Auto Fair in Charlotte Part 1

Last week was the Antique Automobile Club of America annual swap meet and Auto Fair at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.  Walt and Linda exhibit there every year so I spent the week with them at the speedway searching for all those hard to find parts at bargain prices.  I had an entire legal pad of parts I was searching for and I found almost all of them last week! 

Charlotte Auto Fair 2014

  If you remember the last installment of the Roadster I discovered that all the emergency brake parts were missing from the old rear end.  Also found the ring and pinion gear were mis-matched from two different cars, and someone had hammered on the end of the driveshaft so hard it was not possible to install a cotter pin through the nut and driveshaft  that holds the pinion gear on.  Luckily I found a complete new rear end for 25.00 that has everything I need to fix the roadster.  I also bought the front section of a frame from the same car for 10.00 to make an engine test stand for the shop.

Front frame section.

New differential.

  The next picture shows a set of shock absorber links, an exhaust clamp, hand brake shaft supports, and a draft tube for the crankcase ventilation.  In the last post I discovered that the bearings were left out of the front of the torque tube and the car had run for some time like this destroying the universal joint and the bolt heads on the back of the transmission.  I was able to find a new old stock joint and a rebuilt one as well. 

Running gear.

  The next picture is a pair of seat belts, an air cleaner for the carburetor and a rear view mirror to bolt onto the windshield.  

Safety parts.

I also found some specialty tools to work on the car with.  Welding clamp, panel clips for welding body panels together, wire brushes for cleaning the spring eyes and perches, a socket to fit the crankshaft nut, a cutoff arbor for cutting patch panels for the body and a chain wrench to take apart the houdaille shocks. 

Tools.