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04-17-2022, 04:47 PM | #1 |
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28 roadster windshield post color
The windshield posts on my 28 roadster are painted blue, a close match of the body color. The early phaeton in the recent issue of the Model A News has black posts. Some 29 Henry Ford Award roadsters have body color posts, but those are 1929 cars. I havent been able to find anything in the JS&RG regarding post colors. Thanks for any input.
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04-17-2022, 05:09 PM | #2 |
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Re: 28 roadster windshield post color
What month in 28 was your car made? Only roadsters made in 1927 had their windshields and stanchions paint black. Your roadster is probably correct.
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04-17-2022, 05:27 PM | #3 |
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Re: 28 roadster windshield post color
Black stanchions and windshield frame only through 1927 on Phaetons, Roadsters, and OCPU's. After that in 1928, lower body color.
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04-17-2022, 05:39 PM | #4 |
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Re: 28 roadster windshield post color
Gas tank stamp is 12-28-28, so it’s probably an early 1928 car.
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04-17-2022, 07:40 PM | #5 |
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04-18-2022, 12:09 AM | #6 |
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04-18-2022, 07:24 AM | #7 |
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Re: 28 roadster windshield post color
Like any other part on a model A car, these parts were manufactured and then either used at the Rouge or they were sent out to the various Branch Plants for assembly. Items were loaded in freight cars to send to the further reaching plants but is doesn't take all that long for parts deliveries to happen. The consensus is generally around a month max for a dated part to be used in production. There are always exceptions such as spare parts inventory but the fuel tanks were a pretty well made item for the time so there may have not been much of a spare parts inventory for them.
A part dated as late as December 28, 1928 would have gone into production of early 1929 cars. November was considered as the divining line between one year and the next at Ford in that era. It took a bit to get newly manufactured cars out to the dealer networks. |
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