Hudsy Wudsy
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Here's a link to a site that lists numerous vintage radio organizations:
Antique radios : Antique radio clubs and organizations - The DXZone.com
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Lets not forget the Horseless Carriage club:
Classified Ads - Horseless Carriage Club of America (hcca.org)
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Are you guys sure that isn't a postwar Packard steering wheel?
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This particular "beige" color is often called "Champagne". I don't think that it lends itself to this particular two-toning all that well, but it is nice size body and would likely make a nice road car.
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Also, beware of the variable venturi carb.
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I think I was about fourteen years old when I learned where number one was on a Chevy distributor, after that the firing order is printed on the intake manifold. I'm afraid that I would find all of that masking tape pretty embarrassing.
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Ironically, I saw a rare Plymouth tailgate for sale somewhere in the last year.
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The only '36 Dodges that I've ever encountered were D2s. Is D3 Canadian?
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1 hour ago, rocketraider said:
A rumour has floated around for years that Oldsmobile built some sedan deliveries in 1949 and 1950.
I've never seen one in the flesh but if they were built, they probably used the Fisher "A" sedan delivery body with Oldsmobile front clip and dashboard. I believe doors interchanged on all "A" platforms those years so it wouldn't have been a stretch to mate Olds and Pontiac front clips to the SD body.
That strikes a familiar chord. I'm pretty sure that they might have been Australian.
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I tell guys this whenever the opportunity presents itself--the green on the underside of sun visors is called aircraft green primer.
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Thanks for your thoughts on the subject, Jim.
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It truly is a beautiful car. I love the colors. Are you guys surprised that it does not have a leather interior? More importantly, isn't that a bit of wear on both the brake and clutch pedals for 21,000 miles?
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Yes! The Maserati part should be a good thing, but it's not in this case.
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On 3/1/2024 at 6:01 PM, MGRAB said:
While that may be the case on some convertibles, I am fairly certain all GM C-body convertibles are bolted. My '41 is out right now. It was woodgrained but manufacturers were learning by the late 40's the painted dashes held up better than the woodgrained when exposed to UV rays. Packard had bolt-in and painted dashes in '48-50, while all other models had graining. I can see where Hudsons would have welded them in being uni-body.. though I have no experience with them.
The woodgraining that we are talking about was Dinoc. 3M's appliable film. It would have been very difficult, if not impossible, to apply DiNoc to a dash once it was installed. So, at some point, dashboards simply had to be bolt in. I was making reference to earlier convertibles.
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I've mentioned this before on occasion, so please forgive me for being repetitious--Convertible bodies are far more likely to flex than other bodies because they lack the reinforcement that roofs provide. As a consequence, dashboards are welded into position when the body is first assembled, rather than bolted in place, to provide additional strengthening around the cowl area.. This is why you will often see convertibles with painted dashboards and not woodgrained.
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Not all browns look like crap. Here's a Hudson with a warm, rich brown of unknown origin (not Hudson, I'm fairly sure):
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Back to this Lincoln for a moment, I find it interesting that having too many vertical elements, and thus, too many segments, adds great length to the overall. I suppose that is the nature of optical illusion. Do any of you agree?
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I've seen this Hudson around up here in Minnesota for a long time. I always sort of wince when I see it, though, because somebody thought it would be perfectly acceptable to install the smaller '48-'49 rear venetian blind in the larger '50 and later back window.
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"Beaver Brown Poly", according to Autocolorlibrary.com. The color doesn't look any prettier on the page, either.
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The ad is a dud, but the Buick is a treasure.
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These photos of early motoring got me to thinking about some great pictures that I saw recently on the VMCCA (Vintage Motor Car Club America) website. Here are some that date back to 1957. I doubt if the term "High res" would describe any of them, however: 1957 VMCCA Rally | Flickr
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Sparton horns were made by the Sparks Withington Company, which some of you might recognize from their line of Sparton radios.
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Hudson Eights had their own loyal following. Those who knew them truly loved them. Lots of nearly silent power, even though their displacement was only 254 (?) cubic inches. I'm including a photo of an original '51 interior that is in a gray '51 Hornet that only has 28K miles. It appears to be a bluish green stripe combined with a reddish-brown one on a cream background.
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I've mentioned this before. My brother was fond of these. He had several '49-'51s. He was into them because of the fold-down seats that made into a bed. No, he didn't go camping in them, he took girls to the drive-in movies in them. I recall that one of his Nashes needed a clutch once. It was a chore because he had to put the car up on barrels to get the suspension off of the ground to pull the rear end backwards with a chain in order to get the driveshaft to clear the back of the transmission. The other thing that I remember clearly about his Nashes was how goofy they cornered. I could be riding alongside next to him in the passenger seat and he would turn a corner (just a normal turn on a city street) suddenly I would be way above him height-wise. I never knew a car that would roll that much. After the turn, the car would even out and go back to normal. And lastly, they were slow! They promised high gas mileage, but the tradeoff was certainly performance.
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1938 Chrysler Imperial grille FS
in Chrysler Automobiles and Parts - Buy/Sell
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Here's a link to a Facebook listing offering a grille for a '36 Imperial in Missouri:
(3) Marketplace - 1938 Chrysler imperial grill | Facebook