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Sounds like it may be a rod bearing.

If the locks have not been changed, the trunk key should be the same as the glove box key. You can take the glove box lock to a locksmith and have a key made.

Show and Judges registration is now open online. Thanks to the work of our National staff, your show registration can now be paid for by credit card just like Judges registration has been for the past few years. For those attending both shows, you only need to pay for trailer parking or motor home parking (and Ice Cream Social) on one of the two registrations not both. Trailer parking, motor home parking and judges parking passes will be mailed about a week before the show. Dave Bowman Chief Judge

Try again today. They are willing to expand the block as needed until the cutoff date of January 28. We will see what they will do if the block is full at that time.

Online registration is open for both shows and judging. The room block at Charlotte is being expanded, but book soon if you want to stay at the Embassy Suite at a discounted rate.

8103134947 is a strange serial number. Maybe a phone number? Post a photo of the serial number on the driver side A pillar and a photo of the body plate under hood and we can help you. The serial number will only identify the model as a 1960 Chrysler Windsor, the plant it was built in (Jefferson Ave, Detroit..I think that is the only plant where Chryslers were built.) and the sequential production number off the line in the plant. This production number is for all Chryslers built in the plant not just the Windsor. In 1960 Dodge Polara and Matador lines were built in this plant as well. I don't know if they had their own production number sequence or if they were combined in the Chrysler production sequence. BTW, there are no "matching numbers" on this car.

In the early 1960's, foam backed cloth was not used as a headliner material. If you have foam on a perforated backing board that is about 18"-24" wide held up by chrome looking plastic strips, you have all that was originally installed in the car. This foam was textured and painted, no cloth over it. Generally, it was an off white, but should match the color on the sun visors. To my knowledge, no one is reproducing this material. I have a car that used this material and was replaced years ago with cloth glued directly to the panels and needs to be redone. My plan, which I have only experimented with, is to purchase the foam backed cloth headliner material and rake the foam side with a stiff wire brush in a uniform pattern across the foam. It will be rough, but the original had a rough texture to it. The ribs you make on the foam should run across the car. Install the foam, cloth side down on the panels with contact cement. Spray the foam with the color paint you need it to be. I would use a SEM product as it is compatible with plastics and foam. Post a picture of what is there of the headliner and I can confirm if it is this style.

You're making progress. Your test shows that either the solenoid or the starter is bad. To test if it is the starter or solenoid, connect a jumper cable to the output terminal of the solenoid and touch the other end of the jumper cable to the battery. only one cable is needed. If the starter operates, the solenoid is bad, if not, the starter is bad. Have you actually talked to Classic Generators? It looks like they only service Delco starters and generators. I don't see anything MoPar related on their site.

DPC and HPOF cars are parked in year order, within the award class they are seeking. These will be assigned spaced at Charlotte. Also, there are no DPC or HPOF cars in the Grand National, only the National on Saturday. It will give you a chance to walk around and meet some new people. Dave Bowman Chief Judge

I'm not sure about GM, but Chrysler used 16" wheels in 1946 and switched to 15" in 1947.

Brian, there is not a special rate, so shop around for better prices as other area hotels. Judges registration will be open in the next day or so and the meet registration open by early next week at the latest. CORRECTION: THERE IS A SPECIAL AACA RATE AT THE EMBASSY SUITES OF $179.00

Your steering wheel is most likely an 18" diameter steering wheel. The large diameter gives you the leverage to turn the steering wheel so you need to replace it with an 18" steering wheel. A smaller wheel will be very hard to turn, but may work if you only need one to move it in the garage and not drive it. I recast steering wheels and have several unrestored 1939-40 Cadillac and LaSalle steering wheels that I can recast on an exchange basis or supply for the customers use during the recasting time. Contact me and we can discuss. www.danddautomobilia.com

If you are a paid member of AACA, there is 3 hours of free research each year by the Library.

The '39-'40 Cadillac and LaSalle steering wheels have a step bend in the spokes so that the horn ring is not above the spokes. Removing a spoke requires cutting the welds inside the hub and at the rim. When new spokes are made, the bends must be perfectly in alignment, bent in a custom jig. Then the spokes must be welded back in the hub and to the rim all while held in alignment in a jig so that the hub is perpendicular to the rim. Again, not impossible, but I would recommend finding another steering wheel at less cost than replacing the spokes for this steering wheel.

I have a two volume set of "The Best of Old Cars Weekly" that includes most of the articles from 1971-1978. Do you have any interest?

That's why we are here... to help each other.

Past friends (no longer here) told me of their 1950 trip on the Alcan Highway to set up the beginnings of the NoRad System while in the Air Force. The bought a new 1950 Dodge for the trip and broke the rear end housing on the trip and had a several days wait for a replacement to be shipped in. They were early AACA members in Alaska.

Don't glue it, you can't clean it out if you do. There should be a rubber gasket in the top of the filter that may need to be replaced. You may find that an "O" ring will work also.

I've reproduced those lens in urethane resin, if you find the body and need lens. www.danddautomobilia.com

You can turn the horn button either way. Press down on the center of the horn button with the heel of your hand as low as it will go and then twist your hand to the left (or right). It will take less than 1/8 of a turn for it to clear the locking tabs. Then release the pressure and it should pop up from the spring pressure. Either you aren't pushing down far enough or turning the horn button far enough.

What year did Chevrolet first offer disc brakes? That may have required a wheel change resulting in the hubcap change.

Charlotte registration information should be on line within the next two weeks. Recommended hotels are: Embassy Suites 704-455-8200 AACA Special Rate $179 Comfort Inn 704-761-6803 Wingate by Marriott 704-979-1300 Hampton Inn 704-793-9700 Courtyard by Marriott 704-453-2600 Residence Inn 704-454-7862 Homewood Suites 980-313-3100 Also, Hilton University Place (5miles) 704-547-7444

Hampton Coach and LeBaron Bonney through several sales were bought by Echlers, who decided to stop manufacturing any products inhouse and only become a reseller. Last month, they scraped all the upholstery patterns. I don't know if they tried to find a buyer or not, but I know that there are not many people who are interested in getting into the business of supporting our hobby. Another business supporting our hobby for many years apparently decided to discontinue there 1930-1950's parts reproductions and concentrate on Mustangs only. There is money to be made out there, I know, I'm out there as a supplier. I can't find help who is interested in working for a good wage. We need to find a way to connect sellers of restorations businesses with potential buyers of these businesses so we don't loose the mold, patterns and knowledge of how to reproduces these items.

The Embassy Suites on John Q Hammond Dr is the host hotel. There are no events at the hotel, so it may be beneficial to shop rates at all of the hotels in the area. Registration should be open by mid January.

I've never seen failure of the rods but rather the old plastic breaking off of the rods. If your rods are broken, you need to look for a different steering wheel to have recast. 1939 and 1940 LaSalle and Cadillac used the same steering wheel. I have several cores in stock. www.danddautomobilia.com