Thanks for a reply.

I didn't know when they started using the iron piece at all. 1990 sound good.

Vibration might come from some face run out of the fingers if all of them didn't get made at the same tension or after some fatigue.

My concern is that the bearing is always spinning but just not under pressure as like have a foot resting on the pedal. Someone must have figured around it with the new design.

Wow, 308k in 12 years. Now that really living in a car almost like a recliner at home, I hope.

I read about some Packard’s in the Auto Restorer Magazine. My love for any cars hasn't run that far back. My sister-in-law husband died and he has a few old cars. A 1931 Model “A” pick up truck and a 39 sedan body of some brand that needs some restoration.

There’s a 1950 Chevrolet that he drove when he was a kid that was parked by his Dad in a garage of his grand parent’s house for the last 35 years. It definitely needs to be restored. The outside is straight, glass and rubber gaskets are there but the original paint is very well aged and shot. The interior upholstery does not have any resemblance of anything except a mouse house. The running gear is there along with all the flat tires.

I’m sure some Packard’s were found that way. It must take lots of love and a rotisserie to restore these cars.

I’m amazed that any people would keep something like that around so long and still let it run down. I’ve got stuff approaching 35 to 40 years old but they all are drivable and can even polish them up.

Thanks for sharing your nice older inventory with me.

Phil