1931 Pickup questions

[jim1932]

I guess if hot rodding is turning to the dark side..... I am going towards the light.

I recently, and unexpectedly, inherited my neighbor's pickup. He and my late father were partners in a farm equipment dealership in the 60's and 70's. It is gorgeous, but I think at the time he restored it the reproduction parts were really bad. It was totally in pieces when he got it in the 70's. At present, I am trying to deal with the lighting. The headlights come on but there are no stops in the motion and I only get one setting and as I continue to turn the lights go out. I think it is not going far enough to get to high beams. The cowl lights work, but again, no feel of a stop.

When I press the brake pedal the brake lights come on, but as the pedal completes the motion down, they go back off. Before I get too far into buying parts, I thought I would check in.

Oh, and he clearly made the floor board but made a 2 foot piece of iron the screw to the bottom floor board that has the angle to support the bottom of the toe board. Did these normally have a smaller Metal support piece like a 32?