Dodge1934

Painting on the interior: Spray painting wasn`t introduced until about 1922 so cars prior to that were hand painted. When I took the wood out of the door I discovered the most of the metal on the inside of the door was not painted. Only the part that would have been seen in the little compartment was painted. In the picture you can see the paint drip down from the board that would have been at the bottom of the compartment. When I took the wood out of the top edge of the door and the unpainted metal was still shiny after being unused since 1930 and sitting out in the weather... not really profound but I was surprised.

Sorry having trouble sorting out what is posted and what is not... couple things posted twice

Headlights: In 1919 WW1 had just finished and brass was still hard to get for manufacturing. In this car the reflectors in the headlights were iron. Mine we[ATTACH=CONFIG]229331[/ATTACH]deteriorated but still salvageable. The headlight rings had been twisted during their life and at the time I couldn’t find others so I worked on straightening the ones I had ... the rig I made for this is in the pictures. When I did the headlight rings and the reflectors I lived fairly near a plating location and I would have them plate the item with copper and then do some work on them myself like adding silver solder then plate them again and eventually chromed them. There are some pics of this... no I did stop at the nickel... I likely should have but didn`t. The drawback to all this is that the weight of both the ring and the reflector are much heavier than they would have been originally. We’ll see what problems that causes when I get them on the car. One thing I don’t have yet are the clips to hold the lens in place... looking for a source of these. It took me a long time but over the years I have picked up 3 of the correct sized lenses for the car.[ATTACH=CONFIG]229329[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]229330[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]229331[/ATTACH]

Headlights: In 1919 WW1 had just finished and brass was still hard to get for manufacturing. In this car the reflectors in the headlights were iron. Mine wedeteriorated but still salvageable. The headlight rings had been twisted during their life and at the time I couldn’t find others so I worked on straightening the ones I had ... the rig I made for this is in the pictures. When I did the headlight rings and the reflectors I lived fairly near a plating location and I would have them plate the item with copper and then do some work on them myself like adding silver solder then plate them again and eventually chromed them. There are some pics of this... no I did stop at the nickel... I likely should have but didn`t. The drawback to all this is that the weight of both the ring and the reflector are much heavier than they would have been originally. We’ll see what problems that causes when I get them on the car. One thing I don’t have yet are the clips to hold the lens in place... looking for a source of these. It took me a long time but over the years I have picked up 3 of the correct sized lenses for the car.

I haven`t heard a recent price from California covers but they are excellent quality. I have one that is so old it doesn`t have a size number listed on it... just their logo and phone number... mine is about 35 years old FYI Good luck finding a used one

Thanks for the pics.

Do you still have this car.... do you have pics of the front dash... and other interior aspects. where is this car located

The Green McLaughlin was in Mossamin Sask Canada. I met this guy a few times over the years and did get a ride in his car when he was finished. sadly he died and I have lost track of this car The black and white pic is a car from Ontario. I never saw it in person but I`m told it was painted baby blue. Seeing these keeps me chugging along if there are small pics still attached they are of my rear window and show the aluminium trim and the wood base... though some wood is gone and will need to be replaced

While I have never seen it listed anywhere in type I do have the original manufacturers model tag for my car and on mine it is listed as a Model HA63 rather than H63... fyi

I see the K series had a special as well in the 63.. in the pics further down the page it is listed on the right hand side but is partly cut off...There is a bunch of copies on the K series at the Reynolds museum. including details parts pics ... i would encourage you to try and get a copy. I would send you a copy of mine but I think mine is already 3rd generation and is rather tough to read.

There are several sheets I have on this topic... there was a special in both 1919 and 1920. the regular car was green and black ... the special was maroon and black. Sadly my copies are copies of copies so quality not the best.. I believe I gor this paper work from the Wetaskawin Reynold museum

Oh yes. on the specials the top would be a different color.. forget the name but a tanish color rather than black

I`ll have to look into this thought.. I am not a bearing person so I`ll get some pics and compare but not likely for a while... those parts are in the trailer.

I`m not positive about 1920 But I have adds and descriptions for the 1919... the only other difference I can think of without finding my adds and manuals is the car color.. the special was maroon as I recall the regular one was a different color. I have a few other interesting points that I will post the adds when I dig them up again.

So moving along.... I was missing a few parts for this car when I pulled everything apart I was missing , the generator, half the hood, The clock, the rad cap, some of the screw on wheel caps, part of the window frame,headlight ring, rear roof window, roof cradles and of course most of the wood was toast. Not bad for a shot in the dark at an auction. Of course the extras weren`t there either Some of the things I got and felt very fortunate to have were , all 4 seat springs all the metal body parts including the skirt part between the front frame arms, the original roof bows. Turns out the they were building the Reynold`s Museum in Wetaskiwin about the time I bought the car so I headed up there to get pics of their unrestored 1920 Mclaughlin. I now knew what the generator should look like... it is a unique item. A few years later when the museum was open I was able to get copies of various manuals for teens Mclaughlins... they have been price less. One of the big problems with restoring these old Mclaughlins is that the factory burnt to the ground in 1923 or24 and all the records and company history were lost and the only thing left was the paper work out in the countryside and as this was only a Canadian car, that wasn`t much. As you may know Mclaughlin became Buick over the years and for many years some models of Mclaughlin were very similar to the USA Buick. My car which was McLaughlins` small six did not have an equivalent in the USA Buick lineup. The most similar car in the USA was the 1919 Oakland model 34B.. the same Northway drive train. What have I found over the years I found the hood for the large 1919 McLaughlin in Southern Saskatchewan. Turns out the vent hole were identical and the only difference is the Big Sic hood is 4 or 5 inches longer .. I now had a full hood and an extra half. I tracked down a guy in Montana who had a pile of Oakland parts but he wasn`t sure about much except that the price was right and I had to take the whole pile of stuff he did have a generator. Turn out it was the right engine and even the generator was the correct model for my year... some of the wrong ones fit but there was an evolution in the generators and starters over the 1916 to 1921 period when they made the 63 series models. I sold off all the stuff I didn`t need and only have one valve cover piece left and Mclaughlin didn`t have one that year. The rad screw thread pattern was a bit unusual and it took me a while to find the right dog bone... I found this on my first visit to Chikasha OK swap meet I found a large motometer.. the fancy sort when I lived in BC. Separately I found the inside plates for the motometer that said Mclaughlin... a very fine find indeed. Also while in BC I found a n original rear window complete with aluminum accent piece. it had 1918 scratched in the corner of the beveled glass. I started looking for spark plugs for this thing and before you know it I have a couple baskets of plugs most of which are not correct for my car... I did however get a set and in fact have several sets ... they are like OEM but I only have one of what I believe to be the original sparkplug used in 1919. The later numbered plug is 78S by AC but the original plug in 1919 would not have a number on the plug itself and of course it would be real nice to find a set "Made in Canada"... I do have some 78S made in Canada. As an aside I now have a truck load of spark plugs and a reasonable amount of knowledge about them,,, any one need OEM spark spugs??? So what was a wreck on this car Well every stick of wood had to be replaced. I bought one board to start and it was over $60.00 at the time and I figured this was going to get expensive... so when I was talking to my folks one day Ken said he was quite sure there was some ash in the barn from some trees they cut down 25 years ago... turns out he was right so I thank my step father for the supply of wood... and air dried for 25 years.... you just don`t find that kind of stuff Mclaughlins were built with Ash rather than Oak because that was the common hardwood available in Ontario at the time. The rear end is an unusual thing with an adjustable crown and pinion... this was not a good plan because if people can mess things up they do. I purchased 3 rear ends before I found one with an intact crown. I`ll be looking for advise when I reassemble the rear end to get the gap correct. The bows were a wreck except as a pattern. I sent the metal parts to a guy in California. he was 80 or so and My set was the last set he made before selling his business and equipment to another fellow.. not sure if he is still in business or not.. tapered and rolled and oval with a fancy seem... not something I could tackle. I`ll stop for now and get some pics of some of this posted soon.

I bought this car back in 1989 in Coutts, Alberta, Canada. It is coming along but I have moved a number of times and life has got in the way of completing this project... I will get there... Just now getting a shop built will be my first project. The car has been back and forth across Canada twice and I still seem to have all the parts... I will start at the beginning and bring this story up to date over the next few months. In 1989 there was an auction of a "museum" in Coutts Alberta. It was a 5 day auction and there was lots of non car stuff there as well. There were about 80 or so vehicles in various states of completeness... Only 2 actually ran. I went down ahead and determined there were 5 cars I would be interested in (all touring cars). I ended up buying the second best one (in my mind) and also the cheapest one at $350.00. I think the 1922 Studebaker would have been a better car and it was the larger model of Studebaker. Mine was marked as a 1917 McLaughlin but as I found out later it was a 1919. It also turned out to be a HA63 special... besides the tag the references I have found say that the specials had the yellow painted wood spoke wheels... and this car had that.. I only lived an hour or so from the auction so after paying for my car I headed home rented a trailer and went back and picked it up... It was a bit of a zoo there as people were picking up vehicles but they did have a make shift tow truck there helping people get cars loaded. Mine happened to be behind a post so we had to lift it sideways before pulling it out. The pics attached were taken a few days later after i took all the stuff out that was piled in the back. I don`t have a pic of that but I suspect it was why most people took a pass on this car.... The back was full of what appeared to be junk and the fender and the door on the top of the pile definitely didn't belong to this car.... My good fortune was that everything else down the pile did belong to the car and I would say the car was at least 90% complete... but it sure was rough.... my kind of project.[ATTACH=CONFIG]222977[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]222978[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]222979[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]222980[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]222981[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]222982[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]222983[/ATTACH]

I bought this car back in 1989 in Coutts, Alberta, Canada. It is coming along but I have moved a number of times and life has got in the way of completing this project... I will get there... Just now getting a shop built will be my first project. The car has been back and forth across Canada twice and I still seem to have all the parts... I will start at the beginning and bring this story up to date over the next few months. In 1989 there was an auction of a "museum" in Coutts Alberta. It was a 5 day auction and there was lots of non car stuff there as well. There were about 80 or so vehicles in various states of completeness... Only 2 actually ran. I went down ahead and determined there were 5 cars I would be interested in (all touring cars). I ended up buying the second best one (in my mind) and also the cheapest one at $350.00. I think the 1922 Studebaker would have been a better car and it was the larger model of Studebaker. Mine was marked as a 1917 McLaughlin but as I found out later it was a 1919. It also turned out to be a HA63 special... besides the tag the references I have found say that the specials had the yellow painted wood spoke wheels... and this car had that.. I only lived an hour or so from the auction so after paying for my car I headed home rented a trailer and went back and picked it up... It was a bit of a zoo there as people were picking up vehicles but they did have a make shift tow truck there helping people get cars loaded. Mine happened to be behind a post so we had to lift it sideways before pulling it out. The pics attached were taken a few days later after i took all the stuff out that was piled in the back. I don`t have a pic of that but I suspect it was why most people took a pass on this car.... The back was full of what appeared to be junk and the fender and the door on the top of the pile definitely didn't belong to this car.... My good fortune was that everything else down the pile did belong to the car and I would say the car was at least 90% complete... but it sure was rough.... my kind of project.

I agree 6 volt systems are fine... make sure you get the larger battery and insure your main cable is a thick one designed for 6 volt systems... the 12 volt cables tend to be too thin. I contacted the LED folks mentioned above.... they weren`t much help except to say they don`t have them and to do custom production would take a significant order.. I don`t want to be in the business... just want the lights FYI

This is a 1934 dodge and they were a lot alike ... I assume this welting under the hood is the same or similar this was easy to obtain when I got it 30 years ago... not sure where to find it today.

If you find some very early ads the ads show the plugs in a picture and that would be the reference. I am actually most surprised that the plug I show is not in any of the ads... often those same ads mention the cars they are to be used for... AC was the OEM in the early days for GM products as weel as many other non ford brands... Ford used Champion and there is a story about that... AC= Albert Champion... Champion was the original name that Ford came to have rights to that name.. forget all the gory details.

I have listings for the 30`s and 40`s for the Mclaughlin Northway engine 78S is the conversion after WWII. I have a nice number of ads from earlier date but none show the plug attached. Plugs from the 1919 era have no numbers marked on the plug and catalogues don`t seem to exist that early... I have found a good number of these plugs around but typically in bad used condition. the one pictures is new. Does anyone have an ad that would confirm that this is the correct AC original spark plug for either the Mclaughlin or Oakland 34b from 1919

The spine of this book is torn but the contents and covers are in good condtion. Not sure the number of pages but 1.25 to 1.5 inches thick Inquire if you are interested and require more information

A few years back I bought some halogen lights on old bases... I think they came from Australia but I picked them up at Hershey... the taillights were fine but did draw on the battery when the brakes were applied... the headlights were way too much power draw on my poor 6 volt generator so I took them out the same day I put them in.. I don`t want to change from my 6 volt system I assume LED lights won`t do the same thing.... is anybody getting there made yet on old style bases?... Original bulbs just don`t compete on the road these days.... Thanks

I have a few J9 plugs and also some J9y plugs... I may have about 15 (J9 plugs)the condition I would need to dig them out... they will be NOS... they may or may not have boxes and may or may not have surface rust... if you are interested I will dig them out and send pics .I need 5.00 each if they are in decent condition. let me know if you have interest Don

Thanks for all the replies guys they are a lot of help. I started watching for these types of carbs because I have cars that use both types and now I have about 20 or so strombergs from the 30`s and marvels from the late teens and felt I should do something with them other than leave them in a box. The article on identifying these will be useful as well Thanks again.