AR Radiator Shell

[John LaVoy]

Working on my phaeton project I located an early radiator shell. The kind that has the webbing laced in rather than riveted. It was interesting to see that it originally was stamped with the Ford script like a Model T radiator shell and then modified to accept the blue oval badge. Look in the area of the small slots that were on the early badges and you will see the beginning of the F and the end of the D. Thought it would be interesting for folks to see what Ford was doing when they started making the Model A.

 

[FL&WVMIKE]

That is one RARE piece of Model "A" history !
MIKE (mikeburch)

 

[al's28/33]

WOW !!!! that's a new one! Keep that on your garage wall. Mine is on the car but I don't have the slots, just the center hole for the push in type badge and mine certainly does not have the FORD script!

 

[Bick in New Zealand]

John, just out of interest does it have a number stamped on the edge? as my early one does, and I have wondered whether this was a sequential thing.

 

[John LaVoy]

I did not see a number on the edge.

 

[d.j. moordigian]

John,...I think that's very interesting!

Would you share more photos of the shell,..please?

Thanks, Dudley

 

[Ray in La Mesa]

Does a photo of the front side show the stamping too?

 

[John LaVoy]

Here is the front, it was smooth I guess ground off when they punched it for the blue oval

 

[Ray in La Mesa]

That's kool! I found a license plate once that had been recycled during WWII. It is a S. Carolina plate with black numbers on a yellow/orange base color and stamped D-71-249, year is '43. I noticed some odd stamping lines and when held just right in the light it had originally been stamped South Carolina 1941, number 52-450. They flattened it and restamped it on the reverse side.

 

[Bick in New Zealand]

Here is a picture of the number I was talking about. I see it is prefixed with a C so it may be a Canadian thing. They are pretty thin on the ground here so difficult to compare.

 

[henry's 31]

Hi:

Thanks for sharing this interesting Ford history with us.

Henry's31