Re: 1934 Pittsburgh Auto Show?

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2009/4/16 11:32:59

If I remember my history the U.S. took possession of Puerto Rico as a territory as a result of the Spanish-American war of 1898; thus it would seem unlikely (though possible) that they had by then adopted the US convention of license plate on the left. As you suggest, it's more likely they lights just got swapped around as you rough-assembled the parts.

Is that the gas tank filler I see on the rear apron just behind the other tail light? Dark semi-circle?

As to your body dash number, we don't know enough about how and when they were assigned and stamped and how production might have been scheduled; hopefully that will come with time and more effort. Thus there is no data to relate the # to a production date. We do know that the correlation between the # and the vehicle number is less than perfect, occasionally an early car will have a # after some later numbered cars of the same chassis and body type. We can say that total production was 8000 units, and your thief-proof is about 1000 numbers less than the highest-known number. I only have data on one other 1108 sold as a chassis, #1108-5X and it was completed as a formal town car (EDIT - LeBaron). It's thief-proof is about 253X numbers prior to yours.