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10-26-2016, 02:32 PM | #1 |
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Improved style front license plate brackets
I saw a picture in the Ford Service Bulletin of a "new and improved style" front license plate bracket that used mounting screws through the holes in the license plate. Those same screws clamped the bracket to the headlight crossbar, unlike my current brackets that only clamp onto the license plate, not using the holes in the plate.
Anyone reproducing those improved brackets? I would like to buy some as my plate constantly bends backwards against the radiator. |
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10-26-2016, 03:35 PM | #4 |
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I really like that style frame.
Do they still sell them
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Ed I guess you have 60% air flow left...a radiator with 100% flow is needed with that jewlery
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Page 351 Ford Service Bulletin for June NEW LICENSE PLATE CLIP A few complaints have been received of the front license plate working loose and causing a rattle. This condition has been corrected by re-designing the clip and mounting the license plate as shown in Fig. 715. When installing the new license clip install it exactly as shown, also be sure to place an A-22166 plain washer underneath the bolt head. The installation of a washer at this point pre- vents any possibility of the bolt head cutting through the license plate. Fig 715
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I took the poster as describing the four holes, one in each corner but....DOH!!! I doubt if he's talking about Illinois plates.
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Thermo on the motometer has never gone up to the bubble even, climbing hills. On flat roads, I don't see it at all and I run 45-50 MPH but Larry has had her up to 60.
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I need some help with your terminology "The feature that I like is that the plate is bolted straight through the plate to the bracket"?
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10-26-2016, 07:50 PM | #11 |
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My original 1928 clamps also bolt through the top two license holes, but the brackets are hanging from under the bar, rather than over the bar like the later clamps.
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Tom and Ian, like my own '28 Phaeton, have the correct mounting for the 1928 and (I presume) 1929 license plate attachment. The Service Bulletins show the newly designed pressing (shape) of the brackets as well as the newly designated mounting location.
The design/shape of the earlier brackets of 1928/'29? has more ogee / sculpture in its design, whereas the later 1930/'31 brackets are more straight forward and 'plain' in design. The '28 & '29 brackets mounted the license plate below the headlite bar, whereas the '30 & '31 brackets mounted the plate even with or above the top of the headlite bar. To the best of my knowledge, only the later (improved) type of the '30 - '31 style are being reproduced today; and they are the only license plate mounting brackets being sold by the dealers. Bert's would be a likely source for the original brackets for 1928 & '29. Last edited by DougVieyra; 10-26-2016 at 11:29 PM. |
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Why don't you give Berts a try! Wayne
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10-27-2016, 03:41 AM | #15 |
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I wonder if A&L sells the early style license brackets. I thought they were being reproduced.
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10-27-2016, 11:21 AM | #16 |
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I turned my original brackets upside down, mounted the plate to the bolt & the brackets are hidden & the plate sits 1 1/2" above the bar.
On Minerva, I used an upside down, tail light bracket, sandwiched between the bumper bracket & the bumper & it looked like a '32 mounting. Bill Different
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10-27-2016, 06:32 PM | #18 |
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Tom I did without the front plate, more air flow. No need for one in MN law, but probably don't need the cooling here either.
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10-27-2016, 07:02 PM | #19 |
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Re: Improved style front license plate brackets
No plate required in Ok, as well, but I was lucky my truck is inside the garage yesterday or it would have had a full bed of hail in it, for sure. This was right out my front door and it all dumped in a matter of minutes. By the time it finished, this was nothing compared to how much eventually fell. Quarter size to moth ball size hail and a whole lot of rain, to boot. No cooling issue without a plate to my truck, but I plan to add one in the near future when my custom one arrives for up front. I'll see how that works out then.
I will have to see how the plate looks to see if my light bar will accept it or not where the holes are located in it. |
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