Sexton 1900 restoration

[Jesse Browning]

It started right up today. Runs great. The video is actually the 4th or 5th start. To many things to do than take pictures. Jesse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNiTY6jLVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC2drhHLp3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT0GTXUS6Yk

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Jesse,

Excellent! "I love the sound of a round engine in the morning!"

Thanks for keeping the history alive.

Hanno

[Ganmain Tony]

Jesse,

That went so smoothly

playing it over a couple of times & it sounds like a musical tune. Radials do have a fantastic bass note.

Saying 'well done' dosent seem to convey the enjoyment I got out of watching the startup on you tube.

Must be a satisfying feeling for you.

Many thanks for sharing & congratulations.

[super dave]

What a great sound of a engine, You guys are doing great work

Dave

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Jesse Browning

It started right up today. Runs great. The video is actually the 4th or 5th start. To many things to do than take pictures. If the links don't work, look up "Sexton 1900 start up". Jesse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJezB...eature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF1Z5...eature=channel

Jesse.That is beautiful..You are a master restorer..The Sexton will be on the way to completion and fun driving soon.
Well done..

[RichardT10829]

absolute poetry in motion its like the worlds greatest symphony... nearly as awesome as the mighty maybach.... i am seriously impressed with your work Jesse that machine is lucky to have found you !

[Jesse Browning]

The engine is going in the vehicle tomorrow. We have about 4 hours on it. Ran it 2 hours today. I had ear plugs, and flight-line hearing protectors, but my ears are still ringing. A lot of bass there. It shakes the ground, and the house. Jesse.

[Gordon Yeo]

Well Perry, think the cresent on Sutton Place can bear up to four hours of that?

Gord

[Alex van de Wetering]

Excellent! Engine sounds great....especially when you just turned off the ignition....those last few "thumps" sound terrific.

Have you started work on the front fenders/stowage boxes yet? or did they come with the sale?

Alex

[David Dunlop]

Jesse, you are doing an absolutely outstanding job with your Sexton restoration! It's so nice to see when our military heritage gets that kind of care.

One small observation, I thought I would ask about, just to be on the safe side. I noticed in the photo of the rear of the vehicle, that with the engine compartment hatches open, the insides of the hatch doors and the hull edging were white. It might be that those surfaces should actually match the exterior colour of the vehicle. The reason being, if the situation requires these hatches to be opened for any reason, in theatre, the crew would not run the risk of giving away the location of the vehicle with a large flash of white paint. Typically, the inside of crew hatches on a tank, or doors on any soft skin vehicle like a wireless, office, machine shop lorry, would also be painted as per the exterior of the vehicle for the same safety reasons.

I know that in subsequent postwar repaints of many of these vehicles, this point was sometimes lost to shop workers in various RCEME sites and it is not unusual to run across a white interior door finish, but in the original wartime painting, I am pretty certain white could prove a fatal error.

It's a small point, I know, but you are doing such incredible, detailed work, I wouldn't want you to miss a chance to review anything, if it's an easy fix.

By the way, I loved the clips of the engine run ups. Bet it smelled just as lovely as it sounded!!!

Very best regards,

David

[Jesse Browning]

One fender came with the vehicle. It can be repaired, and used as a pattern for the missing one. All the storage bins were present, and in need of repair. David's comments on the engine doors makes good sense. Installed the engine yesterday. We hope to be driving it this week. Jesse.