John_Mereness

These are by Boulevard Photographic and in Detroit Public Library Collection. And while I love the 30's car photos I also love these.

Also, someone made the badge that would be an accessory that mounts on the top of the license plate mount - aluminum castings. I want to say it has an airplane at each end in a circle and says Franklin in the middle.

I wondered where the Hank was coming from - saw the post from Hook.

You would be amazed at what I have been able to touch up - it just takes time and patience. I have been lucky to get paint with some car and others I have had a pint matched at the automotive paint store or call a good friend who has a sign painting business and we mix 1/4 pint or so using his On-Shot Sign Painters Enamel. Also, at the automotive paint store you should be able to get touch up brushes - they are like a toothpick with a minuscule ball of cotton on the end, horsehair/squirrel/mink/... artist brushes, a nib-too (it is like a file on a block of wood), some 2000 or finer sandpaper, your favorite polishing compound - and again lots of patience. Periodically, I get the air brush out and I have had the paint store mix me up some rattle cans on occasion too. Also, make sure you keep your paint in good cans/bottles and sometimes I store in refrigerator too.

If you want to get the dashboard parts working, this is your best bet - BEAUTIFUL parts too and more than worth every penny of price ! https://straight-eight.com/product-category/king-seeley-hobson-fuel-gauge/

The RR PI was near impossible to drive with the divider window up - it caused odd reflections and light patterns on the windshield. I do not know if that was because the windshield was slanted, if because the of the green tint to the divider glass, or ... - but whatever it was it was incredibly distracting. The good news was that it was one of the few divider windowed cars that was designed for the driver - super nice driving position that was better than 99% of late 20's and 30's cars.

Cadillac - 1928 Billie Dove - Billie Dove (1903–1997) Actress. In her silent heyday, this ravishing and highly photogenic star, known for her voluptuous femininity on the silent screen, rivaled that of Mary Pickford, Marion Davies and Clara Bow in popularity

Start a totally new post - word will travel: "Wanted Reproduction 1930 -1931 Franklin Grill Shell Script" made by Hank Manwell or Dave Bell" Then post a picture of your car so people know what you are going to do with it.

It's a LaSalle Touring car - but the collection of photos that it is from is the holy grail of Studebaker photos from the period - a good hundred plus of them (some indexed as Studebaker's and also some poorly indexed - it takes hours upon hours of detective work). https://usclibstore.usc.edu/Whittington

Thank god you are doing this work - the photos are lucky to survive and so many that are in archives are in negative form, slide form, improperly sized, mis-indexed, someone focused on a "best" photo for prior publication with a series of related often being better detail when restoring a car, life happening over time - some close calls with disasters and just age/time, and very-very unfortunately theft, plus there are the private side collections facing very much the same challenges.

The license plate has been relocated to the driver's taillight area as it must have interfered with the luggage rack. And by her heal is a back-up lamp. Spotlamps were popular to find house number and building addresses pre mass use of street lighting.

I suspect this fellow is blocking the best part of this Lincoln - which I assume a Derham body

I really like the "look" of this Lincoln: built for Mr. Miner, Southern California, 1930

How to detail your Auburn V-12 engine

Yes, Pierce Brothers in LA

Commonly seen photos, though rarely seen as a grouping

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