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CONTENTS ON THE COVER: Christmas in Wichita, Kansas. 1940 Ford 4-Door Sedan. Photo by Eric Lundgren.

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DEPARTMENTS... Events Calendar……………….. 3

Rons’s Garage…………………. 29

From the Oval Office………….. 4

The Sportsman Corner………... 41

Letters to the Editor…………… 5

V-8 Views Vignettes…………… 73

Foundation News………………. 10

The Sportsman Corner………... 75

From the Factory……………… 17

Regional Group News…………. 91

Ford Notes by Lincoln………… 18

Remembering Members………. 96

The All American Ford……….. 24

Tech Advisors………………….. 98

Crime Stories…………………..

Classified Ads………………….. 107

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Annual Statement of Ownership……… 2022 Eastern National Meet…………... 2022 Western National Meet………….. Wisconsin National Driving Tour……..

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Filmstrip Fotos…………………………. Baker Motor Company………………... A Pair of ‘42s…………………………… 2021 Drive Your V-8 Day Pt. 2………...

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Border National Driving Tour………... RG Newsletter Competition Update….. A Garage Tour to Remember…………. The Halloween Ford…………………… Hershey 2021…………………………… Wrecker Service Truck………………... 2021 DesMoines Concours……………..

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Nickels’ Fire……………………………. Work In Progress………………………. Northwestern Motor Company……….. Did You Know?........................................ Christmas at Sundbald Ford………….. A Christmas Ford………………………

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The Parker’s Fords…………………….. 1932 Phaeton………………………........ 1932-1934 Australian Fords…………... 1933 Ford Truck……………………….. 1935 Deluxe Touring Sedan…………… 2021 Membership Drive……………….. They’re Still Out There………………...

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Ford Bolts………………………………. 66 Dad’s Generation………………………. 67

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2022 April 1-3, 2022 49th Annual Texas Tour - South Texas Regional Group #71, Blanco, Texas. “See the Hill Country View in 2022.” Come and experience Blanco, TX, and enjoy your Flathead Ford or Mercury or Lincoln! We have events planned for Friday including self-directed tours of the Rexrod Shop, owned by Keith Tardell, the Martin Brothers Shop, made famous on "Iron Resurrection," as well as local breweries, wineries and distilleries. Friday night we will officially welcome you with a reception and activities for your pleasure. Saturday will be filled with a driving tour on back roads to various Hill Country destinations. The Banquet and Awards presentation on Saturday night will be held in the historic former Blanco County Courthouse, used in the movie “True Grit,” starring Jeff Bridges. Host hotel is the Best Western Plus Luxury Inn & Suites, Blanco, TX 830-833-5697. Register before January 31st, 2022 to be entered in a drawing for a refund of one (1) car and driver registration fee! For those preferring a more rugged stay, Blanco State Park is located just a mile south of the host hotel. Their number is 830833-4333. The overflow motel is the Blanco County Inn, 830-8334502, BlancoCountyInn.com. For more information about the tour,

2022 email Terry & Sarah Baxter: sarahmwb5253@gmail.com. June 1-6 Eastern National Meet, hosted by Volunteer V-8 Ford Regional Group #97, Fr anklin, TN. For schedule of activities and early registration form visit efv8.org and click on “Upcoming Events,” or call 630-858-9424, 2022enm.com. July 9-14 Western National Meet, hosted by Puget Sound Regional Group #18, Wenatchee, Washington. Wenatchee was chosen for its small city hospitality, ease of driving vintage vehicles and ample and affordable hotel rooms. Registration information to come. August 23-28 Wisconsin Transportation Driving Tour, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This will be a ‘spoke tour,’ with multiple days traveling, but always returning to the same overnight location.. Tours of Harley Davidson, Pabst Mansion or Mitchell Park Conservatory, Miller Brewery, the National Railroad Museum, the Automobile Gallery, Troy Electric Railroad Museum and more! Bruce Nelson, Chairperson, 651482-8940 or nelsb01@msn.com. September 2022 The Border Affair Driving Tour, Color ado

2022 and New Mexico. Plan to spend the third week of September, 2022, (Friday 9/16 through Friday 9/23) driving the “road less traveled.” Enjoy an all-day excursion on the Cumbres & Toltec scenic railroad, Fort Garland, Native American settlements, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Chimney Rock National Monument and more. This tour even features a drive on a road cut through a huge volcanic dike. Louis Mraz, Chairperson, 11195 East Warren Ave., Aurora, CO 80014. 303-755-4637 (MT. Time) or lfmj60@aol.com.

2023 January 8-13, 2023 14th Annual Early Ford V-8 National Meet, hosted by Northern New Zealand Regional Group #103, in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Angus Quality Hotel. $160 per night for single/double occupancy. Mention the Early Ford V-8 Club for this rate. First 45 bookings are guaranteed free parking on premise. Reach the hotel at: hospitality@theangus.co.nz. No city driving. Strait Ferry discount. Contact Bryan Cossey, bcosseynz@gmail.com.

June 11-17, 2023 60th Anniversary Grand National Meet of the Early Ford V-8 Club of America. Mor e info to come. Plan to attend!

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FROM THE OVAL OFFICE 2021 IN REVIEW It is difficult to believe we are now at the end of 2021 and are so quickly experiencing Thanksgiving, the Holiday Season, and a new year at our front doorstep. Without a doubt, time appears to be moving faster and all of us are discovering we must adapt to change quicker as we remain facing unprecedented times. The Early Ford V-8 Club experienced similar challenges this year as we realized need to adjust President Caldwell receiving and execute faster with purpose. As declaration as an Honorary an example, the Board adjusted its Texan, by RG 122 President response to the pandemic by th Ken Lewis, at the 48 authorizing each RG to self-manage Annual Texas Tour. reaction to Covid impacts by organizing meetings and events per directives issued by local, state, and federal entities.

Response by the Board not only required swifter reaction to challenges, but innovation to recover from pandemic inactivity. Examples include the Virtual Car Show, enhancing communication to RG Presidents via a quarterly global Zoom meeting and a Membership Drive to aid in maintaining membership. Other challenges accepted include replacement of our esteemed editor Jerry Windle, after 25 years of service, with Shannon Olson who accepted the position with grace, skill, and confidence. Her mid-year transition has resulted in a seamless transparency by continuing V8-Times tradition with her personal flavor. Jerry, we continue to thank you for your years of service and trust you will enjoy your role as Editor Emeritus. We look forward to future articles of interest as you submit them for inclusion in the magazine. Shannon, you have been accepted and are appreciated for assuming the V-8 Times Editor role with no interruption to the magazine while maintaining its valued history and tradition. Another innovation introduced during the year has been the implementation of a digital edition of the V-8 Times, available at no charge, to those who desire to access the magazine earlier and who choose to view online publications. Please refer to the special insert, included in this edition, which serves as an access guide to enjoy the digital experience. Perhaps you will remove it and consider placing it next to your computer for ease of entry to our website. On a personal note, Carolyn and I attended our first annual Texas Tour in September, sponsored by RG 122 Big Country, and successfully overseen by President Ken Lewis. Ken and participating Texas RGs are to be acknowledged for their valuable contributions to

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FROM THE OVAL OFFICE CONTINUED this successful 48th tour. The meet was well attended by many participants as well as Board representation from Directors Rick President Caldwell “roasted” with hat, Claybaugh th boots and gun during the 48 and Lou Annual Teas Tour. Mraz. Also enjoying the experience were past national Presidents Bob York and Ray Papciak. Do not forget the two meets that are scheduled for 2022 and consider meet registration soon, as well as

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REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD! Hello Shannon, Congratulations on your new position. My name is Joe and I have a mail order business selling parts for 1932-48 Fords. I have a story you might be interested in for the V-8 Times magazine.

This past June, a customer of ours, Jim Busack, of

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securing hotel reservations, because you will not want to be left out of our first regional meets since 2019. You are also encouraged make plans for attending the 2023 Grand National Meet that will be here before we know it. I thank not only the Board for a productive year, but each RG and member who has supported the Early Ford V-8 Club through personal dedication, interest, and participation. I look forward to being your President for another year to work with a Board and staff who remain proactively dedicated to their commitment to enrich this Club.

Have a wonderful and blessed Holiday Season and New Year. I look forward to being your President again next year as we the Board continues to introduce plans and ideas for a successful 2022. God Bless,

Clyde, OH, told us the story of being reunited with his 1934 coupe. I asked if he could write it down and send it in with a couple of pictures to put in the magazine. Below is what he sent. Joe Lemelin Joe’s Antique Auto I, Jim Busack, had to sell my 1934 Ford 5-Window Coupe, for $60.00, in October 1970. I tried to get it back but, "No Deal!" My son, David, was only four months old. Now, 51 years later, David asked me to come over on Sunday, June 13, 2021 to help him with a hood on a car. But he really surprised me with my car. Life is good! Happy 80th Birthday to me! The car was the same. All of the parts were still there. Even the title had not changed and was still in my name. This is as told by David

Busack the son: A very good friend of mine found this coupe in a garage in Sandusky. When he was telling me about it. I told him that my Pop sold a 1934 Ford 5-window to a guy in Sandusky 50 years ago. Could it be the same car? Pop has talked about and regretted selling that coupe. Then, I see a picture of the title. The guy never even put the car in his own name! The title still had my Pop's name and our old address on the front. The ending is just as good. My very good friend Doug Cantley decided to step aside and let me buy the coupe back so that I could give it to my Pop. We surprised him with it in my garage. I have never seen my Pop cry, but he almost did. My Pop turns 80 this month, so it's kind of a Father's Day/Birthday present. And he still has front and rear fenders, the dash, grille, seats, radiator, etc, etc.

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I attended a military reunion, for a group of radar station veterans, in Dayton, Ohio, in late October 2021.

Dear Shannon,

Since I was “close” to Auburn, Indiana, I decided to drive up to the Early Ford V8 Foundation Museum. The Museum was great. I also took the time to go to the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. It was worth the drive to Auburn, Indiana. Thanks. George Hammett, Regional Group #163 CAN YOU FIND THE FORDS? Hi Shannon, Shannon,

How do you like this great picture?! The car in the

This Ford Tractor Dealership is in Senaca Rock, West Virginia. We were there several years ago and tried to buy the Ford Tractor Sign. However, it wasn't for sale, so it is still there. At that time, the owner had some restored tractors in the building. James & Velma Parsons, Normantown, WV

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center is a 1935 Ford Cabriolet. There is a 1948 Ford Tudor Sedan on the left, next to the 1959 Buick, plus a 1940 Ford Deluxe Coupe, next to the 1935 Ford Cabriolet. On the right, below the white Rambler American, there is a 1949-1951 Ford Woody. These are the only Fords that fit the years of our V8 Club. There are a couple of 1959 GM cars, plus an early 1960s American. Unfortunately, I do not know anything about it, other than it was shot in the USA. Regards, Trevor Poulsen HAVE YOU SEEN ME?

1948/1950, dad painted the car all black. Car had later wire wheels (1933/1934). Dad had the original engine rebuilt by an independent Ford mechanic, sometime around 1948/1950. At the time, originality was not a concern, so the emphasis was timely completion of the job. As a result, there may have been mixed 1932 and later engine parts. I have the original paper work from the original sale from Ziesmer Motor Company in Northfield, Minnesota, in June of 1932, including the VIN number. As a side bar, I recently discovered a letter my dad wrote to a Ford national service manager in Chicago in September of 1932, detailing some problems with his new Ford on his first interstate trip, and the 'uneven'(!) attempts by two different Ford dealers to fix the problems. Needless to say, he was not a happy camper at the time! Fortunately, the problems were addressed Any help in locating this historic car, which was considered a member of the family for 21 years – not “just a car” - would be much appreciated. His is the car I learned to drive on – it made me a “Ford man” for life! John Heiming, Ledyard, Connecticut ohn27fv@aol.com

Dear Editor, I am a relatively new member and am looking my dad's first car, a 1932 V-8 Victoria, which served as the family car for 21 years. He bought the car new and eventually sold it in 1953, to Albert Garganlgo, who ran the Princeton Auto Museum in Princeton, Massachusetts. The museum closed in 1973, and the contents were sold at auction. I have never been able to find any record of the auction results. At the time of the sale to the museum, the car was in basically original condition, albeit with over 100,000 miles on it. Possible identifying features as of the 1953 sale, as best I recall were: Main leaf of the rear spring was broken. Car had a hot water heater (possibly dealer installed). I also recall a coolant recovery tank mounted on the firewall, installed after some overheating problems. I believe the car was originally painted dark green with black fenders. However, sometime around

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MORE ON AIR HORNS Shannon, I am a former JSC chairman, V-8 Times contributor and coauthor of the 1937 book. I am responding to Bob Lincoln’s article and last paragraph request for additional information. I have two sets of these horns and I’m fairly sure the brackets are on one of them. I have included pictures from a rare piece of 1937 advertising literature which references these horns. Best of luck in your new role as editor. Jay Temple, North Carolina

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Milly Scheidt (center) is surrounded by family at the museum in August, to celebrate the life of husband, father and our friend Frank Scheidt. Mark Campbell, Chief Operating Officer of the Henry Ford Heritage Association, presented Milly with a plaque that honors Frank as the recipient of the 2021 “Ford Fellow Award.”

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WE CAN DO...IN ‘22! JUNE 1 - JUNE 5, 2022

By President Danny Driskell, RG #97, Nashville, TN Our 2022 Eastern National Meet in Nashville, Tennessee (actually in historic Franklin, Tennessee, just a few miles south of Nashville, on I-65) will be held June 1- June 5th. Some of you may remember that Nashville was the site in 1995, of a very successful national V-8 meet and we are happy to let you know the Volunteer V-8 Ford Club has agreed to host the first post-pandemic meet back in Tennessee! As you may well know, the Nashville and Middle Tennessee area is noted for many diverse attractions. In addition to being Music City USA (the Grand Ole

Opry, Ryman Auditorium, Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, the Bluegrass Inn and many other honkytonks), there are also wineries, distilleries (Jack Daniels, George Dickel), the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Parthenon in Centennial Park, the Lane Motor Museum and Marathon Village, home of TV’s American Pickers Nashville store, and many more. While we can’t provide all of these attractions on our meet schedule (the Opry is slated for Friday night), we encourage you to come early, spend the week here, and enjoy some of these great sites. The host hotel is the Marriott at Cool Springs, a beautiful venue and more than capable of hosting a meet. Cool Springs is one of the largest shopping areas in Tennessee and has more diverse stores and restaurants than many cities. Preparations are being made now and with the help and assistance of the Early Ford V-8 Club, we feel confident in saying that you can look forward to an exciting and fun filled week. Mark the first week of June 2022 on your calendar and make plans to attend. Help us prove that “We can do...in 22!”

Registration Fee $60.00 after January 1, 2022

The historic Grand Ole Opray

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Columbia River, in northcentral Washington. Wenatchee is 148 miles from Seattle and the Apple Capital of the World. Wenatchee is also the center of Washington state’s system of Columbia River dams which provide power, irrigation, and recreation. The Coast Hotel sits adjacent to the Wenatchee Convention Center. They offer views of the river and face on Wenatchee Avenue, which runs through the low-rise historic downtown. The city has a 1950s character, with highways and roads that were designed for Early Fords. Drives also offer fantastic scenic views.

DRIVE, ARRIVE, REVIVE & ENJOY WENATCHEE!

JULY 9 - JULY 14, 2022 By President Mike Rees, RG #18, Seattle, WA

The Early Ford V-8 Club of America has approved the Puget Sound Regional Group’s bid to host a 2022 Western National Meet in Wenatchee, Washington. We are excited to bring Club members and their vintage V-8s to this beautiful city, located on the

You will have the opportunity to drive 24 miles to the Bavarian town of Leavenworth, nestled in the Cascade Mountains. A tour of Rocky Reach Dam offers insight into Washington’s hydro-electric system, which generates much of the region’s power. The Ohme Gardens provide a breathtaking view of the Cascade Mountains and the Columbia River valley. Wenatchee has many things to see and do. To acquaint you with points of interest, please visit our website www.efv8psrg.org. The home page contains a link for the Western National Meet with videos showing a vibrant community of 35,000 people enjoying life and raising their families, free from the distractions of a large metropolitan city. The Wenatchee Convention Center and The Coast Wenatchee Center Hotel are committed to creating a memorable experience for our National Meet. With the pandemic preventing any National meets in 2020 and 2021, we expect you will be excited to join us in Wenatchee. Our theme is: Drive, Arrive, Revive & Enjoy Wenatchee! Full details available on registration form.

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A view of Wenatchee and the Columbia River

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WISCONSIN TRANSPORTATION TOUR

AUGUST 23 - AUGUST 28, 2022 By Bruce Nelson

Wisconsin has more than beer, cheese and cows. There are many links to transportation within its borders, and this National Driving Tour will stop at many of them. There will be other places of interest also to keep all participants happy. This will be a ‘spoke tour,’ with multiple days traveling, but always returning to the same overnight location. We will be traveling the back roads, the two lanes of rural America. Just what our Early Ford V8s were designed for. We will start on Tuesday August 23, with arrival and check in. Before the day is over, we will have the get acquainted party, with a review of the tour’s activities. On Wednesday August 24, we will head into Milwaukee. The tour starts with a company that is as old as the Ford Motor Company — Harley Davidson motorcycles. Both were founded in 1903. The new museum complex opened in 2008, and has an outstanding display of motorcycle history outlining its place in transportation. From there we will grab lunch at the Motor Restaurant, or at another Milwaukee waterfront location. After lunch you will have the option of either a tour of the Pabst Mansion, or a visit to the Mitchell Park Conservatory. We will end our day in Milwaukee at Miller Brewery. Dinner will be on your own. This day will be about a 50 mile drive. Thursday we head to Green Bay, to visit the National Railroad Museum and the Automobile Gallery. This will be the first of two long days, at about 250 miles. We will first visit the National Railroad Museum. This museum started in 1956, during the beginning of the end of the steam era. It was officially recognized by Congress, in 1958, as the National Railroad Museum. It is one of the largest rail museums in the United States. They offer train rides, as a means to view the museum, along with several train sheds that house the Dwight D. Eisenhower Locomotive and Command Cars from World War II,

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a Union Pacific Big Boy, a Pennsylvania Railroad electric locomotive and the General Motors Aerotrain. Something for every train fan. We will next tour the Automobile Gallery, where we will experience ‘the automobile is the art.’ exhibit. This is a private collection begun by the late William ‘Red’ Lewis in a former Cadillac dealership, in Green Bay. There will even be a drive by the world famous Lambeau Field. Upon returning to the hotel, dinner is on your own. Friday we will be touring to East Troy, to visit the East Troy Electric Railroad Museum. The depot museum is what is left from the original electric line from Milwaukee. Rides are available and you can experience riding on historic streetcars for six miles. Once we leave East Troy, we will head north to Hartford and the Wisconsin Automotive Museum, the largest auto museum in the state. Hartford is the home to the Kissel Automobile, the second longest auto manufacturer in the state of Wisconsin, from 1906 to 1931. The Nash Motor Company was the longest Wisconsin manufacturer. The Badger State Regional Group #35 has a nice display in the museum. The tour mileage for this day is 120 miles. Our farewell get together will be that evening. Saturday, we will head off on our second longest driving day, heading to North Freedom and the MidContinent Railroad. Mid-Continent is an outdoor living history museum and operating railroad that is recreating, preserving and interpreting the small town short line way of life, from the “Golden Age of Railroading.” Plan for a seven mile ride behind an operating steam engine (equipment available). There are over 40 train cars and locomotives on display within the museum. Once we have experienced Mid-Continent, we will head back by traveling through Baraboo, home of the Circus World Museum. It is a most interesting place, as it was the winter home of the Ringling Brothers ‘World’s Greatest Shows’ Circus. Why they wintered in Wisconsin is something to find out. Mileage for Saturday’s tour will be 260. Sunday we will say our goodbyes. We hope that you will have learned about Wisconsin’s transportation history and enjoyed your touring time in Wisconsin.

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THE BORDER AFFAIR SEPTEMBER 2022 By Lou Mraz Plan to spend the third week of September, 2022, (Friday 9/16 through Friday 9/23) in Colorado and New Mexico, driving the “road less traveled. Please note the exact dates for the tour will be forthcoming soon, and the dates will include arrival day. This will be a full, seven-day motoring adventure, featuring lots of very interesting things to see, do and experience. You will certainly enjoy the aweinspiring vistas and scenery that will magically be appearing before your windshield. Among other things, we will cross the Continental Divide four times during the tour and yes, there will be some serious elevations encountered. And did I mention the great driving and scenery? Remember the road trip vacations back when you were a kid? This tour will feel like are revisiting those days.

We will begin the adventure in Trinidad, Colorado, a major stop along the fabled Santa Fe Trail and conclude the tour in Chama, New Mexico. While there, we will enjoy an all-day excursion on the Cumbres & Toltec (narrow gage) steam powered scenic railroad --- think 1880’s state of the art rail transportation at its best. In between, we’ll experience the fun of motoring down many of the less traveled roadways, in both Colorado and New Mexico --- the kind of two-lane highways for which our vintage FOMOCO vehicles were designed. Have you ever driven on a road cut through a huge volcanic dike? On this tour you will be able to do so, when we travel the “Highway of Legends.” Want to visit a cavalry fort, where Col. Kit Carson had his last command? You can do so on this tour, and Fort Garland is the place. Also note the part of south-central Colorado/north central New Mexico that we will be visiting has a very strong flavor of historical Spanish Colonial times. The very first (acknowledged) European explorer to reach this part of Colorado and New Mexico was Francisco de Coronado, in 1540. The following (European) settlements in this part of the world predate the English settlement at Jamestown (VA), as well as the Pilgrims arriving at Plymouth Rock. The native American settlements hereabouts are much older and we will also be visiting one. Great Sand Dunes National Park will be on our tour list too. What ---

you didn’t know that Colorado is home to a huge dune field, now covering more than 30 sq. miles? Well, it really is here and bigger than life, with some of the dunes now approaching 800 ft. in height. This is a great place to visit and explore, so plan on getting some serious sand in your shoes while romping on the dunes. What else will we be doing? Driving through mountains and over Wolf Creek Pass will be one thing. Do you remember the country/western song by C.W. McCall? This is the place --- yes, there really is a Wolf Creek Pass. We will also be visiting small towns (some with very interesting histories) and then (maybe) relaxing and banishing all of your aches and pains by soaking in a very soothing natural hot springs (if you are so inclined). In addition to all of this, we’ll be visiting the newly designated Chimney Rock National Monument, which preserves a 1,000year-old Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) village ruin, located high up on a mesa. And did I mention the great mountain scenery and the Continental Divide? Finally, we will drive to Chama, New Mexico, for the fascinating, 64-mile, all-day journey on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. The coal burning steam engines, which power the railroad, are a sight to behold as well as an experience not to be missed. We will be able to get reasonably close to these metal monsters. This is a gritty and unforgettable encounter with technology from another time --- from the beginning of the industrial revolution --- that is very rarely experienced in the world of today. The Cumbres & Toltec is a ride that will be an adventure, and one that you will certainly remember. I’ve mentioned just some of the highlights that will be a part of the tour. There is much more available. Colorado alligators anyone? If you explore the route and do a little research, I’m sure that you will be able to identify additional things that will capture your interest --- and that is OK. These tours were never intended to be nose-to-tail forced marches. Deviations that grab your attention and intrigue your interest are encouraged. For further information, please contact: Louis Mraz, Chairperson 11195 East Warren Ave., Aurora, CO 80014 303-755-4637 (MT. Time) or lfmj60@aol.com

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Doctors Love Their Zephyrs!

Arrows point to the nine Lincoln Zephyrs in the doctor’s parking lot at St. Vincent’s Hospital, in Portland, Oregon, on a late winter day in 1938. There are four 1938 models, five are 1936 or 1937s. The Portland dealer, Olsen-Francisis Motor Company, had really done a fine job on selling Lincoln Zephyrs to professional men. Among the other cars scattered about the lot, we can be see distinctive and unusual automobiles, as well as more conventional ones. Way of the Zephyr magazine December, 2014.

In this case, we may want to say “The All American Lincoln” Way back in December 2014, Dave Cole had an article in the Way of the Zephyr magazine on all of the Lincoln Zephyrs that were owned by doctors at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Remember this, I had the opportunity to ask a fellow parishioner about it. Her father was a young doctor in Idaho in the late 1930s to early 1940s. They later moved to San Marino, California, during WWII. I asked her whether or not her dad liked Lincoln Zephyrs. She was surprised and commented that Zephyrs were all that he drove before the war!

Anticipating a shortage of consumer goods, if the war came, he went out and bought a new refrigerator and a new 1942 Lincoln Zephyr to replace his 1941. The small photo at right is of her father Dr. Couglin, in front of his 1942 Zephyr. I guess before the war the Zephyr was a pretty desirable car with young professionals. They seemed to lose this desirability in the postwar years. After the war, most doctors went to Cadillacs. Chris Nuno San Gabriel, California

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CRIME STORIES By John Emmering, Northern Illinois RG #8, “Road Chatter”

JOHN DILLINGER’S WILD FORD V-8 DASH TO CHICAGO & BEYOND Ford V-8 vehicles often were the choice of the gangsters of the 1930’s. Here is another account of how Ford Motor Company vehicles fit into the history of that lawless period.

the police would be on the lookout for a sheriff’s car. Dillinger’s escape was aided by the fact that the wrong license plate number was given out for the Sheriff’s sedan.

After John Dillinger’s escape from the Lake County Jail on March 3, 1934, purportedly with a wooden gun, he made his way to the Main Street Garage across from the County Court House, in Crown Point, Indiana. Dillinger asked Edwin Saager, the mechanic on duty, “What’s the fastest car you’ve got?” Saager replied that it was Sheriff Holley’s car, a new Ford V-8. With that, Dillinger, fellow escapee Herbert Youngblood and hostages Deputy Ernest Blunt and the mechanic Edwin Saager were off on Dillinger’s wild dash to Chicago, Illinois and freedom.

Traveling down Indiana Route 41, Dillinger had Deputy Blunt turn west toward Illinois on 151st Avenue and continue past the state line into Illinois, near Beecher. Later, this would prove to be a fatal error on Dillinger’s part. Continuing on what became West Beecher Road, the V-8 Tudor got stuck in the mud and Blunt and Saager worked to push it onto dry pavement. Saager installed tire chains on the Ford to make it more road worthy. At this point Dillinger released his two hostages near rural Peotone, knowing it would be a long walk to a telephone and continued on to Chicago with Youngblood. Police found Sheriff Holley’s 1933 Ford V-8 Tudor abandoned in front of 1057 West Ardmore Avenue, on Chicago’s north side, on March 7, 1934.

The getaway car was a standard 1933 Model 40 Ford V-8 Tudor, which served as Lake County Sheriff Lillian Holley’s official police vehicle. Mrs. Holley assumed the office of Sheriff after her husband Roy F. “Doc” Holley, age 43, was killed in the line of duty. Deputy Ernest Blunt was forced to drive the car and was instructed to travel the speed limit. Dillinger had him stop the Ford as they headed into St. John, Indiana and tore off the vehicle’s red spotlight lens, knowing

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The 1933 Ford V-8 ended up in an impound lot and was routinely sold at auction by Lake County. A Milwaukee man purchased the car and later moved to Maine, not realizing the car’s significance. (A Lake County, Indiana man, Roger Pace located the car recently. It returned to Crown Point for a parade on April 3, 2021. A setting for the car’s permanent display in Crown Point is being sought. )

Sheriff Holley’s 1933 Ford recovered on the streets of Chicago.

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Sheriff Lillian Holley, left, and prosecutor Robert Estill, center, stand with outlaw John Dillinger at the jail in Crown Point.

Concluding a short stay in Chicago, Dillinger headed for St. Paul, Minnesota, joining forces with the Baby Face Nelson gang. Soon, they robbed banks in Sioux

Falls, South Dakota and Mason City, Iowa. The gang was cornered by federal agents at the Little Bohemia Lodge, in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, on April 22, 1934, in a poorly conceived raid. When the gangsters were alerted to the approach of the agents by barking dogs, Dillinger and his fellow gangsters Homer Van Meter and Jack Hamilton, escaped through a rear door into the woods, as they were unable to access their stolen 1934 Ford V-8 Fordor that was parked in front. Heading through the woods, the trio located Robert Johnson who lived in a cabin at nearby Mitchell’s Rest Lake Resort and forced him to drive them out of the area in his 1930 Ford Model “A” Coupe. Shortly thereafter, they freed Johnson and drove the Model “A” toward Minnesota.

In an exchange of gun fire with the police, south of St. Paul, Minnesota, Jack Hamilton was badly wounded. The Model “A” was ditched after the gang seized another 1934 Ford V-8 from Roy Francis, a power company executive out for a ride with his wife and baby. After being ejected from their vehicle, the Francis family walked two miles to a service station where they phoned the authorities. The use of Sheriff Holley’s V-8 and the one stolen from Roy Francis were the subject of a local Ford dealership newspaper

1934 V-8 Sedan stolen by the Dillinger gang. Unable to access it during the raid of their hideout, the gang left via the back door leaving their sedan out front.

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Model A stolen by Dillinger when escaping Little Bohemia, in Wisconsin. This car was used in the film “Public Enemies” and last sold in 2010, for $165,000.

ad, which asked, “Will they catch John Dillinger? Not until they get him out his Ford V-8!” Dillinger, Van Meter and Hamilton left St. Paul and headed for a hideout in Aurora, Illinois. There, in Aurora, Hamilton died of his injuries. The gangsters buried Hamilton in rural Kendall County, near Oswego. The 1934 Ford V-8 obtained in Minnesota was abandoned on the north side of Chicago, as a false lead, as the pair headed to Ohio and lived out of a panel truck for a couple of weeks. After a daring bank robbery in South Bend, Indiana, where Van Meter was wounded, the pair split up. Dillinger choose to melt into the north side of Chicago, using the name Jimmy Lawrence and moving

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in with a 26 year old waitress named Poly Hamilton and 42 year old Anna Sage, a Romanian immigrant who was known as a notorious Madame. When Dillinger crossed the state line into Illinois, after stealing Sheriff Holley’s 1933 Ford, committing interstate auto theft, a federal crime, he invited the participation of J. Edgar Hoover’s Bureau of Investigation, who had been on his trail ever since. The bureau was contacted by Anna Sage, who thought turning over Dillinger could prevent her pending deportation. On the evening of July 22, 1934, Dillinger was killed by Federal agents, as he exited the Biograph Theater, on North

Anna Sage in July 1934. Sage, had been with Dillinger when he was shot and killed outside the Biograph Theater on July 22. Sage said she made a deal with the FBI so that she would not be deported to Romania for running a brothel. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)

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Sheriff Holly’s Ford V-8 returned to Indiana for a parade.

Lincoln Avenue, in Chicago. Dillinger had really embarrassed Sheriff Lillian Holley when he escaped in her 1933 Ford V-8, leaving her emotionally crushed. She came under

intense criticism, with the county board clamoring for her resignation. Whereas Dillinger’s life was snuffed out at age 31, Lillian Holley regained an honored standing in her community and lived to the ripe old age of 103.

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ANTIFREEZE/COOLANT FOR OUR FLATHEADS By Ron Trella rons-garage@hotmail.com

My dad had a ritual when it came to the cooling system of his flatheads. He probably used this from his first car, all the way to his last flathead; a 1953 Ford Customline Fordor. Every autumn, about late October, Dad would drain and flush the cooling system. He would install both thermostats and fill the system with a fresh amount of methanol alcoholbased antifreeze, water and a bottle of water pump lubricant. In the spring, about May, he would again drain and flush the system. This time, he would remove both thermostats and carefully store them for the fall. The system would then get filled with fresh water and another bottle of water pump lubricant. As a youth, I would watch him do this every year, until 1961, when he bought a used ’59 Ford with a YBlock V-8. This was a lot of work, more than any of us would want to do these days. Today, we are all part of the “fix and forget” society that we live in. If we change the coolant one time, when we first buy our old car, we consider it done for a long time. We forget that nothing, coolant included, will last forever. Coolant requires periodic replacement, just like engine oil. Methanol alcohol antifreeze fell out of favor for two reasons. First, it tended to accelerate the corrosion in the cooling system. Second, as most early automotive cooling systems were not pressurized, it evaporated over time. Ethylene Glycol was first produced in 1856, but did not see use in automotive cooling systems until about 1926. It was used extensively in military vehicles during World War II and after the war, became widely used in passenger cars and trucks. Ethylene Glycol is also used in the production of polyethylene, dynamite, other chemicals, and vaccines.

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We all know water freezes at 32 degrees F. Combine Ethylene Glycol with water in a 50/50 mixture and the solution does not freeze until -35 degrees F. This 50/50 mixture also raises the boiling point of water from 212 degrees F, to 223 F. Add pressure to the cooling system, and the boiling point increases about three degrees F for every one pound of pressure you can add. So, a flathead with a 4 lb. cap will raise the coolant’s boiling point to 234 degrees F. Ethylene Glycol coolant is green in color and it was the most common coolant used in cars built before the 1990’s. Today, there are five other automotive coolants on the market, for specific vehicles. They are all colored differently, to distinguish them and are orange, yellow, turquoise, purple, pink or blue. Most of these coolants came on the market as auto manufacturers began to use aluminum radiators, heads and blocks. They have specific additives to prevent corrosion in these modern engines. Most are also classified as “extended life” coolants, capable of lasting five years before changing is required. There are now some Ethylene Glycol coolants on the shelf that are marketed as “extended life” as well. With all of this new technology, the old green coolant still seems the best choice for our old cars. Used in a “clean” cooling system, mixed at the proper percentage and with the correct water, it can still provide us with years of good service. Let us look at those factors, one by one. First, you need a clean cooling system to get the most out of coolant. Any rust in the system will prevent proper cooling. We all know that flatheads did not have the best designed cooling systems to begin with. Early flatheads, before 1937, had the water pumps mounted

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RON’S GARAGE prevent corrosion, to drop out of solution and cause problems. Too little, and you are not getting the freeze/boil/corrosion protection you need. The water you use is also important. 50 years ago, when I started out working on cars, any tap water would do. Later, we found out the chlorine in city water systems is a corrosive. Avoid using city water if possible. Well water, in most areas, will have too much mineral content to be good for the system. These minerals drop out of the solution and coat the water jackets, causing the potential for overheating. Well water, that has been processed by a good water softener system, may be a better alternative. In the 1970s, most mechanics were recommending using distilled water to mix with the antifreeze. Years later, we found out that this was not always the best solution, as the ion neutral water tended to pull iron ions from the engine. Nature seems to always want to seek equilibrium. In my opinion, the best answer to this is to use a coolant that is already mixed to a 50/50 solution by the manufacturer. There, the company chemists have controlled the purity of the water to the best level for use in a cooling system. Now I know that many people resist these 50/50 mixed coolants. The biggest argument I have heard is that they do not like paying for water. But the convenience of not having to mix coolant and always having pre-mixed coolant around to add to the system when needed, seem to be strong arguments for pre-mixed coolant. My only caution is making sure that after you flush a system, you get all of the water out before adding the pre-mixed coolant. In a flathead, with no block drains, that may mean jacking up the rear of the car to ensure that all of the water is out of the block, before adding fresh coolant. in the heads, which was not the best placement for circulation. All flatheads have the center cylinders exhaust ports running through the water passages, adding heat to the coolant. Adding a layer of rust to the walls of the water passages is like adding insulation between the cast iron and the coolant. There are several cooling system flushes on the market, which if used properly and flushed with water after treating, can reduce rust buildup in the system. Using a proper mixture of Ethylene Glycol and water is especially important. Typically, this means a 50/50 mixture. This seems to give us the best results for freeze protection, overheating protection, lubrication of the water pump seals and will have enough corrosion inhibitors to prevent the formulation of rust in the system. Higher percentages of Ethylene Glycol than 50/50 can cause some of its silicates, which

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Testing the strength of the coolant in your engine is easy with the common hydrometers we have used for years. There are two types of hydrometers, in use today. They are the conventional float-style and the ball-style. Both are inexpensive and easy to use. Remove the radiator cap, when the system is cool, take a sample of coolant, read the scale on the hydrometer, or count the numbers of balls floating. Today, we have another way to check the coolant and that is with test strips. The test strips usually have three chemicals on them that you can check the freeze/boiling point, reserve alkalinity and the pH level of the solution. Although the freeze/boiling point is important, the other two tests give a good indication if the coolant is OK, or needs to be replaced. The coolant should always be on the alkaline side. As coolant ages, it becomes acidic and that leads to deterioration and corrosion.

RON’S GARAGE To use the test strips, the coolant should be below 110 degrees F. The chemicals on the strip are offset to one side to provide a handle to hold the strip. The strip is dipped into the coolant for two seconds and the excess coolant is shaken off of the strip. The strip is set aside for 40 seconds and then compared to the charts on the bottle. The chemical on the end, furthest away from the handle, tests for the percentage of ethylene glycol in the mixture, like hydrometers.

The middle chemical measures for Reverse Alkalinity (RA). Reverse alkalinity is an indication of the level of buffering agents left in the coolant. The buffering agents are there to keep the solution on the alkaline side of the pH scale. The last chemical shows the actual pH level of the coolant mixture. Water typically has a pH of around seven. Anything below seven is considered acidic. Anything above seven is an alkaline solution. Two test strips are shown here. The upper strip is a new unused test strip. The lower strip is the test strip that was used to sample coolant that has been in use for four years, in my own 1950 Ford Coupe. It shows that the coolant has a mixture of 50% glycol. The reserve alkalinity is somewhere around eight. The pH level of the coolant is around nine. All indications are that this coolant is still in good shape, even at the four-year mark. Most manufacturers and the coolant producers recommend coolant be replaced every two to three years, or 24,000-36,000 miles, on daily driver cars. Based on the coolant test strip, I could continue to use this coolant a little longer. I’ll check it annually, but will want to replace it before the values drop off significantly.

I have seen old, neglected coolant do some dastardly things to engines. As the coolant gets more acidic, it can eat its way through head gaskets, corrode the inside of the block water jackets and cause the radiator, hoses and thermostats to fail. Test strips usually come in a bottle of many strips. The brand shown here has 70 strips and the cost is slightly over $30.00. Certainly, too many for an individual owner to ever use up before they expire. But would be economical for a group of friends or a club to purchase. There are also a lot of shops that use these strips and would charge a minimal fee to check the system. It could even be free if another service is performed.

The whole idea about preventative maintenance prevents unnecessary repairs and failures, while saving as much money as possible. Using the modern tools we have, like the coolant test strips, flushes and pre-mixed coolants, can help you accomplish these goals. As always, if you have specific questions or need help diagnosing a problem, you can contact me at rons-garage@hotmail.com.

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A GARAGE TOUR TO REMEMBER By Coy "Rust Is Gold" Thomas

1940 Tudor.

1946/1947 Panel Delivery.

I’ve been involved with the Early Ford V-8 Club since 1966, when I bought my first V-8; a 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe. At that time, Lorin Sorenson was the editor for the V-8 Times, doing a one or two page newsletter. Pam Johnston, of Napa, California, was doing all of the typing and running copies (mimeograph). In the late 1990s, I contacted editor Jerry Windle and we created the “They’re Still Out There” series of articles that appear in the V-8 TIimes featuring V-8 “finds” even today. I thought you might enjoy some photos taken on a February 20, 1996 garage tour of Vintage Auto Parts of Woodinville, Washington. It no longer exists. Owner Terry Jarvis invited us over to his building and yard for us to shop around. The business was run by the Jarvis brothers. I only included Ford product photos. Everything was for sale, cars and parts inventory had to be seen to be believed.

Early 1941 Lincoln 4-Door Sedan.

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You know my motto is “Rust Is Gold” and for me, this was the “Mother Lode”!

A GARAGE TOUR TO REMEMBER CONTINUED 1946-1948 Fords.

1941 Fordor.

1940 hoods… Deluxe and Standard.

1949-1950 Fords.

1947/1948 Woodie.

1940 Delivery.

1946 Panel Delivery.

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1934 with 1940 fenders, 1938 Coupe with 1940 pickup hood.

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By Timothy Smith

With the Ford in its present condition and circumstances being what they are, how could I not add it to my Halloween display?! Long experience has taught me that people are fascinated with their own mortality. It is something we rarely give much thought to. To have a focused glimpse at what was and the effect that the passage of time has upon it certainly reminds us that there will be a time when we too will be gone and the rest of the world will simply go on without us.

Many years of minor investments in time (and all things considered, surprisingly little money) has come together to allow me to create what you see here. I make a great effort to buy the new things on sale, or find them used. The money saved allows me to invest a little bit more in lighting which, in my

From the day we are born, to the day we die, our view and our perceptions of the world always incorporates our own sense of self. To be cleverly tricked into considering a world without us in it is to conjure a very strange feeling indeed. These are the things that draw our rapt attention, fuel our imagination and occasionally give us a shiver, particularly around Halloween. My annual Halloween display has been created over a long period of time and it is still growing.

The Ford before it was resurrected from its grave.

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humble opinion, is one of the most critical things in any really good display or effect. Many things are made right here at home. By way of example, the fence, the gates, all the perimeter stuff began its life as gazebos....and yes, there is more fence on the way. I just didn't get around to it this season, chiefly because I was too busy dragging the ‘47 out of its grave. So, there will be even more fence next year. The fence is also wholly temporary. Specially modified T-posts support the fence's terminal posts from the inside, providing an appearance of permanence to the fence. It takes about an hour to put up and about 15 minutes to take it all down. Notionally, my cemetery is one where the dead rise from their graves and resume doing what they did in life. Having the 1947 Funeral Director's car out front seemed a natural extension of that. And, if by chance the Funeral Directors are ALSO dead, who is actually left to run the show? So many good things came together to make it all work.

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Timing was certainly of great importance. The car came home around the beginning of the month. One of the most important decisions I made, was to keep the car looking as decrepit as possible which, during its recovery, was sometimes difficult. Some of the trim would actually fall off, as the badly decomposed spring clips holding it gave way while we were moving the car. Just a little bump or two and off it came. Hilarious! We collected it all, of course. I think we may still actually have a complete set of trim for this car, because we made the effort to find it all. Perhaps the car looks even worse without all of it in place. In this way, the outwardly poor condition of the car speaks to us about the passage of time. I think this famous epitaph says it all - "What I am now, so shall thou be." To complete the effect, I would have loved to put the original wheels and tires back on it, flats and all, but I reckoned that would be pushing it. After all, Code Compliance officials are a bit sensitive about that kind of thing.

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As a sidebar; in the early 1980s, I was deeply involved in the running of what I believe to be one of the most widely recognized haunted houses in the country and that would be the Jaycee's haunted house in Fremont, Ohio. We drew visitors from every state, contiguous to Ohio and occasionally a few states even further away. If you don't know about it, just check google images for Fremont Haunted House. I think you'll be stunned. The architecture is (was) Second Empire and it was a wonderful place, completely suited to its use as a Haunted House venue. Alas, it was lost to a fire and eventually demolished entirely.

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32 OF THE 33 SPORTSMAN BODIES FOUND! At long-long last, for 50 years, since 1971, 33 Sportsman bodies have been unaccounted for (in the assembly production charts on pages 48 and 49 of the Seventy-One Society newsletter). Of the total of 3,725 that were made/produced in the Iron Mountain, Upper Michigan plant. Former employees talked to in 1970, (correct spelling with only one “e” in the ‘40s), generally thought that some were unused, used as replacements, or simply rejected by quality control. All good ideals. I’d like to report that they were found still crated up, ready for export, in some abandoned warehouse, or in another country, but sadly, that is not the case. Dr. John Mansell (who passed away in 2015-with 160 convertibles) did an exhaustive search into the Ford Archives in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, combing through all of the daily production reports of two calendar years (the 24 months of 1946 and 1947), of all of the 14 assembly plants. He charted out and kept track of every Sportsman he found assembled. I had all intent and purpose to start from scratch and go over every thing he did, to see if I could come up with some more numbers that he might have missed. Dr. Tom Garrett even contacted Ford of Canada to see if they had any, However, no Sportsman bodies were ever shipped to Canada for assembly to a rolling chassis, a

front clip and a hood. But he was on the right track! 32 Sportsman bodies WERE, shipped from Iron Mountain to the Mexico City plant. Now these were not exports. There were a handful of complete cars exported to other countries, but not to Mexico City. In my pursuit, since 2016, of all things 1942 (because 1942s were assembled for 50 months, up until October of 1945, mostly in Sao Paula, Brazil), quite by accident I found a listing put together by the BFRC librarian, Kathy, of an obscure ascension of three folders. The folders contained the negative-print production reports from all of the foreign assembly plants. This was for the calendar years of 1945, 1946 and 1947. These are commonly available for the 1930s up to 1945, in various other accensions. This is a breakdown by every body type, of every month, of every foreign assembly plant, with monthly running totals. This was pretty much untouched, unopened stacks of spread-sheet chart reports. About 10 pages for each month were still all stapled together and the 12 monthly stacks all piled/bound on top of each other, onto 2-prong metal bendable blade fasteners.

From the Ford Archives. This photo was taken just after the wood was fit and attached to the Murray Corp. built, skeletal-framework, cowl, floor and inner fender unit. Note the holes in the rear fender for the gravel guard and Ford fender trim. This, and the “A” type wood make it an August 1946-on Sportsman. At this point, the body number has yet to be hand stamped into the cowl. Its next stop is the trim department for all of the hardware, trim, windshield, dashboard, seats, complete interior and top components. Also note the fresh station wagon on a rolling body cradle just to the right.

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This photo is from the Brad and Barbara Smith Collection of the same car at a slightly different angle..

So, these production reports were basically never seen by anyone! Since there are complete Sportsman units exported in calendar year 1947, I often wondered why. Why wasn’t there any Sportsman cars exported in 1946? Well there were! In the December 1946, foreign year end totals, it lists 31 units exported (but not to what country). When I first saw this, I thought, well here we have 31 of the missing 33 bodies! But then I found the number of Sportsmans month by month assembled in 1947, in the Mexico City plant. And this was 32 of the 33 missing! Mexico City assembled Sportsmans from April of 1947 to and including October 1947. This would not have been uncommon as you might think, as the Iron Mountain plant had been shipping completed station wagon bodies to Mexico City, even before the war and now after.

Another bonus is, for the first time ever, Canada is included in the foreign listings reports. Before the war, Canada was always just an added line by itself, on the domestic production sheets. You had all the domestic plants production, listed by each body type, then the lines of all of the different foreign plants production, and finally, three more lines. One of Canada, one for the Lincoln plant and one line for farm-tractor production. But this spread sheet covers complete in-depth, all the lines of Ford DeLuxe, Ford Super DeLuxe, Mercury Dlx 114, Mercury Sup Dlx 114X, Mercury 118, Monarch 118, Ford trucks, and Mercury trucks (this will be the basis for an upcoming article on Canada production for 1946 and 1947).

Speculation now is, was the first prototype Sportsman completed in October 1945, which was given to Ella Raines on December 25, 1945, included, in the total of 3,725 bodies listed in the 1948 body parts catalog? Were the first production Sportsmans in March 1946 numbered 2, 3 and 4? Or was it number 1, 2 and 3? Generally speaking, prototype-vehicles were not included in production, totals. And that holds true in the October 1945 production reports. No Sportsmans listed, but there was only one rolling Open Drive Front End chassis assembled in October – which is a rolling chassis, front clip, hood, and cowl unit. Could this have been for the Sportsman prototype? Also, one could speculate that Mexico City may have had one more Sportsman body, that might have not been assembled until after January 1, 1948? As where, 1948 records are still yet to be found. And so, in 1946, fourteen Ford Sportsmans were exported and get this, seventeen Mercurys were exported! This makes Mercurys here, even rarer yet! Although there were columns for Sportsmans in the 1946 records, none were recorded there, as being assembled in foreign countries. Well there you have it. Most of the 50-year-old mystery solved. Friends of mine have dubbed me an “Olde Car Detective!” Which I have quietly/politely accepted that title. Thank you and please continue to send info and all updates to: Mercury Ed Suchorski at 262-895-6128 or servantofthelord9-13-09@hotmail.com or Don Passardi at 860-684-2675 or dppassardi@gmail.com

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EARLY FORD V-8 CLUB AT HERSHEY 2021

Bruce with the club banner displayed at Hershey.

By Bruce Nelson

I want to thank our members that volunteer their time to work at the booth. They are a great group of V-8 people who love to talk Fords and share information.

After a canceled year, you never know what to expect, but there is something about the people of the old car hobby. They still enjoy the hobby and also want to see their old friends. This year marked the 65th year of the AACA Fall National Meet in Hershey, PA and once again, the Early Ford V-8 Club had a presence at the event. After a previous week weather forecast of dampness, it was proven once again that no one really knows that much about the weather. Although it was cloudy most of the week, it was perfect for searching and visiting with friends.

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This was our 25th year (should have been our 26th) and once again, it was a sad one with the passing of Dennis Carpenter in November of 2020. Dennis was the reason that we have been represented for 25 years during Hershey week. We will miss seeing him. Just as we had done for Charlie Gunn, we created a special tribute to Dennis at our booth (please see next page).

The author of the pending 1949-1951 Mercury Book, Gene Napoliello, stopped by to show the final draft of the book. About that time, a new member (that we had just signed up) was inquiring about what type of battery cable he needed for his 1950 Mercury. For the next hour, Gene shared information with him from the book. The new member cannot wait to purchase the book. We hope to be back next year. Look for us again. Special thanks again this time to Daniel Carpenter!

EARLY FORD V-8 CLUB AT HERSHEY 2021: TRIBUTE TO DENNIS CARPENTER By Bruce Nelson

Twenty-five years ago, two men who enjoyed Early Ford V-8s talked about promoting the Early Ford V-8 Club of America at the biggest car event in the US, the AACA Fall National Meet, better known as Hershey. Those two men, Charlie Gunn and Dennis Carpenter, made arrangements and the rest, as they say, is history! The Early Ford V-8 Club of America has been ever so grateful for the hospitality shown to us by Dennis Carpenter and his staff.

Dennis and his beloved 1940 Ford Convertible.

Sadly, in 2019 we lost Charlie and in 2020 we lost Dennis. With 2020 the year in which we did nothing and went nowhere, now we want to take this time to show our gratitude to Dennis in his passing. He was a wonderful man. A friend to all Ford restorers and a very prominent supporter of the Early Ford V-8 Club of America. He and Charlie will be missed, but we have had a wonderful relationship during our 25 years together at Hershey.

Dennis and Bruce Nelson during Hershey 2017.

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By Albert Sawallich

I come from a Ford family, since before 1920. My dad, Harry Sawallich, was a Ford man and I'll be one until I die. By the age of eight, I could fix flat tires in my dad’s garage. In 1943, Dad bought a 1937 Ford 1 1/2 Ton, rough looking, farm truck at a farm auction for $300. The fenders were in bad condition and new ones were put on. The rear fenders came from a Fordson tractor found in a junkyard. A rebuilt 100hp Mercury engine was installed. Dad did all of the repairs on the truck, plus the painting. Dad had a local welder make the boom. He put a new Garwood Winch on it and he was in the towing business. That's the truck in the ad shown above promoting 24-hour towing service by Sawallich Garage.

In 1949, dad bought a new 1949 F-5 and put all of the towing hardware, including the boom and winch on it. After straightening the frame on the ‘37, he sold it to a man who did portable welding. I don't know whatever became of the ‘37. We put over 200,000 miles on the ‘49, towing a hot rod to race tracks in Michigan and Ohio. We won a lot of races and trophies. We used Ford, Mercury and Lincoln power plants. We won a 100 mile race at the Michigan State fair in 1954, with a 1939 Ford DeLuxe Coupe that had a new 1954 Lincoln engine for power. Like I said, I come from a Ford family and always will be.

In 1947, we were in a V-J (Victory in Japan) parade and towed a wrecked 1937 Chevy behind the truck. The Chevy driver was drunk, hit a tree and was killed. Dad bent the frame behind the cab on the ‘37 when he tied it to a tree and attempted to pull a Dodge truck out of a basement that was being backfilled. The ground caved in and Dad had to pull the Dodge out... dirt and all.

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By Steve Kroeger

A CELEBRATION OF THE ART AND DESIGN OF THE AUTOMOBILE SEPTEMBER 11-12, 2021 motorcycle class, featuring icons of the motorcycle world. It also has yearly special classes of other famous and significant cars that have been produced. This year, for the first time, through the efforts of David Sanderson, President of the Central Iowa Regional Group #145, our Region sponsored the first ever Ford Flathead V-8 Class of 1932 to 1953. This class was for Fords with the original V-8 engines.

The 2021 Des Moines Concours d’Elegance was held September 11-12 at the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Art Park, in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The show hosts annual classes every year, from antiques up to 1927, to the high priced Classics from 1915 to 1948. It also has classes for the American muscle cars, up to 1973 and a

Fourteen early Ford and Lincoln V-8s were selected by the committee of the class. Five of which came from our very own Region. Those cars included; a 1935 Ford Coupe, belonging to Richard and Verna Grieve; a 1939 Ford Fordor Sedan, belonging to Wade and Mary Krieg; a 1940 Ford Tudor, belonging to new members Eldon and Denise McAfee; a 1936 Woody, belonging to Roger and Pam Oliver and a 1935 Ford Phaeton belonging to past member David and Lois Johnson. Three cars were selected as winners of the class and 1st place

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went to the 1951 Lincoln convertible, 2nd place went to Dave and Lois Johnsons Phaeton and 3rd place went to a 1932 5-window Coupe. We had a good crowd of visitors stopping by to view the early Ford V8 class. Many comments of how well the cars looked and many memories of the days past were brought up. The show was a nice event showing our V -8s and promoting not only our Regional Group, but also the Early Ford V-8 Club of America to all of the visitors that attended.

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THE PARKER’S FORDS The Parker Family has long been a Ford family, going back to W.D. Parker in New London, Texas. in the 1920s. As a young twenty-year old oil field worker, he bought a 1927 Model-T on payments. Grandson Steve Parker. found the original paid note while going through family documents, as well as the families WWII ration coupon book. W.D. continued to purchase new Fords every few years. until the mid- 1970s. Family photos always included cars in the background and surviving photos include several Model-Ts, As and Fords from 1941, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1962, 1965 and 1968. After W.D.’s son Kenneth (Steve’s dad) returned from the service, as a crew chief in the US Air Force in 1953, his first purchase was a used 1950 Ford 4-door Sedan, to serve as the family car for him and his wife. Ken could not leave anything as the factory made it, so he modified the car to fit his desires. Changes included the grille, chrome and a continental kit. This is the car that he brought Steve home from the hospital, when he was born in 1954. Ken was a hobbyist mechanic all his life and taught Steve the hobby as well through the years. They built/fixed up several cars during Steve’s time at home. As the years went by, Steve who was always a car guy, started restoring cars including Mustangs, Thunderbirds, Corvettes and British sports cars. Steve also enjoyed driving tours with car clubs. The one car that he decided would be a great road car was a shoebox Ford. Much like the one his Dad brought him home from the hospital in. He eventually found a 1949 Ford Custom Convertible, at the Dallas Mecum auction and after the car did not sell, he negotiated the purchase. Prior to the purchase, Steve did research on the car and found that a gentleman in Longview, Texas named Gordon Fenner, had purchased the car in 2004 to serve as his fun car, only to find out that the “restored” car was a total mess. He then hired R & R Restoration, in Longview, to properly restore the car. It turned into a full ground up restoration, that took

three years. The car is painted Midland Maroon and the interior is from Lebaron Bonney.

The car’s restoration woes were the subject of an article titled, “Pandora’s Shoebox Ford,” in the May 2011 issue of Hemmings Classic Car magazine. The car was also featured in the February 2020, Collectible Automobile Magazine photo feature. Steve learned from R & R Restoration that not long after the car was finished, Mr. Fenner’s declining health prohibited him from driving the car much. He passed away without really enjoying the car. The estate asked R & R to assist in the sale of the car and that is when Steve purchased it through Mecum. Since then, Steve has worked to make the car more reliable. He has fixed several electrical glitches such as headlights, turn signals, radio, along with several other small fixes. The car now drives well and is a pleasure on the highway. He believes that Mr. Fenner never had time to work through the normal shake out issues with the car after a restoration. He recently purchased and rebuilt an original overdrive transmission that will soon be installed. The car gathers a lot of attention when Steve drives it around town and generates many discussions with admiring folks. Unfortunately, Steve can’t remember the ride home in his Dad’s 1950 Ford when he was born, but driving the ‘49 still brings back memories of his grandad and dad’s Fords.

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IS YOUR MEMBER INFORMATION UP TO DATE? The V-8 Club is in the process of updating all member information! Do you have an email address not listed with the Club? Let us know so that you can take advantage of the new digital V-8 Times and receive important Club information. Have you added to your collection of V-8s? Or maybe you have sold a car and need it removed from your member information. Let us know so that our records can be as accurate as possible! TO UPDATE YOUR MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION CONTACT: Early Ford V-8 Club of America Cornerstone Registration, Ltd PO Box 1715 Maple Grove, MN 55311-6743 763-420-782 registration@cornerstonereg.com (Please provide first and last name and member number)

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A 1932 Phaeton Provides a Series of Surprises By Glenn Davis

SURPRISE #1: A FRIEND ON THE TELEPHONE By 1986, the chances of finding a good old Ford in our town's newspaper had begun to decline. Nevertheless, I doggedly continued my ritual of reading the classified advertisements daily and was quite surprised when an ad for a '32 Ford Phaeton appeared one Sunday morning. Heading to the phone, I could already feel the peculiar excitement that marks the beginning of a hot pursuit for a new automotive acquisition. The woman who answered my call told me that the car was still available. She was in the process of answering my questions when it dawned on me that I was talking to the wife of an old high school friend and college roommate, with whom I had lost contact some ten years earlier. She was as surprised as I was and after a brief catch-up

1932 Phaeton, as found in 1986

The Phaeton on the road in 2019.

discussion on family events. She related the story of her husband's purchase of the car and the downturn in their construction business, which required its sale. The Phaeton had come to my friend as part of a twocar deal, which included a roadster. The cars had been purchased sight unseen, through a broker and were supposed to be "museum quality." Although they might have been museum quality at one time, they arrived at my friend's house in a sad state of disassembly and neglect. The Phaeton looked like a complete car from about thirty feet, but upon closer inspection, it became clear that the car had been taken completely apart and had spent time outdoors in the desert sand and the rain. No bolt was more than finger tight, the rear doors were bent downward on their hinges and the runs in the paint on the frame went up instead of down. Clearly, the body had been off and the car had been abused. My friend and the broker were no longer on good terms and no previous history of the car was available. Nevertheless, the combination of my attraction to a good puzzle and my friend's offer to let me pay him off over two years, brought us to a deal and the car was mine. SURPRISE #2: AUSTRALIAN BODY At the time, I had just become active in the Early Ford V-8 Club and my initial fantasy was to restore my newly acquired Phaeton to Dearborn standards. This plan was soon dashed when my more knowledgeable friends told me that although the car was left-hand drive and had a US frame number, the body was of Australian origin.

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Restoration in progress, 1992.

Consequently, I had to make a new plan. The car had an original '32 engine installed, but an extra, later model flathead came along as part of the deal. Investigation revealed that the later engine had been installed when the car last ran. Further, close inspection of the license tags, on the black California plates, indicated that the car had likely been assembled in the late sixties. I had long heard of stories about Australian '32 bodies being imported by Southern California hot rod enthusiasts, so I decided to reassemble the car as closely as possible to the condition it was in when last it ran. I figured that if I ever got it to show-worthy condition, somebody might recognize it and tell me its story.

lacquer job beginning to crack. My attentions had turned to refreshing our trusty '40 coupe. The coupe got a new paint job and along with our dog, Spenser, we drove to the Early Ford V-8 Club meeting in Tacoma, Washington. There, while walking Spenser around the streets of Tacoma, I ran into Charles Seims again. I wasn't certain he would recognize me after five years, but he greeted me by saying, "Hey, they're looking for your car!" I had no idea what he meant. He then gave me a brief overview of the quest for "The 75 Most Significant 1932 Ford Hot Rods.” He had never found the magazine, but thought our Phaeton might be on the list of missing '32 Fords. He told me I could learn more on the Hot Rod Hotline website.

Returning to our room, I looked up the web site, read the story surrounding the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the '32 and fired off a note saying that I might have one of the missing cars. By the time we were home, I had received a response from Dave Boule, one of the organizers of the celebration. Dave put me in touch with Richard Graves, who had originally constructed a '32 Phaeton that had been featured on the cover of the December, 1972, issue of Rod & Custom magazine. Richard and I discussed some of the unique features of the Phaeton and decided it was the same car. Richard also told me that he sold the car to a fellow

SURPRISE #3: RECOGNITION IN PISMO BEACH Given family activities, career commitments and my casual approach to hard work, it took nearly a dozen years to get the car assembled and back on the road. However, by 1998, the car was complete and we had begun driving it to various events around California. At a show in Ventura, a fellow recognized the car as one he had purchased at an auction in the seventies, but he didn't remember the details and I couldn't get any additional history - frustrating! Then, in 2001, while I was working the safety inspection at the Early Ford V-8 meet in Pismo Beach, long time V-8 Club member and noted Ford historian, Charles Seims, told me he recognized the license number as one that had been on a Phaeton featured on the cover of a magazine in the seventies. He said the car looked different and he couldn't remember which magazine, but he knew that was the same black California license plate he had seen almost thirty years before. I pressed for more details as politely as I could, in my excitement at finally getting a clue, but that was all Charles could recall at the time. We exchanged telephone numbers and he promised to look for the magazine in his collection. SURPRISE #4: THE PHAETON IS FAMOUS By the time 2006 rolled around, the Phaeton was semi-retired in the back of the barn, with its amateur

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The cover of Rod & Custom, December 1972.

The Phaeton at the Grand National Roadster Show, Pomona 2007.

who wanted it restored to original and gave me the name of his friend in the Early Times Car Club, who had imported the body from Australia. With Richard's clues and a few weeks of internet sleuthing, I was able to put together the history of the Phaeton, from the marriage of its imported Australian body, to a chassis taken from a '32 Tudor, to its sale at the liquidation auction of the Cars of the Stars and Planes of Fame Museum. Yes, it had previously been a museum car! Along the way, I spoke to several friendly people

who remembered the car. We were also invited to show the car, now known as, "The Richard Graves Phaeton,” at a special Ford Motor Company event, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the ’32 at the Grand National Roadster Show, in January 2007. There, we spent an enjoyable weekend looking at legendary cars and meeting people whose names we knew from fifty years of reading car magazines. Truly an adventure for a life-long car guy.

As of August 2021, the Phaeton is still on the road. Our last outing was a Tacoma Cream pinstripe being applied in 1998. trip to Buellton, California for the “Deuces on 101” show in October, 2019. I take it out at least once a month, as I have for more than twenty years. Driving it regularly keeps the battery charged and the juices flowing.

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Australian 1932-1933-1934 Fords By Trevor Poulsen

When the all new 1932 Fords were released, buyers had a choice of engines for the first time. Buyers could either chose the ever reliable 4-cylinder engine, which was used in the Model A Fords that displaced 200 cubic inches, but with some new modifications for 1932. The other engine choice was the all new side-valve V -8 displacing 221 cubic inches. A V-8 engine in the

low price range field was unheard of before this revolutionary 1932 Ford V-8 engine. For 1932, the body styles that were produced by Ford Australia included the Town Sedan, the Sport Coupe, Sport Roadster and the Sport Phaeton. There was also an Open Utility, along with the commercial range of big trucks. To help the Australian economy and to keep workers employed, along with paying a

Left to right; 1933 Australian Coupe narrow moulding and the 1933 cowl.

Left to right; 1934 Australian Phaeton narrow moulding and the 1934 cowl.

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1934 with 1932 rear doors attached.

reduced amount of duty for Ford to pay on imported panels, Ford Australia developed their own tooling, commencing with the 1930 Model A. This continued on with the introduction of the 1932 Ford vehicles. What is unusual about the 1932 Fords is that they are a one year only model, unlike previous years where Ford minimised costings and continued producing a similar vehicle for more than one year. This was a very rare one-off occasion. When the all new 1933 Fords were released in the USA and Australia, an entirely new body shape and style, was released. With only very slight grille and bonnet changes, the 1934 model Ford was released. The USA manufactured bodies, for the 1933 and 1934 Fords, were totally different to the Australian

built vehicles, which contained a lot more timber. The USA bodies were mainly built of steel construction. The new styling of these 1933 and 1934 Fords added front opening doors (commonly known as suicide doors) to all of the body styles. For 1932, the only body with front opening doors was the Deluxe 3-Window Coupe. As Ford Australia had invested so much in time and money into tooling to produce the 1932 Ford Town Sedan body, Ford did not want to shelve what they had made after only one year of manufacture. Therefore, the 1932 Ford Town Sedan body was redeveloped and modified to fit the new 1933 Ford Sedan chassis. For the new 1933 Ford Sedan, Ford discontinued the name “Town Sedans” and reverted

All 1934 mouldings examples.

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Left to right; Raised moulding on cowl end, 1934 and an example of the wide moulding on a sedan.

Left to right; A 1934 phaeton top added to a sedan bottom and an example of narrow coupe moulding.

to calling them just “Sedans.” One feature about the 1932 Ford Town Sedan bodies (and the Sport Coupes) is that they have a wide belt moulding that goes around the body, while the 1932 Roadster and Phaeton had a narrow belt moulding. When the all new 1933 Ford was released in the USA, all body styles received the narrow belt moulding.

For the Australian 1933 Fords, the cowls were imported, then modified to accept the timber base which sat ON the chassis, whilst the American bodies sat OVER the chassis rails. This timber base was 1¼” thick. This posed a problem for Ford Australia, but it was decided that they would retain the rear portion of the 1932 Sedan body, with modifications, to suit the 1933 Ford Sedan cowl, which was built on a longer wheelbase. The wheelbase had increased from 106” in 1932, to 112” for the 1933/1934 Fords. There is no comparison between the bodies of the USA and Australian designed 1933/1934 Fords. None of the body panels are interchangeable with the

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American Fords, with the exception of the cowl, deck -lids, fenders and bonnets. Unfortunately, it is not known where the closed car cowls received their wider ending of the belt moulding, to line up with the wider belt mouldings on the doors of the carried over modified 1932 Ford Sedan body. As a result of this carry-over from 1932 body, all of the Australian 1933/1934 Ford Sedans retained the wide belt moulding from the door back, including around the rear of the body, while the other three body styles, Coupe, Roadster and Phaeton all received the narrow belt moulding from the front door back, as used on the USA models. In the 1934 Ford Sedan body, that has a rear door from a 1932 Ford fitted, you can see what changes Ford Australia had to make so that the 1932 Sedan body could be used in the new 1933 sedan. The same body was carried over into 1934.

For 1932, the only Coupe that was available in Australia was the Sport Coupe, a Coupe with a full door and wind-up window, but with a fabric roof that did not fold down. When the 1933s were first released, Ford Australia again offered the Sport Coupe, but this was a temporary stop gap model, as Ford released a completely new Australian styled 5Window Coupe. The roof line of the Australian 1933/1934 Ford 5Window is totally different to the American 1933/1934 Ford 5-Window Coupes. Ford in Australia stamped the rear quarter panels in Geelong for the Roadster and then modified this roadster quarter panel so it would work on the Coupe, by extending the front by approximately 2½“. They also modified the top section, At top; An American steel floor. At bottom; An Australian wood floor. below the Coupe quarter window, for As a consequence, the Australian 1933/1934 Ford blending in the roof section to the quarter panel. Ford Sedans were manufactured with a door featuring a Geelong also stamped the roof section for the Coupe different belt moulding than the Australian Coupes. and Coupe Utility. That means that the Australian 1933/1934 Ford Sedans came with a different front door to the same One unique feature of the Australian 1933/1934 model Australian 1933/1934 Ford Coupes. Fords is the “filler panel,” locally known as “spears.” These filler panels were installed between the The same rear quarter panel pressing was used for running boards and the lower “D” mould, which sits the Coupes and Roadsters, but the Coupe panels had below the bottom of the doors and bolts to the to be lengthened slightly, at the front, when used on chassis. This panel is for aesthetics, hiding the the Coupe bodies, because of the difference in length wooden floor and is bolted to the chassis rail. of the Roadster door.

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By Joel Bridgeman

This is my 1933/34 truck (we say that since the truck is a 1933 with a 1934 hood/hood sides and shell). My grandfather wanted the ‘34 hood and shell since that shell has the chrome ring and the emblems on the sides. The truck was purchased from a farmer in the Santa Clara, California area in the early 1950s. It was used for about 10 years in Campbell and San Jose hauling pumpkins, apricots and prunes on the Perusina Farm. In the early 1960s, the truck was parked in the shop and left covered for over 40 years. The engine is a 59 AB and the original 4-cylinder was removed by my grandfather when he purchased the truck, because he did not like the original babbitt bearings. The engine was swapped out in the ‘50s and has not been torn apart or rebuilt since. It was just fired up about one year ago and is now driven as

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often as possible. It runs great, starts easily and purrs like a kitten.. The original transmission and rear end have never been touched. The mechanical brakes have all new rods, but are not modified from the original. The bed is an original style bed that was purchased from a company out of Detroit (my grandfather can't remember the company) in the early 2000s. It is an original style reproduction bed, with the correct FORD stamp on the back. The top was replaced back in the ‘60s, as the original was torn up from working in the orchards. The truck was repainted in the mid2000s. I am now the 4th generation of the family to drive the truck and am just finishing up some small items on it to drive in parades.

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By Steve Roberts Photos by Max Roberts

When I showed my wife the 1935 DeLuxe Touring Sedan on eBay, she said, "I thought you were looking for a Mustang." I was, but the car looked so good that it spoke to me. The color is Tacoma Cream, originally used as a wheel and pinstripe color. The more common colors are Gray, Black and Dark Green. It has the iconic Ford Flathead V-8 engine, which I had always wanted. Fortunately, the car was only 20 minutes from home, so I went to inspect it. Not knowing the owner, I drove my original 1952 Ford F-1 as my "credentials," to show that I would keep the car original and not hot rod it. A few days later, I took my wife over to show her the car and we bought it. The former Early Ford V-8er bought the car in New Hampshire in 1978, where it stayed until it was towed home to Delaware in 1983. The engine had a cracked block and it was 2001 before the car was on the road, but with a 1939 engine. Later, a 1935 engine was rebuilt by Schwalm's, in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, for the car. The restoration was begun before the internet was such a useful method to find and procure parts. He spent countless hours searching swap meets like the annual Hershey show and scanning Hemmings Motor News for parts. Self-addressed stamped envelopes,

phone calls and personal checks were the common method for transactions in the early stage of the process, before credit card purchases by phone became standard. The car underwent a body-off restoration. However, was built to run, not for show, but it is very correct. The only deviations are a 1937 to 1941 distributor, rather than a 1935 distributor and a Stromberg “97” carburetor, rather than a "48" carburetor. Seat belts, turn signals, and an LED high mount brake in the back window have been installed as safety upgrades. The rear turn signals, of course, are incorporated in the tail lights, and the front turn signal bulbs are behind the metal screen of the horn "trumpets," so they don't change the look of the car; they just shine through the metal screen. An aftermarket Arvin heater was installed by the Last Chance Garage, in Unionville, PA, to make winter driving comfortable. I drive the car regularly in good weather, but we live in southeastern Pennsylvania, so for most of the winter the car is in the garage connected to a battery maintainer and under a cover. The retiring Early Ford V-8er sold the car to downsize and I have benefitted from his decision, and I am now the caretaker of the car. I have done minor maintenance and driven it 3,600 miles in the seven years I have owned it. I always get smiles and

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positive comments from people who see the car. We have seven other antiques, ranging from a 1923 Model-T Ford, to a 1993 Corvette and this car is my wife's favorite. I eventually did buy a 1966 Mustang Convertibl e too.

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EARLY FORD V-8 CLUB 2021 MEMBERSHIP DRIVE RESULTS By President John Caldwell

experienced in 2020. It is a fact our Club is facing the dilemma of a declining membership due to its aging member demographics. Moreover, our Club’s 2020 end-of-year membership was negatively impacted by the Covid pandemic as well as a Christmas season where massive USPS mail delays created havoc in our renewal process. Last year ended with a loss in membership of 426 persons, or 5.6 percent, equaling 7,062 members. With a goal of offsetting these impacts, it is favorable to report the Drive resulted in a gain of 81 new or returning members to the Club over the 3-month contest (renewals were not considered as new or returning members). As of September 30, 2021, third quarter membership results show that the Club’s yearly membership has grown compared to last year, with a net gain of 67 members or a membership total of 7,129. In summary, although overall membership is a moving target given constant renewals and expirations and we have not yet reached yearend, the drive posted 81 new or renewed members who had previously dropped out of the Club.

Director Rick Claybaugh and President Caldwell present commendation to RG 115 Dallas President Jim White representing the Large sized classification.

The Club’s first V-8 Membership Drive, in recent memory, concluded with positive results to the national Club as well as the nineteen regional groups who participated. As year 2021 began, the Board realized fresh, new activities were needed to spark interest among Regional Groups who felt stymied climbing out of a pandemic year where no meets and few gatherings happened. In addition to a “virtual” 2021 car show, the Board decided to introduce a challenge to RGs by initiating a 2021 Membership Drive to spur some competition as well as potentially earn some monies for their local treasuries. The drive, held from May 1st through July 1st, brought positive results in several ways. First, the 2021 Drive enabled the Club to remain stable, with respect to its overall membership count, without a significant erosion in membership as

Second, a positive and unanticipated benefit was that the Drive provided an opportunity for participating RGs to analyze and update their rosters with accurate data provided by Cornerstone, our registration company. It was surprising to learn that RGs had national members they were unaware of, clerical errors in misspelled names and addresses, deceased members still listed as active and a discovery that many members were not national members. All participating regions reported that obtaining corrected and validated rosters was a positive benefit. Third, as outlined in the Drive rules, winners in 3 categories were to earn $1,000 prizes each for their treasuries. Each of the three winners were determined by size of the Regional Group measured by the resulting percentage of growth. The categories were: small RGs (1-19 members) medium RGs (20-50 members) and larger RGs (51+ members). A total of 19 RGs chose to participate in the 2021 Drive. Drive results were as follows: Large RG: Dallas Ear ly For d V-8 Club - RG 115, led by President Jim White and membership drive leader Les Kelton. Les lead the increase in the RGs overall national membership by adding 16 additions to their roster. This resulted in a 35%-member

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Below; Danny Driskell receives congratulations from President Caldwell as winner of the Small RG category representing RG 97 Volunteer – Nashville, Tennessee.

growth to their group. Congratulations on your excellent work! Medium-RG: Volunteer Tennessee RG 97 – with persistence by President Danny Driskell aided by drive leader Mickey Holton increased the Nashville national membership by adding 11 members or a growth of 58 % to their local RG. What a great achievement! Small RG: Omaha Ear ly For d V-8 Club – RG 43 with President Bob Cohn and supported By Evan Johnson, experienced a growth of 50% by increasing their national membership from 6 to 9 V-8er’s. Way to go!

A most special thanks goes to Connie Hall who volunteered to lead the drive with unselfish time and great personal focus. Connie spent countless hours monitoring and assisting RGs with correcting individual rosters, most of which over the years, had become inaccurate. The Club will discuss another Drive for 2022 as several Regions have inquired about another opportunity. Should you have ideas as to how to grow or sustain our club interest, please reach out to me. Below, pictured left to right is RG 43 Omaha discussing the National Membership Drive are (back row) Phyllis Johnson, Burgandi Johnson, & Emily Johnson; front Row: Karen Eaton, Denny Eaton, Robert Cohn, & David Vollmer.

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FORD BOLTS By Jack Filiness

I would like to bring to the attention of the membership some information I discovered while working on my 1949 Ford. Because of the above picture of the bolt I removed from the steering idle bracket on the right side of the frame. It is part #356682–5 and is 4 1/4-inches long. There are two attaching the idle arm bracket to the frame. The upper bolt is 1 1/4-inches long and threads into the frame from inside the rail. The lower bolt is 4 1/4 -inchs long and goes through the frame from outside the rail. It has a nut and washer on the inside. This is the bolt that needs to be looked at if anyone is still

driving an original, untouched 1949 to 1951 Ford car. I have discovered three of these that needed to be replaced. As you can see in the picture, the original is eaten away and rusted and could obviously present a most dangerous situation to the safety of driving when it finally brakes.

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Dad’s Generation Was More Daring Than Mine By Ron Trella

My dad, John Martin Trella, was the consummate Ford guy. He worked for the Ford Motor Company, at the Rouge Plant and owned eight Fords in his life; all of them were daily drivers. He would have never thought of owning any other brand, he would not even allow anyone to park a “Brand X” in our John Martin Trella with his 1940 Ford. driveway. Dad grew up outside of Smithfield, Ohio, Sometime around the middle of the 1930s, his in the township of Bradley. It was a farming and coal intrepid group from Bradley decided they all wanted mining area, in southeast Ohio. Dad was always to go home for a weekend visit, to see their families. relating stories of growing up in this area. His father They would make the trip in Dad’s 1934 Ford Tudor. was a coal miner by night and had a small farm that he worked by day to feed his family. He related to me that the early Ford V-8s were known to use “a bit of oil.” I understand that 50 miles Dad did not relish working in the mines, or on the per quart was normal, until Ford made some farm. At the age of 18 in 1929, one of dad’s friends improvements to the engine as the V-8 progressed heard that the Ford Motor Company was hiring throughout the 1930s. He said the car used more oil workers at the Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. than gas on trips. Dad and three of his friends decided this was where they wanted to work. Shortly thereafter, the four of The group wanted to maximize their time with their them packed up and headed off for Dearborn in one families while they were home for the weekend. To of his friend’s Model-T. do this, they needed to do some planning ahead of Now I cannot imagine what a trip like that would have been like in 1929. Knowing that a Model-T had a cruising speed of about 25mph, the 250-mile trip would have been at best, a 12 hour plus trip, if you could drive straight through. We all know the ModelT’s had their own set of idiosyncrasies. Dad did admit the trip had a few unscheduled stops. This trip itself was very daring for the time. The group did eventually make it to Dearborn and all four men landed jobs with Ford. Other than vacations and odd weekend trips, Dad never moved back to Ohio. This was the start of his long 40-year career with Ford. Dad went on to own a 1930 Model A, a 1934 Tudor Sedan, and then a 1940, 1953, 1959, 1963 and eventually a Falcon and Mustang.

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time. The plan was the leave right after their shift was over, on Friday night and drive straight through, 250 miles, with as few stops as possible. They would then return Sunday night, to be back at work on Monday morning. Along with a change of clothes, the group also packed extra cans of gas and a case of oil. Dad was always a Pennsylvania crude guy, so Wolfs Head or Pennzoil would have been his oils of choice.

In preparation for the trip, Dad removed the hood and the oil filler cap from the ’34. Friday afternoon came and the group was off for southeast Ohio. Each man taking turns driving. About every 50-60 miles, the oil gauge would begin to drop and the guy driving at that time would signal the “pit crew” to spring into action. One of the back

Dad’s Generation Was More Daring Than Mine Continued seat passengers would stab an oil spout (remember those) into a can of oil and hand it to the guy sitting in the front passenger seat. That guy would open the right front door. Remember, these were “suicide doors” opening from the front.

Eventually, they did have to stop for gas, where oil could be added in a more conventional method. Dad said the trip there and back went off without a hitch, using the same procedure for the trip back to the Detroit area.

With the right rear back window glass rolled down, one of the back seat passengers would climb partway out of the window and hold onto the door so it would not open too far and break off. The front seat passenger would then slowly crawl out onto the running board, grab onto the radiator support rod to steady himself, and pour a quart of oil or two into the engine.

This group of guys was a lot more daring than I ever was in my youth. How dangerous was this stunt? Extremely! If the guy fell, if the door bent back too far, the opportunities for disaster were endless. I thought my group of friends pulled off some crazy stunts in the sixties, but we would have never considered anything like this.

They did this while cruising down the two lane roads at approximately 45mph. No need to stop, they had this covered. I can imagine this created quite a sight for other drivers seeing the crew in action.

Unfortunately, I have no pictures of his ’34. The picture I really would have liked to have would be of the guy adding oil at 45mph! That would be a keeper! I do have a photo of dad with his 1940 Tudor taken some time during WWII, he looked proud of that car and drove it for 13 years.

May 9, 1935. Francis Birtles, his wife of less than two months, Nea and his 1934 Ford touring car in front of the Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 68

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Baker Motor Company R & G Used Cars – Salt Lake City, Utah In an effort to help its dealers suffering from the lingering effects of the Great Depression, the Ford Motor Company initiated a new “Renewed and Guaranteed” sales program, in March of 1936, to assist its dealers with selling their used car inventory. The image featured above shows the adoption of the sales campaign by the Baker Motor Company of Salt Lake City, Utah. This photo, courtesy of The Henry Ford, contains Baker’s used car sales operation on the evening of May 5, 1937. It was separated from the Dealer’s new car showroom and service garage, located at 279 East 300 South, in another section of the city. Two enlarged sections of the picture (at right) clearly show the small “R & G” signs on each car’s windshield, with its details and price. On the right, in the second image the “Renewed R & G Guaranteed” section of the neon-lit sign is visible. The next page contains a newspaper advertisement announcing the new program.

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A newspaper advertisement announcing the new Renewed & Guaranteed program. 1936.

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A Pair of ‘42s In Their Natural Environment By Wayne Rosenkrans

We use our 1942 Ford Tudor Sedan in our WWII living history work, setting the scene for the period (See V-8 Times, September/October, 2017). One of the largest WWII events each year is the WWII Weekend, in Reading, Pennsylvania. It’s been called “a three-day graduate class in early ‘40s history,” with most of the active theaters of the war represented, plus the American home font.

Although many didn’t realize it, this year we had a real rarity at the Home Front. Not only was “Eleanor,” our ’42 Ford Sedan there, but also a ’42 Ford Station Wagon. As most V-8ers know, seeing one ’42 at a show is very rare, seeing two in what amounts to their natural environment is very improbable. To learn more about the WWII weekend, visit www.maam.org.

Drawing close to 38,000 visitors over the three days this year, it’s hard to grasp the enormity of the venue with no modern vehicles in sight among the Jeeps, tanks, trucks, motorcycles, and of course, the aircraft (including such attention grabbers as a B-29 Superfortress, B-17 Flying Fortress, Mustangs, Corsairs, and many others). All of the vehicles move throughout the weekend, including the aircraft - this isn’t a static display of “Look, but don’t touch.”

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“Drive Your Ford V-8” Day was not forgotten by the Northern Illinois Regional Group #8 this year as three Early Ford V-8s came out for a drive from the Chicago suburbs out to the cornfields of Dekalb, Illinois. The group gathered in Wheaton, Illinois for the 40 mile drive to Dekalb. The group ate at “Fatty’s Pub,” a well known Dekalb eatery and continued on

for a tour of a nearby distillery called “Whiskey Acers.” The Ford V-8s involved were John Emmering’s 1949 Ford Custom Fordor, John Judges’s 1951 Ford Victoria and Ron Steck’s 1949 Ford Pickup.

Well, we started out with a bit of trouble on “Drive Your V-8 Day” when I received a call that Jim Ellerbrock had battery problems when he went to get gas in is 1955 Ford. We waited at the starting location while Jim changed cars and joined the tour. Being Fathers Day weekend (and quite hot!), we didn't have the turnout for the tour that I'd had hoped for, we had Scott and his son with his 1939 Ford Pickup, Rob with his 1955 Ford and a friend of Robs, with a nice 1968 Camaro. Then, Jim and his wife, along with Howard Brown, in Jim’s 1966 Ford Galaxy convertible, along with my 1948 Plymouth. We then proceeded to head out the 118Fwy towards the

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old 118 Fwy off ramp. We continued out the old 118 towards the 126 Fwy and the Santa Paula Airport and Museum. We then met up with Jerry and Leslie Littner, in their Miata, along with their friends that had a pretty yellow and black Prowler, at the Airport. I had received a call just prior to departing that our contact had a case of food poisoning and would not be able to be there to open the museum herself and she had contacted the lady that ran the Flight school there to open the museum for us. Although it is a

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small museum, it was very interesting. After about 45 minutes we then went into the restaurant "Flight 126 Cafe" for a very nice lunch, with lots of conversation. We then gathered up and toured about 8 miles up the 126 Fwy into Fillmore, and stopped at "Ernies Auto Care," which is a converted 1950s gas station, for some photo ops. It was starting to get hot and after 2:00pm, so we decided to call the tour complete and all went their own way home! Submitted by Ernie Baily, RG#40

vacation and family outings in this woodie. Mike was dabbling in Model As in high school, but the love of woodies never waned. In 1979, he bought a 1929 Ford Woodie. It was in boxes, but Mike put it back together, restoring pieces as he went along. He took it to Vermont for a woodie meet, where he met Will O’Neil, founder of the Woodie Club. Right there, Mike joined the club, and became member number 559. Later, Mike bought a 1947 Ford Woodie in a hundred boxes and turned it into a birds-eye maple beauty which earned the Dearborn award.

Mike Nickels Woodie Restoration Shop Destroyed in a September 5, 2021 Five Alarm Fire By Octie Ham

It was early Sunday morning, when Mike received the alarm that his Traverse City, Michigan shop was on fire. In spite of five fire departments and 48,000 gallons of trucked-in water, the 50 year old, 8,000 square foot wood building and ten vintage woodie wagons were destroyed in less than an hour. Mike had operated this shop for 50 years, restoring/ rebuilding over 100 woodie cars/ wagons. Mike has had a lifetime of love for the old wooden bodied cars/ wagons. It started with his father’s 1948 Pontiac Woodie Wagon family car. At age four, Mike has great memories of the

On the professional side, Mike worked in various wood-crafting shops, cabinet making shops, and millwork shops. Then, in the early ‘90s, Mike decided to turn his woodie restoration hobby into a full-time effort. His completed woodie restorations include Phantom Ford Sportsmans, Barrel Back and post-war Chryslers, a stretched LaSalle, many early Fords, a 1915 Allen Car and the list goes on. I first met Mike at his swap space at Hershey after reading a story about his woodie restoration shop in the Detroit News. We talked about my two 1941 Plymouth wagons, one for each of my two daughters. In 2014, I asked Mike to finish a disassembled ’46 Town and County. Over the next four years, he beautifully restored my car. He also built new wood and painted my two ’41 Plymouth Woodies. During that time I also got to work with Mike, remotely finishing smaller pieces. He was amazing to work with, always upbeat and kind. I now have these marvelous woodies to enjoy, thanks to Mike. Mike has said several times that it’s the people behind each woodie he restores that makes his mission in life so special. He recalls fondly some of the things people have said about his restored woodies. His favorite one is when a car is done and you want to know if you have done a good job, they ask, “Can I touch it?” I always say you bet you can. This string of finished woodie restoration has stopped for a while. Mike’s shop sits in rubble and his tooling/machinery are unusable. A few hours after the fire, Mike said to his wife Lana, “I’m going to rebuild.” As his shop evolved and grew over the years, the insurance coverage did not keep up. We started a Go Fund Me to help Mike in some way rebuild his shop and his life. Please consider donating to this cause and please pass it on to other who have not heard about Mike’s devastating fire and loss of his shop. I believe with help from his friends and others in the hobby, we will see a new Nickels Woodworking Shop come to life in 2022. https://gofund.me/eb5fa97b

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Thank You Butch! By Rick Rawllngs In 1999, I decided it was time to restore my grandfather's 1946 Ford Commercial pickup, which he purchased in '46, for his small dirt farm in Dishman, Washington.

I was unsure of how to go about that, so I began asking around various people in the area about who might help/guide me through the process of a total period correct restoration. One name kept coming up, Harold "Butch" Kent, of Woodinville, Washington, a Seattle suburb. He is a long-time member of the Puget Sound Regional Group and the EFV8 Club. I built up enough nerve to call him, and he volunteered to meet me and share his thoughts on how he would go about it. I jumped at the opportunity! Little did I know it would lead to a 20+ year close friendship.... Little did I know the width and breath of Butch's knowledge of Ford trucks, his genuine compassion for Ford and mentoring someone like me.

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At that time Butch had restored a ‘47 commercial pickup and was awarded a Dearborn Plaque. He would later donate that pickup to an Oregon museum, where it is still on display. He had a ‘47 fire truck, several ‘46 and ‘47 flatbeds, and soon restored a 1947 COE, to showroom standards. Then came a ‘39 school bus, when finished, he enjoyed providing rides and promoting many smiles.

He restored tow trucks, helped many other club members with their restorations and is highly regarded as a generous sharing guy. He now resides in Kirkland, Washington enjoying retirement. I would never have been able to complete my restorations, nor could I have learned what I know now, without Butch's mentoring. I am thankful to share what I know with other EFV8 folks like Butch did for me.

One truck Butch never had in his collection was a Tonner pickup, he schooled me on how tough one of those might be to restore. I listened, but then decided to move ahead with my ‘47 restoration, partially to honor him, partially to remind me every day of how much he has meant to me. I proudly drive a ‘46 commercial panel he painstakingly restored and sold me a few years ago. These photos are all trucks Butch has either restored or worked on for others. He drove many mid-forties Ford trucks in his family business in his earlier days. Many were equipped with Marmon Herrington 4wheel drive power. Butch participated in many EFV8 meets, was a judge countless times, answered thousands of questions smiling all the way. THANK YOU, Butch, for all you have meant to me & the EFV8 Club!!

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1948 Ford Sedan Coupe Part IV By Mickey Holton

Since the last report, in the March/April issue of the V-8 Times, much progress has been made on my 1948 Sedan Coupe. The interior was installed and once again our friend and interior guru, Gil Vigil and his partner Braxton Clements, did an outstanding job. We are very proud of it. Those who have seen it have been very complimentary. In addition to the interior, we also managed to get the Magic Air Heater and Defroster installed, which Ford touted to its dealers as a "Sure Fire Hit." Now, this was a tough nut to crack and finding all of the necessary parts to complete it was a chore, but we did it! Our friend Kenny Polly was our fall guy, back on this project and thanks to Kenny's expertise and mechanical talents it turned out beautifully, too. Not least of all, we got the final phase of the glass, the quarter panel windows, installed. Our "old car" glass pro, Daniel McNeal, took care of that for us.

restoration. It was difficult at times, with more than a few frustrating moments but, in the end, it was a gratifying experience to see it all come together and result in another beautiful Early Ford V-8 brought back to life.

I am happy to report that, as of July, my 1948 Ford Sedan Coupe is no longer a "Work in Progress." It is finally finished after more than three years of

Not long after completion, the Strata Blue coupe was entered in three AACA meets...Auburn, Indiana (Junior Award), Greenville, South Carolina (Senior

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Award) and Hershey, Pennsylvania (First Preservation).. After Hershey, I was notified by the AACA that it had been nominated to receive an AACA national award. I have no expectation that it will receive an award but it would be nice to win and, as they say at the Academy Awards...it's nice to be nominated!" Plans have been made now to enter it at EFV8CA meets in 2022, beginning with the 2022

Eastern National Meet in Franklin, Tennessee, hosted by our own Volunteer V-8 Ford. It has been much too long since V8ers have had an opportunity to gather and enjoy these beautiful works of art. We are looking forward to seeing many of you in Tennessee next year because..."We can do...in 2022!"

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problems with using a non-proprietary engine from a motor car maker is the possibility that the car maker will stop making or supplying the engine the car is designed for. When Ford replaced the Model A (40h.p.) with the Model B (50h.p.), North Western had to replace the Model A with the Model B drive train. Neither engine was really powerful enough for the larger motor coaches. As soon as it became available. North

COMPANY 555, 561 and 565 SERIES MOTOR CARS By Nick Pull Submitted by Coy Thomas These three models were advancements and improvements on earlier models. They became available for purchase in 1934. One of the major

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Western started using the newer Ford V-8. The new Ford engine, transmission, radiator and cowl were used to power a new series of motor coaches.

A 561B was an extra gang car. It was powered by a Ford Model B drive train. It seated eight and could haul several trailers.

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The 561-V8 is nearly identical to the 561 B except for the 88 h.p. V8 engine replacing the 50 h.p. 4cylinder engine. The 562H-B was an extra gang car. was designed for hump yard use. It seated 24 and could haul another 200 in trailers, it was basically an longer 561-B The 561H-35 extra gang car seated 35 and could be had with either a 4 cylinder or V8 engine. It was advertised as being able to operate on "all grades and logging railways.” The 565-V8 used an 88h.p. Ford V8 engine and its companion transmission, hood and cowl. It was

available with a wide variety of body styles and wheel bases. The 555T-V8 enclosed inspection car was a shortened version of the 565-V8. The drive train was the same, but the chassis was much shorter. For use as an inspection vehicle, being able to turn around at any location was important. Speed in turning was less important than ease. It would be very rare for the persons using this vehicle (the Road Master, Division Engineers, etc.) to be in the way of a train. If it was, usually the train would have to wait until the inspection car was turned and moved out of the way.

DID YOU KNOW? By 1920, Henry and Clara Ford found it difficult to travel by railroad. Henry Ford was widely recognized -- pestered by the public and hounded by reporters. The Fords purchased a private railroad car they called Fair Lane, so they could travel conveniently and quietly across the extensive American railroad network. The Fords made more than 400 trips with Fair Lane from 1921 to 1942. The railroad car is now on exhibit at The Henry Ford. Visit www.thehenryford.com Image and information courtesy of The Henry Ford, © all rights reserved.

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REGIONAL GROUP NEWS All of the news and photographs in this column are contributed by members. If you would like to see your Regional Group featured, send items to: V-8 Times, 350 Afshari Drive, Florissant, MO 63034, or email v8timeseditor@gmail.com. Deadlines are the 20th of even numbered months (February 20, April 20, June 20, August 20, October 20, December 20. We reserve the right to edit contributions for space and clarity.

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COLUMBIA RIVER RG #10 EAST CLACKAMAS COUNTY TOUR On September 11th the Columbia River RG joined the Beaver Chapter Model “A” Ford club for a truly enjoyable day. Our tour was met with sunshine and a good temperature for touring. It was tough to decide whether or not to put the top down. There were five Model A’s, six early Ford V-8’s, (five flat-heads and Gene’s ’55) along with two modern irons. The participants were tour leaders Lynn and Patty, along with Kirk and Rene, Jeanie and David, Andrew and JoAnn, Gene Scott, Bill Griffith and Alyse Wagner,

Art and Marlynne, Mike and Penny; V-8 members: Dennis Thun, Murl Jones, Bill Barnell, John and Sandra Ferland, Don Cummings, and Ken and Cathy Smith who were so kind as to volunteer to be the last car. We followed along the fire lines of the Riverside fire. The Riverside Fire started September 8, 2020, and quickly spread to over 138,000 acres. It was sad to see how many homes were destroyed and how much timber was burnt. On a bright side, it is amazing how the fireman kept the fire from destroying the City of Estacada. The tour meandered nearly 100 miles throughout rural paved roads of east Clackamas County and ended in downtown Estacada, where some of us dined at local food carts. It was a great tour and we experienced no break downs or problems! The second half of this tour is still to come, and it too will be a co-tour with the V-8 club and the Model A Club. The second part will go to Zig Zag, Marmot, Bull Run, Aims, Corbett and Troutdale. Our starting point will be Gresham and the ending point in Troutdale. More info to come. Until then happy motoring! Andrew Jackman

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REGIONAL GROUP NEWS PUGET SOUND RG #18 DRIVING TOUR TO LAKE CHELAN, WASHINGTON About 40 PSRG members joined in for our recent September 10-12 tour, the club’s first overnight outing in quite some time. Assembling in Issaquah, we cruised over Snoqualmie Pass to Cle Elum and the home of longtime PSRG members Alex and Virgie Cordas. Successfully dodging intermittent raindrops for the drive, an ominous drizzle began to creep in as we arrived at the Cordas ranch. Planning ahead, Alex had moved their two gorgeous Lincolns to the shop building to clear garage space. After exploring the property, the garage was welcome space to set up with our picnic lunches and folding chairs. By 1:00pm our caravan was climbing Blewett Pass, toward Lake Chelan and our second tour stop at Miller’s Auto Museum. Chelan had not seen measurable rainfall for well over 100 days, but a continuous light shower was enough to dirty up our V -8s. Although an inconvenience for us, it was a welcome respite for the locals. Leo Miller, owner of the private museum that spanned five buildings, was on hand to greet us. Leo is in the garbage collection (and car collection) business. Yes - it sounds uncannily analogous to someone we all are familiar with on this side of the Cascades. DJ music, hot dogs, and drinks were provided by our host, as those of us with vintage rides registered for the Saturday Car Show.

Resort in Manson, the quaint north shore village on Lake Chelan. About half our group wandered across the street to WineGirl cellars for snacks, wine tasting and lively conversation (some, but not all, carrelated). Saturday morning found most of the V-8 drivers up at first light cleaning cars. The weather proved to be a dramatic reversal of the previous day - this time with clear skies and warming to 80 degrees. The Fall Into Lake Chelan Car Show is held annually on the lawns of Riverwalk Park. Adjacent to downtown, the site offered numerous options for lunch, sightseeing and scenic strolling along the waterfront promenade. About 200 cars were on display. One of the most interesting was a 1935 Brewster/Ford Town Car. These custom vehicles have been featured occasionally in the V-8 Times, but it’s a rare occurrence to see one in person. I spoke with owner Lee Harman who recently purchased the car out of Indiana and had it shipped to his home on Camano Island. The Brewster sits on a ’35 Ford chassis and is flathead V-8 powered. Lee has become a new PSRG member. After a couple years of PSRG dormancy it was invigorating to get together once again to celebrate our hobby. Participants were enthusiastic and the shared camaraderie apparent. Hopefully we can look forward to more of this in 2022. Staging another successful Swap Meet and hosting a National V8 Meet will offer a multitude of opportunities for club members to get involved.

Following a couple of hours at the museum, we rolled up for check-in at the Mountain View Lodge &

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NORTHERN OHIO REGIONAL GROUP #20 OCTOBER CORN ROAST On Saturday, October 9, a beautiful fall afternoon, NORG held a corn roast. It was the first corn roast in over 10 years. It was at the Mihalek’s farm in Bath. Over 30 members and guests enjoyed sweet corn, bratwurst, and hot dogs. An assortment of delicious appetizers, hot dishes and desserts brought by members to share.

Mercury Convertible, and 1940 & 41 Lincoln Zephyr’s as well as the 1939 Zephyr he has awaiting paint and assembly.

Bruce Lewicki and Craig Gorris cooked and were supported by Annette Gorris and Marie Lewicki. A treat for members was Ron’ opened his garage for members to see his 1937 Ford Cabriolet, 1950

Our RG is planning a Christmas Party for all members. Darlene Null, NORG Correspondent

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member Tom Webb heads the meet, and with the help of numerous other club members, it always turns into great event.

September was a very busy month for our club. We started off with our annual club auction, in which members donate car parts and other items they no longer need. Everything is then auctioned to other members. It always turns into a success as member’s egg each other on for higher bids and at the same time make it comical. Funds obtained during this event cover the cost of our yearly club picnic. Our thanks go out to Bob and Margo Wilson for hosting this, plus their mouthwatering BBQ spread after the auction. Next up was the All Ford Day, held at Sheridan High School. Over 200 Ford products from all years participated and we had a wonderful day looking at the various cars, kicking tires and seeing old friends. This was the 50th Anniversary of our club sponsor ship of this event (we started it in 1971) and it is the oldest continuous car show in the Denver area. Club

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We ended the month by celebrating another anniversary. This festivity was another 50th for us. Since our club was founded in 1970, we were set to have the celebration last year. However, like so many other events, we had to postpone it due to COVID. Although a year late, we had over 100 people gather at the beautiful Mt. Vernon Canyon Country Club restaurant. The setting overlooks metro Denver and we were served a delicious sit down dinner. Tons of photos and other club activity related items brought back memories for all. Attending the ceremonies were four of our original charter members. These members were Sam Benton, Casey Hayes, Ivan Fiechter and Merrill Newman. The banquet celebration was planned by Mike Welch, Harry Lindsay, Jay Svigel, Abe and Debbie Jones and the undersigned. Arnel Kimmett, Corresponding Secretary

REGIONAL GROUP NEWS Our September gathering was hosted by Chris and Kim Smith at an interesting place called "The Place" which is where you have an luxury condo garage with a work area for cars and lounge section. The ultimate car enthusiast "Man Cave Garage.”

ST. LOUIS RG #124 ICE CREAM SOCIAL

On October 18th, our meeting was hosted by Lee and Laura McDurmont at another interesting garage where a friend of theirs's Thomas Quick has a building with many Lincoln's, Cord's, Duesenberg's, Auburn's, etc. that are in the process of being restored, along with Lee's 1946 Ford sedan coupe that belonged to his family.

Our Annual Ice Cream social was hosted by Bruce and Theresa Williams on July 18th, 2021. It was well attended as always. Everyone enjoys seeing the progress of Bruce Williams projects in his garage. Then we had ice cream goodies that had been brought for everyone's enjoyment.

Howard Crawford, Corresponding Secretary St. Louis Regional Group #124 Early Ford V-8 Club

In August we gathered at Wildwood Pub and Grill in Wildwood, Missouri. We had a large attendance. The food was good and seeing friends again was great. Bonnie Abler furnished our group with cupcakes,

Picture #2 is Lee and Laura McDurmont with their 1946 Ford sedan in restoration in the background.

Picture #1 is an inside view of "The Place" luxury condo garage.

Howard Crawford, Corresponding Secretary

CENTRAL IOWA RG #145 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION On July 18, 2021 members of the Central Iowa Regional Group #145 gathered at the Penoach Winery north of Adel for a 25th Anniversary celebration. We had gathered here for our 20 Anniversary also and enjoyed the location and services of the owners in using the Winery to have our gathering. We set up a double canopy tent to dine under and had the meal catered in by a local grocery. Those attending were Dave Sanderson, 49 Ford Coupe, Jim Stanley 50 Ford Tudor, Rich and Verna Grieve, 35 Ford Coupe, Mike and Mary Johnston, 40 Ford Convertible, Keith and Karen Harlan, 38 Ford Fordor Sedan, Chuck and Beck Stanley, 47 Ford Fordor Sedan, Wade and Mary Krieg, 39 Ford Fordor Sedan and Steve and Judy Kroeger, 47 Ford

Fordor Sedan. Maralee Sarasio also attended with a modern car. Maralee gave a talk on the early history

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of a previous regional group in the Des Moines area in the early history of the club. Original charter members attending included Steve and Judy Kroeger and Jim Stanley. Comments were shared about the founding of the regional group and members that have passed on that were no longer with us. After

the meal we opened up the anniversary cake which was cut and served by the 3 charter members. Music was shared by Wade Krieg and as they say, " a good time was had by all.”

Steve Kroeger

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REMEMBERING MEMBERS ROBERT J. MALLEY NEW YORK RG #3 Robert (Bob) Malley was known for his infectious smile and wonderful sense of humor. He was a graduate of Aquinas Institute and the College of the Holy Cross. He taught at Aquinas Institute for three years, before joining his father’s business at Donuts Delite, Inc. Bob eventually became owner, along with his wife Judy and their five children. Following his love of historical preservation, he then went on to restore Rochester’s last classic diner. The family opened the Highland Park Diner in 1986. An avid antique car collector, Bob was an active participant in both the Early Ford V-8 Club and the Genessee Valley Antique Car Club. He was also one of the founders and served as president of the Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum in Auburn, Indiana. As president of the Browncroft Neighborhood association for many years, he was instrumental in its Landmark preservation. He was also an active supporter of: Eastern Service Workers, the DAV (Disabled American Veterans), the VFW, the School of the Holy Childhood, the Boys of Industry, Abbey of the Genessee, House of Mercy, St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality, Advent House, the Laurelton & Ridge Culver Fire Departments and countless others. Predeceased by his wife, Judith and his brother, James. He is survived by his five children, ten grandchildren, sister, brother, several nieces and many beloved friends. WALLACE HENRY TULSA, OK RG #39 Wallace Berry Henry passed away on Thursday, September 9th, 2021, at the age of 93. After several months

of declining health, Wallace died peacefully with his beloved wife of 71 years and family by his side. Wallace was born in Drumright, Oklahoma on November 9, 1927. He graduated from Haileyville High School and shortly thereafter, enlisted in the Navy. He served in the Navy months during World War II, on the ship USS Donner. He continued his service in the Reserves for another ten years on the USS Waldron. At the end of the war, Wallace returned home and worked at the Ammunition Depot in McAlester, OK. Wallace and Lillie Mae Tyler were married on June 3, 1950 at the McAlister Church of Christ. They began their family of three children: Jerry, Connie and Ralph. He then began driving a bus for Greyhound Bus lines on April 28, 1953 and did so for 33 years. After retiring from Greyhound, Wallace enjoyed restoring classic cars including a 1951 Ford Victoria hardtop, a 1951 Ford Convertible, a 1947 Ford 2N tractor and his pride and joy a 1966 Ford Mustang Coup and several other vehicles. He also earned his pilot’s license after restoring two airplanes. He won many awards from various car shows and clubs such as Dearborn’s for both ‘51’s. He was a TRG’s President and an active member since the early years of TRG #39. Wallace was very proud of his Choctaw heritage. His great, great grandmother relocated to Oklahoma traveling with her tribe on the Trail of Tears. He was an active member of the Choctaw Nation and even learned how to speak some of the language. He is survived by his wife Lillie Mae Henry of Tulsa, his three children and their families, including numerous great grandchildren and great, great grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. How lucky are we to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. “Chi pisa la chike.” Till we meet again. Wallace was a quiet but a positive full of life man willing to assist others in their pursuit of restoring early V-8’s or other things. DOUGLAS “DOUG” LEO SHULL, Doug Shull, 82, of Sylvania, Ohio, passed away Monday, November 1, 2021, in his home. He was born March 28, 1939 to William (Doc) and Dorothy (Stevens) Shull of

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REMEMBERING MEMBERS Sylvania. He was a graduate of Sylvania Burnham High School and earned his mechanical engineering degree from the University of Toledo. He married Diane Imes on June 3, 1978. Doug worked and traveled as a custom product specialist for The Toledo Scale and later as a crew dispatcher for the B.& O. Railroad. He served as an assistant mutual manager for Toledo Raceway Park as well as Hazel Park in Detroit, and also the Kentucky Derby. Doug was an avid reader of all things mechanical and possessed an extensive collection of Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury cars and literature. He served as the Early Ford V-8 Club’s Technical Advisor for 1952/53 Mercurys, helping members worldwide. He is survived by his loving wife of 43 years, Diane. CONNIE VINCENTINI OHIO RG #141 Connie and Jerry Vincentini were friends that we met at many of the EFV8 National Meets from coast to coast. They also joined Ohio Region #141, and were members for several years. They worked very hard to get the EFV8 Foundation Museum built and were very instrumental in it being located in Auburn, Indiana. Connie spent many, many hours helping plan Motorfests, and the Central National Meets that Ohio Region #141 helped with in Auburn. Her talent really came through as she was an excellent planner for ordering all the meals, figuring out the fees, ordering the goody bags, and planning tours. Connie and Jerry had the trophies made along with the Meet pens, plaques, gear shift knobs, shirts, etc. She had any information that was needed, and had the information that Jerry needed before he asked for it. Connie was always working for our Early Ford V8 groups and organized seven Motorfest Meets to raise money for the Museum. She won the Clara B. Ford Award and also the title of "Miss Motorfest." She was a very detailed oriented person, and a hard worker, who was kind, caring, and organized. We will miss her contributions, her enthusiasm, and especially her friendship.

REMEMBERING CONNIE AND BOB It saddens me to say I have not only lost two fellow V-8ers, but also two of my dearest friends – Connie Vincentini and Bob Malley. Both were very active in the Early Ford V-8 Club. Both will be remembered for the outstanding support they gave the Early Ford V-8 Club and the Early Ford V-8 Foundation when it was in its infancy. I first met Connie (Francis) Vincentini when I attended my first “Motorfest.” The Motorfest was the idea of Jerry and Connie, held in Auburn, at the site of the proposed Museum in the late 1990s. Without a doubt, Connie was in charge and her enthusiasm was not lost on the attendees. She was a great spokesperson for the Foundation and two Early Ford V-8 Club National Meets held there. Connie was always outgoing and always greeted me with a big hug when we attended a National Meet or Board meeting. (I never told her I am not a hugger!) But that’s how she was – always happy to meet old and new friends alike. Speaking of the Motorfest, that’s where I first encountered Bob Malley. When I saw Bob and his wife Judy drive up in a fully restored highway bus! (I’m in to Ford V-8 Trucks.) I knew this was a kindred spirit that I had to meet. Bob was outgoing and everyone who met him was his friend. That would be true at this Motorfest. Returning from a car show on the square with a busload of V-8ers, the bus scraped a car parked in front of the hotel. Bob apologized to the owner and offered to pay for repairs. The “passengers” on the bus opened their wallets and chipped in. The last time I saw Connie and Bob was at the 2019 Central Meet at the Museum. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to see Connie too much, as she was busy making sure everything at the Meet was running smoothly. I did get to spend some time with Bob, as we sat on a bench in front of the Museum, where he and I reminisced about the “good old days.” I consider Connie and Bob special friends and I’ll always remember them and the many contributions they made to the V-8 community. Jerry Windle V-8 TIMES Editor Emeritus

Rest in Peace Dear Connie.

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and I appreciate it very much.

Mr. Abbin,

John Merli

This is fan mail. I am rereading your Ford & Mercury Flathead V-8 Identification & Rebuilder's Guide. It's first rate. I don't know where you get all this stuff, but it helps me navigate my way around a Flathead. Great companion to your 335 HP book and Building a High Performance Flathead videos.

Hi John,

I do have a question, though. (You didn't think you'd get out from under this without a question, did you?) I have a block I haven't been able to identify. It's an NOS 59 with 3-1/16 bore. I believe it's a service replacement, but the 59 on the bellhousing throws me. Table 3-1 of the guide IDs service blocks as 41A. Is mine a service block? If so, is it a 41A with a superseding part number or perhaps a later casting? Can I safely go to 3-5/16? Anyway, thanks. You have helped me once before,

I've heard of those 3-1/16" bore "59" blocks before. The most likely explanation is that they were transition blocks. I would not attempt boring beyond 3-3/16" without doing a sonic check for cylinder bore thickness. You would like a minimum wall thickness after boring of 3/16" (.188"). Any less is risky because of potential casting flaws on the water jacket side of the cylinder wall. Joe Abbin, Early Ford V-8 Engine Adviser 1951 HEATER CONTROL VALVE Dear Glenn, Still making slow progress on the Woodie, and as I

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am sure you understand, it is steps forward and steps backward. Finally got the entire cooling system plumbed and functioning. However, after running the engine a couple of days ago, I realized that the passenger side floor was puddled in coolant. I was somewhat baffled, as the heater core and valve were pressure tested, and "thought" to be in good order. But no, the heater valve was leaking. I thought I had another used one, but can't find it. I will bi-pass it for the time being, but was wondering what words of wisdom you might be able to offer. Are they rebuildable? Is there an alternative? On another note, I have found, and been corresponding with Mike Wrey at Cayucos Auto Interiors. He has the light brown and dark brown vinyl for the interior. I've had no success getting any information from SMS, whom as I understand, bought out the remains of Le Barron Bonney. Mike will make the seat covers, headliner, and sun visors for me. I will be delivering the seat springs, frames, etc. to him in the not too distant future. He's done lots of Woodies.

fellow who advertised in the Services section of the V-8 Times for several years. I sent him one for my ’51 Woody and he rebuilt it. However, I checked random magazine issues back to 2013 but could not find him. C&G Ford Parts has a rebuilding service listed in their online catalog. Send them yours and $150. I have a catalog from Concours Parts & Accessories that shows the valves and sells a 1” diameter rubber diaphragm (8A-18501-DIAPH) to repair several valves including the 1A-18502-B. I talked to the fellow there a couple of years ago. His toll free parts line is 800-722-0009.

Glad you found someone to do your seats. I know others who have tried to contact SMS without success, so I am wondering if they are in operation. Glenn Davis, 1949/51 Ford Advisor INSTALLING NEW PLUG WIRES

Thanks, for all your help. It is a journey.

Dear Glenn,

Ron Hitter Dear Ron,

The question I have is how to get plug wires thru the bracket mounted to the head and circular “o” ring with spark plug boot and distributor boot? Ideas?

The heater control valves can be rebuilt. There was a

David Bush

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Dear David,

Glenn Davis, 1949/51 Ford Advisor

The ends plugged into the distributor cap will go through more easily than the ends on the plugs with the 90 degree bend. I would mark everything with tape or labels so that you know which wire end goes on which plug and into which hole in the cap. Replace each wire one at a time, pulling it out of the cap and through the bracket. Find a new wire the same length, mark it, and route it back the way the old one came out. That worked on my V-8, but I have not tried it on the six. I took the wires, cap and brackets off of the car to work on. I also let them sit in the sunshine for a few minutes to soften up the wires and the boots.

Let me know how it works. Glenn Davis, 1949/51 Ford Advisor FRONT ENGINE SPLASH SHIELD Dear Glenn, We are working on a ‘49 Tudor and I can’t find any bolt holes in the frame for the front splash shield. Did all 1949 Ford cars have the pan that was located below the radiator? Same question but for the late ‘51 passenger car.

Thanks, Bob Gearhart Dear Bob,

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I did not find anything in the Service Bulletin Index or by leafing through the bulletins. I did, however, find the "Shield (Front Engine Splash)” listed in the back of the Chassis Part Manuals. Part 8A 16550-B is listed for 49-50 and part 1A 16550 is listed for 51. This might account for the difference you noted previously regarding the raised ridge around the “U” shaped cutout. My ’51 has no ridge, so perhaps only the 49-50 had it.

Dear Glenn,

Interestingly, the picture supplied does NOT show the pan for the 1949 model (Figure 1). Given that your car does not have the holes for the screws in the frame, front cross member or radiator support, I doubt that it came with the pan. This could have been a mid-year addition that was not announced. Serial numbers for the ’49 V-8 start with 98BA-100001 and end with 98BA-948236. Does your car have a low serial number?

Dear David,

Finally, my friend down the road thinks that some of the late ’51 cars might have been delivered without the shield.

I had written to you before about changing the pan gasket and rear seal on my ’50 Ford.

I have a 1951 Ford Custom Deluxe Coupe. It is a 6 cylinder engine. I have the head off now. I thought it might be a good time to paint the head. What color is the 51 6 cylinder painted? Thank you! David Bush

Bronze. Same as the V-8. Glenn Davis, 1949/51 Ford Advisor 1950 FORD OVERDRIVE AND POINTS Dear Glenn

Now I have a question about the Overdrive. Can it

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be disconnected without taking the transmission down? Next question is about the ignition. The car was converted from 6v to 12v and the points were changed to a magnetic pickup. What do I have to do to put the points back? George Heuer p.s. Is there a good oil to slow the leak in the rear seal? Dear George, The overdrive can be locked out by pulling the small handle to the left of the steering column out. (Do this while the car is stopped.) In the event that your car is missing that handle, you can probably lock out the overdrive by finding the lever on the driver’s side of the overdrive unit behind the transmission and moving it forward. If you mean can the overdrive be removed from the car without removing the transmission, the answer is probably no. The rear motor mount is part of the overdrive case. While you might be able to unbolt the overdrive unit and pull it out while under the car, lining up the internal parts to reassemble it would be a challenge. By the time you remove the driveshaft, rear motor mounts, overdrive cable and wiring, you might as well make it easy on yourself and remove the transmission so you can mate the units on the workbench. I am wondering why you might want to remove the overdrive. You don’t need to remove the unit to lock it out, as described above. If the overdrive doesn’t work, it is very unlikely that the problem is in the mechanical parts within the overdrive. I have never known one to fail. If you are attempting to make the overdrive operate, the problem is much more likely to be in the electro-mechanical controls such as, the relay, the switches or most likely, the solenoid. There is a very nice description of the overdrive and its repair in the Accessories section of the 1949-50-51 FORD PASSENGER CAR SHOP MANUAL.

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Regarding your second question, to remove the magnetic points I believe you just need to replace the plate that holds the magnetic pickup inside the distributor and install a plate that holds the points, along with new points, a rotor and a condenser. If the kit that was used to install the magnetic pickup used the stock Ford plate, you might not have to replace it. Be mindful that there are small internal wires that connect the lead from the coil to the points and to ground. There is an excellent picture of these parts in the SHOP MANUAL. Finally, I don’t think there is an additive that will solve the oil leaking problem in flatheads. We used to pour in a can of STP, but I am not certain it helped. I use High Mileage 20/50 oil in my older engines. The cold 20 wt. will probably leak a bit, but by the time it warms up to 50 wt. it might slow the loss. I have friends who, in desperation, made a small collecting pan that they suspended below the hole in the pan with the big cotter key to collect leaking oil. Emptying the pan once in a while is a lot easier than cleaning up the garage floor and also saved embarrassment when they visited friends with clean driveways. Glenn Davis, 1949/51 Ford Advisor WINDWING ON 1951 VICTORIA

Hi Glenn My question: At a recent car show somebody bumped into the driver's side window and broke the upper swivel joint. I believe I'll have to replace the entire assembly, which, if I remember correctly when I restored the car 20+ years ago, includes the channel that the window glass slides up and down in? I don't have a Ford 1949 to 1954 Body Parts Catalog, only the Chassis Parts Catalog. Can you provide me with the part number for the assembly, and perhaps a picture of it so I can properly describe it to sources? I also believe the assembly is different from other '51 closed cars? Thanks Glenn - no rush Jay Harris

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Hi Jay,

any suggestions, I would be happy to hear from you.

In the Window Assembly (FRONT DOOR VENTILATING) Group #21406-7, my 1944-1952 FORD BODY PARTS CATALOG shows: 1951 Victoria (Model 60) L.H. (includes glass, frame, upper & lower pivots & locking handle), part number 8A 7621407-C. The same part number is shown for 50-51 Convertibles (Model 76). The ’49 convertible has the same basic numbers with an “A” suffix. You are correct in noting that the other body styles use a different part.

Albert Brown

My Victoria had loose upper swivel joints on the vent windows. My friend up the road replaced the rivets with small screws. That required slight modifications to the rubber, but it worked. Consequently, you might not have to replace the whole assembly.

Hi Glenn,

A picture of the page from the Body Parts Catalog is attached (passenger side). My swivels look different than the one in the picture (part #22976). Mine have an upward pointing pin screwed to the glass frame and a chrome receiver with a hole in the bottom screwed to the outside frame. I believe they were originally riveted. Glenn

Albert, I don’t have any information on engine rebuild kits. I am going to copy Joe Abbin, our Flathead Engine Advisor, on this to note to see if he can point you in the right direction. Glenn

Kanter Auto Parts, https://www.kanter.com/ gallery.aspx? DeptNo=1400&MakeName=Ford&MakeYear=1950 &CategoryID=31&Router=Catalog and Egge Machine, https://egge.com/product/kits.php? action=Search+MMY&kit_make=FORD&kit_year= 1950&kit_engine=239+CID list kits for Mr. Brown's 1950 Ford V-8. These are both reliable firms. Falcon Performance and Clegg Engine list kits currently on eBay. Joe Abbin, Engine Advisor FLOOR MATS FOR 1951 FORD WOODIE Dear Glenn, I would like to know if there is a source for floor mats in my 51 Ford Woodie. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Carlos Jimenez Dear Carlos,

ENGINE REBUILD KIT Glenn, My name is Albert Brown and I am looking for an engine rebuild kit for a 1950 Ford, V-8. If you have

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The 1944-1952 FORD BODY PARTS CATALOG indicates that original part numbers for the Station Wagon front mats were 1A-7913000-N for standard shift and 1A-7913000-P for the Fordomatic. There is a note in the catalog that these two mats plus the mats for all other body types for ’51 were replaced by B1A-7013000-AB (page 86). This suggests that Station Wagons are the same dimension on the floor as other body styles, so all would use the same front mat. Note also that the ’51 mats originally supplied by Ford included a Ford Crest in the middle. Catalogs from Shoebox-Central.com, CGFordParts.com and ConcoursParts.com list only one front mat for the ’51. There was also a rubber rear mat that fits from the back of the front seat to the front of the third seat. Finally, the back of the folding seat and the rear floor area were covered with a grooved battleship linoleum. Another V-8 Club

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member with whom I spoke reported that this material was available from C&G and from Dennis Carpenter. Glenn Davis, 1949/51 Advisor 1951 FORD TRUNK MATS Dear Glenn, Would a rubber trunk mat for a 50 Ford work in my sister’s blue 51 Tudor Custom providing it is the same body style? If so, I know I would have to notch out around the trunk latch on the floor area. Unfortunately, no one has the mat for the 51 Ford. Thanks for your help. Robert Gearhart Dear Robert, I am going to say “yes”, even though one popular catalog I have shown 1949-1950 but not 1951. The 1944-1952 FORD BODY PARTS CATALOG, printed in June 1956, shows part 1A-7045456-A, “51 Mat (Luggage Compartment Floor)”, replacing part 8A-7045456-D, the 49-50 mat. This mat works for Tudor, Fordor and Convertible in 1949-50 and Tudor and Fordor in 1951. (In 1951 the Convertible and Victoria used a woven mat.)

convinced [the judges] not to deduct points on my ‘51 convertible because it had a rubber (non-woven) mat. I was thinking of doing an exchange with the woven mat in my Crestliner for judging but I found in the Trunk Section of the 1949-1951 Restorer’s Guide, chapter 3 page 23, "there is evidence that some convertibles and Victorias came with rubber mats" and I can confirm that for the convertible. FYI I received the Dearborn award that year (989/1000) and most of those lost points have been corrected. Daryl Wilusz Dear Daryl, Thanks for the clarification on woven trunk mats. My guess on Ford’s decision to use the woven mat in some Convertibles and Victorias in ’51 is that they were looking for anything they could do to upgrade their top-of-the-line models to compete with GM. The same reason, maybe, that the Crestliners were the only cars that came from the factory with outside mirrors. It is also possible, although less likely in my view, that rubber was scarce during the Korean War and they were testing substitutes. The 1944-1952 Ford Body Parts Catalog shows only a rubber mat (#1A-7645456-A) for body types 60

Glenn Davis, 1949/51 Advisor Dear Glenn; ….On another matter a few volumes ago concerning 51 Convertible trunk mats, I have first-hand information that not all convertibles had the woven mat. I was the second owner of my first car, an original 51 (35K mile) convertible and I remember how time consuming it was wiping all those ribs on my rubber trunk mat. The car was purchased from a neighbor and I had first-hand knowledge of its history. At the last EFV8 Dearborn Nationals I

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(Victoria) and 76 (Convertible). In 49-50 only one mat is shown for the Tudor, Fordor and Convertible. Materials are not listed. I have only seen two original woven ’51 trunk mats. The one in my convertible and one that a friend took out of a local Victoria that had been stored for 30 years. I don’t know of any sources for the material. The mat in my own Victoria is probably a one-off reproduction made by Monjure’s Auto Repair and Body Shop when they restored the car in Slidell, LA, in 1989. They bought materials from Le Baron Bonney and did the stitching themselves. They also bought items from Concours Parts & Accessories but they only show one trunk mat for ’51 in their catalog (1A-7045455). I notice that the 1951 FORD TRIM MANUAL lists “rubber” for the rubber mats in coupes and sedans but not for the Victoria or Convertible. It’s a mystery! We know the woven mats exist and the 1951 TRIM MANUAL shows them. I also notice that the Corrections for THE 1949-50-51 FORD BOOK (First Edition) say that, “Black rubber mats were installed in all models and model years except for some 1951 convertibles and Victorias which had woven mats with a plaid design”. I am wondering if the woven mats were used in early or late model-year cars or were used in some assembly plants but not others. Glenn Davis, 1949/51 Ford Advisor FLATHEAD ENGINE REBUILD

My recommendation is to contact members in V-8 Club regional groups in your area. There are groups listed in each of the states you listed. See page 7 of the 2021 Roster of Members for contact information for these groups. Other members have certainly faced the same question. Glenn Davis, 1949/51 Ford Advisor MATCHING PAINT Dear Glenn, I am trying to understand the codes for paint given on page 2-2 of the 1949-50-51 Ford Book A restorer's Guide. Specifically, 1951 Sea Island Green. The Ford number is M-14555 and there are two other numbers: 61-1458 (Lac) and 80-434 (Syn). Can you tell me what does 1458 (Lac) mean? Can you tell me what does 80-434 (Syn) mean? I talked to a paint supplier, he said that these are no longer available. Is there a current paint code (base coat, clear coat) or (Urethane paint) (or other paint type) that gives me this color (1951 Ford Sea Island Green)? Thank You! David Bush Dear David,

Dear Glenn, Thanks for all you do on the advisory panel. My ‘51, original 8BA, 83k miles, needs a pro rebuild. Are there any motor guys in SC/NC, GA or FL, you could suggest? I don’t want to go all the way to H & H. Stock rebuild as a driver. Any input is appreciated. Thank you.

John Webster Dear John, I am in California and I am not familiar with engine rebuilders on the east coast. Joe Abbin, the V-8 Club’s Flathead Engine Advisor, is in New Mexico. I will copy him on this anyway in case he has national contacts I don’t have.

Call for details.

I noticed an ad in the July/August V-8 Times for a new engine rebuilding shop in western New York. It is called “VALVE-EN BLOCS”, mkansas32@yahoo.com, but I do not know Mark, the proprietor.

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"Lac" means Lacquer, still available in small quantities, but not used for whole cars anymore. "Syn" means Synthetic Enamel, also not used in its original formulation.

some engine cleaning nowhere near the distributor. After I was done, could hardly start and once started ran and missed like before. Installed a new FA76 condenser and now runs great.

The chemistry of auto paint has changed several times in recent years so the formulas listed in the old manuals do not match anything anymore. The ingredients are unobtainable. Regulations are also different in different states, so that makes obtaining paint even more difficult.

Sorry for the long story but wanted to explain what happened. Am I using the wrong condenser? Is there something in the distributor that could be damaging the condenser? I would appreciate your input.

Last I knew, at least two sources were available. Auto Color Library in San Diego, California, autocolorlibrary.com and Finish Master in Appleton, Wisconsin, 920-757-6233. My most recent experience was Sea Island Green from Finish Master in 2016. They might still have the formula. I sent them a glove box door, a gas door cover and a cowl vent from three different cars, the last being the ’51 Victoria. They sent me three spray cans with good matches to maroon, red and Sea Island Green. They have a three spray-can minimum, I also bought their primer after a bad experience. Their paint is single-stage. I tried a local supplier who got me two-stage in spray cans for a blue car. I found that to be harder to use. Glenn Davis, 1949/51 Advisor

CONDENSER? Dear Glenn, Caught your name and contact in the latest V-8 Times under advisory panel. I am experiencing condenser failures. The car is quite stock. I purchased the car in March of this year. Just before the first tour I checked dwell and timing - all correct. 750 miles into the tour engine stopped running then after cooling would start. A friend and I did some 'in field" troubleshooting which included replacing coil, condenser, and points. After cooling got it started but ran rough. Good enough to get it on a trailer. When I got the car home the car ran good enough to get off the trailer but was very rough. I found the points to be really off (.030 or more). I adjusted the points to .015, dwell 27 deg, timing right on. When I started the engine ran strong for about 30 seconds then stopped then ran “crappy" as before. I replaced the condenser with a NAPA / Echlin FA76 condenser and car ran like a top for just over 500 miles. Just for safety I replaced the coil with a Standard Products UC14T 6 volt ignition coil. Says right on body no external resistor required. The 18th of this month the club went on a tour of about 175 miles. Car ran great. The next day I did

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Ron Hopwood Dear Ron, I have had similar troubles. I can think of a few possibilities. First, some of the parts we get lately are not as good as the originals. So, one or more of your condensers might just be bad. I do not have the NAPA parts books. The Ford number for the condenser is 12300. However, I expect NAPA gave you the correct replacement condensers. Your coil matches the numbers on the old Standard UC 14 6v I carry as a spare, so I think that is correct as well. No external resistor is required. You can test condensers with an ohm meter. Set it to high ohms (x10K), connect a lead to the wire on the condenser and a lead to the case and watch the needle. It should jump as the condenser charges and then settle at a lower value. (If you don’t see the needle jump, reverse the leads.) Then short the lead to the case to discharge the condenser and try it again. The ohm meter will tell you if the condenser is either shorted or open permanently. Secondly, given that you have had the same problem with three different condensers, including the original, it appears that something other than the condenser should be considered. The terminal on the side of the distributor to which the coil attaches is insulated from the distributor base with a rubber bushing. There is a wire under the point plate that connects that terminal to the points. If the rubber bushing is old and leaks or the wire touches ground intermittently or is loose where it connects on either end, you can get erratic performance or the engine will not run. It is possible you jiggle that terminal when you replace the points and aggravate an intermittent connection. Neither a short nor an open in the distributor should damage the condenser, so I don’t think that is the problem. Thirdly, another possibility is that the voltage regulator is set too high and running the engine for a length of time allows the generator to overheat the coil or the condenser. You should see this on your amp meter while you are driving. You can also measure the voltage at the BAT terminal on the

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voltage regulator. It should be about 7.2 at 1500 rpm. Fourth, your ignition switch might be intermittent. Measure the voltage at the input to the coil when the engine is running properly and then again when it runs poorly to see if there is unwanted resistance in the system. Fifth, I had a similar problem when a bit of the sealer I used on the gasket for the top of the carburetor deteriorated and fell into the float bowl. It was intermittently blocking one of the jets, causing the engine to lose power. Finally, you might have a valve that is sticking intermittently. I am told that pouring an ounce or two of Marvel Mystery Oil into the carb while the engine is running and/or adding about 4 oz to a tank of gas can help with this. Let me know what you find out. Glenn Davis, 1949/51 Advisor 1950 FORD F1 Dear Glenn, I recently purchased a 1950 Ford F1 and am interested in learning more about the vehicle. The truck is fully restored but there may be some parts that are not original and I am looking to take the truck back to stock with the hope of maybe showing it at some point. I was wondering, are there any books, websites and or people that could help me answer some questions? Thanks, Tom Kane Dear Tom, Congratulations on purchasing your F1. I have a book called, “Classic Ford F-1 Pickup Trucks, 1948-1956”, by Don Bunn, which is useful. It is not a restoration manual and might have some incorrect pictures, but it is a fun book to have. Also, my predecessor, Cecil Goff answered several questions for people restoring these trucks. His

Ford published several catalogs of parts specific to trucks. For example, Google "Ford Truck Chassis Parts Catalog”. Take a look at the Facebook Group called, “19481952 Ford F1 Trucks”. Hope you enjoy your truck. I drove a 1950 F1 to work for several years.

Glenn Davis, 1949-51 Ford Advisor CRACKED BLOCK Hello Glenn, I have a 1951 Ford Country Squire with an 8BA flathead. When we pulled the engine, there were 4 cracks in the block. Can you recommend somewhere I might be able get a replacement block? I am in the Pasadena area. Tom Forbes

Tom, I don’t have a ready source for uncracked flathead blocks. They are becoming rarer with each year. I will copy Joe Abbin, the V-8 Club’s Flathead Engine advisor. Perhaps he has a source or maybe some guidance on what kinds of cracks can be repaired successfully. Glenn Davis, 1949-51 Advisor Hi Glenn and Thomas,

There really are no ready sources of uncracked Ford blocks that I am aware of, but they are available. San Francisco Flatheads sells new French blocks. See https://www.facebook.com/SF-Flatheads358357124271711/ The best parts sources are often our local V-8 club reginal groups. Also, the classified ads on the national v-8 club website often show blocks for sale. See https://www.earlyfordv8.org/Classifieds.cfm Some cracks are acceptable as-is, some fixable, and some not reliably either. Send a picture of what you have, and I can assess, or call to discuss. Also see www.roadrunnerengineering.com for book info. Joe Abbin, Flathead Engine Advisor

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CARS FOR SALE 1934 Ford Roadster: Ver y good to excellent condition. Body-off restoration in the 1990s. Everything works. Housed in showroom, then garaged. All as when it came out of the factory, including tools. Stock. Best offer. Richard Nichols, 704-892-9953, richardnichols@gmail.com. (NC)

1936 Ford Cabriolet: Convertible with rumble seat. Washington Blue, tab top. AM radio, glove compartment clock, Columbia Overdrive, chrome hubcaps, chrome decorative hub covers. Always garaged, excellent condition. Stock car, $65,000.00. R. Hatt, 578-399-4606, rhatt@nycap.rr.com. (NY)

1937 Ford Pickup: Washington Blue and black. Restored frame-

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up, all original. Dearborn award for quality. More pictures available. $33,000 or OBO. August Larson, 913-274-6715. (KS) 1937 Ford: Flat back 2-door V-8 60. Factory paint, mint grille and chrome. Complete, never rodded. Needs to be restored, engine frozen. Good title. $6,000.00. Ben Callahan,660-563-3313. (MO)

1951 Ford Victoria: 2-door hardtop. Earlier complete frameup restoration. Original two-tone Hawaiian Bronze/Sungate Ivory colors, in durable base coat/clear coat finish that sparkles. LeBaronBonney interior, beautiful chrome. Always garaged and pampered. Engine is stock 239 CID with completely rebuilt Ford-O-Matic Transmission. Dual "Smitty" tailpipe and mufflers for performance and soft, throaty V-8 exhaust sound. Starts and runs smooth and cool, 68,500 miles. $22,500.00. Allan Edwards, 703408-8372, Alfromva@aol.com. (VA)

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1951 Mercury: Spor t Sedan, rebuilt 255 / 8cm, 3-speed O/D, new brakes, original interior, older repaint blue, good glass 31,800 miles, no rust. $21,500.00 firm. Russ Redshaw, 724-323-3212, russredshaw@yahoo.com. (PA) Ford: Bar clona Blue. LeBaronBonney Taupe convertible top. LeBaron-Bonney brown interior. Complete restoration of car. $29, 500.00. Photos can be mailed or emailed. Tony Flores, 612-7091711, flores_tony@msn.com. (MN)

CARS WANTED 1933 and 1934: Three Window Coupe, Roadster, Sedan Delivery, Wagon. Always looking nationally to buy ‘33s and ‘34s in excellent condition, to unfinished projects. Please do me a favor and call anytime because I am interested in your car. John Dillon Sr., 831-238 8235, fullscalemodels@yahoo.com 11/1 2/24 (CA) 1933 to 1939: Coupes and Convertibles. Adding to an

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CARS WANTED existing collection, restoring and showing. Please contact me to discuss what you have. John Dillon Sr., 831-238 8235, fullscalemodels@yahoo.com 11/1 2/24 (CA) PARTS FOR SALE 1934/1946: Closing out 19341946 Hot Air Heater inventory. 40 boxes of parts including exchangers, tubing, elbows, mufflers, fan motors, switches, registers, defroster vents, etc. Some complete assemblies for later years. Also selling dies for stamping sheet metal parts. $2,500. Rob Doudrick, 828- 4073810 doudrick3@msn.com. (CA) 1935/1950: Ford, Lincoln, Mercury. 1935-1936 Ford pickup tailgate, red. Appears to be NOS, $350.00. 1949 Lincoln oil filter, $85.00; four blade fan and bracket, $150.00. 1949 Lincoln

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left and right exhaust manifolds, $120.00. 1942-1947 Ford open drive shaft side shift transmission with rear mount, $475.00. 19421947 Ford open drive output shaft and gear, plus rear transmission bracket, $150.00. 1950 Mercury auto transmission with converter, metal shields and short cross member, special starter, $350.00 Elwood Williams, 805-603-0191, edw1939@gmail.com. (CA) 1949/1951 Ford: 1951 complete grill, parking lights, bumpers. Head light rings – all rechromed. All for $1,500.00; one pair 1949/51 front fenders, $250.00; center grill pan and gravel guard $50.00. Kenneth Quirk, 561-7936724 9am to 3pm est. (FL) 1950: Ford 8BA engine 100 over bore. No visible cracks or broken head bolts. Not rusty. Stored inside, apart for inspection. No pistons, have rods, cam, pan, etc. Complete standard crankshaft.

Would clean up at 10-10. Good set of reground valves. Cannot ship. $750.00. Ed Savard, 562400-4326 (CA) Engine: 60hp For d V-8 engine with clutch and plate. No crank pulley, distributor or exhaust manifolds. $550.00. Bill Ritchel, 315-404-4876. (FL) Parts: Var ious par ts for sale. Two 59AB engines. One engine is relieved. One engine is $650.00, the other I am asking $550.00. Columnia 2-speed differential, in very good condition and complete, $3,500.00. Other transmissions and various parts. Photos can be mailed or emailed. Tony Flores, 612-709-1711, flores_tony@msn.com. (MN) PARTS WANTED 1932: “Pull Off” original Ford roadster upholstery. Need for my patinaed roadster. Lenny Branch, 843-530-6994. (SC)

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1939: Ford DeLuxe car hood release handle #W91A-8215-B new or good used condition used. Dean Foote, 928-634-8324, deanfoote10@gmail.com. (AZ) LITERATURE & MEMORABILIA FOR SALE

Floor Mats: Custom car mats w/ EFV8 logo. Promote our club and protect your car when you cruise. Black felt, non-slip vinyl backed custom cut for every body style Ford 1932/48. ford and Mercury. Black carpet ribbed backed 1949/53 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury, $50/pr. Delivered in USA. Steve Krueger, 770-5913852, steve13987@gmail.com (GA) SERVICES The following individuals and/or vendors are listed as a service to members restoring their vehicles. The Early Ford V-8 Club does not endorse them. It is the responsibility of the individual member to verify before using their services.

1932 V-8 Alternator: We now have the technology to convert the 1932 generator to an alternator, 40 amps, 6 or 12-volt. E.J. Whitney, 714-773-1611. (CA) 1949/53 Ford Convertible Parts: All made in Columbus, OH. All of the casting for the 1949-1953Ford Convertible. New item: rear chrome plated window frame for the 1949/50 Ford Convertible 9”x26”, most S/S shoulder bolts. Overdrive adapter. Fender skirt mounting brackets and handle. Pins for header. Convertible top repair book. Also some used parts. Call for needs. J. Tim Halter, 614905-2151, 1949/51 Ford Mercury Association at

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Appraiser Service: Cer tified appraisals for antique, classic, muscle cars, street rods and light duty trucks. Experience with both domestic and foreign vehicles. Accurate appraisals in a timely manner. We do total loss claims on collector cars and everyday family vehicles. Please call or visit our website for more information. Dennis Parus, ASCAA, IACP-BOCAA Certified Auto Appraiser, Ride On Appraisals Inc., Ft. Myers, FL; St. Charles, IL and South Haven, MI, 630-721-1009. Antique Titles: Collection. One or all. Most makes and very reasonable. Jim Alger, 8200 W 6th Pl., Lakewood, CO 80214, 303-237-9317 or 720-987-3701. (CO) Brake, Fuel & Oil Lines: Br ake line kits 1939-1956. Pre-bent fuel lines 1934-1953. Pre-bent oil lines 1941-1948. Pre-bent oil lines 2N, 8N and 9N. Email for pricing. Denbeck Enterprises, 1440 W. 1000N, Markle, IN 46770, 260438-3836, djb3099@yahoo.com. (IN) Classic Radio & Clock Repair: Classic Auto Electric will repair/rebuild your classic Ford radio and clock to run as new. In additional to our full set of repair and restoration services, we now offer full FM conversions as well as auxiliary input for your classic radio. Joe Dickhudt, Classic Auto Electric, 401 N. Carrie St., McPherson, KS 67450, 620-2416927, classicautoelectric.com, joe@classicautoelectric.com. (KS) Clock Mirror Services & Parts: Available are a variety of parts and services for the Ford authorized rear view mirror clocks from 1933 through 1936. Clock and housing spare parts, mirrors header mounts and working movements are available. This

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will complement my interest in providing complete clock mirrors for any year. Please email your detailed wishes and phone number. Dave, 651-707-4798 (daytime calls please), daveann444@cs.com. (MN summer, AZ winter) Flathead V-8 Ford Parts: Flathead V-8 parts, new and used, a few for G and H series. 6 cylinders too. Bearings, gaskets adjustable lifters—for V-8 60hp too! Buy main, rod and cam bearings in one order and I will pay the shipping in the USA. Reds’ Vintage Parts, 22950 Bednar Ln., Ft. Bragg, CA 95437, 707-964-3230, info@reds-vintage -parts.com. (CA) Ford Generator To Alternator Conversion: Gener ator to alternator conversion 33% more output than your generator. Looks and fits like original! 12V, 40 amp Neg. or 6V Pos. ground. Ed Whitney, 8612 Kendor Dr., Buena Park, CA 90620, 7141-773-1611. (CA) Ford-O-Matic Rebuilding Kits: $140. Bands, pumps, parts available. David Edwards, Box 245-EF, Needham, MA 024941218, 781-449-2065 (evenings). (MA) Ford Parts Rebuilt: Columbia 2 -speed rear end with controls. Fits 1946-1948 Fords. Brass tag on unit #14354. Also have a rear end, radiator, steering column and a gas heater assembly from a 1941 Ford Convertible. Steve Edmonds, 541-969-8188 or 541-969-8227 (OR) Glass: Super ior quality safety glass. 1920-1965 stock cars and trucks. Cut to original patterns. 30 years experience producing windows for concours restorations, drivers and customs. Fast, friendly service. Meticulous craftsmanship. Licensed product Ford Motor Company. Sanders Reproduction Glass, 6005 NE 121st Ave., Vancouver, WA

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98683, 360-883-4884, sandersreproglass.com. (WA) Keys & Locks: J esser ’s Classic Keys offers a full line of NOS original keys. Complete locksmith services. We stamp and code cut keys for judging. We can rebuild or recode your locks. Obsolete and discontinued cylinders? Yes! Inquire with year, make and model. Jesser’s Classic Keys, 26 West St., Dept. EF8, Akron, OH 44303, 330-376-8181, Fax: 330384-9129, jessersclassickeys.com. (OH) License Plate Restoration: Remove rust, pits, holes, dents and painted original colors or special colors—any state. $40 per plate, $8 shipping. Add $1 for shipping each additional plate. 4-5 weeks turn around. Satisfaction guaranteed. Also for sale any year Michigan plate. Duane Wells, 1621 Craig St., Lansing, MI 48906, 517-371-3225, michplates@comcast.net (MI)

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Overdrive Transmission Service: Rebuild or set-up your overdrive or standard transmission to work properly. Specializing in flathead valve work. Stan Albanese, 223 Livingston Ave., Lyndhurst, NJ 07071, 201-9336857 (evenings). (NJ) Rebuild & Rebuilt Distributors: I rebuild all makes and models of Contact Point Distributors from 1910 to 1970 and have a large amount of distributor ignition parts to support these rebuilds. I live in Australia, but rebuild distributors worldwide. V-8 Club member #915337, and member of all early Ford V-8 clubs in Australia. David Braham, BCA Remanufactured Distributors, 16 Beltana Ave., Modbury North, South Australia 5092, 61+ 438885347, dbraham.aop@ bigpond.com (Australia) Restored Ford Dashboards & Moldings: Concour s quality woodgrained dashboards and moldings for 1938/39/41 and ‘46 Fords available. Keith Payne, PO

Box 490, Purcellville, VA 20134, 571-442-0625, or visit olddominionoyster.com for parts listings. (VA) Restoration Supplies & Parts: Ford engine enamels in quarts and aerosols—most years; Ford Spyder hubcaps; 1936/39 15, 16, 17 and coming soon 18 inch wheel trim rings; chassis and undercarriage paint; tank cleaners, etch and sealer, convertible tops— all years; carpet material—several types; broadcloth, Bedford cloth and mohair upholstery fabrics; 6 and 12 volt Halogen bulbs for all Ford products and others. Bill Hirsch Automotive, 396 Littleton Ave., Newark, NJ 07103, (800) 282-2061, hirschauto.com. (NJ) Show-Ready/Show-Only Tools For your V-8: Cor r ect show only tools and tool kits for the flathead years. Contact me with model year and needs for availability and pricing. Lin Stacey, 35 W. 699 Park Ln., St. Charles, IL 60175, linstacey@sbcglobal.net. (IL)

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V-8 Ford Diapers: Keep your floor and driveways free of the “normal” V-8 Ford oil drip. See 2017 November/December V-8 Times. New rear end diaper, $25. $65 includes shipping. Nick Cassaro, 221 Willow Ave., Hayward, CA 94541, 510-8891933, whiznick20@gmail.com. (CA) Wake Up Your Engine! 1937/40 owners—I rebuild distributors using NOS 11A shaft and weights for a better advance curve. Better

starting, improved acceleration and slightly better mpg. Cleaned throughout, lubed and precisely timed. Prices vary according to parts needed - $85-$160, without caps and coil. References plus money back if not satisfied. I can rebuild 1932/36 also with the original weights. Cliff Green, 703-346-1458, deliftongreen@gmail.com. (VA)

‘30s though ‘50s. V-8 Club member since 1970. Regulator Roy, #2 Folwell Ln., Mullica Hill, NJ, 08062, 609-828-8537. (NJ) Woodgraining: Hand-painting for dashes, garnish moldings and steel bodies Woodies. Reasonable rates. In Houston, TX. James McIntyre, 713-3030883, macpinstriping.com. (TX)

Window Regulators: NOS 1932/53, some later. Lower window channels,

DISCLAIMER The V-8 Club does no independent testing of any of the products, designs, options, thoughts or suggestions presented in the V-8 Times. The V-8 Club, its officers, Directors, employees and agents make no express or implied warranty that any product or design presented is merchantable, for its intended use or for any other purpose. A reader should consider the magazine to be a forum, wherein, differing solutions to a particular set of circumstances may be discussed. Ultimately, the selection of an item, design or approach for an individual’s vehicle must be based upon the independent study, evaluation and decision of the vehicle owner, in consultation with such restoration experts and other professional advisors, as the vehicle owner deems appropriate.

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