Canadian Tail Light Bracket - Tudor

JackA

JackA

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My Tudor came from Quebec and has several differences from the US version. The one bothering my right now is the drum taillight bracket. Snyders has one that looked similar, but is more flat. The one on the car attaches with three bolts to the rear quarter of the body/frame, comes out at an angle and has the normal two bolts for the drum light. I should have taken a picture, but my battery is dead. My question is can I straighen this kind of metal with heat? I believe it is forged.
 
There were a couple of versions of the 28- early 29 tail light bracket for the tudor ( probably the same as Canadian version). I am betting that the one Snyders sells is the later version and yours may be an earlier version. Yes these can be straightened. I would find a copy of the Judging Standards and compare before I tried to make it look like the reproductions. Rod
 
Who's to say that your bracket is bent? Maybe the Canadian ones were the shape of yours from the word go. Why would you want to BEND it into something it is not ie, an american bracket?
IMHO, leave it like Ford made it. Unless you you can verify that it has been bent at some time on its history, I'd leave it alone. It is not and never was an American car. Just the way it is!
 
I looked in the Canadian parts book and it shows the same part number
for the tudor bracket as the US cars. Could you have a bracket for a fordor?

Bob
 
As Rowdy says, there were a couple of versions of the bracket. The Canadian one would be the same as the US version, in fact it was probably made in the US as Canadian cars were not 100% made in Canada, especially in 1928.
Also make sure you get the right one for a Tudor, although I can not make out why you want to buy a repro one when you have an original?
 
Mine is bent from the original owner. The license plate is on an angle and the bracket is too close to the fender. Could the person who looked up the part number please post it?
 
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