Dave Mellor NJ

Also 42. The pullout lever is the latch.

Also known as a maplight. It also looks like Model A Ford.

Mid 30 to end of production. Dash panel is rusty and little value but the round speedo and the popout switch with key might get up to $100 on ebay.

54 and 55 Ford both had the skylight speedometer but I think that's a 54 with the turn signal arrows in the corners.

Alioopman, if you haven't already done so, you should look down in the Mercer forum near the bottom. In it you will find a lot of info on the Mercer with some mention of Sharp, Walker, and others. Read all the threads going back, I think Ivan Saxton is trying to start a register of all current known cars.

How much is that doggie in the windshield?

Let me show you the new hair curler I bought.

Correctly identified as a 37-38 Chevy banjo wheel horn ring.

I will stop in at Schaeffer &Long and try to find out if Fred Hoch knows anything about the Sharp and any connection to the Mercer.

Possibly Lincoln Zephyr?

Sounds good, John but I'm sure that is not the best deal you ever passed on.

There,s one for sale in Auto-roundup for $11,500 needing work in Mt Pleasant, Mi. 989-772-0822.

Do dogs have to wear a seatbelt?

Fred Hoch is the proprietor of Schaeffer and Long in Magnolia,NJ, one of the formost restoration facilities in the country. He also is an authority on Mercer Automobiles, having acquired all available material from the company from the family and/or ex-employees. He also owns several including the unrestored 14 speedster at Hershey. I think if you contact him he might be interested or at least can steer you in the right direction.

Fresnel lenses were originally designed for lighthouses. It increased dramatically the distance ships could see the guiding light,a fact I'm sure is known by our friend Jim_Edwards.

Brad, we must think alike. I have long wished Norm would do a woodie for us. I think he's one guy who could do it. Team up with somebody to do the rest of it.

Disn't AACA have a logo with half of a newer car blended into half of an older car? A 59 Cadillac was one half.

Years ago in Old Cars Weekly they had a 42 Packard going to auction. This car was shown to be the command car for Gen. Douglas Macarthur in WWII and it featured an early AC unit in the trunk. It seems there also was one in the Major Bowes' 42 Imperial.

If it was anything like the furniture industry, a modern woodie would be made out of pressboard.

I had a piece like that from a 60 Cadillac Coupe DeVille 1/4 panel. I got it with a load of Caddy parts one year and brought them to The old blue field at Hershey. After setting up I went to a Cadillac parts vendor nearby and showed him that and some other stuff. He said he'd come over the next day to get a better look,where's your space? The next day when I went to put the stuff out it was gone. I swear he came at night and stole it but I couldn't prove it. Anyway, check out utah 60 Cadillac. The 59 is the same but two pieces.

The problem with meeting somebody offsite is you don't know if they're the rightful owner. If you get burned you have no recourse if you can't locate the person.Of course the other person doesn't know you from Adam,either.

Although they do resemble the chrome moldings on that 46 Chrysler,those appear to continue around unbroken. lancemb's pieces are blunt ended on the short side and have a stud near the end which indicates it starts in an inside corner or at the edge of a body panel,possibly mathing up to a molding on an adlacent panel

This is the second thread you started on the subject. In the first thread I posted a reply in which I told you I had seen an article in Hemmings or Antique Automobile about a guy in California who had restored two of this model in recent years. I'm fairly sure it was Hemmings. If it was Antique Automobile West,our editor or somebody else would have chimed in by now. Anyway, if you can search through recent Hemmings for articles about 48-51 Dodge truck woodies it would be helpful to you. Does anybody else remember the article?

I think you could have gone higher. I commend you for just wanting to see it saved. Try looking through the last year or so of Hemmings for that article.

Remember that, for the movie,they hung some tucker fiberglass skins on a bullet=nose Studebaker to replicate the prototype rollover scene.