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Found a copy of the radio installation guide I made for someone; thought I'd post a copy here before I lost it. Might be helpful to someone some day. Notice that you only needed 6 condensors to suppress interference. Imagine having to chase all those down zephyr radio.pdf

The subtitle for every ad like this should be, "Buy my f*** up please." Look at the disastrous angles on the doors now. I wlll never understand why these guys think they can improve on the original design.

Hey -- Just saw this post. I'm sure Don answered all your questions, but just in case he didn't, I have a '37 coupe, so will try to answer as best I can. I assume you are talking about external sheetmetal. As you noted, the rear fenders are different; I *believe* the trunklids are the same, but the placement of the trunk handles and license plates were different across the 3 years. The '37 bumpers are also different (the '37 front and rear bumpers are the same). With regard to the doors, they are the same for '37 and '38, but the '39 is different because it has extra metal at the bottom to "hide" the running boards. Finally, while '37s and '38s both have the running boards, the '38s are longer and have longer SS trim. And Water Jacket is right -- the Lincoln-Zephyr was a mid-priced car, meant to make money for Lincoln (which it did). Now, if Edsel Ford had doubled its price and sold 1/5 as many, who knows what the Zephyr's status would be?

More pics from the ongoing 540K Cabriolet restoration. Hope that frame is beefy enough!

New pic showing the ongoing restoration of a 540K Cabriolet. Some pretty spectacular work here. Those of us who have all-metal bodies should be thankful.

Hey Bill -- I see you are from Louisville. If you go to the Lousville Concours at Churchill Downs, stop by and say hello (we'll be taking the Zephyr). Talk about stables, you certainly have a nice set of thoroughbreds there!

Putting all extraneous purchases on hold until my son makes his college choice

I've been following this thread with interest, and started to do some searches on the Wraith engine. Here's a very detailed discussion about one man's effort to rebuild a Wraith engine -- good reading! 1939 Rolls-Royce Wraith Engine Overhaul, Part V

"I could do with a measurement so I can position the door pillar correctly (b pillar), I have the front pillar all welded in but because my doors are made up from two doors I'm not sure of the correct width. If somebody could measure the distance say from the bottom hinge to the other pillar then I could weld my pillars back into the rockers. Failing that a true size of the door frame width on a 37 coupe would be good." Hey, be glad to do it, but I'm not sure what you meant here. Are you trying to get the measure of the *open* space between the bottom hinge and the back? In any case, if you want to make a quick drawing of the measures you want, I'll be glad to take them for you.

Are you planning to put the battery in the engine bay, or under the front seat as original? If the latter, I can help you with measurements.

Super car ... if I'm correct, I believe it's one of the very early 38s without a backseat.

One can tell pretty quickly it's not quite wild-looking enough to be a French car of the 30s http://www.sportscardigest.com/wp-content/uploads/1937-Panhard-X76-Dynamic.jpg

I guess I'm lucky because my aluminum heads were one of the few things that *didn't* leak. I also used the Felpro head gaskets. One thing I noticed is that my 37 block didn't have the same number of holes as I suppose later blocks did -- perhaps they changed it somewhere along the line to improve cooling?

Ditto what Phil said, Tom

I've been there!

200 miles seems awfully restrictive ...great work!

I'll keep my membership as long as the publications are worth the price

So I guess the non-Cadillac post '48 cars mentioned would be rewarded for having technology that did *not* keep up with the times? I thought full classics were supposed to be differentiated, at least in part, by their superior engineering . What a laugh.

There ya go. I just finished a week in a rental Lincoln MKX -- We need to send them these photos to remind them what style is...

Hey -- Ray Theriault is in Connecticut and he can be reached at ray.theriault@cox.net. I saw the pic of that hood, and I think you'll be miles ahead finding a better one.

Congrats -- If those doors were put together from a sedan, then you probably are missing the window surround pieces unique to the 3-window. If so, the first thing you should do is call Ray Theriault in Connecticut; last I knew, he had one of them for sale. Good luck!

'cause it wrinkles the top (horrors). Don't you know 'nuthin? I've seen some of those really big phaetons and it looks like putting the top up or down would be a half-hour task.

From what I recall, the link to Ruth was pretty tenuous. Just got done looking at the latest Dingman auction results from RM Auctions, and it seemed everything was going for about double what it is worth (with a couple exceptions), so not surprised the car fell off in price after the original auction.

Thanks, Mike -- I'm very fortunate to have nice country roads within a couple miles of my house. This one was actually a lot busier than usual when we took the car out yesterday. Probably the biggest advantage though is I can drive pretty much year-round, since we rarely get ice or snow, and as a result they rarely salt the roads.

Hey Frenchy -- Last I knew, it was in the collection of a guy named Joel Champagne who lives in Louisiana and runs a beverage distribution business (great name, eh?). His collection manager actually provided me with some photos that helped in the restoration.