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Great car, welcome to the club. There are many people here who can help you with your car and give good advice on how to keep it running well. As for parts, club member John Cislak just purchased a 1930 Model B parts car last month. He is one of the well known people who make and sell reproduction parts, as well as selling used parts. Give him a call, he is listed in the on line roster. Enjoy your new Pierce! Hope to see you at a meet soon, Ed Minnie.

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Use a oil pot before you fire it. I am not sure if that engine is partial or a full pressure system. Did you drop the pan? I would NOT fire the truck without removing the pan and cleaning it. You can also inspect the rods and the bores while you have it down. As a rule of thumb, 5 pounds per one thousand rpm’ is the lowest acceptable pressure. That motor probably maxes out at 2200 romp or less. I would want 30 lbs down the road with a hot engine, and 12 lbs or better at idle with a warm engine, otherwise I would start looking at the motor for issues. Post a few photos please! Ed.

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I say next time you meet a car owner talking up his Packard or Peerless and putting down a Pierce Arrow you should make friends with him and offer him a glass of champagne! 😃

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Nice car!

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That and an over inflated price……..in my humble opinion. By more than two times.

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Well done! Remember there are no less than three different set ups from the era, then the later replacement Cadillac units. Also, the tappets should be center less ground when doing all this work. You can get them done local or Cislak sells them done on an exchange basis. Ed.

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I am sure they didn’t pay Ralph Roberts for most of the design leads they used for the open cars taking most ideas from LaBaron, so I doubt they paid Enos Durham for the roof design or the belt line treatment. Who had money by late 1930 for a slim chance lawsuit? You can read about the design details in the book “The custom coach work era”” by Hugo Pfau.”

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Tom, I started with a modern factory color, then tinted it seven time to get the right shade. It’s an almost impossible task, time and money……….but 25 years later I still like it. Take your time, get a feel for it. Spray a 2 x 2 foot panel. Take it outside and in. Sunny day and cloudy. Dusk and mid day. Look at it a while. It will come to you. Ed.

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Rick is 100 percent correct.

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Sorry Gorge! The Series nomenclature is an old carryover from my Cadillac days. After all these years I don’t think I will be able to change over to the Model designation. Have a Merry Christmas! Ed.

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Through a process of elimination, it is likely this car is now one of the two 1929 touring cars in Ernie Follis’s collection.

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The splash apron light was also used on 1930 series A cars, correct?

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It was owned by Orange Coast College, at the time the photo was taken.

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Another shot.

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Body shim between the radiator and frame, rubber grommet underneath if I remember correctly.

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Please post a photo of the storage compartment. I have looked at a LOT of Pierce touring cars and do not remember seeing one. My Series 42 D/C has a cabinet mounted across the back of the front seat as showen in the sales literature. Sever others have copied it over the years, but as far as I know only my Series 42 came with it from the factory.

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I like the Washington blue, I would consider monochrome………no black fenders……one solid color. Open cars look good in one color……..Maybe do a photo shop and compare side to side. Yes, I know this coming from a guy who painted his car electric blue!

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Philco wa 99.95 and would be about 2500 dollars today. My guess would be the radio evolved over 18 months to two years, with constant upgrades. The catalog I saw only listed your radio from 1932, but who knows when it was printed, I think ANY radio from before June of 1930 is very rare, Cadillac went through no less than 4 styles from September 30 to July 1931. Not just minor changes……diffrent heads and boxes. Interesting Majestic mad refrigerators! I hav e seen a Philo Tranzatone marked as 1929 in a radio museum.

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Purple….dark purple was done on a 33 Brunn V12 limo.

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A quick internet search shows the Majestic 66 as 1932.

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