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  1. Trying to find out where the clutch pedal return spring hooks onto on my 38 Zephyr, i know where it goes onto the clutch arm but where does the other end contact. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers Jim
  2. I have for sale an EE-23 Stromberg, will need a rebuild but nothing is seized and all shafts turn freely. Looking for $500 plus shipping. I am based in the UK put i ship worldwide. Cheers Jim
  3. Do you know what year is the crank>
  4. Hi Ray, yep I know what you mean reference bearings size and availability. When I build V8 flattys I never like to go any bigger than 40 thou. I have ordered a set of 60 rod bearings from old.parts, thanks for the heads up just to get the engine going. I do have another crank for a 46 engine with the bigger rod crank journals. This is on +40 already but am thinking of grinding the journal size down to to std to use the earlier rods. Have done this on V8’s a few times. Are there any other differences between the early and later cranks?
  5. Also need some +50 or +60 rod bearings as Egge have just got back to me and haven’t got any left.
  6. Thanks for the reply. I deal with Mike at H&H quite a lot already but unfortunately he hasn’t got any. Also Egge only list up to +30.
  7. Desperately looking for a complete set of +50 Main bearings for my 38 as the crank is right on the limit for the +40. Also a set of +10 pistons and rings for the 2.750 bore. Any help is much appreciated. Cheers Jim
  8. Next job was to get the underside prepped primered and coated.
  9. Finally got this into it's first primer stage, with all the welding done. Slowly i'm getting there.
  10. My thoughts exactly, and the only person i can come up with that fits in with the time-line and the reason is Dr Esders. Over the weekend i also managed to find that all Dr Esders art and antiques where sold at 3 different auctions in Paris 1941 and the auction house is still going. So my next job is to get in contact with them to see if they have any records showing what happened to his car/plane collection (just need to learn some French). It's unlikely as by this time the Nazis had invaded so most records have probable been destroyed but you never know.
  11. Funnily enough he was good friends with Andre Citroen and the aircraft manufacturer Henri Farman as well.
  12. Horses for Courses as they say . The Cord is an absolute stunner.
  13. Apparently he said that he nor his wife would never driver at night and that they ruined the look of the cars.
  14. Also found out over the weekend Dr Esders had a collection of over 20 cars all with front headlights removed. Here's his more well know cars The Hispano, Bugatti and the Roller.
  15. Here's a photo and description of a typical American cars with French light conversion. Kindly sent to me by Mr Colin Spong. Photo shows 1938 Convertible Coupe. “La Fete des Artistes du Tremblay . (just outside Paris) Mlle.Mistinquelt, dans concours au concours d’elegance automobile , 16 June 1938” Mistinquelt was the highest paid performer in the world at that time and the one time lover of Maurice Chevalier. Note the Bosch headlamp lens and the big Marchal lamps fitted to all French 1938’s as far as I know.
  16. Thanks Walt, I know Colin well. h He has been a massive help with Parts and Info. He is the one who found the link on the Esders cars and suggested i should put something on this Board to see if we could find any more info.
  17. Thanks, have been looking for one in my price range for about 30 years and still can't believe i finally managed to get one. It was in far better condition than i thought it would be. Especially as i brought it blind at an auction in France as we could travel to see it due to Covid and travel restrictions. the first picture is one of 3 that we had to go by and the pictures below where taken once we got it home after a good clean and emptying 10 large bags worth of leaves and about 30 empty bottles of wine dating back to the 70's.
  18. Trying to find some history on my 38 Zephyr. This is the one that has no headlights installed on the front wings. After reading an article on Pre-war car https://www.prewarcar.com/the-esders-rolls-royce-phantom-ii-a-car-with-elegance-and-a-story-to-tell could this be one of his. Here's my thoughts below. Following on from the Story about Dr Esders Phantom and Royale. I recently brought from Auction in the South of France a 1938 Lincoln Zephyr Coupe which was last registered in Paris. Now the strange thing with this particular Zephyr Coupe is it had no front headlghts installed in the front wings to the point where the holes in the front wings to fit them had what looked like they not been cut out in the first place. On closer inspection the holes had been filled with a panel and welded up, extremely well as you could hardly see any of the joins. And with no form of lead or filler work on this difficult panel was surely done by a craftsman of the highest order. At a later date it had some agricultural front brackets made to come of the front bumper irons and a pair of Marchal headlights installed with the wires pushed through the grilles. I say at a later date as to go to the expense of getting the holes welded up in the first place to such a high standard and then to crudely fit some Marchal lights surely must of been done later down the line. Now we know American headlights were not allowed to be used on the roads in France but most American cars just added extra Marchal headlights to use instead and i have nether seen any to go to the expense of completely removing the original lights. So to my point, i am trying to find out the history on the Zephyr and after reading the Article on Dr Esders could this be one of his later cars. No headlights fitted the same as the Phantom and Royale, Brought new in Paris in 1938 which i believe is when he sold the Phantom and Royale so maybe this was the replacement for these, he studied in the USA so might have been partial to a bit of American iron and after he died in 1940 some else who acquired the car fit the Marcel lights. This is all conjecture, but just trying to join the dots and trying to find the history on this unusual Lincoln Zephyr. Any-one with any info please let me know as i would love to know it's history. Cheers Jim
  19. Trying to find some history on my 38 Zephyr. This is the one that has no headlights installed on the front wings. After reading an article on Pre-war car https://www.prewarcar.com/the-esders-rolls-royce-phantom-ii-a-car-with-elegance-and-a-story-to-tell could this be one of his. Here's my thoughts below. Following on from the Story about Dr Esders Phantom and Royale. I recently brought from Auction in the South of France a 1938 Lincoln Zephyr Coupe which was last registered in Paris. Now the strange thing with this particular Zephyr Coupe is it had no front headlghts installed in the front wings to the point where the holes in the front wings to fit them had what looked like they not been cut out in the first place. On closer inspection the holes had been filled with a panel and welded up, extremely well as you could hardly see any of the joins. And with no form of lead or filler work on this difficult panel was surely done by a craftsman of the highest order. At a later date it had some agricultural front brackets made to come of the front bumper irons and a pair of Marchal headlights installed with the wires pushed through the grilles. I say at a later date as to go to the expense of getting the holes welded up in the first place to such a high standard and then to crudely fit some Marchal lights surely must of been done later down the line. Now we know American headlights were not allowed to be used on the roads in France but most American cars just added extra Marchal headlights to use instead and i have nether seen any to go to the expense of completely removing the original lights. So to my point, i am trying to find out the history on the Zephyr and after reading the Article on Dr Esders could this be one of his later cars. No headlights fitted the same as the Phantom and Royale, Brought new in Paris in 1938 which i believe is when he sold the Phantom and Royale so maybe this was the replacement for these, he studied in the USA so might have been partial to a bit of American iron and after he died in 1940 some else who acquired the car fit the Marcel lights. This is all conjecture, but just trying to join the dots and trying to find the history on this unusual Lincoln Zephyr. Any-one with any info please let me know as i would love to know it's history. Cheers Jim
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