Waking up a Sleeping Beauty, 1934 5 window

[The Art Doctor]

Christmas came a bit early tonight. Got my care package from Fred at Southside Obsolete. Of everything I ordered I was most excited/apprehensive about the windshield mechanism opening handle. The one in the car is shiny where as all the other plated parts are original pieces with nickle finish only, not chrome. To top it off it is highly pitted. It looks like someone re-chromed an old pitted piece, but possibly it is a reproduction item? The pits just gather the light and it blings like a mirror ball against the dark graining and to top it off it stands off the dash quite a ways with a big gap underneath. Fred sent me a used original in wonderful condition, it now matches the rest of my hardware perfectly and seats deeper on the stud making it closer to the dash rail. This make me so happy.


I do have one question. As its a square shaft, which way should the handle be when parked with the windshield fully retracted? Horizontal or vertical? I'm guessing vertical though it looks best horizontal because with it horizontal it is quite close to ones hands on the steering wheel and seems it could be a knuckle buster if left horizontal. Any factory photos out there of the dash?