Dave Mellor NJ

You probably found it by now, Tom, they are in the fourth category, "Photos". It is broken down into 3 sub-categories. The tail lights look like 46-48 Plymouth but I think the lenses are upside down.

The customline is the middle trim level. The top was the crestline, the bottom was the mainline. It,s rare to see the chrome headlight rims on the customline.

59 Ford Galaxie 500 4-door hardtop, also known as a town victoria.When the 59s were first introduced, the top of the line cars were still called "Fairlane" which was Henry and Clara's estate. The "C" pillar or sail panel had a notch in the back and the backlight curved around on the ends. In I think November of '58 they brought out the Galaxie and it had the Thunderbird-style roof, the Fairlane became the medium trim level with no hardtops. I see a 60 Mercury across the street, a 60 Thunderbird in front and a 56 Pontiac across and down a bit. The 50s cars are easy.

This is one for the "rarest car you ever owned" thread.

I don't know if it's any help, but Chrysler took the company over in1924 and essentially re-branded their current offerings into "Chryslers". I think they had a 6-cylinder which became the Chrysler and a 4-cylinder which stayed "Maxwell"for a few years while he acquired Dodge, then in 1928 he introduced Desoto and Plymouth,that was the end of the line for Maxwell but they are included ,along with Chalmers, in the Chrysler Products Car Club or the Walter P. Chrysler club.If you don't get it identified here you should try those clubs' forums.

I am a new user of this forum and am very pleased with the operation. I see at the bottom you list the current users, members and guests. I have been a member of AACA since 1977and I just wonder if I'm counted as one?

I have a Mopar driveshaft from the 30's but it is packed away. It has leather-covered universals on both ends. If you think it might work, give me a call,856-287-0826.I am in south jersey.

I meant to say that the second "Ford" script bulb was burnt out.

Does it matter to the antique insurance co. whether you have historical registration?

In a way it's good that it was a 4-door because that's the type of car that you always find in the junkyard and the roof is the last thing to go. I think you could use any Plymouth or Dodge from 40 to 48 as your donor car.

Anybody with any interest in it is not going to tellyou it's worth more than he's willing to pay. That's obvious. You, as the seller have to set the price. If it's low, it'll sell before the ad gets printed. If it's high, you'll die with it. If it's fair, somebody will lowball you. Harsh reality, that's what it is.

This forum's moderator's might not like me saying this, but you're better off asking this question on the Fordbarn forum.

Years ago I had a 39 chevy pickup with seal beams. They should have been bulb/reflector/lens lights,but that's beside the point. Anyway,I had just joined the Garden State Model Region of AACA here in South Jersey and I drove it to a meeting. I had recently replaced a burnt-out headlamp with one from a V8 Ford big truck. This lamp was a Ford script which was original equiptment on 40-41 fords. Well, this was sacrilege to some old-timer Ford men at the time, one of whom bought the lamp right out of the truck and asked if I had any more. I did have a mate to it and he bought tyhat one too,saying he was going to try to restore it because they were so impossible to find. I don't know how he did, but he had a long string of senior winning V8 fords. His name was Bill Sutton and he was a well-known V8 expert back in tyhe day.

I remember Groucho Marx's pitch: It's delightful, it's delovely, it,s Desoto!.

In case you didn't know, the 39 and 40 Chevy truck are very nearly the same. The main difference is the use of seal-beam headlights in the 40 and the separate parking light made necessary by it which mounts in a housing on the fender. Because the bucket and mounting was the same, most of the 39's were retrofitted with the seal beams to keep them on the road. Other differences are in the dashboard, the 39 still had round gauges, the 40 introduced rectangulars, and the "Chevrolet" script is slightly different on top of the grille. Somebody told me there is a different number of bars in that grille also, I don't know. None of this matters to you , if it is right for one year it's right for the other.I'm surprised the bigger truck's lights are different, though.

I have one just like it or very close but it is green and it is packed away till flea season. I think it is meant for inside the engine compartment to broadcast down low while the motor is more accessible up high.

That's good info that I didn't know from Bob Call. Another thing ;where the stem comes out on the side of the drop center of the 16,it comes out on a 45 angle on the edge of the drop center.

That looks like an "AA" truck grille in front of the car. If it is from the car,it is different than Hupp36's car. If you look closer,the cowl is smooth and the beltline molding and the reveal also look different than the '23.

I believe this is the only car that was made with the frame channel iron open side out. Moneypit has a sharp eye to see the other derelicts. You have to look through the windshield, meaning the others are in front of the Wllys.

The Chevy looks like a 35 or 36 with that big bustle.

Thanks for the reply,Chris. I didn't mean I thought it was the exact bike that the lady was riding,just the model. Unfortunately, the view is from the wrong side but you could always get a shot of the Allen's bike's left side. When I first saw your picture,I thought the fork was on a slant but the Allen bike looks vertical that would make turning the wheel like turning a tiller.Very unusual to see a woman riding a motorcycle in that time frame, especially in that garb.Did you see it even seems to have the box on top of the tank? In Hemmings, it said Glen Curtiss, of "Jenny"fame was the maker of the bike and he made some under his own name.Perhaps it is a Curtiss.

OOPS, forgot,my number:856-547-8835, thanks.

L29 Cord: "Service manual for shop mechanics"as issued to dealers in their day.Original,rare piece. Has numerous pictures and drawings showing the proper means to service the car. Dated 1930. $200.

I'm wondering if what you have is a true touring,which is a 4-door open car,or phaeton. Up until the late twenties,that's what a touring was, but in the thirties,they started calling anything a touring if you could take a tour in it. That's why we all love a used car salesman

I think I know the guy who just saved this car.He told me about it.It's my understanding that the construction of these Continental coupes lends itself well to conversions and it was a fairly common job to do over the years.I know of another car in which it is being done now. A lot of these classic cars were apparently built basically the same and at some point they finished them as either or. I remember reading about some car in Antique Automobile where they added a roof onto a convertible to make a coupe when they couldn't afford to make it from scratch.