Great story. That's about the level of patina my '40 110 has on it naturally, but also added body damage. I'll bring it back to less body damage, but keep the patina.

Pretty fun stuff there.

That looks very like the instrument panel light sockets on my early to mid 60's Fords.

I've had that happen on two Ford products; my '69 Galaxie convert about two years ago, and on Monday night, on my 71 F-500.

The Galaxie had about 500 miles on the tuneup, with the original coil which looked fine and tested good when the rebuilt engine went in. One summer day she just start to miss intermittently; I had stock points in it then. Replaced those with a drop in electronic ignition, sort of improved but not fully. About a month later the coil just gave up and I replaced it with a universal replacement--started and ran like a dream.

The F-500 (has a hydraulic ladder/lift on it) was running at a fast idle as I was installing Christmas lights on one of the big trees out back. As I finished up that two hour project (truck running the whole time due to the cold and high electrical loads from the lift and hydraulics), the truck stalled. Figured it was just the added demand of retracting the ladder; nope. No spark whatsoever.

That engine has about 18 years of use on the only tuneup I've ever done to it, and, ahem, untold hours on it since it's used infrequently for house painting, changing parking lot lights at church, tree trimming etc.

Tested everything; coil was the culprit and started it right up with a new unit. Then for good measure replaced points and condenser just because. At this rate, I won't have to do it again until I'm 80, which means, uh, never.

I have a '37 115c as well.

I drilled through the floor and used the reinforcing plates that came with the belts, as well as a larger strap plate for each passenger that I made out of 1/8" steel. That was a PITA on my drill press, but better than bolting through sheet metal.

Three point would have been superior, and I might do that on my '40, which will probably end up a less faithful renovation to get her back on the road than the stock '37 115c.

KM did my 37 115C. Fantastic job.

I've just put "Used" POR15 back in the can and resealed it.

Then used it again years later without any problem. A quart goes a long way.

If I only weren't on the opposite side of the country....

I've cleaned and coated around five tanks with POR-15 over the past twenty years; never an issue with it other than price.

The tank that is in my '37 115c though would not come clean enough for me with the POR products so I took it to a radiator shop. They cut holes in it, cleaned it, welded up the holes and then sealed it with another product. Works very well. Cost about $300 for the work they did.

I've cleaned and coated around five tanks with POR-15 over the past twenty years; never an issue with it other than price.

The tank that is in my '37 115c though would not come clean enough for me with the POR products so I took it to a radiator shop. They cut holes in it, cleaned it, welded up the holes and then sealed it with another product. Works very well. Cost about $300 for the work they did.

Not seeing anything on the 3D version. 2D sure looks good though. Well done.