MTFCA Forum

Vintage Chevy accessories are expensive.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/385430830524?h ... ondition=4

Yeah, and batteries NOT included!

This kind of "accessory" is about as necessary to the enjoyment of a vehicle
as a screen door is to the operation of a submarine. Stuff like this is what
separates the genuine cars guys from the snoots in the hobby. No thanks.

Ahem! No vintage car is properly "original" unless the original dealer salesman's fingerprints, verified by period records, remain on the door handles and hood latches. Photocopies are NOT acceptable!

For that price I would expect EXPRESS shipping not economy!

There should be plenty of those things layin around… being as it’s one of the only parts of a chebby that the termites couldn’t eat

"that the termites couldn’t eat" So I guess I had "Ford" termites in my coupe!!

I only had one Chevrolet and it never got registered to my name! It was a 38 two door. The previous owner lived up hill from me and he had been working on the transmission. He had it out and the driveshaft which was attached similarly to the old Ford was wired up under the car. I coasted it down the hill to my house and when I turned into the driveway I hit the brakes. The wire broke and the driveshaft came down. There was a ridge about 3 inches above the gutter of the street. The driveshaft hit that ridge and it came to an abrupt stop. The rear axle was bent like a horseshoe. So I had the wrecker come take it to the junk yard. I have had a couple of Buicks bought new One was a '96 the other a '08. Both Buick transmissions were junk and after 100,000 miles the engines used a lot of oil. I have an '03 Ford F150 pickup. It was used every day until 2008 when I retired. Since then mostly to pull the T on a trailer to start of long tours. It now has 96,000 and does not burn oil. Only problem I have had with it in 20 years was about 2 years ago the fuel pump had to be replaced.
Fords win!
Norm

The '37 and '38 Chevrolets were good cars. I'd love to own a '37 or '38 coupe. Starting in '37, most all the body wood was gone, and the engines went from 3 to 4 main bearings. All models had hydraulic brakes. They still had a floor shift, and the Standard models had a straight front axle on leaf springs, with single-acting hydraulic shocks all around. The Deluxe models had the peculiar GM "knee action" front suspension, which worked very well until it started leaking. The knee action system had very low unsprung weight and double acting hydraulic shocks, but it did not hold up too well on bad roads, or so the old coots told me.