[sammons]

Looks good Jeff. Nice looking display if you don't sell it.

[Kiwijeff]

Looks good Jeff. Nice looking display if you don't sell it.

                                                                          Or use it for garden art Theres als6 a chance i may make a cradle, and have it so i can fire it up for fun. Heres some pics of the 37 truck stuff that Mo got for me. The diff is in great condition.

[Kiwijeff]

There were 3 solid truck rims, and 1 wire wheel.

[Kiwijeff]

Ha I'm back, and ready to get into the Chev over Summer.
Haven't really done anything over Winter,  been so busy with other stuff, and having a daily driver hot rod means ive neglected the 35.
Heres a quick pic of how its looking today.

[madmike3434]

Great to see those old right hand drive (RHD) Chevy's....do you have the VIN prefix (not actual VIN)?  Kinda curious - I remember seeing a post that the RHD Chevy's were built in NY (near NYC) because the export shipping ports would be closer.

Would be neat to build a RHD hotrod for over here...those RHD Mustang II racks are around $1000!

Ed

The C K D, complete knock downs were shipped from Canada and built in Oshawa Ontario, was a complete rolling chassis with fenders, bumpers.........just no body.  The bodies in Australia were built by HOLDEN body company.  Canada was the supplier due to lesser taxes as members of the Commonwealth, which also included new Zealand.

later in this thread is his picture of the frame, its clearly a 1935 only with the X-member.  The 1933---1935 roadster pickup body was made only by HOLDEN and common to Australia.

I like them very trick

USA built cars exported to Europe and south America were built in TARRYTOWN NY and shipped from there.   My 35 chev roadster was shipped from there to Bueno Aries Argentina and assembled on the plant there.

If the car was built in usa would have a tag on the floor just ahead of the seat, if built in Canada would have the fisher body aluminum  firewall tag.


mike lynch.............

[vette59jdwl]

  Mike  is there any way to tell what the body job no is,also the body serial number is, if you had a tag with the serial no. the engine no. the trim no. and the paint no.. On the tag without a body serial no.and without the job no.
   Is there information out there on Canadian built 1932 cars  especially roadsters in my case  thanks

  I have a tag alluminum was on the firewall Model CONF. 146  serial no 581403  Body serial no.  blank  engine no. 2332507  Body Job no.  blank  Trim no 58   paint no. 1080  thanks  vette59jdwl

[ParabikMiNut]

Thanks Mark.
Page 11 of that report mentions a building occupied by
Feemster Chevrolet.
Guess I now know an address for the dealership.
Thanks

[madmike3434]

sorry wayner, I only have been able to obtain info on 33--35 Canadian built Chevrolets. 

  An aluminum firewall plate from fisher body tells you that its a CONF = CONFEDERATE Chevrolet model series for 1932.

Because roadsters and touring bodies were supplied to chevolet by an outside supplier, they should not carry a fisher body tag.  Cabriolets were made by fisher and chevrolet so should have a firewall tag.

A 1933 Chevrolet master series roadster also has that same  # 146 as the model for the roadster, so thinking the same was also used in 1932.

The machine that made those body tags is still at GM Oshawa and used to be in my friends office.

mike         

[madmike3434]

  Mike  is there any way to tell what the body job no is,also the body serial number is, if you had a tag with the serial no. the engine no. the trim no. and the paint no.. On the tag without a body serial no.and without the job no.
   Is there information out there on Canadian built 1932 cars  especially roadsters in my case  thanks

  I have a tag alluminum was on the firewall Model CONF. 146  serial no 581403  Body serial no.  blank  engine no. 2332507  Body Job no.  blank  Trim no 58   paint no. 1080  thanks  vette59jdwl

okay your car has the tag, USA built cars had the tag on the floor in front of passenger seat.   Too bad your missing the body serial number or job number, it should have been on there.  Lots of people trying to find original literature to identify paint colour #1080 and others.  Same with upholstery. But only way you can find that info is to find an original dealer showroom album that has paint chips and upholstery trim swatches.

Probably the info might be in those 1932 Canadian versions of Chevrolet service news back then.  I know its in the 1934 issues, but I do not have them a friend does and is so worried about the fragility of the paper he will not open them.

mike ...................

[Kiwijeff]

As my tag was under the front seat, mine be USA.

[madmike3434]

interesting the tag was under the front seat, that's where usa builts placed them.

The X would stand for EXPORT .  I would like to see by clearing it up with car wax what the plate says.  Then photo it.  This looks like the plate they offer on ebay thru sellers and its left up to you to get number and letter stamps and punch in the numbers info.

Does this vehicle have left or right hand drive originally   ?

Does this vehicle have the body makers cowl tag down on the side with either a fisher plate or a HOLDEN plate.   ?

Here is a picture of the firewall ID plate from a 1935 Chevrolet standard roadster, the last one built in Canada, its body #50 .  GM records show only 50 roadsters built for sale in Canada, this is #50 the last roadster built .

have friend who is trying to buy the car but not having any luck.


mike       

[Kiwijeff]

Mike, nice Roadster.
The car is right hook, and it has a Fisher tag.
I'll see if I can clean the plate up some more.

[madmike3434]

Ha I'm back, and ready to get into the Chev over Summer.
Haven't really done anything over Winter,  been so busy with other stuff, and having a daily driver hot rod means ive neglected the 35.
Heres a quick pic of how its looking today.

I had collected and copied each of the pictures you have posted, sorry to tell you but that's not an authentic roadster pickup , as was built in Australia by HOLDEN GM..    Its a FISHER BODY OR AUSSIE BODY , BUT STARTED LIFE AS A COUPE OR SEDAN OR 4 DOOR SEDAN .   The wrap around panel in the back is from a sedan or most likely a 4 door.  The windshield frame is from a closed car.....coupe-- sedan-- 4 door sedan.  The closed car door tops have been whacked off also .

Did you buy the car this way, because if you did , somebody lied to you about its origin.  Will post a picture of a real auzzie HOLDEN bodied roadster pickup.

mike

[ghost28]

madmike. He knows it's not an original one. He been making it from a sedan he got.

[Kiwijeff]

Hey Ghost, Merry Christmas.
I hitter get caught up with your Buick.