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Looking for info on my new favorite. I know it is a 1939 Dodge D11 but it looks a lot like the 2 door Luxury Liner but I cannot find any pics of 2 door luxury liners except from ads from 1939. Trying to get as much info as possible trying to restore it to original since its all there. Let me know what you think.
Thanks
Vic
Vic,welcome to chr. Maybe you can find a parts catalog on Ebay that would help. I found one on my 41 plymouth that has been a big help. Maybe someone else will chime in with some info. Thats going to be a real nice ride.
welcome to chr. great looking ride
here"s a place that may be able to help you. http://www.aaca.org/
Go to Google home page. In the upper left hand corner, click on Images. In the search box, type in....1939 Dodge Luxury Liner
AAAAH, you just posted that to make us all jealous!
That's a beaut, looks like it doesn't need much work. Paint the wheels and drive it!
thats a dang nice old car.yep,its gona be a cool old ride.
Thanks for the memories!
My first car ever was a '39 four door. I worked a West Texas wheat harvest the Summer of 1950 (after my junior year in high school) and bought it for the princely sum of $65 cash. It was a disgusting shade of brown. I thought it was elegant anyway.
It may well have been a "Luxury Liner" but, in all honesty, there wasn't much about it that I would call luxurious.
My high school buddies unkindly referred to that particular color in rather crude terms. I won't repeat what they said because our good forum moderator would definitely take issue with the language and I don't want to get the boot.
Welcome to CHR, Vic. You'll find the most knowledgeable and helpful bunch of people anywhere right here.
Good luck with the '39.
Jim
Here are some more pics I think I have another one in a minute
Welcome to the Club Vic and I will be the first to throw a spanner in the works and say....It needs a early hemi in it with four jugs along the top and dropped in the front to give it that neat rake look. Seriously now ,that must be a rare car as I have never seen or heard of them before so I will now have to Goggle it and learn some more.
So we got her cleaned up and to be honest you are right she really doesn't need much work at all. The interior is all there a little rough and I have hired an interior guy who will be redoing it from scratch(thats right hand stitched!). I figured most of all these beauties have been cut and turned into rods, not very many originals left! She is all original as you can see and she will stay that way. I cleaned up the wheels and they were painted as you can see just for now. I need to work on the chrome and am running around looking for original rubber. I pulled the running boards off as you can see in the one pic and they have been sandblasted and primed and unfortunately I could not locate anyone doing the rubber for them so I had them covered in bed liner so they will stay perfect forever. If I find the mats that I can attach later I will, but for now this will do. I will post pics of the beaut with the cleaned up covered boards.
I did find some rubber for the vehicle but I am looking for help locating the following rubber:
Rubber mats for the running boards (not attached to the boards), Trunk weather striping, rear windshield weather striping, screw on handles for the rear ash tray lids(held on by 2 screws). There are a few other things but I cannot remember at this moment. By the way she is running, and driving! Need to clean the carbs before any long rides, when she is idling and you slowly give her gas she will try and stall, have to give her a good push of fuel.
As far as interior I am going with the original camel color material, gonna try and clean up the dash and repaint the brown lines in the middle. The window frames inside are metal with a woodgrain paint on finish (like the dash) which I am not sure how I am to replicate that. the 2 front need to be re done the 2 rear are in good shape and can get by, but if I cannot get them redone I may have to pull them and polish them to chrome but again I really don't want to do it, I want her to be as close to original as when she rolled off the floor. Thanks for all the great comments, I will be posting updates as they come. I did not have the notification of reply button clicked so I did not know anyone had replied. Thanks again, and any help locating those parts I would appreciate.
Vic
A good auto painter should be able to air brush the wood grain effect on the window surrounds. We have several excellent painters here in NZ that do the wood grain to amazing finish.
Mine is a D-11 special yours is a D-11 DeLux. The color on the trim of the dash is a deep burgundy not brown. That trim color is found on the hub caps and the bumper guards too. There is a lot of rubber parts available from Steele rubber google it and you will find most of the rubber. Running boards are a different problem they were Vulcanized to the boards and there are two people that can restore them one is Hunley Acuff in Georgia I think. The other is in Canada runningboardmats.com I think. They are pretty expensive to restore. Yours is in very nice shape. Mine is the same color battleship gray with a camel interior too.
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Welcome to CHR! Unfortunately vicmachese hasn't been on the forum for almost two years now (from his Profile, Last Activity). You might try sending him a PM or e-mail? Kind of doubtful he'll see this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by timmer117
Hello! Thank god this awesome forum emails you when there is a post in one of your threads. I would love to see yours. From my serial number mine comes back as a special. I was told if it was a deluxe there would also be more chrome. Can you post pics of yours?
Here is an updated picture. The interior is done. new carpet, new headliner, new door panes new seats all to original specs. The only thing that has not been done is the dash and window frames. I still need to to rims to match the original spare. I hope you like!
Very nice old Mopar, Vic. Welcome!
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Thanks. I have cruised this site without posting. Just haven't logged in for a while. Working on my 2nd project but wrong site its a VW
Hey, we're hungry for projects!! If you post pictures we'll look! Who knows, we might talk you into a small block V8 in the back seat, chopping the top, dropping it into the weeds, and generally making a nasty toy!!Quote:
Originally Posted by vicmachese
Heck yes Vic, we would be interested in your VW project. Is it a split rear window early bug with the 6 volt battery and candles in the headlights ? Or a bug convertible with a 1800 hotted flat four with a couple of downdraft webers, lumpy cam and big bore extractor system that looks like a neatly tied knot ? Or one that the front torsion bar axle has been replaced with a dropped axle and wishbones ? I think you may realize that some of us would be interested . Did you manage to track down new rubbers for the running boards ?
I did locate the rubber except it was over priced as only a few ppl do it. If I want I can get them later. Instead I blasted them and had then covered with spray able bedliner so those boards will last forever. I did locate rubber covers to put on them and if I wanted it to be correct as stock I can apply those with no problem.
The bug is a 74 standard. Body off resto floors heater channels front and rear aprons replaced. 2.5" drop on the front I have a stroker with dual webers and some other upgrades that needs to be put back together and put in. I am putting smooth top front fenders on with halogen headlights with city lights as the turnsignals. Seats have been replaces with 67 low backs. This pic is old. I still need to paint etc. I hope by the end of summer it will be done. I'm looking for a cool deep purple that looks black from a distance with metal flake. But that's her!
I like and the twin webers on a worked engine with a good exhaust system will give it the punch you need when you want. I like roof chopping them too but that is a major job and one for a good craftsman more so then the back yard body person to get right. When I was an apprentice panelbeater too many years ago I did a heap of work on a beetle that had a Corvair 6 in it with webers etc, the body had been changed into a utility type body using a curved windscreen from a early Vauxhall car for the rear screen. I wish I had photos of that thing now as it was truly a one of the kind and absolutely gorgeous.