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Ransom E. Olds - REO
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1) ClassicCar.com Classifieds Update
2) Ransom E. Olds - REO
3) This Day in History
4) Tech Tip - Valve Adjustment
5) Reading Room
6) ClassicCar.com “Best Buy” from the Classifieds
7) Photo Gallery Pick of the Month
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Then, Olds went to New Jersey where he thought he could secure financial backing. Because of his lack of success, Olds returned to Detroit and contacted Samuel Smith who did provide monetary funds. The company made gas and gasoline engines. They also branched out into marine engines briefly. Olds experimented and eventually created a small gasoline automobile.
With a minor economic depression and a plant burning to the ground, Olds salvaged one small gasoline automobile. Olds focused on this one vehicle to manufacture in his plant. He relocated his company to Lansing when a group of businessman offered to build a new factory on their state fair grounds.
Soon Olds’s little car, the famous “curved dash,” became very popular. By 1905 production had increased to 6,500 cars per year. In 1904 Olds had already left Olds Motor Works because of a disagreement with Sam Smith’s sons. He founded the REO, (his initials) Motor Car Company in Lansing and served as its president from 1904 to 1924, later becoming chairman of the company.
Olds is considered by many to be the founder of the automobile industry. He built the first factory to use an assembly line manufacturing process and the rest is history as they say.
The Winton Motor Carriage Company was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, on this day, with Alexander Winton as president. After twelve years in the bicycle manufacturing business, Winton began producing cars with his name on them in 1896. A fiery Scotsman, Winton took the challenge to build the world’s fastest automobile personally.
Like Ransom Olds, he raced his own cars. Racing at Daytona Beach is said to have begun with a match race between Winton and Olds in 1902 that the two men declared a draw. A year later Winton won a multi-car race at Daytona, driving his Winton Bullet to an average speed of 68 MPH and becoming the first person to break the mile-per-minute barrier. Alexander Winton’s personal rivalries did not stop with Ransom Olds.
In 1901, Henry Ford, after being passed over for a mechanic’s job with Winton’s company, defeated Winton in his first and last car race. Ford’s future notoriety would depend heavily on the publicity won in his encounter with his one-time potential employer. James Ward Packard also maintained a personal rivalry with Winton. After having purchased a Winton, Packard complained about the car’s reliability. Winton reportedly politely urged Packard to build his own car.
Packard responded by starting his own company. In the first decade of American car racing Winton’s and Packard’s, driven by Barney Oldfield and Ralph DePalma, respectively, would fuel the sport’s greatest rivalry. In 1903 Winton drove his car from San Francisco to New York to prove the reliability of his vehicles. It was the automotive industry’s most dramatic achievement up to that point. A popular anecdote sums up Winton’s involvement in the early automotive industry.
Faced with mechanical problems in an early Winton, a Cleveland area resident reportedly towed his Winton through the streets of Cleveland with a team of mules exhibiting a sign reading, “This is the only way you can drive a Winton.” In response, Winton hired a farm wagon carrying a jackass to follow his detractor, exhibiting a sign that read, “This is the only animal unable to drive a Winton.”
An annual check of valve clearance is good practice and is typically recommended maintenance. With an overhead-camshaft engine, remove the valve cover, turn the engine with a wrench on the crankshaft pulley bolt until you see that the base circle of the camshaft (opposite the lobe that opens the valve) is against the rocker arm of valve lifter. At that point, the valve is fully closed, and you can check clearance between valve stem and rocker tip with a feeler gauge.
The specified feeler should slide in and out with light-to-moderate drag. If clearance is too great, the valve opens late and closes early, reducing engine performance. If it’s too little, the valve opens early and closes late, spending too little time on its seat, which is when it transfers heat to the cooling system. Results: The valve runs hot and burns prematurely.
To reset valve clearance, loosen the locknut, and turn the adjusting screw until the feeler drags. Then hold the screw while you tighten the locknut. Invariably, the clearance changes as the locknut tightens, so you’ll have to try it until the gauge just glides out once the nut is snug.
Make: Ford
Model: Mustang 2-Door Coupe
Vehicle Location: Los Angeles (Chatsworth), California
Price: $3,900 - US Dollars
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