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When dealing with cars thi sold, the question must be asked. How hard would it be to find replacement parts if God-forbid something breaks?
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Not impossible, but it's extremely unlikely. For a Ford Model T, parts are available. But for just about anything else... more often than not you need to find someone who can manufacture that part to the original's specifications.
On the flip side, there was a car manufactured in Pennsylvania at the turn of the 20th Century known as the Upton. The last known surviving Upton was donated (and melted down) as part of the war effort back in the '40s. However, a transmission was located in Australia about twenty years back. So here's a case of spare parts existing for a car that doesn't.
One of the other cars that was at this same show has an even more remarkable story when it comes to this. Remember the Pope-Toledo I posted a few nights ago? Of the 280 built, that's the only known survivor. It spent decades in the Harrah collection, and had gone through multiple owners since then, but there was one common trait: none of them (not even Harrah's) ever got the car running. No operating manuals for the car were known to exist...
...Until the owner of the car happened to find one at a flea market in Vermont. What are the odds of that? Once armed with the manual, he recreated the parts needed to get the motor running for the first time in over 75 years.
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Ah, I see. That's gotta cost a fortune.
Wow, that's odd. Sad that there's no more survivors, really.
Wow, now THAT'S some serious dedication, mixed with a lot of (Rose)luck. Nice to see dedication like that, dedication that many millennials and Gen-Z people don't seem to have.
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