pick your cliche 51 ply work

[Young Ed]

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

The tin worm never sleeps

No good deed goes unpunished

[BobT-47P15]

Or maybe that old church hymn --"Holy, Holy, Holy":D

[Plymouthy Adams]

flow through ventilation

[Young Ed]

with any luck the holes will eventually be sealed up. she's sure toasty though! 202K miles on the clock.

[JerseyHarold]

And I thought my business coupe was bad...Yow!!

Looks like someone added a Ford courtesy light switch to the front door.

[Young Ed]

That wouldnt surprise me. This car has all sorta doodads added on. Porsche backup lights, lucas tri bar headlights, JCW sidemarker lights, some kinda extra brake and turn signal lights, aftermarket window squirters, extra interior lights that come on with the switch you noticed, a homemade burglar alarm that is operated with a key next to the trunk, capacative discharge ignition, bosch fog lights, hood latch tab removed and cable operation added, manual choke, um I think thats about it. Now some of this stuff has been removed and more probably will be as I work on it.

[Plymouthy Adams]

I know where the headlights are....!

[wills 51]

WoW... You definitely have your work "cut" out for you, Keep posting your progress

[JerseyHarold]

All those add-on's make the car a mild custom....VERY mild!

[Young Ed]

Ya Tim glad you could get some use from those things. Guys even the headlights were rusty on this car. The steel backs were 1/2 gone. Someday I want to follow what you did only with some bullseye lenses.

[Joe Flanagan]

Looks a lot like what I had. Maybe a little bit worse. Fixable, though. Definitely fixable. You're going to be a welding fool.

[Young Ed]

Welded in another piece of new floor support last night. Two done 1 to go. Noticed another thing about the car. Apparently this guy beat Norm to the bunch by about 30 years. His homemade door panels were ashtray delete and he left the armrests off. That explains why there was an "extra" set of armrests in the parts he gave me.

[Young Ed]

Do you have the stud piece the window crank goes on sticking out or did you remove it somehow? I would think having that sticking out would make it look like you are missing pieces instead of smooth. The no ash tray and armrest I get though. I may not put the ashtrays back either(not sure if they are in the box with the armrests). Another thought perhaps being a cambridge it never had the ashtrays? I just noticed the holes are there in the body for them.

[Young Ed]

Ah that explains it. I have no plans to delete the window cranks. Just the ashtrays if I dont have them

[JerseyHarold]

FWIW, my father's '52 Cambridge four door, that he bought new, did not have armrests for the front doors. He told me they were optional. The door panels backers already had the mounting holes pre-punched.

[Young Ed]

Update. The drivers side floor channels are repaired. I put the first piece of floor back in last night. It was a small piece that goes under the back seat and ties the wheel opening to the 1/4 to the floor. I've got to figure out a way to put the inner rocker in the correct place and get that installed. Anyone?

[Young Ed]

First few pieces welded on

[1947PLEVY]

Ed:

When you get done practicing on yours, you can come down this way and finish mine...

John