Dave Mellor NJ

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.

Buick had the 3-point hood. You opened it up from either rear corner.

Where"s the beef?

I have a leather one for a 30-31 Ford. It has a trap door like a union suit.

I think the changeover to the alligator hood was to "Keep up with the Joneses" as Ford changed theirs in 37, 38 in the trucks. by 40 I think all domestic cars had changed. Some trucks kept the side-opening hood till after the war.

Rod city

Same guy with the Model A express pickup.

I totally agree with WQ59B and I'm disappointed with Joe Bortz. I think he could have come up with a much more appropriate solution. When they made the Tucker convertible at least it was an improvement over the original design. I can't see this as anything but a bad street rod.

When I bought my house there was a 350 Olds engine in the garage. I happened to hear a guy talking about a 35 Ford flathead engine and trans he had in his little junkyard. I asked him if he'd like to trade. He told me where he was(Franklinville,NJ) and I went dowm and made the deal. I stopped a few times after that and always picked up some Hershey material. He kept talking about a Cadillac grille he had in his basement but he wouldn't show me. One time after I had gotten two 46-48 Chevy trunklids he asked me to install a ceiling fan. I agreed if he would show me the grille. Turns out it was an original stoneguard for a 30-31 Packard. I hung the fan and he gave me the stoneguard. I made out well and brought him back $50 from Hershey.

It's something how pickups have so much of a longer life than cars. In this instance as in thousands of others,the car would have been junked years ago if not for its rebirth. So many other cars,especially model As turn up on ebay where you can see the back panel of a tudor was moved behind the doors or you see the coupe 1/4 window. In Keiser's last post of the 70s junkyard they had a pretty nice A pickup, a39 Ford pickup and a Hudson pickup among mostly derelicts.(Excuse me all you airflow fans.)