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Christi just backed him. Personally I would not be surprised if he will be Trumps V.P. running mate.

MacDonald patented hydraulic steering in 1919 and hydraulic boosted brakes in 1920. MacDonald was very innovative but not well known because of vehicle cost. Paul

My R had a sliding back window, pop it open a bit and open the the vent windows(wind wings?) and keep it pretty cool, sucks all the crap out too. Paul

Sorry about your Granpa, went through that with both parents. Nice photos sure like the old Ford Truck, the old Willys ain't to shabby either, I'd bring them both home

This election seems to be mirroring the last two, with no good clear choices from the Republicans and only Ultra Progressive / Socialists on the other side. After reading quite a bit of the links posted, unless there is a miracle we are done for. Paul.

1922 MacDonald Lowbed StakeTruck at the Hayes Museum. Front chain drive and Hydraulic steering. click the pics.

Schools and most colleges have been pushing it for 25 or 30 years. A few poor but relevant examples are T ball where EVERYONE gets a hit, contests where every body gets an award or the school team or athlete that gets punished because they are better than the others. Affirmative action is another one... American education used to strive to bring every body up to as close to the best they could be. Now we punish those who excel and bring everyone down to the poorest students level. The schools, colleges and even the purple dinosaur all push the socialist agenda. Most millennials believe the Socialism makes everyone equal, no rich, no poor.....everyone gets a hit everyone gets a trophy.. Like the last group that thinks all the freebies come from "Obama's stash of coin". Tax the wealthy it will "help" the middle class grow, didn't work when Obama did it, how is it going to work for Bernie or Hillary? All mention the trickle down economy doesn't work that we need a trickle up economy . . . ever have a homeless person off you a great job and fantastic salary? Trump is a businessman and appears to know what works and what won't. As for not telling everybody the plans to fix certain things, a politician will go to great lengths to detail his plans, a businessman doesn't tell all the details to the competition until the deal (nomination) is locked in. Now that said, I don't trust Trump or the others, I don't approve of a few things Trump did, but unlike the others running for the nomination (on both sides) Trump knows what it is to get up and earn a living and does know what creates jobs and builds the economy. Just my gray headed opinion. Paul

Here is something to think about with almost half of the Millennial Generation voters. Washington Post Oped. 2/24/2016 As society, we’ve spent billions of dollars educating today’s youth. Bernie Sanders is proposing we spend even more and provide free college to all. But the truth is this: Our education system no longer teaches the fundamental lessons of history, human nature, and how money really works in a free society. A survey from YouGov.org finds that millennials have more favorable views of socialism than of capitalism. As Santayana said, those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Less than two decades after socialism seemed to have been confined to the dust-heap of history, another generation may have to learn hard lessons. The survey, taken by YouthGov.org at the end of January 2016, found that 53 percent of Americans under the age 30, had a more than favorable view of socialism. Less than 19 percent of millennials had a favorable view of capitalism. No other age or ethnic demographic group ever preferred socialism over capitalism. Go ahead kids, jump on your iPhones, post a SnapChat, spread it on Facebook and Twitter…You know, all those wonderful Socialist Social Media tools of today.

And you have also described all the other candidates from both sides. . . add liar for Hillary. I do not see any candidate who stands against Illegal Immigration as racist. The basic fact is the country, states, counties and towns can not afford the burden. In 2010 the average illegal immigrant house hold received $24,721 in Federal benefits and and addition $9,871 in state and local benefits and aid, while paying between $0 and $335 in taxes.So the illegals received $ 34,522 in aid paid $334 in taxes with the balance of $34,188 made up by U.S. tax payers. That was 10 years ago! This Summary below is from 2013 and as of 2015 the total expenditure is 35 to 45% higher The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers (2013) The full report is available in pdf format. Executive Summary This report estimates the annual costs of illegal immigration at the federal, state and local level to be about $113 billion; nearly $29 billion at the federal level and $84 billion at the state and local level. The study also estimates tax collections from illegal alien workers, both those in the above-ground economy and those in the underground economy. Those receipts do not come close to the level of expenditures and, in any case, are misleading as an offset because over time unemployed and underemployed U.S. workers would replace illegal alien workers. Key Findings Illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and local level. The bulk of the costs — some $84 billion — are absorbed by state and local governments.The annual outlay that illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers is an average amount per native-headed household of $1,117. The fiscal impact per household varies considerably because the greatest share of the burden falls on state and local taxpayers whose burden depends on the size of the illegal alien population in that localityEducation for the children of illegal aliens constitutes the single largest cost to taxpayers, at an annual price tag of nearly $52 billion. Nearly all of those costs are absorbed by state and local governments.At the federal level, about one-third of outlays are matched by tax collections from illegal aliens. At the state and local level, an average of less than 5 percent of the public costs associated with illegal immigration is recouped through taxes collected from illegal aliens.Most illegal aliens do not pay income taxes. Among those who do, much of the revenues collected are refunded to the illegal aliens when they file tax returns. Many are also claiming tax credits resulting in payments from the U.S. Treasury.With many state budgets in deficit, policymakers have an obligation to look for ways to reduce the fiscal burden of illegal migration. California, facing a budget deficit of $14.4 billion in 2010-2011, is hit with an estimated $21.8 billion in annual expenditures on illegal aliens. New York’s $6.8 billion deficit is smaller than its $9.5 billion in yearly illegal alien costs. The report examines the likely consequences if an amnesty for the illegal alien population were adopted similar to the one adopted in 1986. The report notes that while tax collections from the illegal alien population would likely increase only marginally, the new legal status would make them eligible for receiving Social Security retirement benefits that would further jeopardize the future of the already shaky system. An amnesty would also result in this large population of illegal aliens becoming eligible for numerous social assistance programs available for low-income populations for which they are not now eligible. The overall result would, therefore, be an accentuation of the already enormous fiscal burden. Methodology All studies assessing the impact of illegal aliens begin with estimates of the size of that population. We use a population of 13 million broken down by state. In our cost estimates we also include the minor children of illegal aliens born in the United States. That adds another 3.4 million children to the 1.3 million children who are illegal aliens themselves. We include these U.S. citizen children of illegal aliens because the fiscal outlays for them are a direct result of the illegal migration that led to their U.S. birth. We do so as well in the assumption that if the parents leave voluntarily or involuntarily they will take these children with them. The birth of these children and their subsequent medical care represent a large share of the estimated Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Program expenditures associated with illegal aliens. We use data collected by the federal and state governments on school expenses, Limited English Proficiency enrollment, school meal programs, university enrollment, and other public assistance programs administered at the federal and state level. Estimates of incarceration expenses are based on data collected in the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program in which state and local detention facilities seek federal compensation for the cost of detention of criminal and deportable aliens. Estimates for other administration of justice expenditures are based on data collected from the states by the U.S. Department of Justice. General government expenditures are estimated for other non-enumerated functions of government at both the federal and local level. An example would be the cost of fire departments or the cost of the legislature. Medical costs that amount to 30 percent of overall state and local outlays on illegal aliens derive from our estimate of the childbirths to illegal alien mothers covered by Medicaid, the subsequent medical insurance and treatment of those children and an estimate of uncompensated cost of emergency medical treatment received by illegal aliens. The latter expenditure estimate is based on state and local government studies of uncompensated medical care. The tax collections from illegal alien workers is only 12% to 14%, the balance of whom are in the underground economy. Those in the underground economy have an average family income of $31,200 plus the Federal, State and Local benefits. Conclusion The report notes that today’s debate over what to do about illegal aliens places the country at a crossroads. One choice is pursuing a strategy that discourages future illegal migration and increasingly diminishes the current illegal alien population through denial of job opportunities and deportations. The other choice would repeat the unfortunate decision made in 1986 to adopt an amnesty that invited continued illegal migration. July 2010, Revised August 2013

Exactly. Clean it extremely well and than clean it again.

Australia's Victoria State where Melborne is.

The people that are in Congress in Washington , tell us they can not deport 15 million illegal's? We need to vote all of them out of office and send them back to school to learn history! We pay more to illegal's in welfare than it would cost to deport them! Our career politicians need to work for the voters and the good of the United States of America , not the lobbyists, big business and foreign donors. HOOVER, TRUMAN AND EISENHOWER Here is something that I didn't know of this until it was pointed out to me. Back during The Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work. Harry Truman deported over two million Illegal's after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans. And then again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexican nationals! The program was called 'Operation Wetback' so that American WWII and Korean veterans had a better chance at jobs. It took 2 Years, but they deported them! Now, if they could deport the illegal's back then, they can sure do it today!! lf you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation Wetback into your favorite search engine and confirm it for yourself. Single payer healthcare is also what Bernie and Hillary wanted originally. . . 100 % Federal controlled. The petition by MoveOn.org has only 100 or so signatures to allow Obama to run again, the Federal Petition has over 300,000 signers to allow him to run again... Pew Poll as of January 2016. Of Democrats, 68 percent of respondents said they would vote to give the president four more years. Though an understandably low number of Republicans would cast their vote for a third Obama term (5 percent), he polls at 36 percent with independents. Only 4 percent of Democrats would vote for another candidate.

All the little steps add up. Looks like you made good progress. Paul

I wish

Bremo Bluff in Fluvanna County

VIRGINIA PUBLIC WORKS PACING ROADWAYS 1920 A RUN OF TAR RUN OF STONE COMPRESS IT DOWN

In the 1990's we went "exploring" in Oil City, saw a converted gas powered one in the woods, impressive machine.

Allen Hill is believed to be the sole legal resident of the former Packard. He's lived in the warehouse for about eight years, shortly after he lost his Detroit home to foreclosure. He pays for utilities but no rent. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/real-estate/2014/10/09/packard-plant-detroit-fernando-palazuelo-allan-hill/16963723/

March It's the one you posted on the Maine/ New Brunswick border. Ex F.D. tractor converted to a wrecker.

Like Mike said generally the seals die from old age. I sat down with the seals and and an Automotive O ring seal box and found what I needed to replace them. The actuator is activated by the shutterstat mounted behind the upper hose. air line in and one out to actuator. The shutterstat has a set up in it similar to a thermostat. See if you have air to it and run up to temp and see if you have air out to shutter actuator. Some B's like mine, even with a 6 pound cap and 170 thermostat, never get hot enough to make the shutters work properly, so mine are always open. The air diverter valve in it also gets full of gunk and can be flushed out. If it is bad WATTs has new # 783 for $225. Yup it's pricey.

New reel made about the end of or just after the end of WWII. Packard made 70,000 (!) of them. Paul

Are you far from Gorham ? I am supposed to go up there the end of March to bring an AC home I bought in Maine last fall. Paul

1920 photo of R.C. Finley Transports 1917 AC hauling a well drill rig in front of Big Bear Lake Tavern, California. Photo credit on photo.

Probably the same most are used on L.I. Easier to use on job sites and most are larger capacity.

I took a few photos of the MACK and Pacifics in Washington State when I would visit Bill Bitner (my V-nam bud). He was a Cat Skinner and drove loads for 35 years. Gave me a ton of photos before he died.