Waking up a Sleeping Beauty, 1934 5 window

[The Art Doctor]

Originally Posted by Brian

The underside of that car is very clean!

I know, I am still amazed that it is in my garage! It has its issues and probably more Bondo than we would like to see used today but I just have to get over that. I told a few old guys that I got it and what was going on and they told me ALL of the old steel bodies outside the southwest are rough under the shiny paint and not to worry about it.

Originally Posted by koates

Love your car. I have a 34 sedan and had a coupe for 49 years. As for your ignition system The old Ford engineers knew what they were doing and by changing out components you are messing up the original design. My cars are all original and start straight away hot or cold. The message here is . leave it alone. Regards, Kevin.

I have an original Ford ballast on order it will be going in as soon as it arrives. Don't want to mess up that newly rebuilt Haney coil nor mess with the points and timing more often than I have to. At this point I have the rebuilt coil, tested good condenser, new NGK plugs, wires from Brillman for original distributor, cleaned ignition switch, rotor, points and inner caps that look like they were all new 3700 miles ago. My only concern is one inner cap is an Argentine replacement with aluminum contacts and one is an old stock unmarked service part with brass terminals. I'd like them both to be the same for fear of uneven electrical transfer. Going to look for a single to match up with the brass one.


Posts aren't much fun without pictures so here is one just for the fun of it.