blueprint really wouldn't help. Although I do have a basic drawing from AACA. Hence, the design part of the comment. Basically, I am reverse engneering what they did. In many cases, I can figure out how they made it, but is not workable for a non assembly line reuild. I don't have the jiggs for assembly and fabrication. I do have the steel covers.

It's like building a foot, given a shoe, (albeit a shoe that is split in 3 or four pieces).

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
― Thomas A. Edison


So, anybody care to know 500 ways not to make an A-pillar for a 526?

I started building the pillar a while ago, and all told have roughly 30 hours into the design/engineering of a new one. Since my original wood is lost to history, I can only use the shell steel to remake the pieces. My original idea was to make the entire pillar out of one piece of ash. After much work, and a large scrap pile. I had a piece about 75-80% of what I wanted. Trouble is, the other 20% was just not going to happen. Yesterday, I turned the last piece into shapely firewood, and started over.

New approach: I am now using pine to prototype the pieces, (cheap and very soft). I am also breaking the pillar down into logical pieces. Between proper joinery, and modern glues, my new pieces will be as structually sound as original.

The result, after about 4 hours, (and another large scrap pile) I have a piece that is MUCH better than what I was trying to justify using before. It is already quite rigid, even with only the pine.

Now, back to the fray!

mine are steel discs

I have six recently sand blasted wheels that will need filled before painting. Any products that I should use..., or avoid?

So, I knew that it had to happen. I was just in denial while building the pillars. Daydreamed about rebuilding the wood with the cowl intact.

Denial no more, I took the cowl off, and then apart. The car now doesn't look like much of anything, which is disheartening, but necessary I realize.

The front pillars/ windshield/ cowl support/ front top will now be built on the bench instead of on the "car" which will make the result that much better both structurally and cosmetically.

Still tough to look at right now.

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thanks,

I always assumed delivery date was to distribution center or dealer, not end user. Guess a set of stamps was part of the "dealer prep" of its day.

So 10,000+ cars staged and awaiting delivery?

In reviewing pictures sent to me by another member, I found that my unmolested ID plate serial number is 10,000 higher than a car delivered 3 weeks later.

Bodies pre-staged? Seems an awfully large difference for that.

Most certainly a reproduction plate, but is the serial number a fantasy?

Ray,

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not the cheapest, not by about $300. Lowest I find listed is runabout or phaeton 526, MSRP $2,275. But, still a cool observation

And, don't be alarmed by the courseness of the joinery / fit. I am treating all pieces as protypes anyway, if they happen to make the final cut, all the better.