Reply To: 1932, Pierce-Arrow 54, Coupe, SOLD at Auction

[Gregory Long]

Back to John Harris’s question regarding the holes in the rear fender.

I’m 99% sure, those holes are from a previously mounted modern tailight bracket.

The 1932 had it’s own, one-year only curved tailight bracket/mount. It looks like a horn from a Bull of some type.

The brackets were made from the wonder-metal of the ’30’s: Potmetal or zinc with odd alloys. These tapered-diameter, upward curving mounts became weak with the usual degradation of the pot metal and then either a bump in the road, or brushing against the license plate or taillights caused the mount to break. The photo is of a not-so-nice ‘repair’ of a broken ’32 tailight bracket.

I made a new bracket from steel to replace this broken one.

Greg Long