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That's an interesting idea with the heat shrink. Might do that on a few of the tougher wires. Anything with a cap I'll most likely pull and replace. Would anyone know if this era would have a cloth power cable or rubber? The old tattered unoriginal cord and plug need replacement. Baaaaadly

One thing I will need is a new transformer. That one there has some very bad looking wiring entering it. Wouldn't hurt to set it up with a fresh built box for safety

Yep! I've found a great source of caps at radiodaze. My roommate is good at reading them and soldering so I leave that to him. I do the touch ups and cabinet work. Some wiring here and there. Not my forte.

Cleaned up the chassis a bit. Not too bad

Wow guys! Thanks for the great info! Not taking any chances with the caps. Going ahead and replacing them all. Might as well ignore any slight tolerance drifts and ensure all new proper sized caps with modern safety design be put in place. I noticed that metal tube and thought it was quite...

Dropped the chassis this evening. Couple areas of concern. Several wires are still original and badly cracking. Most are a little stiff. Lots of paper capacitors that need replaced. Couple electrolytic capacitors on top that I have to cut and bypass with modern caps since they don't make...

Another two radios of ours. A 1930 Philco model 20 cathedral radio we cleaned up and restored. It is almost completely original. Also a 1936 Philco radio we are rewiring and capping at the moment. Got new grill cloth and such.

Just picked up this 1942 zenith 10s669 radio. I picked it up for a good price based on how lovely and original the radio is. I'm not going to touch the cabinet other than cleaning and waxing a bit. The real restoration is to pull the chassis and do a complete rewire, recap and new resistors...

Beautiful 66 tbird. I love that shade of green.

Gorgeous machine, Charles!

My roomie just bought an 03 suburban. Nice truck. Got a few issues to sort out. But $2k for a 188k mile vehicle that's to be expected. Comfy leather. Well optioned out. Air ride (which is blown out of course). Power everything. Good second vehicle to get him around in winter over his new...

That is a very cool machine!! Wish you luck on the auction!

Another beautiful vehicle built right alongside the Lincoln continental at the plant is the ford thunderbird. Here is our old 1961 thunderbird. All original. Amazing luxuries for the time. Air conditioning. Power windows. Power seats. Effortless power steering and more.

Oh Fred I couldn't think of a better vehicle than the old continental. Incredibly stately car in every way. The body lines were so sleek and straight. Truly ahead of its time.

Wishing you the best luck, Charles! You have such an astounding collection. All those lucky enough to attend will be very pleased I am sure!

What an honor to have an amazing example from our great friend Stan. A piece from that collection is something to be very proud of and cherished forever. Congratulations!

What an absolutely beautiful machine. Someone is going to be very proud to own that. If I weren't downsizing, I would be jumping on that!

Nice haul!! I love that custom King. Silver king sure builds one heck of a vacuum. Nearly indestructible as well!

The d50 is one special Kirby. Congrats on the find! Cherish it!

Kenmore sure made some interesting machines. Absolutely gorgeous and very practical.