Why re-invent the wheel? 70 year old racers rule! Pics

[Southfork]

These 17-inch Auburn knock-off racing wheels that I scored this week end are a turn-on! For that matter the original dropped beam axle that they are mounted on is pretty bitchin too. The wheels spin smoothly on their spindles and the spokes are solid and straight. Cant wait to mount this set up under the front of my 26 roadster!

[Rocky]

WHOA! Them babies appear to be real live knock-offs. They look killer but how wide are they? I guess if ya mount skinny tires on 'em it doesn't matter much. I like 'em. Did you only score a pair?

[Southfork]

Wasn't Auburm supposed to be an top-of-the-line marque? I mean they weren't cheap, right? You'd think they would have put brakes on their front end, but the car these wheels came off had no provision for front brakes. Go figure.

[Southfork]

The cap has "off" and an arrow pointing one direction on the cap to the side of the circle Auburn is in, and "on" in an arrow pointing the opposite direction on the other side of the circle. Pretty cool for $15 bucks!

[Southfork]

The tires that are currently on the rims appear to be much bigger than the wheels were designed for. The reason for the over-size tires was pretty obvious --- some farmer had put the Auburn axle under a tall-sided 4'X 7' rough-as-a-cob, wood trailer probably during the Great Depression. No doubt it was used for hauling sheep, goats, pigs or old Bossy to market.
Of all the axles to choose from, wonder why the farmer used this one? Oh well, had he not done it, the axle and wheels would likely have been snatched up decades ago. How many people go check out home-made wood livestock trailers that are falling apart under the tall weeds?

[Hackerbilt]

Heres a pic of a car like those wheels MIGHT have been on!
Oh my.... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Auburn 31...anything look familiar?
http://www.rekluscars.com.ar/images/autos/ARC3-10.jpg

Bill

[Creeper Larry]

THAT SPEEDSTER IS SWEEEEET!!!!! ALMOST BUSTED THE ZIPPER IN MY PANTS!

[Southfork]

HackerBill, that's one awesome speedster!!! That's really yours? Where the shit did you find that?!! That's BEAUTIFUL! Here I was excited about my score, but it's nothin compared to that beauty. Wow!

[SlowLearner]

Hacker, tell us MORE! MORE PICS http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[autocol]

is that a baby elephant sniffing the rim in the first pic? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[fordiac]

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How many people go check out home-made wood livestock trailers that are falling apart under the tall weeds?

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I DO!!!!!!!!

haha, youre lucky the rims came off so easy. some of those splined wheels get nice and stuck because water gets inside the hub through the spoke holes, then rusts everything in there.

just make sure you grease up the splines when you get a chance.

[Smokin Joe]

Southfork, You get that up around Grant area?
If so, check out the guy's old flatbed hay wagon.
I thought when we both moved to new buildings I stop getting you coming by my desk with that shit eatin' grin and the "Look what I got for a buck" line... But I see you've found a way. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Hackerbilt]

MINE? I WISH!

Hmmm...I see how I confused you guys! SORRY about that! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

I'd love to own a pre-war race car but I can't even complete the projects I'm working on now what with the priorities I have to look after first!
PRIORITIES SUCK!

That pic is from a website for a company that rebuilds/restores/creates vintage race cars. I found it in a Google search to see what an Auburn race car would look like.

Not too much real detail on it but there really aren't that many doing this stuff that I can find.
Heres the link...

Reklus Racecars (http://www.rekluscars.com.ar/eng/institucional.asp)

Bill

Hey! Look at that...That site is from ARGENTINA! incredible!

[SlowLearner]

Thanks for that site Bill! I really REALLY wanna get some of those Buffalo wheels. Hoped you had a stash on the ROCK! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[286merc]

How many people go check out home-made wood livestock trailers that are falling apart under the tall weeds?

I got these off a hay wagon (there are 4 there), also got a spindle mount Essex front axle and springs that was used as a boat trailer at another old farm.
Some of my best scores were in the strangest places.

[Bruce Lancaster]

Farm junkyards are great--one of my '32 V8 chassis, complete except engine, came from one, $25 delivered. Formerly employed as wagon...
The wagon stock at the yard (now gone, easy now...) included a twenties Packard chassis with disc wheels and mushroom hubcaps, an early T with ruckstell, and any number of A's built as wagons, trailers, doodlebugs, and cut down trucks.
When they delivered my chassis, I was standing by with chain hoist and friends, wondering how in hell three of us were ever going to wrestle the thing offa their stake truck into my garage. No problemo--the two huge Pennsylvania Dutchmen told me to get out of the way, and simply picked up the entire chassis and set it where I wanted it.
These dudes easily weighed 300 pounds each, and could probably have picked up and crushed a bowling ball in each hand.

[Bigcheese327]

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'32 V8 chassis, complete except engine, came from one, $25 delivered.

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When was this, 1960?? Some guys have all the luck!

[Southfork]

I know what you mean, Bruce. I found both of my Deuce chasses that way. One cost me $35 and the other $100. Both were rollers. In the last 10 years too. Someone had already "pinched" one frame a little at the cowl area, making me wonder if it had once been a rod. When I got it, it was a farm wagon.