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  1. Found it ! The service bulletin about painting the Series 14 hood front center bar is #566 - March 22, 1930. Does not say when the change took place, such as the usual after a car number. It just says, ".....highly desirable that this work be done on cars now in owner's and dealer's hands. It also shows an illustration of how the center bar should be painted to show off the bullet point ends of the bar. I prefer the center bar left chromed to contrast with the black shutters rather than the hood front looking like a big black hole. Paul
  2. Yes, the shutter assembly drawings for 30 and 31 seem to be missing. But there are enough surviving orginal cars and some factory literature to go by. For Series 14 the hood front shutters are painted black as standard. Yes, some cars had black fenders, but black fenders or not, the shutters were black. Some shutters are painted body color or fender, like yours and the Marion Davies 30 Pursuit that are known to be restored, but that color many not be as it was when the car left the factory ????? Verifying that would take researching back to before they were restored. Remember that the hood front was to have the cars look like the cars with water cooled engines. There is a service bulletin later on in '30 about the factory starting to paint the center bar black also, and it goes into detail how to do it to earlier '30s.. You see that on some original '30s. Paul
  3. I agree with Barney. Left and right trunk rack mounts. Paul
  4. Martin, hi. The hood front "slats" were painted black for 1930. Brushed chrome starting in '31. Mid '30 production the factory put out a service bulletin about also painting the grill shell's center bar black. The contrasting center bar chromed is unique to Franklin and not all 30 owners like the look of it all black. Paul
  5. Jeff Moyer, the grandson of the car builder, contacted me about 30 years ago to re-wood the body of the Moyer touring that his grandfather left him. I think he still lives down near Binghamton???? Paul
  6. And the 516 not only covers many early engines, it works over a wide range of compression ratios from the original 4.75 compression of the Series 12B to 7:1 compression ratio of modified sidedraft engines. Paul
  7. They missed a huge one here in central NY State, with over 200 vehicles. Home - Northeast Classic Car Museum Paul
  8. The new numbering system isn't always heat range related. Champion 518 is a 7/8-18 thread for Series 10, 11 A&B, 12A engines. What you want for your Series 13 is Champion 516. It's an 18 mm thread. It works for all Franklin engines starting with the 1928 Series 12B through to '34. Paul
  9. A '33 Pontiac Convertible Coupe that I re-wooded for a Customer in NJ had all wood body framing from the cowl on back. Franklins used wood body framing right up to the end in '34. Trucks and buses even later. I got a call to give an estimate to re-wood a post WWII double decker bus that was sitting in a junk yard in Hempstead Long Island for an advertising company that was hoping to restore it to use for mobile advertising. The body was all sheet steel formed around wood framing. It would have run into the tens of thousands to get all the sheet metal unwrapped from around the wood of the body and all the many window openings to replace it. The deal was cost prohibitive. Paul
  10. I got to drive the finished restoration of the '28 Series 12B Franklin with the new white ash chassis sills shown in my picture on the first page of this thread. With full elliptic springs and the wood chassis, the smoothness of the ride has to be felt to be believed. Even for a car quite light for its size. There is no seat-of-the-pants feel to bumps in the road. Not even at railroad crossings. Just tire noise from crossing the tracks. The closest I've seen to a ride that smooth was driving a friend's 30 Hispano Suiza limo. Except at half the weight of the Hiso, the Franklin had a much lighter and responsive feel. Paul
  11. Close. Franklin called for such "fiber grease" for Spicer driveshaft universal joints to resist spin-out of the grease. Paul
  12. As I mentioned in your other post, just the owner's manual and in the Q,&A section of the Club's website Members Only section. I know because I wrote some of it, along with pictures showing details. Are you a member of the H.H. Franklin Club? If not, you're missing out on a wealth of info that will save you much more than the cost of membership. www.franklincar.org Paul
  13. Even the steel framed Franklins used a lot of wood into the '30s Here is a '31 Dietrich Convertible Speedster body after being re-wooded. For those that don't like naked car bodies, don't look. 😁 Paul
  14. I don't know about all the Ford Model A body styles, but you can buy kits to replace the body's wood framing for some close cars. Paul
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