Re: Tinpan's 39 Super Eight

Posted by flackmaster On 2014/3/29 0:12:02

Two things, first the longish fender mounted parking lights are from a 1940. When sealed beams debuted in 1940, there were many opportunities for the dealers to retrofit sealed beams into earlier cars, and, as sealed beams did not have a parking lamp, the 1940 parking lamp was commonly installed. There was a different, correct, optional parking light for 1939, reproduced (poorly in my opinion), but that is another story for another day. Your car originally had bulbs and reflectors, but using a sealed beam and parking light (and often rewired dually for turn signals is common) may be a safety advantage if you plan on a driver.
Second, your car originally had the short lived plastic dash. Extremely expensive and difficult to replace, carried over in different colors for 1940 180's. Did I mention extremely expensive? That is why a past owner sourced a 39 110/120 dash - heck of a lot cheaper, and who will know? Yeah, most of us, but in all sympathy, anyone who knows also knows the cost of dealing with Troosh, or the other guy in Florida who I understand has given up....

Lastly, painting an antique car has become outrageous. Plenty of variables in play, too long to list. Chase rainbows, lotto numbers and the odd shiny pregnant goose.