'31 std fordor ID(additional pics)

[Brubaker]

Dome lamp is oval(appropriate for a dlx fordor), and has a toggle(which doesn't look right) switch on the door pillar. Seems like an odd thing to add/modify. One of the window cranks looks more normal(but not the correct style?). "After May 1930, all closed models used fancier door and window hardware"(JS). This notes a change in the hardware visually, and not a change in the door mechanism, correct? The car has only had a couple owners(mainly lived in Iowa), so I didn't think it was altered too much.

 

[peters180a/170b]

So , it still looks like a solid car. Did you bring it home.?

 

[Brubaker]

At the moment I have a one-car barn. In the process of making room for the new one. Now I need to make a decision on a '30 TS I am currently putting back together. Since the '31 will soon be a 'driver', am reconsidering my larger restoration project. Just want to avoid(years down the road) thinking "man, I wish I would have kept that town sedan!" Will likely find room at the family ranch(in barn), but if it's not right in front of me, it may never get reassembled.

 

[Brubaker]

Thanks Don. Will probably do both(enjoy and, in time, authenticate). Save a round dome lamp for me! Bruce

 

[Tom Wesenberg]

The door post switch plate is for a slide switch rather than a toggle switch. On the bottom side of the hex nut you can see the lower part of the rectangular cutout for the slide switch.

 

[1929blindback]

The door post switch plate is for a slide switch rather than a toggle switch. On the bottom side of the hex nut you can see the lower part of the rectangular cutout for the slide switch.

I have the rectangle type in my 29 fordor. The one in here looks like someone just found a toggle switch that would work laying around their shop. Nice solid car btw.