Like you, I never found this in the accessories section of the official parts listing. If you look in the accessories section of Neal's book, there is a factory picture of one with a PA# (I'd tell you the page but not in front of me at the moment). I do remember the factory photo showing the glass flat and ending at about the top of the side posts. I have only seen one in person and it too was flat across the top, apparently some were higher and curved at the posts.

Cool piece, it's on my "nice to have" list. Only thing keeping me from actively seeking one out is the method for entering the rear of the car. Is it easily moveable or pretty fixed? i.e. need to crawl under it to enter?

Mike

I have had some experience in this area with my work. My company leverages a few different commercial products for invoice processing: Datacap and Abbyy. Both are fairly robust but still have limitations such as 400 dpi resolution (doesn't seem to be the problem here) and correct orientation of the scan. Both still require a lot of manual interpretation.

My team conducts major capital and construction fraud/overbilling investigations. We leverage Adobe's PDF converter for our work, we find it to be quite good. We will convert prime contractor and sub-contractor third-party support invoicing to word documents and excel files to conduct our work. We do not care about the images or company logos.. it's all about the "Benjamins" that could make your files smaller, i.e. just convert to word files - all text. It still has limitations and requires a LOT of manipulation with unstructured data. The file above if converted to excel would be a hot mess and need a LOT of manipulation to clean it up. Often I will tell my auditors - only spend the time if the "juice is worth the squeeze."

Mike

That '37 Limo takes the cake. I pity the person that thought that was a good idea. I get a kick out of the doors not opening. I wonder why? Maybe because you cut the top off.. surprised they don't fly open, but guessing they are wedged shut from flex. Someone needs to enter that in the Concours d'Lemons.

I personally do not like restomods however, at some point manufacturers will build cars I don't care to own. I'm probably getting close to buying the last new car I will ever buy. After that these will start to look like viable options vs an EV. Tesla or '34 restomod? I know which I'd prefer. A well built restomod truck is looking like a nice daily driver.

Also, I hate seeing a great original modified, but it makes the remaining ones more valuable and with diminishing interest in pre-war.. probably more supply than demand in original cars.

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Apologies in advance to anyone who thinks this is a good idea. To me, this is the automotive equivalent to drinking an O'Doul's.

Hi Max,

Your description of tree branches could very well be what I'm seeing there. If you aren't going to look in person, might want to request another photo for peace of mind though.

I don't think you can modify that wheel with chrome pieces. I once had one of the base model wheels and noted the brown wheel had that potion of chrome actually cast in rubber where the ivory wheel had a section cast to accept the chrome piece with two pins. I'm not saying it's impossible, but think you'd be better of just replacing with the right wheel if it bothers you.

I do think that is a Packard air cleaner though I'm not 100% on application between models. I think the long one was an accessory??

What I did to confirm my car/motor: Confirmed the patent plate was original and close to the Brigg's number (identical for mine). Made sure the motor number was somewhat in-line with the delivery date. Looked at the head casting date (it was cast three weeks prior to delivery). Finally, looked the motor over very close for evidence of wrenching/removal. In my case I had near 100% confidence it was original and untouched. To my knowledge there is no way to directly confirm a motor number was installed in said car. Ohers on here know a lot more than me though..

Good luck with the purchase!

Mike

Just looked at the pictures a bit better. Am I the only one seeing massive cracking in the top of the driver's side fender (Look at the engine bay photo)? Unless that's an optical illusion of some sort looks like some massive Bondo cracking to me. If so I'd go to town on this car with a magnet and be testing paint thickness. Looks like someone undercoated the hood too.

Mike

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I'm not so sure it was recast. Look closely at the spoke to rim intersection. I see a hairline crack and the chrome pads absent on the spokes. Thinking a brown wheel was painted. Don't get me wrong a nice job, but I'd be putting my money on painted vs recast.

A very pretty driver quality car.

Mike

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That wasn't always the case, consider when Kerosene was the primary end product and highly combustible gasoline was dumped in the river. 100% utilization is the end-product of years of innovation. Perhaps we'll go back to dumping?? Probably not, but I don't see how you eliminate a product that is so integrated into our society - plastics, cosmetics etc.. The demand will still be there, but the prices will shift upward... wait isn't that happening now? Get use to higher, much higher prices. That's the truth some don't want to talk about but you can't consider doing this "evolution" without passing on massive price increases to the buying public.

I have a few employees on my team based in India. A couple weeks ago, one of them had to drop a morning call unexpectedly. I inquired later what happened: "Sorry Mike, we have had rolling blackouts.. very bad heat wave and we have had to convert passenger trains to coal carrying." I guess when we ban petroleum countries like China will continue to make plastics and maybe we'll just stop manufacturing altogether and buy from them??

Two weeks ago I was helping a friend at his hunting property modify a shipping container to store his tractor (needed ventilation holes in sides). He bought some tinker toy battery powered cutoff wheels. I told him they didn't stand a chance.. sure enough two minutes in. I finally got him to go back to town buy a generator and some real tools, job done.

I'm not even going to go there with my boat.. guess I'll have to tow a flotilla of batteries.

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As you can tell from my signature, it was one on my list too. 1941 Cadillacs are usually one of the top three years collected in the CLC as it was a landmark year for Cadillac. Parts are usually available, though some can be more difficult to find. Mechanical parts are usually not the problem. Avoid the Hydramatics (first year and took the war to work out the bugs). Lots of resources to help keep them on the road. You will have a similar problem finding folks to work on them. The talent pool is disappearing with each passing year. I am slowly gravitating to becoming a one-man band. Years ago I wouldn't paint a car, now I'm looking to get an inflatable paint booth. Years ago I wouldn't fathom doing upholstery, now I'm looking at Sailrite machines. Luckily for me I'm willing to take the time to learn and perfect a craft. Plan on doing your own work unless you have deep pockets. Great road cars though and can keep up with modern traffic.

Mike

Just because you didn't find what you are looking for here.. I wouldn't necessarily give up, the technology does exist.

Years ago, I worked in a plant that did silk-screening to coat spandrel glass. We also had a technology to coat Polyvinyl Butyl interlayers with inorganic inks for laminated safety glass. This technology was owned by DuPont and licensed to us (we were one of three). The process utilized a Mimaki printer. We had the ability to scan any image (photographs) and print it out. The technology started in Australia and was very popular for memorials at cemeteries. Ghostly images were printed with Titania (gradients of white). They were backlit and were amazing to see.

If I were you, I would contact print shops within a radius you are willing to drive to, to scan a reproduction plate and print onto yours. Silk-screening won't be an option unless you get a large number of folks to help amortize those costs. If you look long enough and hard enough, one will materialize. Your greatest challenge will be finding one that prints a coating that will stand the test of time.

Mike