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Dave Mellor NJ

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  1. The visors that are creased and straight are for split window flat glass and are mostly universal. You need to have hardware to attach to the center strip and gutters. With a crease and curved, is for cars with curved, split windshields. The demand for these is less as only a few cars were made like that, like the 49-52 Chevy car. Most cars went right to one piece curved. The least desirable is the curved visor with no crease. Nobody wants to screw into their roof to hold up the middle on a one piece windshield car.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

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