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  1. You're welcome!! You must be in a very dry area, those Olds taillights & extensions are made of pot metal and all the ones you see here in the northeast are badly pitted. I'm surprised it's intact with a nice shine after almost being buried in the ground for such a long period of time.
  2. Kinda looks like a 1951-1952 Oldsmobile 88 series tailight, those cars didn't really have tailfins.
  3. I always see these ads for the bathtub Nashes and think yeah, that's unusual and unique but what kind of a market is there really for a 4-door Nash 6 sedan? The seats fold down, okay, so what? If it were my car, how often would I fold the seats down? Probably never. I always think if I wanted a 1949-1951 era car, I'd be much happier with something else. $18K might get you a pretty nice Buick, an Olds V8, a Ford, a Mercury or even a Hudson, a Pontiac or a Chrysler/Imperial 8. Realistically, I think this seller knows his car isn't worth anywhere near $18K (he says it could use painting & chrome), he's only trying to embellish his ad as much as he can. That $30K statement is total baloney, he's fishing for that new, novice, uneducated first time classic car buyer whose wife just happens to like the (original?) springtime robins egg blue color to come along and I really doubt that's gonna happen. IMO the seller should just keep this overpriced Nash til he drops. He mentions the previous owner in the ad so maybe it's a flip attempt which probably won't be successful.
  4. The 1955 & 1956 Dodges shared the same fenders, bumper face bars and grilles with the parking lamps. Some of the differences are hoods (compare the very front lower center areas), the upper grille mouldings, the front emblems & medallions, the bumper guards, the center sheet metal panels between the grilles and the lower stone deflectors just behind the bumpers.
  5. I'd like to point out that this is a 1955 Dodge with a 1956 Dodge front clip on it, a minus as far as I'm concerned. So what's up with that?
  6. I was thinking they were external C pillar trim for something because of the paint overspray on the edges but there were lots of different designs. I have no idea what the second pair fits, they could even be Lincoln or Mercury for all I know. I used to own a 1955 Belvedere sedan.
  7. Most if not all of the trim pieces are C pillar mouldings for Mopars. They mount externally on either side of the rear window (backlite) and the Chrysler parts book calls them Rear Window Outside Finish Mouldings. The first one fits 1955 Plymouth Belvedere sedans. The third one is for 1956 Dodge Coronet sedans and both may have other specific model applications as well. I don't know the exact application of the second pair with the small horizontal diamonds in them. The trim piece in the last picture also fits a 1955 Plymouth, it goes on the center of the underside of the hood just above the grille.
  8. I've replaced the wet clutch in a Hudson srepdown. It's pretty much like m-mman says. A Chilton/Motor's manual or shop manual explains the procedure. You pull the seat cushions. Then the seat frame is exposed and it's easy to remove. Take the floormats out. There's a large cover in the in the center of the floor with a lot of bolts around the perimeter and once that's off everything's exposed and there's plenty of room to work. It's really not that bad of a job. A helper comes in handy but I've lifted the tranny in & out by myself. The clutch discs have always been available through someone in the HET club. If you maintain the fluid level in those cork clutches they will last a long, long time.
  9. There were some notable differences between the lower-priced entry level Hudson Pacemakers and the more upscale Supers, Commodores and Hornets of the stepdown era. The Pacemakers were built on a shorter 119" wheelbase instead of the 124" wheelbase used on the larger series cars and were 6 1/2" shorter overall. The 1950-1952 Pacemakers had the smaller 232 cu.in. six as StillOutThere noted above and had the "snub nose" front end sheetmetal and rocker panels due to the shorter wheelbase. There were some trim level differences as well with the Pacemakers having less embellishments and shiny trim attached throughout the car. If you scroll up a few posts this is evident on the light blue Pacemaker coupe pictured in 7th Son's post. Many Pacemakers came with minimal options and had dogdish hubcaps, black rubber floormats, dashboards that were painted instead of woodgrained, smaller interior sunvisors and no fender skirts. It's doubtful any came with red carpeting and certainly none had any custom striped windlace. Throughout the years as more and more surviving Pacemakers were refurbished, restored and re-restored many were "embellished" with various Hudson trim and accessories that weren't originally on the base models like maybe some fancier side and trunk trim along with the larger taillights from the Commodore & Hornet series cars. Sometimes different rear bumpers were used too. It's always nice to see pictures of Hudsons on the internet but some of these shorter wheelbase cars look more like elaborate Hornets now than the bare-bones Pacemakers they were at birth. Anyway, the black Pacemaker sedan at the top of the post looks like a fairly nice car, so GLWTS.
  10. Way overpriced IMO. For $25 grand they could have at least put some fresh pieces of cardboard in the trunk.
  11. I believe the long hood ornament in the first picture is for a 1952 Chevrolet car and the cross flags emblem belongs on the hood of any 1959 Chevrolet car or El Camino that has the 348 engine. If the OP could post the part numbers from the backside of the emblems it would help make a positive ID.
  12. I don't think there's a retaining ring, clean the old gasket off and the whole thermostat should come out in one piece.
  13. Since you're the Merc guy I was thinking it had something to do with FoMoCo in the sixties.
  14. Someone liked that color so much they did a very thorough job of painting the door jambs, firewall, dashboard and even the inner fenders where the hood sits. Kudos, you went to a lot of trouble and that was a lot of work. But I'm really glad it's not my car. Anyway, GLWTS.
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