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[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Originally Posted by jack backer

100 buck to chrome a gauge bezel?…we are talking model a here…

Well, you tell me. There is the A-9318, the A-9326, and the A-9330 that all need to be plated. We both probably know that chrome is not the correct finish however you give me some guidance as to what you feel a Plating Shop will charge.

[ronn]

right you are Brent

100. bill today is the new 20.

[Oldbluoval]

Used to be the repop gauges were a poor fit and bad seat
Is that different now ? I’ve been blessed with a stash of rechromed and nos nuts the last few years and likely need nothing more

[ETAModel]

Originally Posted by AzBob

There was a guy at the recent Chickasha Swap Meet that had a plastic tub full of new Model A reproduction gas gauge parts.

Recent ???? Did I miss the spring show ???

[Crankster]

Originally Posted by ronn

100. bill today is the new 20.

Closer to 10. Periodically they will trot out some whack job economist who claims "large bills" should be withdrawn from circulation, because reasons. It is to laugh, because anybody who has been in a grocery store sometime in this century knows a hundred will be vaporized almost instantly. If anything they could re-issue the $500 and $1000 notes so we'd have something that would spend.

[AzBob]

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Originally Posted by ETAModel

Recent ???? Did I miss the spring show ???

Was on March 18th & 19th (Last Friday and Sat.)

[Y-Blockhead]

Originally Posted by jack backer

100 buck to chrome a gauge bezel?…we are talking model a here…

I believe it. I paid "over 100" to have two original '30 cowl light arms rechromed that I bought from Bert's.

[Y-Blockhead]

Originally Posted by Ed in Maine

If you are restoring a car and know you need it, you should go buy it. I have been working on a Cabriolet for many years and I failed to buy the interior and the top when Lebaron Bonney was in business. Really dumb!

I know how you feel. A few years ago I really wanted to get a stainless steel luggage rack as the chrome ones don't last long in the salt air.

But I waited and when I went to order one they were no longer being made. Thing is I had the cash when I first wanted one but I procrastinated.

[Terry, NJ]

Originally Posted by Crankster

Closer to 10. Periodically they will trot out some whack job economist who claims "large bills" should be withdrawn from circulation, because reasons. It is to laugh, because anybody who has been in a grocery store sometime in this century knows a hundred will be vaporized almost instantly. If anything they could re-issue the $500 and $1000 notes so we'd have something that would spend.

You mean we should inflate the money even faster? I'm looking over a bunch of RM 1000. bills from Germany in the 1920s. Printing presses produce a bill with every strike! You can put $1 or $2 or $5 0r $10 or, 20, 50, 100, whatever you want to have in circulation. If it takes $2 to buy what $1 used to buy then your dollar is now halved in value. Maybe the answer is to withdraw all the big bills.
Our Guy, Henry Ford, once came up with a plan that was pure genius to finance the TVA in the 1930s. Print "TVA" on the face of each bill that you use to pay for it and as they came into a govt agency, you destroy the bill rather than spend the bill. This will not allow the bill to swell the economy and still allow the project to be financed. Sadly, the govt didn't take his advice. Sadly again, There has never been a Govt in the history of the world that could resist the temptation to counterfeit it's own money
Terry

[jack backer]

Originally Posted by BRENT in 10-uh-C

Well, you tell me. There is the A-9318, the A-9326, and the A-9330 that all need to be plated. We both probably know that chrome is not the correct finish however you give me some guidance as to what you feel a Plating Shop will charge.

I dont know what plating shops charge or if they can prep and finish the bezels correctly. I realize the need for proper parts for a correct restoration.

My point was based on the typical model a owners frugal nature..lay a 100 dollar invoice on him for chroming some trinkets and you better have a defibrillator ready with the paddles greased to stop him from dying in your shop.

[J Franklin]

I had 4 Stewart bumper bars (like Model A) done 4-5 years ago in nickel and it was $800.

[gdmn852]

Over $3500 in chrome on my 49 Buick.

[ronn]

gdmn- sounds very inexpensive to me........

when was it done?

[gdmn852]

About three years ago, some of it was replaced with nos pieces, and lot of small parts , like top bow brackets, so smaller are cheaper to do , also if previous post does get the gas rings done , have them mask off the threads or may not fit into tank.Renickle the gas nuts should be cheaper than chrome if they are brass that takes plating well.Lot of the cost is prep work.

[Oldbluoval]

Nickel is problematic these days. Substantially all comes from Eastern Europe……
Platers not willing to quote prices today as most are 6 mos out on jobs.

[larrys40]

Ed
You just wrote my story. I bought the last of 2 68c frames from macs. The other one was damaged from them. Had to get interior from classtique. Have stuff done for it but haven’t really cracked at the project yet.
Hopefully soon .
Larry

[Crankster]

Originally Posted by Terry, NJ

You mean we should inflate the money even faster?

Who is this "we" Kemosabe? I'm just pointing out the obvious, larger denomination notes are necessary because the currency has been inflated so badly.

"There has never been a Govt in the history of the world that could resist the temptation to counterfeit ..."

Have you ever noticed that over time "we" have ever and ever more precision and accurate standards by which to measure things? Whether time, or distance, mass, etc.

Though curiously enough, not money? There is no longer any definition of the unit of account, and it even fluctuates. How would you feel if they redefined the acre? Your 40 acres are now only 35 acres? Wouldn't you feel justifiably outraged? Or the standard of measurement like the meter, or yard. We don't turn on the news and hear things like "The meter lost several millimeters in heavy trading against the yard yesterday."

[aermotor]

Why have pennies when the cost is allegedly higher to manufacture a penny?

[J Franklin]

Originally Posted by aermotor

Why have pennies when the cost is allegedly higher to manufacture a penny?

Why have a Model A Ford when the cost to restore it is higher than it would sell for afterward?