Sanford and Son strike again SCOT blower

you **** so bad..... I do not know how you find this stuff. How about the story when your boss lets you take a break from working the PLAN....

 

Hmmmmm..... Italian speed parts.....

Now you need a g***erized Fiat Topolino with an overbored Merc engine!!

Nice guy but you still ****!

Flatman

 

I think we need to make a nomination for president of the "I Hate that lucky SOB Clark" fan club...damn thats sooooo cool!
And I think $12K is probably way less than it would really go for seeing the box and do***entation and all.....incredible.

 

Congrats on the find.

You going to tell us the story about how you got turned on to the suitcase?

 

Hey, I need you to talk to Santa Claus and the IRS for me, OK?

Cool score, you magnificent *******. Take those blueprints and start repopping these things. I'll do some quality control and field testing for you. Deal??

 

So freakin cool !!! So..... how old were you when you SOLD YOUR SOUL TO SATAN ?? And how much did he give you for it ???

 

You hafta tell the story about how you came to get this suitcase.

 

Congrats on the find in the suitcase..........heck, you could put a Merc flathead with that blower in a 240Z like the guy last year at Bonneville (stock production coupe cl***).

Chris Nelson
Kansas

 

*******.

Spike

 

Spike you should tell him to use it on the 34. Make for some nice pictures!

 

The receipt is quite beat up and hard to read. I just deciphered as much as I could and found some interesting stuff. The top of the receipt has what looks like:
New Departure
Division of ..... Motors Corp.
Meriden, CT

Then it has:
Sold To:
New Departure Div of GMC
Bristol, CT

Then it has:
Ship To:
Pete Wallace (Hard to read best I could make out)
71 Washington Street
Arlington, MA

On the back of the blueprints it has a stamp from New Departure product engineering May 3rd, 1955.

I'm curious if this New Departure was actually a part of General Motors and wonder what they were doing with the blower?

Clark

 

...SOOO...(banging head on keyboard)...are you going to tell us how you came across this find or not?!!...

 

Yeah, spill it man!

 

yur
Killing us......
How did you get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

I was standing in line waiting to show my old baskets at the Antiques Road Show and this little old lady needed help with her suitcase and being the Boy Scout I am......
Clark

 

My name is Pete Wallace, have you seen my suitcase???

 

"I'm curious if this New Departure was actually a part of General Motors and wonder what they were doing with the blower?" Clark


Did a Google search on New Departure div General Motors and came up with this. Follow link.

http://doonan.home.mindspring.com/history.html

You have to read a little but apparently they became a part of GM in 1918. There is a timeline a little further on the page. They were a bell manufacturer the was acquired by a bearing manufacturer that was subsequently acquired by GM.

Clark, do you come up to Wheels of Time in Macungie at the end of August?

Bill

 

****in-A Clark nice work!

FYI There was a guy selling one at the roadster show for $14K without the Louis Vutton case.

 

You know, at first I was just kidding about hating you...

 

...the line forms behind me...

 

Dude that's f' ed up
What's the real story?

 

Nice.

 

Didn't New Departure make bicycle coaster brakes when we were kids? Well, when some of us were kids?

 

I would encourage you do***ent everything you got in a very concise and thorough way......I know people that would go a little south of 16k for what is in that suitcase...... not to mention the previously mentioned historical factor, obviously..... thanks for sharing such a find, we were just talking about the odds of finding anything out there this cool that hasn't already "been found...." We agreed on "nil-to-none"

 

Yes in 1898 they invented the coasting feature and in 1899 added the brake. Started making bearings in 1908.

Bill

 

Ok so i recognise the SCOT and the manifold but whats the drive never seen that before

BTW nice score like yr suit case guess you would get something for all that alloy though

 

There is still a lot of cool stuff out there. This year I've found plenty of cool stuff searching salvage yards and hitting auctions. Last week Mikey bought a flathead with aluminum heads an Edmunds 2-2 intake and a merc crank. The same guy sold a 48 Ford p/u with s-10 ch***is and the original ch***is along with a blower and intake for $1500. I had a post on here not long ago about the old guys know. Just try talking to them and they will tell you where this stuff is. I've known about this blower for a couple years and was good friends with the older guy who owned it. He was a hunter of fine auto parts and we would share our finds or tell each other where stuff was. Sometimes I'd just look around his place and drink brandy with him and listen to his stories. Anyway he bought an attic full of parts and this was in there. Last year he past away and his wife was kind enough to let us purchase some things he had. I think we bought the coolest stuff they had.

 

Man none of the cool stuff is where I am! I need to become a vagabond and scour the US. Congrats on the score!


RRR

 

Trust me the real story is not that great. Just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.

History as I know it.....It came out of an attick of an old body shop. The guy that bought it knew it was cool but didn't know how cool. He p***ed away and his widow is selling off some of his stuff. Jr (fatabone) helped me get it. It was overlooked cause it was in that old suitcase.

Now before you guys really hate me....I didn't offer the widow $100. I offered her what I found out later to be double what her husband had wanted for it. Like I said...he didn't know how cool it was.

LongT..thanks for the link. I see New Departure was a bearing company about the time the receipts are for. The blueprint is for the snout of the blower. Maybe they were for the new design for SCOT. The only thing that doesn't make sence is this blower is a front mount and not the type with the pulleys. The mystery keeps going
Clark

 

Jr...we let the cat out of the bag at the same time.
Clark