My New Car

[Tom F OHIO]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

nkaminar: I have the originals and will put them back on. gs: Are you saying it is not a deluxe? From my research the things that separate my car from the standard are: Cowl Lights (I have them but they have been removed), rear arm rests, pull rope on rear of front seat, scrolled door and window handles, wood grained front dash, dome lite over rear window and switch on the door post and carpet. My car has all these. Katy: you said they didn't have containers 60 years ago. I am editing my initial thread to clear that up with a time line.

Hard to see in the picture but is there a center arm rest in the middle of the back seat and are there holes for cowl lights or do you have to add them

[Chris in WNC]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

1930artdeco, do most people replace all the glass?

YES! plate glass is a serious safety concern.

not an overly complicated job.

even with my beater truck pictured at left I checked right away to make certain it had safety glass.....

[Tom F OHIO]

I have safety glass in my car put in years ago and asked them if they could cut it so the safety glass decal in the glass wouldn't show and they did.

[Pilotdave]

Nice looking car! John, I agree that you are lucky to have found it.

The interior fabric in your car appears very similar to that in our Fordor - which I believe to be a 160-B, so deluxe vs standard (160-A). The green tint in ours wasn't an original color for the 160-B but was used in the S/W Standard. A fellow who has worked extensively with Model A fabrics told me that there was a brown fabric that would turn to green due to an ingredient in the dye, and he believed that had happened in our car. The challenge was whether the interior now in our car was original (unlikely) or installed during a restoration that reputedly happened a lot of years ago.

I did a fair amount of investigating as I was trying to determine whether our car was a Standard or Deluxe. It has many of the features you mentioned for your container find: rope on the back of the front seat, arm rests but no center rest, dome light, cowl lights..... I eventually decided that it appeared to be the Deluxe version. Of course, there's no way to tell for sure whether it was made that way in 1931 or restored to that configuration!

Enjoy your car!!

[NRP]

Congratulations, and good luck!

[gdmn852]

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Hello, I agree , nice car , if I were to get another Model A be either a slant windshield or Victoria. Hard to if a Model A that has not been restored a dozen times before.

[[email protected]]

I finally got the body off and will now start working on the chassis. I found the serial number on the frame and it matches the number on the engine and on the pink slip. I am happier.

[Y-Blockhead]

Originally Posted by Tom F OHIO

Hard to see in the picture but is there a center arm rest in the middle of the back seat and are there holes for cowl lights or do you have to add them

I don't believe the Slant Window Town Sedans had the center arm rest, only the straight window Town Sedan.

[BlueSunoco]

Nice!! Love the car it has a neat history too!

[[email protected]]

Originally Posted by Tom F OHIO

Hard to see in the picture but is there a center arm rest in the middle of the back seat and are there holes for cowl lights or do you have to add them

Tom, there is no armrest in the middle. I have the cowl lights but they arn't currently installed.

[Fullraceflathead]

Wow that's great news that the frame number and engine number and paperwork all match!!!

[The Master Cylinder]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Tom, there is no armrest in the middle. I have the cowl lights but they arn't currently installed.

No center arm rest in the Slants as was mentioned before.