28/9 copper radiator shell

Equipped28

Equipped28

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ive been polishing my rad shell today and it reminded me to put it on here as im interested to find out about it as ive never seen a copper shell before.


i only found out it was copper when it fell onto the garage floor and the paint that was on chipped off and found the copper underneath so i thought it would be neat looking on the front of my roadster.

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My bet would be that it is the substrate that was under the Nickle that was on your shell when it was first installed on the car.

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Hey Merkin,you said that paint chipped off, did you mean chrome or nickel? Or is this a black commercial shell?
 
it was painted, but now you mention it, i seem to remember being told by the guy i got it from that it came off his 28 panel van, so it must be a commercial shell

Harley
 
Stick a magnet on it.I think you will find it is as Brent says,the copper base for the nickel to adhere to.A real copper shell would be quite a novelty.
 
I have a 1930 AA Stake Body and it is copper as well. I have a theory that Ford just did not plate them with nickle knowing that he was going to paint them black.
 
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