Help and advice needed.

If you want to email them to me I will post them for you.

Hello Johnny.

Congratulations on acquiring such a rare and desirable car.!

For a ‘sale as is’ you need to do or have done a rough assessment of what ‘is there’ for a buyer to work with.

A few examples of what i’d look for, and be concerned with:

Does the engine rotate? or is it locked up/ seized ?

If seized, is this why the car was parked? [did it have a serious mechanical problem then? ]

or if seized, is it ‘minor’, [ will it break free and rotate with a dose of penetrant in each cylinder bore etc? ]

A general look-over of king pins, spring shackles, body and engine mounts.

a close look at the wood framework supporting the doors, and the convertible top mechanisms.

[ will the car need a lot of wood framing replaced, or is it usable ? ]

An evaluation of the plated parts and the pot-metal die-cast parts; Are they in restorable condition, usable if

you don’t look too close? or are replacements needed ??

I have found that an ‘as is’ car sells MUCH faster if the engine is running. Even if it still needs bearings, pistons, valves and re-babblitting, etc..if it runs it sells. if it’s stuck, it sits.

Resize your photos to be less than 1mb. Then they will post on the site. one photo per post.

Johnny; you are welcome to call me, or email me. My info is in the Roster on this site and in the latest paper rosters. My email changed two years ago. The phone number is good.

Best of luck with this find !!

Greg Long

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Great car. That’s the third 1935 V-12 Roadster to come out of a barn/garage in the last five years. The color it is trying to be is a factory color called canary yellow. It’s too “dark” but several of thr cars, including the New York and Chicago Show cars were in Canery Yellow. Good luck with the sale, it’s a fantastic car and a great driver.

Headlight lenses arn’t hard to find…….just impossible. That said it’s a great running and driving car, having put several thousand miles on an identicle car. In fact, in my humble opinion I think it’s one of thr best pre war cars ever built reguardless of make…..and I have driven them all, extensively. The fender spear is missing, no big deal, as they are available, and zi may have a extra set. Parking light lenses are also very difficult. A few other small differences from 1934 but basically the same as the year before. Not very many were made, and 22 for the body number probably means the started 1935 with body number 20 for both eights and twelves. Robert Brown has the last one made in 1935, but I can’t remember the number. I’m sure he will chime in.

Tony, you ought to know, you bought a set of them from me in 2012 !!

Greg Long

Hi Johnny,

Great car!

P-A’s body #’s are confusing. From my records, there were at least 74 total 1934 & 1935 V12 Convertible Coupes built. Contrary to what George and Ed stated earlier, the code 338-P-xxx was used for both 1934 and 1935 V12 convertible coupes, NOT for both 1935 8’s plus 1935 12’s. The 1935 V12 conv. coupes probably restarted at 100, so we both agree that there were 33 1935 conv coupes made, and yours is #23.

(The 1934 and 1935 8-cyl both used code 238-P-xxx and numbered 1 thru 32 (’34) and 100 thru 133 (’35) for a total of 66.)

There are at least 9 1935 12’s known, now including yours, which was not previously known.

Love to see it in person.

Bob