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Pretty car, but where are its windshield wipers?

Take a look at the Buick part of this forum under the Photos of dealerships. There is an early 50's shot of two of these signs above a Buick dealer's used car lot.

The upholstery cloth looks kind of like the cloth on the 1961 Plymouth that just was posted here. It may be NOS Chrysler cloth, but a generation or two misapplied.

This is a very unusual car. The Series 61 was the successor to the LaSalle. The 1948 and 1949 Series 61 cars shared a body with the more upscale Series 62 cars. For 1950, they used the body that you see above. They used it again in 1951, but the Series 61 was dropped halfway through the 1951 model year. You don't see many 61 Series Cadillacs of either year. Those that you do see are always Hydramatic cars. This one is standard shift. That is rare. By 1950, 95% of Cadillacs were Hydramatic. The only other 1950 stick shift Cadillac I have ever seen was an ambulance I found in a junkyard about 40 years ago. I don't know rare equates to desirable, but I find this to be a very cool car!

I have 2003 and 2004 Ford products that use Motorcraft Gold Antifreeze. 2002 and back used the green conventional stuff. The Gold, I believe, is now obsolete. I am not sure what replaced it.

Lest we forget, when that car was built, it was the biggest selling car in America! When was the last time you saw one?

There has to be a restriction in the lines. You can check by disconnecting the MC and using your vacuum pump to create suction at one of the bleeder screws. If you can suck air, there is no obstruction. If you can't, that is your problem. Beautiful Buick, by the way. One of my favorites.

Very nice car. I wonder what was different on the Canadian Buicks and when car production for 1942 cars in Canada ended. I think Canada entered WWII in 1939. It would be interesting to know.

Looking at the applications on the Autolite boxes, there is nothing newer than 1942 listed. These were obviously made while the war was going on. Copper use was restricted due to wartime shortages. If you remember, 1943 pennies were made out of steel because there was no copper. I suspect that the steel wire was a wartime substitute for unavailable copper wire.

A friend of mine is fond of saying that those 70's interiors look like the inside of a casket.

I used Moyer twice. Not cheap, but an excellent job both times.

It may very well be the only one left, which makes it more of a shame that somebody felt compelled to screw with it.

I am amazed at how good it looks! The bodies were known for early rusting and Japanese vinyl for early crumbling. The condition of the car is one in a million.

In the middle 1960's, the New Jersey State Police, at least on the Turnpike, used Chrysler New Yorker sedans.

This kind of work is another example of a vanishing trade. As recently as 40 years ago, every decent sized city had one or two guys who repaired speedometers. You could walk in with your piece and he would give you a price on the spot. No shipping, no packing, no surprises. I guess that laws against odometer tampering and the advent of electronic speedometers, along with old age, put most of them out of business. Now there are just a few people nationally doing this who can charge whatever they like.

I don't believe I have ever seen one of these. Notice the "idiot lights" for oil pressure and amps to either side of the radio delete plate. I wonder if this was the first car with warning lamps. I always thought of them as a fifties thing.

The front clip on this car is 1970. The rear bumper and taillights are 1969. The steering wheel, dash, and engine compartment are all 1969. I would be curious what this seller would say about that.

I am sure that somebody here knows for sure, but my recollection is that the Healey 3000 engine was the one that was used in the MGC.

I don't know the car, but I believe that the driver is William Desmond Taylor, a prominent Hollywood director whose 1922 murder was never solved.

That car had a hard life. Putting aside the sob story, 15K on this is crazy money.

What gets into people that they will pay serious money to do an interior and then use that mouse fur cloth stuff that jumps out as incorrect? The person who owned that car cared enough to try to come close to the correct pattern. If the original material is unobtainable or too expensive, why would he not at least try for something appropriate to the period?

Similarly, I recall these as an urban thing. Like Marty said, city people often parked by feel. Bumpers before the Federal era were generally pretty puny and cars in cities would take a beating. Bumper guards were still a common accessory as late as the early seventies. They started to disappear after the Federal 5MPH bumpers came out, since they were no longer needed by then. Speaking of the postwar dealers loading up cars with accessories, my father told me that when he got out of the army, he bought a new 1946 DeSoto. He had to pay $300.00 under the table to the dealer and take it with every accessory that the dealer could pack it with. The car had a normal Chrysler issue hot water heater and also a Southwind gasoline fired heater. That's right. Two heaters! My father said that the gasoline heater was too scary for him and that he never used it. To show you how things were then, he drove the DeSoto for a year and a half and sold it for more than he paid for it.

Will send out tomorrow.

Ok, Chuck, since this is the kind that is already in the car, we will take this one instead of one of the Northeast ones. $45.00 is a deal and you will let me know how much for shipping to Bald Knob, Arkansas, 72010. Postal M.O. is OK. Thanks