Perfect Circle ring ad from 1937
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Found a bit of info on this old company. Interesting! They were selling the "OK" from the wives. 
https://mycompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Perfect_Circle_Company
https://mycompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Perfect_Circle_Company
His gal is quite the looker.
Remember the days when you could actually work on the engine in the car? Not now, everything in the world is bolted to the engine. I well remember my dad and a neighbor overhauling a motor (rings, rod bearings, valve seals and ground the valves) all while the block remained in the car.
Yes, but that block was probably quite heavy.
I could not find the price of motor oil for 1937. I found one ad that said 25 cents, but it was for a brand I hadn't heard of, so I have no idea if it was premium or bare bottom. 25 cents inflates to $5.60. If that car was eating him alive on oil... probably was too on gas, being on commission, must have been a traveling salesman.
I could not find the price of motor oil for 1937. I found one ad that said 25 cents, but it was for a brand I hadn't heard of, so I have no idea if it was premium or bare bottom. 25 cents inflates to $5.60. If that car was eating him alive on oil... probably was too on gas, being on commission, must have been a traveling salesman.
I did an in-frame rebuild on my Saturn!
To get the valve cover off, one had to unbolt a coolant bypass hose, yank the PCV and its hose out, and undo two fasteners. Pretty easy!
Getting to the rings basically meant 23 fasteners on the timing cover, a dozen on the oil pan, another dozen holding belt-driven accessories on, ten head bolts, and eight connecting rod nuts.
Mike Rowe just did a podcast with the grandson of one of the founders/engineers of the company. Fascinating story. Ralph Teetor was his name, blind since age 6 and carried on as if he had no disability at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Teetor
The Podcast.
FWIW, the strangest thing (and scary) that I took away from the podcast is that you can suffer a blinding injury to one eye, and the other one can just up and stop working as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_ophthalmia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Teetor
The Podcast.
FWIW, the strangest thing (and scary) that I took away from the podcast is that you can suffer a blinding injury to one eye, and the other one can just up and stop working as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_ophthalmia
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