Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

[jamespowers]

That joke was like three years old when my car was built!

:rofl: I just had to ask.

 

[cw3pa]

My Dad owned a '54 Studebaker. Similar to the one pictured below. I remember it having a manual transmission (three on the tree) and a button on the shift lever to ingage the overdrive.

 

[Talbot]

Which end of that car is the front?

Firts time I saw one of these in the flesh I asked an old timer mechanic what model it was.

He called it the "coming and going".

 

[jamespowers]

My Dad owned a '54 Studebaker. Similar to the one pictured below. I remember it having a manual transmission (three on the tree) and a button on the shift lever to ingage the overdrive.

Was that the Commander? Those cars were good performers with that V-8 in them. They rusted like crazy though in the wrong climate.

 

[jamespowers]

Firts time I saw one of these in the flesh I asked an old timer mechanic what model it was.

He called it the "coming and going".

:rofl:

 

[cw3pa]

Was that the Commander? Those cars were good performers with that V-8 in them. They rusted like crazy though in the wrong climate.

I don't remember which model, but my dad liked the car enough to tow it behind our '55 Ford station wagon when we moved from Connecticut to California in the summer of '59.

 

[jamespowers]

I don't remember which model, but my dad liked the car enough to tow it behind our '55 Ford station wagon when we moved from Connecticut to California in the summer of '59.

California was a good place for it to last longer. It could also keep up with traffic.

 

[cw3pa]

California was a good place for it to last longer. It could also keep up with traffic.

In the late fifties/early sixties there wasn't quite as much traffic to keep up with. We lived in Santa Barbara & life was good.

 

[jamespowers]

In the late fifties/early sixties there wasn't quite as much traffic to keep up with. We lived in Santa Barbara & life was good.

Ah yes, California before the Hippie infestation.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Been working on cleaning the dashboard in my heavily-smoked-in Olds.

 

[jamespowers]

Been working on cleaning the dashboard in my heavily-smoked-in Olds.

That is worse than removing paint! lol lol

 

[AtomicEraTom]

It's been a hassle and has taken days! I'll be glad when it's all over lol

That is worse than removing paint! lol lol

 

[LizzieMaine]

Was that dash originally a painted-woodgrain finish?

 

[vitanola]

Been working on cleaning the dashboard in my heavily-smoked-in Olds.

It appears as if you may have removed the grain glaze from over the base coat on your dash board. The glaze coats will often dissolve when cleaned with an alkaline solution (ammonia, window cleaner, Formula 409) leaving behind a base coat of oragne-red or beige-pink lacquer.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Could be. I looked online, and the color was right, but they did have a woodgrain pattern, which was mostly missing before I cleaned the dash.

I plan on having it painted, so I'm none to worried about it.

The color is much more of a 'brown' in person.

It appears as if you may have removed the grain glaze from over the base coat on your dash board. The glaze coats will often dissolve when cleaned with an alkaline solution (ammonia, window cleaner, Formula 409) leaving behind a base coat of oragne-red or beige-pink lacquer.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Could be. I looked online, and the color was right, but they did have a woodgrain pattern, which was mostly missing before I cleaned the dash.

I plan on having it painted, so I'm none to worried about it.

The color is much more of a 'brown' in person.

If you wanted to go with restoring the woodgrain, someone was telling me about an easy way to do that using a rubber roller -- you carve some random stratiations into the surface with an exacto knife, roll it in some thinned black paint, and just roll it over the base coat. They used a similar method to paint these in the first place, and the results I've seen look pretty good.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Thanks for the info! I'm going to try that!

If you wanted to go with restoring the woodgrain, someone was telling me about an easy way to do that using a rubber roller -- you carve some random stratiations into the surface with an exacto knife, roll it in some thinned black paint, and just roll it over the base coat. They used a similar method to paint these in the first place, and the results I've seen look pretty good.

 

[David Conwill]

Parts Request: Anyone have a set of dog-dish hubcaps for a 1950 Studebaker Champion Regal Deluxe?

I discovered Mr. Gasket baby moons will fit. Pics soon.

I also picked up a pair of '47-'49 bright metal gravel shields to replace the dowdy rubber ones on there now.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

http://www.wiscnews.com/news/local/article_c77b93a2-53ca-528c-92b8-b90be9022d3d.html
A little blip on what my family and I have been doing in the local vintage car world.

 

[Talbot]

It's been a hassle and has taken days! I'll be glad when it's all over lol

Is the dash in these welded in or screwed in?

If the dash was woodgrain, there should also be matching door mouldings etc also, although these are usually heavily worn on at least the drivers side.