Keith L.

MIke, Don't know. Anybody know? I just checked Google Maps and they list five Somervilles: MA, NJ, TX, TN, and AL I have a oil change sticker on the door jam from Santa Monica, CA from the 60's. Before that, who knows.

Dave, I send one out to you. A 4th of July gift.

Messed up somehow. Sorry. Here's the photos

Attached is a copy of my build sheet for my ’41 three-window coupe mentioned in an earlier post. It’s the build card that traveled down the assembly line in 1941. Date the car was finished, where it was shipped, body color, interior material, key numbers , overdrive, etc. Any extra oprions. This is what they give you. At the time I went to Greenfield Village in 2008 I took along my Zephyr number and I went next door to the Research Center. Gave them my number (H124060) and within five minutes I was holding the original card. If you own a Lincoln and have not taken advantage of the archives at the Benson research Center, I recommend you do so. At the time I did mine it was $21.20 total.

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Jeff is the best thing going on this forum. His post alone "Post your pictures or look at mine" has generated over 9,500 views. He participates! He is knowlegable, and I look forward to what he has to post.

I put my car in storage in Utah ten years ago because we moved to Lost Wages and the cost for storage in Utah was $70. per month as opposed to $260 in Vegas. Made sense. However, now I couldn’t work on it. I needed to find a way to fulfill my need to work on my Zephyr even though it was 120 miles away, so I decided to make the dash knobs for it. I put out the word on this forum for pristine knobs to copy and John Murphy replied. He would loan me his set in exchange for making him a second set for a ’41 sedan he had. Word got out and I sold the second set, and third, and fourth and then members started asking for other years. The next logical step was to try my hand at steering wheels. Through it John became my good friend and I met some wonderful people along the way. Only problem is, now that I have my three window home, it still needs the interior plastic and steering wheel. Attached is a photo of my three window Zephyr dash.

After ten years in storage in Utah. I brought my 3 window home to Colorado. Great road trip with my brother. 696 miles. BTW, I took the skirts, parking light bezels and hubcaps off for the road. Precaution. Keith

Do you mean the ashtray and glove box pulls or the inside lining?

Attached are two photos of restored Zephyrs. One is a '38 with cream plastic glove box handels and the other is a '39 with chrome. I always thought Lincoln switched to chrome in '39 because they were stronger and didn't break as easlaly. Maybe a few late '38's sported chrome. Who knows?

The glove box and ashtray handles on the 1938 Zephyr were plastic, dark cream in color. In 1939 they switched to chrome plated metal. Same style, just made stronger. Attached is a photo of the '38 with mounting screws. The ashtray and glove box take the same hanble just the mounting is different. The '38's will work for you, technically they'll be wrong, but... BTW, for a small fee I could cast them in the '39 color; medium amber. Keith Order form 1938_2015.pdf Order form '39-2015.pdf

Wayne, I was wrong, sorry. You have the corect headlight ring, 1941. the parking light is a Ford for '48. To review: the fenders are 1940, the headlight rings are '41 Zephyrs and the parking light is a Ford. Here are some photos.

Wayne, Looks to me as if you have '40 fenders, a '41 grill and someone along the way added '41 Ford headlight rings and '48 parking/turn signal lights. I owned a '41 Ford so I know the headlight ring. Ill try to find some pictures to illustrate what they should look like....and not Keith

Nothing to see here. Move along. Yawn. If their taget is China. I sure they will build alot of the car there. No so good for Detroit.

Hello, my name is Keith Lee. Usually I’m on the Lincoln Zephyr forum, however I thought I would drop into the Plymouth folks. I make reproduction interior knobs and steering wheels for the ’36-48 Lincolns and a few other makes. Find me under “knobsoup” to see my posts. Several years ago a neighbor asked me to reproduce the gearshift, crank knobs and door escutcheons for his ’49 Plymouth. I made them from his pristine samples. They are cast in a non-fading UV stable urethane resin, in the correct 1949 translucent cream color. After casting they are heat-cured to ensure hardness, inspected, then polished to a high-gloss. I still have a few knobs and escutcheons left if you are interested. Send me an email. knobsoup@gmail.com

I make brand new '40 Lincoln Zephyr steering wheels, Tan and translucent red. Here's a post. http://forums.aaca.org/f128/soybean-tenite-early-plastic-steering-wheels-366773.html Keith

Attached are several heater knobs: '40 Continetal) 2 speed and 4 speed (translucent red, Zephyrs are tan like 40ZephSedan's post), '41 4 speed for Zephyr (also make 2 speed)(Continentals have red lettering) and last the '46 heater set-up. I also make the blank knobs for '40 (red and tan) and the blank knobs for '41, '42(cream) and '46-'48 (tanslucent red). Keith

These photos were taken outside the main gate of the Warner Brothers Studio in Burbank on Oct. 5, 1945 during a film industry strike that turned into a riot. Coincidently, I was born thirteen days earlier on Sept 26th, about a mile away. Can you identify the car we love so dear?

Jim, Yes it is. Keith

A website? Well, I started making one four years ago and never got around to finishing it. www.knobsoup.com You won’t find much there. A background photo that’s all. My wife put me on Facebook. knobsoup. She lets me know when someone's knocking. When my name spread and work started coming in, I found I didn’t need to advertise. Plus I have personal art and casting projects to challenge myself. You can find me though. knobsoup@gmail.com or 702 588-1934 8a to 6p mountain time. Here’s my latest project. Casting a prefect ’54 Lincoln back-up lens. Along with four steering wheels in the works and other knobs, my personal project in my spare time is making a perfect 1940 steering wheel in translucent colors with a custom horn button. Please Help! I have collected around eight 1940 wheels looking for perfect hand grips. I have restored the outer rim and the hub already, made my mother molds, But I need to duplicate the delicate hand grip area. I have not found one yet. Will pay top dollar. Or a loan, no harm is done to the wheel. Thanks, Keith

Keith here, Thanks for all the nice comments. Now my head is to big to get through the door of my studio. See my next post.

Kevin, Perhaps I can help in your quest. Attached is a post I put on the forum several years ago.. Still pertinent: http://forums.aaca.org/f128/new-knobs-knobsoup-inc-316332.html Also here is an order form for the '42 thru '48 interior items I make. Keith Lee, Knobsoup, Inc. Order form 1942-48. 2015.pdf

Derrick, Very nice. More photos please, esp. the interior. I own a '41 3 window, in about the same shape when I got it in '96.

Lee, Very nice indeed.

John, Keith here. Attached are several photos from my research files. I think your black ball is incorrect. The first photo is a diagram from a '37 Zephyr handbook. It looks to be a flattened black knob. The other photos are from restored cars. All show a flattened knob, same color as the dash knobs. The last photo shows all the '37 knobs I make...and a flattened grey/green shift knob. I can however use the shift mold and cast a black knob. After I uploaded the photos they are not in the order I described. Oh well.