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It mounts on the steering column, very cool! Never seen one of those before.

Well, I don't know if they made any that weren't Imperials, but they made at least one Imperial. I've never seen another. All of the Crown Imperials were C30's, I think the LWB bodies were custom though.

Ha! Sure, I'm in Garden City on Long Island.

Thanks for assembling all of that info, Chry41, I've had a lot of fun looking up the plates of my cars. Just for fun, have you ever seen a plate with this additional info? Its from a 41 crown imperial with a divider window. I've seen other imperial plates, the only other one I've seen with this extra info also had the divider glass so I'm guessing that at least some of it has something to do with a second upholstery code?

Welcome to the forum, nice car!

Thanks very much for the compliments, guys! The main reason I started tinkering with this is I have a town sedan and a 2-door sedan that I wanted to make sets for, and I dream of doing a convertible some day. I would be interested in making a set, or pieces, to sell, but I still haven't finished the door strips yet. Once I have a full set of molds that's a distinct possibility. The door strips are different between models, too, so it'll take more than one mold. I am, however, going to cast the first half of the mold of the first of my prototypes of the long door piece today! Not sure if it's the left or right that I'm making now, but either one will work for both of my cars and the convertible. My second prototype will complete the set for coupes (which need a left and a right). The -door sedans have the posts closer together so I'll have to make one of those separately, but it would work for the front and back doors (but not the rear vent window). I'm still not sure what, or if, I'll use this wood grained set for yet, my first priority is actually to finish the 'blue sparkle' set I started several years ago. This is what my town sedan is wearing now. I really like this set because it's cast in blue, not painted, and the sparkles give it some depth: Oh, and second picture is the door strip I'm about to make a mold of. it's set in clay on a wood board. And 3rd pic is the with the sides added to complete the mold box. And one correction, to ensure my mold box didn't have any leaks I hit the bottom and sides with Flex Seal, so I won't be able to pour the silicon until tomorrow.

This is the best description I ever found but it doesn't identify everything, and I know some tags have other number groupings on them. I think the 02 is the # of doors, my town sedan has 4TW in that spot.

Think I need that tee shirt, too!

I've gotten pretty good results making plastic parts by making silicon molds from originals. Even beat up originals can work, but you have to have something to start with. I haven't messed with 3d printing yet but it's probably the way to go if you don't have anything to start with.

Nice find, those woody wagons are really cool and unusual! My dad and I restored one a few years back, might still have some parts around, if you find you need something feel free to message me. I can also post pictures if you need to see how something is supposed to look.

You might be able to use a 1/2" length of thin 3/4" aluminum pipe and hammer dents into it.

Thats definitely a 41 Chrysler clock, 42 had a different background. And that looks like a 41 Chrysler wiper setup, which I think is the same from 41 - 48 Chrysler. I think they used that motor in other Mopars, too. To confirm, the wiper motor for my 41 has 6v-EWH-4001 stamped on the metal plate - face down in your picture. No idea what those other parts are, if they're plastic I'm sure they're hard to come by. I could make new ones from those if there's any demand for them. Actually, the motor looks like my '41 but not sure about the arms and bracket. Don't have one in front of me but it doesn't look wide enough.

Very nice, that looks really great! Looks really tight too, did you have to do anything special to stretch it out so it would fit?

Here's a picture that shows the dent. I also made a tool to help reattach to the new handle, its just a 3/4" aluminum pipe with a window cut in it. If you can find someone who trusts you completely, have them hold it together while you hammer a new dent into it.

You have a small 'tin cup' on the shaft with a dent - on the inside side, at the base of the handle? That dent corresponds to a dent in the shaft which holds it in place. I usually try to grab it with a wrench and twist it, but I've also used a dremmel tool to drill out the dent. if you dremmel it, use the other side of the cup when you go to re-crimp it on the new handle. I'd post a pic but don't have a handle handy... Hope the description helps!