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I donated about fifty years worth to the museum. I don’t know how available they are to peruse, but I had about everything from the beginning of the club to around 2000 when we moved.
I had my 31 Model 42 convertible coupe for thiry years. I would be pleased to offer any information that I have available (or remember). My car was amazingly original, appearance items pretty much cosmetically redone. The number on my car I thought was 2525415, which has one more digit than yours (I could be wrong, also). Perhaps Robert has passed. I can still see him at meets walking hand in hand with his wife. A most delightful couple, and a very nice car.
Karl: My ’31 had no sill plate on bottom. Just painted wood.
Have the one from Harbor Freight. Cheap, works well
Ten of twelve years ago a number of us formed a touring club (VCCA) and Tom Lester was a member. If in fact this was his car, you can almost guarantee that the car is a real runner. The process that he rebuilt and modernized mechanical components he referred to as being “lesterized”. It was not unusual to be passed by a 1913 gigantic brass car going 70 miles per hour. He was a great guy, and politically and ultra conservative.
Paul is unlike many of the drunken dorks that we associate with!
Thanks Paul. I knew you would figure it out. Followed step by step and did it the first time!.. Am going to celebrate now. Tony
Maybe Paul Morris will see this and give us an answer (if he has one). This is the only site that is reacting this way. I had to reinstall my password for other sites, but there is a “remember button” to push, and I have not had to repeat the process. Outside of this incident, I find Windows 10 to be faster, and much easier to use.
Tony, thanks you. I learned some things about Peerless I didn’t know. When Freddy Tycher was alive, he convinced the guys at Hemmings to make a classification of “Packard, Peerless, and Pierce-Arrow”. They did that for a year or so, and then went back to “Packard” classification. Pierce-Arrow and Peerless were relegated to the “P” section.
You know, This “Three P Nonsense” has gone on about long enough. The Peerless was probably a good car (all four or five of them that they built). To continually cliche’ them with Packard and Pierce for whatever euphonic delight it brought some people, maybe should stop!
Go to a large body shop and ask to look at the pages of fleet colors. This book will provide you with a gradual shade change in each color. When you find the exact color, you will then have a code that can be mixed, now and ten years from now. Have used this method for years.
The storage compartment on an angle with finger pull is exactly the same in my Model 42 convertible that I no longer own.
Description is similar to the one on my ’36 convertible sedan
I have a large factory photo of this car
That’s exciting. Thirty years ago we had to listen to those Packard guys talk about how little our cars were worth. With Pierce 66’s going for over a million dollars, and the money that I have received for some open Pierces lately, the Packard guys can go back to grinding their flat crankshafts. (That’s what my dad called the ’31 Packard Phaeton I dragged home) …”Whaddya gonna do with that flat crankshaft SOB?” God rest his soul, he was a pretty good old wrench in his own right.
Eastern Etching, Foot of Grape St. Chicopee Mass. is still in business according to Ed Minnie whose family is friends of these people. I will explore some prices from them, or any other companies that I can find. I too am somewhat separated from the plaque business. The Glens Falls/Lake George meet plaque indeed was very pretty, and I think Tom Lutz handled that acquisition. This whole discussion is not an earth shattering subject for the Pierce club, just an attempt to retain what use to be a very nice momento for our always great meets.
Paul: I guess I had really forgotten the reason for the rule being repealed. Surprisingly, I sponsored the winter meet in Florida, that year at my club. The reasons make sense, and others may chose to chime in on that portion of the discussion. However, the abandonment of quality multi color brass plaques is something that we should do, and in regard to that point, I think we should rule that some basic plaque standards are reinstated and insisted upon.
Is this the Bob Mehl car that burned in Buffalo?
Paul: A couple of summer meetings ago, I remarked that this mandate had been abandoned. i.e that the Weis trophy winner car would appear on the meet plaque the following year. Charley Gils related that the board had repealed this motion a couple of years past. Charley is pretty astute as to what is going on, I don’t know.
Bob: You are absolutely correct. The board did pass a rule about the previous year’s Weis award being on the following year’s meet plaque. When I mentioned that to the board a couple of year’s ago, someone said, no we repealed that a couple of years ago! Be that as it may, the need for a memorable plaque, not an aluminum Cracker Jack type, should be made a perpetual phenomenon.
