Need help IDing top irons

alexiskai

alexiskai

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I’m working on liquidating a collection and I’m hoping someone can help me identify some incomplete top iron sets. I’m going to attach photos as posts in this thread. Please comment if you know what body type these go to.
 
Group 1

Appears to be one pair of phaeton irons missing the forward piece, plus one right-side complete iron. Can anyone identify which year these are for?

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Group 2

Appears to be one near-complete set of roadster irons and several partial/damaged roadster irons. Again, anyone know what year these are for?

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Group 3

I’m not sure what sort of irons these are. They seem to be complete but they’re very small.

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Pic #2 looks like the irons on my 31 Standard Roadster (Canadian made). Measurements would help. I have pics but had difficulty loading them. It woiuld be easier to send them to your e-mail if you want them
 
It looks like the brown set have been cut down, my dad had a set like that in the early 50's on a roadster he had.
 

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Bob C said:
It looks like the brown set have been cut down, my dad had a set like that in the early 50's on a roadster he had.
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Yes you’re right. Here’s a picture showing how the black set is longer than the brown set. But again, what are these? Part of a set of roadster irons? Why would they be cut down?

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28-29 Roadster for the most part. The cut down set is probably for an early hot rod where the windshield posts were cut down, a common thing to do on period hot rods. The top irons were shortened to match the lower windshield posts.

The set with 4 bows is probably phaeton. The all look very useable.
 
Dan McEachern said:
28-29 Roadster for the most part. The cut down set is probably for an early hot rod where the windshield posts were cut down, a common thing to do on period hot rods. The top irons were shortened to match the lower windshield posts.

The set with 4 bows is probably phaeton. The all look very useable.
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Thanks Dan, appreciate your time.
 
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