Ian sent me the photo displayed below. I have never seen these before but evidently at one time you could pop into your local shell petrol station and buy some lawnmower fuel in a specific lawn mower can.
Excellent . . 
May 11, 2011
June 19, 2010
1946 Plymouth P15
Members Seeking 1946 to 1948 Plymouth P15 parts
1946 plymouth P15 images
After the war there were more buyers for cars than there were cars for sale and the P15 remained with little changes until march 1949.
Basically a 1946 model was built in 1945. From January 1947 were 1947 Models . January 48 onwards are called 1948 Models and the first series 1949 were made after December 1948 and before March 1949.
Panel Vans and commercials were discontinued in early in 1946.
1946 – 1948 Plymouth are a great favorite amongst car restorers nd these cars and parts that fit are still sought after by many Plymouth Enthusiast. Among our users we have many who are actively rebuilding this great classic piece of US motoring history making sure they will remain on our roads for a long time to come.
If you have any parts for these model please pay a visit to
June 1, 2010
Free Image link
MEMBERS IMAGE LINKS
Some of or members have Classic car or engine pages on the net, Members benefits now include the ability to place an image link to your web page.
The link will be similar in size to the one displayed here. and available on the most suitable classified advert page.
If you click on the Image displayed it will take you to a typical location where your image link will be displayed, ( Classifieds parts pages) Typical placement would be in the far right hand column.
You can email Me an image and text – or you can reply to this blog to get started. Most of us understand the value of links, It seems a natural progression of our membership benefits to include this service. This option will only be available to members.
If you are selling for example 1946 Plymouth parts – give me a nod and I will create an image and link it to your email address, or a Pod email if you are wary about scammers.
May 28, 2010
new listings
more Southern Cross Engines listings awaiting update. Will make a total 602 engines on the register – updates will be online soon hopefully (as soon as time permits)
YB 19848 year 1948
ETB 43910 year 1952
BEC 35500 year 1950
YB 35696 year 1950
YB 6323 year 1939
YB 5581 year 1938
YB 42010 year 1952
J 23871 year 1946
AXC 23824 year 1946
J 34872 year 1949
PE 1450 year 1931
J 19582 year 1944
PC 3110 year 1935
PAA 7175 year 1939
PRE 1926 SOUTHERN CROSS ENGINES
‘Victoria’ model NA number 8
LAWN MOWERS
ECB 64010 year 1961
I always loved Engines
As some of you know I have always loved engines. When I first arrived in North Queensland in 1968 there always seemed to be a fascinating motor running at just about every outback station that I visited 
. A while back I had the chance to help create a website for the registry of Southern Cross engines.
The photo on the right here has always been one of my favourites, it has plenty of visible moving parts sounds really nice, even a little bit eccentric
and it does an excellent job as a power supply for a water pump in an out of the way location. Details of this pump can be found here hit and miss engine.as the name suggest this little motor is not designed to fire on every stroke – it fires when it feel like it. (centrifugal force mechanism)
The southern cross Engine registers part of the small collection of car and engine related sites that related to restored – classics membership. on this site you will find Ian Mathews as registrar and myself as webmaster.
There seems to be a continuous growth of incoming engines to be recorded and now and then more photos and restoration details. If you own one of these great little Queensland made engines drop me a line.
May 16, 2010
Why so long before my advert is listed ?
There very little automation in the classified adverts section. There is not a system where just anyone can register and post an advert. Each advert arrives at my desk for approval. If I do not like the advert or I do not like the spammer who is sending it to me, or if the advert is about sex products or unrelated to classic cars I DELETE IT before it gets to the web page.
Many automated systems allow the administrator to delete adverts, or move them to the right catagory, but the truth is correcting all the incoming junk after it is published takes up more time than scrutinising them as they arrive.
I check the IP address to find out the location of the sender and I check for known scams of spammers. There are plenty of fraudsters visiting the pages. . I cannot stop them visiting, but I can stop them posting bad adverts.
When adverts first arrive and are approved the first go to the new adverts section here so if you submit an advert this is where it will appear first – It is only on a rare occasion that this takes more than 12 hours.
The next stage sends the advert to be listed in its specific catagory – Buick, Chevrolet, Ford, some categories are listed by year example ’193o Chevrolet’ this can take another 12 hours (hopefully less).
The third stage takes the advert to your State – California, Texas, Utah’s, this can take a day or two.
Yes it is a slow process – but the advantage is that you the user only need look at one page. If you are for instance an owner of a 1963 Chevrolet then you simply add the 1962 chevrolet page to your favourites. That is the only page you need to look at for 63 Chevy parts - You will not find ‘girly’ adverts on that page or find it littered with unrelated spam. . If the parts you are looking for are not there. . Nobody has listed them. Well worth the wait.
May 15, 2010
Hudson and Essex Mascots
1930 1931 Hudson and Essex Mascots
This morning I received an Email from Mike in New Zealand, He is currently producing a new run of 1930-31 Essex and Hudson Mascots.
Mike says “I have have sent them all over the world, each is hand finished The last time I produced them was about 2 years ago in Auckland New Zealand, I have sent these as far as Sweden and England .
The Hudson mascot is slightly longer than the original I have been informed, but only by 3/16″ or so, but if you don’t have mascot it more than suffices. Mike has one fitted to his coupe . . Mike mentioned that they never fitted the mascots to any of the Australian vehicles, but I am sure If I had an early Essex I would have one bolted on to the bonnet anyway (I like shiny things)
Mike is located at ; 16 Portage Rd, New Lynn, 0600 Auckland. New Zealand, he has more details and can be contact via email sales@essex-comshape.co.nz
Mike also has other parts for 1930 1931 Essex parts, some body panels and surround clips, radiator caps and things like that.
May 12, 2010
welcome
Welcome – This blog has been created to keep members of restored-classics.com informed and updated.
As most of you know paid membership is new to restored-classics.com and was originally started to enable the use of the pod system that would eliminate spam for users that do not want to publish their email addresses.
The original thought was to give every email address a pod number, but as it turned out their were so many messages being sent by pod that it was impossible for me to handle. Membership was created partly to cut down on large numbers of incoming pod requests, The site is basically a one man operation and not being able to handle the workload created problems.
Membership from this end is excellent – It adds to the income created by google adverts and hopefully will supply the site with funds to create more useful features and upgrades. Total income is pretty basic but I do not eat much so the site will continue to plod along.
It is my hope that you will offer me suggestions in the ‘comments’ space below. Any Questions asked will be honestly answered.
If you have a problem or gripe about the site let me know. It is my goal to make all of you happy to continue being paid members.
