The car starts,.

I think Bates (Thomas, the fellow would worked so hard on this car) would have been proud. After putting a different coil on it, and working on the carbie, Harold fired right up. In so many respects, the car is just like a car from as lates as the mid-seventies. Nothing under the hood is really any different. But, at the same time, disassembling a carbie with a patent date of 1908 does give one pause. By all rights this car should not run anymore. How many other 87 year old mechanical gadgets do you have in your daily life? I sat down behind the large wooden wheel tonight and just pondered. Who was the orginal owner? How did this car survive the scrap drives of WW2? What was Bates thinking when he picked up this car in 1983 and decided that he was going to bring it back from the land of rust and rot?