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My ’38 Super 8 drives like a dream! Easy to steer, smooth shifting. A lot of the earlier ones suffer from being worn out in the front end, when the restorer thinks everything is “good enough”….the later 120’s are great cars although not Full Classics…..

What year/model/body are you looking at, Ed?

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Agree on the pinstripes, they can really accent a car. My personal preference is fairly thin stripes (if you ever look at original striping it is rarely wide), and in my opinion it must be done freehand with a brush. No roller wheel, no tape. If there are imperfections doing it by hand, that is all the more character to the car, and with a good striper they are small if any….my Pierce was pinstriped by an artist who lives south of me, he’s literally blind in one eye, and has to use a loupe and a strong light, with his face almost touching the metal, to pinstripe…scary, but he did (and does) beautiful work….

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That ’35 Pierce coupe with the rear mounted spare used to be mine, it’s more of a cream color than the picture shows…the picture makes it look almost white..man, miss that car!!

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Merry Christmas, beautiful picture….and those were the original colors on my ’31 phaeton, green body with khaki fenders, and green upholstery with tan top….

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My early Christmas present was that P-A wagon you found, thanks again!

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Yes, Greg, I agree that I like the “button” style..it takes patience to shift with the gnashing of teeth, though, as you say, and the lower the speed you shift the better. I don’t mind it, but you can sure see people behind you having to hit the brake, thinking you’re accelerating faster than you are….

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And, if you’re real good and/or real careful, you can shift into 2nd and 3rd without using the clutch on the ’31 transmission, into free wheel gearing. The “non” free wheel is just pushing the shift lever further into the gear shift pattern.

I can tell you on my ’31 I use the non-freewheeling mode, free wheel is a little scary, particularly in our rolling hills….

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Excellent! Merry Christmas to all! And a wonderful 2015!

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Wow, great progress! Thanks for update….

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I have the same transmission in my ’31, and seem to remember when we had it apart that it looks the same….I believe that it’s correct as is….

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Also, in that article I reference Mr. Paulman contacting the Wright brothers, here’s a copy of that correspondence.

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Very cool, you could have stolen! Great that you have the history of a wonderful car….

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Nice car, George, and I agree it works a little better on that car. Didn’t mean to offend anyone, just personal opinion that normally, white on an early car isn’t attractive to me.

But, thanks goodness we don’t all have the same tastes, life would be dull!!

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Here’s a picture, and I’ll post some interior pics too…I remember it being much “whiter”” in person….”

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I agree with Mr. Rolapp, we all know a restoration can be done to someone’s personal taste, but the result isn’t always well received. When I worked at White Post restorations, a Pierce club sedan came in for restoration. I left before it was finished, the owner had it painted all white. Yes, white was available then, but it doesn’t look good on a car that early. The restoration was excellent, and should have been for the $270K it cost (owner published that number when he sold it), but car was not “correct”. Phil Marshall owned it for a while, got quite a bargain when it sold at auction I believe.

So, what we’re saying, even using non-metallic, and even using colors available then, color choice can affect both how the car is viewed and, at some point, value. If you paint the car, for example, red with white fenders and blue interior and top (which would be acceptable for a bright pedal car to grab a kids attention!), then car won’t get the respect that it deserves from the Pierce group.

And of course you’re free to add any accessories you want, it’s my personal opinion that less is more on a Pierce.

Again, thank you for posting the restoration progress, it’s one of the most “visible” restorations we’ve seen and very interesting, particularly the comparative lightning speed at which you seem to be progressing. But, since it is so visible, expect to have varied reactions if you have chosen an oddball color combination.

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