are seeing it here, out in the open, then most likely it looks absolutely nothing like the next Mustang will look. Think of this as the Area 51 Museum of Mustang design. If you like something you see, give the artist some love as I will try to provide links to as many of the artists as I can. If there is another artist out there that we need to know about, definitely put them in the comments or drop us a line.

Wrenchin’ Tip – Got 6 Volts?

By Tim Sweet | July 26, 2011 - 8:31 PM |July 26, 2011 Auto Body Work, Auto Cross, Auto Restoration, Auto Technology, Automatic Transmission, C4, C6, Car Art, Car Contest., Car Girls, Car Models, Car Parts, Car Restoration, Car Shows, Carbs, Cars, Chevy, Chrysler, Classic Cars, Corvette, Corvette C6, Dirt racing, Dodge, Dodge, Drag Racing, Engine Mods, Ford, low riders, MOPAR, Muscle Cars, Mustang, Plymouth, Pontiac, Restro-Mods, Stock Car Racing, Street Racing, Suspension Mods, Tires, Transmission, Uncategorized, Willys-Overland, ZR1

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I was recently talking to a coworker of mine who own a 1949 Pontiac Silver Streak Delivery Van (link – http://wp.me/pKHNM-Bx ) and we were discussing his 6 volt system and the troubles with low amperage.

Well I just ran across a couple of interesting articles dealing with that subject. Now I will tell you I am not “the guy” for electrical work – nope not me (I had a bad experience – ok – a couple of bad ones). But even this one I can understand.

Increasing the power supply often means that you need to convert to 12 volt and maybe 15 years ago yes, but now 6 volts are readily available. So here is what you do (sorry no pics)

Take two 6 volt batters and link them in parallel by connecting the two negative terminals to each other and the two positive to each other. The main positive cable goes from the positive terminal of the first battery to ground and the main negative cable is connected to the negative terminal of the second battery. Of course in some case you may have to modify the batter shelf, but it will sure help kick up the cold cranking amps.

Thanks for reading

Tim

Car Production Numbers. They Made How Many? 1950

By Tim Sweet | July 26, 2011 - 8:03 PM |July 26, 2011 Auto Body Work, Auto Cross, Auto Restoration, Auto Technology, Automatic Transmission, C4, C6, Car Art, Car Contest., Car Girls, Car Models, Car Parts, Car Restoration, Car Shows, Carbs, Cars, Chevy, Chrysler, Classic Cars, Corvette, Corvette C6, Dirt racing, Dodge, Dodge, Drag Racing, Engine Mods, Ford, low riders, MOPAR, Muscle Cars, Mustang, Plymouth, Pontiac, Restro-Mods, Stock Car Racing, Street Racing, Suspension Mods, Tires, Transmission, Uncategorized, Willys-Overland, ZR1

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Folks seem to like this segment so let’s continue with 1950.

19 major car makers existed back then and Chevy topped the production totals with 1,498,590 units followed closely by Ford with 1, 208,912. The rest of the field were all less than have that.

Plymouth – 610,954

Buick – 588,439

Pontiac – 466,429

Olds – 408,060

Dodge – 341,797

Studebaker – 320,884 (Don’t ya wish they would have made it? I would love to have seen their innovation continue.)

Mercury – 293,658

Chrysler – 179,299

Nash – 171,782

DeSoto – 136,203

Hudson – 121,408

Cadillac – 103,857

Packard – 42,627

Lincoln – 28,190

Kaiser – 15,228

Croslely – 6,792

Frazer – 3,700

Of note:

This was the last year for the Old 6 cylinder 76 models, while their Rocket 88 set speed records at Daytona – averaging 100.28 mph.

Packard began selling the only automatic transmission ever developed by an independent car maker.

The Rocket 88 - record setter.

Can a pick a Frazer out of a line up? Me either. Here’s one.

1950 Frazer Manhattan Convertible

How about a Crosley? Yeah I could do that one.

Crosley Hot Spot - circa 1950

And what did a automatic transmission look like in 1949? Here is the Packards Ultramatic.

The looked a lot like todays automatic transmissions

Thanks for reading.

Tim

Car Production Numbers. They Made How Many? 1939

By Tim Sweet | July 20, 2011 - 8:36 PM |July 20, 2011 Auto Body Work, Auto Cross, Auto Restoration, Auto Technology, Automatic Transmission, Car Models, Car Parts, Car Restoration, Car Shows, Carbs, Cars, Chevy, Chrysler, Classic Cars, Corvette, Dodge, Dodge, Engine Mods, Ford, MOPAR, Muscle Cars, Mustang, Plymouth, Pontiac, Restro-Mods, Stock Car Racing, Willys-Overland

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Let’s jump up 13 years from 1926 to 1939 and see what the numbers look like.

1939 shows Chevy in the lead for production numbers with 577,278 units produced. Ford is about 100k behind at 487,031 (half of what they were producing in 1926). The rest of the makers finished up like this:

Plymouth 423,850

Buick 208,259

Dodge 186,474

Pontiac 144,340

Oldsmobile 137,239

Studebaker 85,834

Also in 1939 Mercury came on the scene with its 239 CID V8 making about 95 hps and hydraulic brakes.

Lincoln-Zephyr only sold 650 pieces.

Part of the Studebaker’s 85k cars were its light pickup truck, the Coupe-Express was powered by the Commander Six, knocking out 90 hps.

1939 Studebaker Coupe Express

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Tim

Car Production Numbers. They Made How Many? 1926

By Tim Sweet | July 15, 2011 - 7:41 PM |July 15, 2011 Auto Body Work, Auto Cross, Auto Restoration, Auto Technology, Automatic Transmission, C4, C6, Car Art, Car Contest., Car Girls, Car Models, Car Parts, Car Restoration, Car Shows, Carbs, Cars, Chevy, Chrysler, Classic Cars, Corvette, Corvette C6, Dirt racing, Dodge, Dodge, Drag Racing, Engine Mods, Ford, low riders, MOPAR, Muscle Cars, Mustang, Plymouth, Pontiac, Restro-Mods, Stock Car Racing, Street Racing, Suspension Mods, Tires, Transmission, Willys-Overland, ZR1

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Are you like me and like numbers and history?

Here are some numbers for car production for 1996.

At the number one spot was Ford with 1,426,612 followed by:

Chevy 547,724

Buick 266,753

Dodge 265,000

Hudson/Essex 227,508

Willys-Overland/Whippet 182,000

Chrysler 135,520

Pontiac/Oakland 133,604

Ford was really knocking out some cars.

Here is a 1926 Willys-Overland Whippet

1926 Essex

In 1926 GM purchased all the shares of Fisher Body Company from the Fisher brothers and build a new building in 1927.

1926 was the first year for Pontiac, is sported a 40 bhp, 187 CID L-head 6.

Thanks for reading

Tim

Mustang Upholstery Part IV

By Tim Sweet | July 14, 2011 - 9:09 PM |May 31, 2015 Auto Restoration, Auto Upholstery, Car Parts, Car Restoration, Cars, Ford, Muscle Cars, Mustang

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After removing the seat track I had to remove the seat stops.

There are two and easily removed.

Next I started removing the upholstery wire. These pliers hook inside the wire and separate them for removal.

Removal

Here are the wires removed. They can be reused if you want to straighten them out.

Wires

Mostly removed.

Part way off however one small deal to handle

Thinking I was on the down hill side with the removal of the old upholstery, I ran into……the …..tuck!!! This consisted of a wire running through a cloth sleeve and the wire is attached to the springs with the hog wire.

Top Arrow is the cloth sleeve with the wire running through it. Bottom arrow is the hog wire crimped to the springs underneath.

Basically the tuck is how they separate the bottom of the seat and the cushions edges, which with vinyl that helps keeps you backside in the seat during those high-speed maneuvers.

Ok, this was the learning seat. I was too busy learning to do too much photography so I’ll to more with the back to this seat and the next.

BUT…………………………..here is my very first seat bottom..completed.

More coming up soon.

Thanks for reading

Tim.

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