Douglas Gilmore Brown

Thanks for your help!

Thanks for your help. I have a friend who has a 1956 Ford. I'll go over and see if he needs one, once it stops snowing.

From that same bucket of odd parts Thanks for your help!

Found in bucket of odd parts at a garage sale. Looks to be i 1950's

This looks like it is from a dashboard, or the back of the front seat. It had the Pentastar logo, and numbers 2895040 94200 Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks for the info. That was about the last hurrah for the big FOMOCO sedans

This is very thin metal, and the logo says Lincoln. Either from the front edge of the hood, or the top of the grille? Not that many Lincolns in my neck of the woods. Any help will be much appreciated.

That might be a Connecticut license plate on it.

Hello. sagefinds, Yes, its shape does look more like a Packard clock than a Buick clock. Plus, its hefty weight might mean it was made back in the 'teens, or even earlier. Thanks for your advice!

This clock was also in that box lot of old tools. Face would fit into a 2 5/8 inch hole in a dashboard. Would this be for an American car, or a foreign car? Is it for a specific make, or is it a generic item?

This clock was found in a box lot of old tools. It is 3 inches wide, and nickel plated brass, and heavy (1 lb. 3 ounces). The shape seems like an early Buick. Any ideas as to if this is so, and what year?

Hello, Larry, Thanks for your comment! I have revised the title. I stand corrected. I was half asleep when I posted this. I operated this type of switch on various cars well into the 1980s

This switch is from an estate lot of misc. US car parts, mostly of 1940 thru 1965 vintage. Most were GM, but not all. I don't see any marks of the maker on it, but the electric contacts might be definitive.

I got a pair of these at a country auction a few years ago. I was told by the seller that they were from a 1957 Chevy, but that he was not absolutely sure. Are they from a 57 Chevy? If so, do they also fit other years, or other GM makes. Many thanks for any help.

Thank for your suggestion, Joe P. The spot that you indicate on the cover is just a random scratch. I took the cover off, and there was no sight of anything like a part number inside.

I agree that an eBay search for a 1953 Pontiac hubcap should not get dozens of other items, but that is more of eBay's algorithm, than the listers'. I search for a rare 1856 silver dollar, and ebay pukes out about a dozen different common dates. I've bought and sold on eBay since the late nineties. This is a recent development. I think it is AI in action. I do have a few more serious beefs about eBay. Their sales commission is in line with those of auction companies, but then they also charge the same commission on postage. If you sell a $20 dollar brake drum that weighs 40 pounds to someone 3000 miles away, that can kill you. Also, for decades the big catalogue houses like Sears and Wards lobbied against paying out of state sales taxes if the seller was not in that state. This was a solid Constitutional argument against states taxing interstate commerce. Now, if I sell something to a customer in a distant state like Hawaii, the customer there gets dinged on the sales tax. Sears was a better friend to me than Amazon and those places that sell groceries to people too lazy to go to a store. The sales tax is not out of my pocket, but that extra cost to the customer will discourage a certain percentage of sales. There are about 40 states in the USA that I have never set foot in; if they are gouging their inhabitants 8 percent sales tax, that is enough for me to stay out of them. I can count the number of customers who have intentionally stiffed me on one hand. Since the Post Office began tracking packages, customer's claiming an item never arrived is about nil. One must take lots of pictures and have an accurate description to be safe. NEVER use words like new, mint, excellent, or other flashy adjectives to describe condition. I live in a town of 750 people in the inland hills of Maine. On eBay, I sell a lot of hand cranked record player parts, a few old car parts, old sporting goods, old coins, and books and magazines. I recently sold a cowl light from a 1930 Chrysler to a man in New Zealand, and a Trophy for the best chicken in the 1928 Orange County Calif. Fair. If I lived for another 100 years, I couldn't sell this sort of stuff where I live. By the way, the New Zealand buyer remarked that we were 12,000 plus miles apart. If we were much further apart, we would be getting closer. eBay does take time, and it is not for everybody. But, last spring when I picked a 1990's snowboard out a pile of roadside stuff set out for the local spring clean-up week, and got $350.00 for it from some cool dude in Colorado, I wasn't complaining about eBay fees. But it was a good deal for him, and he gave me a nice feedback. On the other side of the coin, I use eBay to buy a lot of maintenance parts for my daily driver, which is s 1987 Volvo 240 wagon. Ignition parts, fuel pumps, brake calipers, gas tanks, and the infamous fuel pump relay. I usually get 2 of a given part; one for immediate use, and one for future replacement as needed. I am a longtime coin collector, and eBay is great way to build my collection, and also to weed out (sell) duplicates.

Thanks for your help, drwatson.

I think these are from a 1940's thru 1950's Ford truck. They look like they were from the side of a hood. They are stainless, and about 1 3/8 inches high by 38 5/8 inches long. Ant help as to year and model will be much appreciated.

Was this an emergency brake, or a regular brake? Looks to be pre WWII vintage.

This horn is marked "THE ELECTRIC AUTOLITE CO. 6 VOLT MADE IN U.S.A." Can anybody tell what cars it was used on?

Sorry, the documentary was on the greatest famines in history. This picture only appeared for a few seconds. Number one was China's Great Leap Forward of the 1959 -1960 era. No cars there, by the way.

I rescued this pair of Stainless steel door bottom trim panels from a scrapyard a few years back. They are fairly heavy gauge, and look like they might have been on a GM or International Pickup, or a four door Suburban or Travelall. They are about 5 3/8 inches high by 39 3/4 inches long. 398809C1 is written on one. Any help is much appreciated!

I rescued this pair of Stainless steel rear fender skirts from a scrapyard a few years back. They are fairly heavy gauge, and look like they might have been on a four door car. They are about 4 3/4 inches high by 30 3/4 inches long. Any help is much appreciated!

That was one of the best looking full size GM cars, ever!

I was watching a documentary about China, and saved this pic. It was taken during their Famine of 1907. Looks like a Packard. Anybody know its Year, or who owned it? Cars of any make must have been rare in China back then.