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TM Vol. 36 No. 5 July 2021 HATS Our hats are available in 3 colors. The simple embroidered design looks great! Black Hat Beige Hat ORDER #94 Navy Blue Beak Onlyea. Navy ORDER #96 Blue Hat $20 Beige Beak ORDER #95 Shirts Available in L, XL, XXL Specify size or we’ll send you an XL T-Shirts Sweatshirt Patterned after our best ORDER #6 selling “1953-54 National Chevy Association” 1953-54 T-shirt $ 00 T-Shirts. These shirts are ORDER #1 18 ash in color with turquoise and black cars and letter- ing. Printed on top quality shirts. Now you can proudly display your affiliation to the “National Chevy Association,” no matter what year of car you own. 1949-50 T-shirt ORDER #4001 All shirts available in S, M, L, XL and XXL. (Specify size or we’ll send you an XL!) SPECIFY Wear a National SIZE Chevy Association If no size is T-shirt! A great specified - way to locate 1951-52 T-shirt we’ll send and meet fellow ORDER #4002 you an XL members at car shows. National Chevy T-Shirts 1949-54 Specify T-shirt New Newly designed Chevie “Custom” cars T-shirt. ORDER White ORDER #4005 Size #4003 Black ORDER #4006 $ $ 15 Each Only 12 Each ___________________ Now Showing 51-52 Chev Bel Air Hard Top- 235 Fenton Header, pleated upholstery and headliner in 1966, 3 speed, built in ‘66, drag raced in ‘67, owner died in Vietnam 30 days after arriving - December 30, 1967. Found in local garage in neighborhood. Bought from previous owner (since 1969) in 2011. Enjoying the “rapping” from the “6” with Fenton headers and dual glass packs. Bob Pierce Winchester, VA 1950 Chevy Deluxe Coupe Charles Stephenson TM July 2021 The National Chevy Association 1 Now Showing ______________________ 1954 Chevy ‘210’ Delray Coupe outside Waupaca, Wis. bar near Iola, Wis. 1988 Neil McLaughlin Roy Harris, BC TM 2 The National Chevy Association July 2021 __________________ Brain Twister I went to a friend’s house and he had a picture on the It took us a long time to figure it out. It seems that wall that caught my eye. when the picture was developed the negative was I had to take a picture of it. In the background is a backwards. If you look, his wrist watch is on the 1954 Chevy, I have a 1953. wrong hand. If you hold the picture up to a mirror, If you look, the gas door is on the passenger side - no everything is clear. way! He said he had never noticed. Have fun with this. I thought I discovered a rare car. Sam Notturno Canton OH. TM July 2021 The National Chevy Association 3 Body By Fisher ____________________ Fisher Body’s beginnings traced back to two brothers, Lawrence and Albert Fisher, in Norwalk, Ohio, in the late 1800s. Albert moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he worked as a carriage builder. He eventually purchased Standard Wagon Works where Henry Ford was a customer. Ford commissioned him to build the body for “Ford’s Contraption” and Fisher soon became a pioneer in the newly fledged automobile industry. Lawrence had a large family of eleven children and in 1908, his two eldest sons, Fred and Charles, would join their uncle Albert in Detroit and establish the Fisher Body Company. Within a short period of time, Charles and Fred brought their five younger brothers into the business. In the early years of the company, the Fishers had to develop new body designs because the “horseless carriage” bodies did not have the strength to withstand the vibrations of the new motorcars. By 1910, Fisher Body became the supplier of all closed bodies for Cadillac, and some Buick automobiles. By 1913, they had the capacity to produce 100,000 cars per year and their customers included Ford, Krit, Chalmers, Cadillac and Studebaker. One reason for their success was the development of interchangeable wooden body parts that did not require hand-fitting, as was the case in the construction of carriages. This required the design of new precision woodworking tools. By 1914, their operation had become the world’s largest manufacturer of auto bodies. In 1916, the company became the Fisher Body Corporation. By then, it was producing 370,000 bodies per year and included Abbot, Buick, Cadillac, Chalmers, Chandler, Chevrolet, Churchfield, Elmore, EMF, Ford, Herreshoff, Hudson, Krit, Oldsmobile, Packard, Regal, and Studebaker among its customers. At its peak, the company had more than 40 plants encompassing 3,700,000 square feet of floor space, employed more than 100,000 people, and pioneered many improvements in tooling and automobile design, including closed all- weather bodies. In 1919, General Motors purchased 60% of the company. After the acquisition of Fleetwood Metal Body in 1925, the Fisher Company was integrated as an in-house coachbuilding division of General Motors. It finally ceased being a unique entity when it was merged with other corporations in 1984, although GM vehicles displayed a “Body by Fisher” emblem on their door sill plates until the mid-1990s. TM 4 The National Chevy Association July 2021 _____________________ Tech Help TM July 2021 The National Chevy Association 5 Tech Help _____________________ TM 6 The National Chevy Association July 2021 _____________________ Tech Help TM July 2021 The National Chevy Association 7 NEw NEw REBATE on all new or used parts ordered fREE PARTS ON YOUR NEXT ORdER. ThE mORE $ $ $ $ $ YOU SPENd ThE fREE lARgER ThE PARTS REBATE Here’s how it works: HAVE FUN! Place an order for any amount and receive a rebate coupon towards your next order. Example: Purchase $150.00 Receive a rebate for $15.00 to use towards your next order. Rebate coupon will arrive with your order. Simple & Easy! *Rebate good with any other offers. Rebate oNlY good for parts - cannot be used towards shipping. SAVE $$$ ON EVERY ORdER! TM TM 82 The National ChevyThe Association National Chevy Association May July 2020 2021 ___________________SUPER SAVER 1949-52 REPLACEMENT DOOR SILL PLATES “Replacement” sill plates are now made of heavy gauge aluminum and are available in two NEw finishes. The polished model has a bright shiny chrome look finish and the brushed have a more subdued satiny finish. Also includes tags. They are not stamped NEw like original. Polished sill plates have a “P” behind the order number. 1949-52 $ 00 2-DR. SEDAN .......................... ORDER #4706 75 $ 00 REBATE 2-DR. SEDAN ......................ORDER #4706-P 95 $ 00 on all new or used parts ordered 4-DR. SEDAN .......................... ORDER #4708 150 $ 00 2-DR. SEDAN ......................ORDER #4708-P 190 $ 00 fREE PARTS ON YOUR NEXT ORdER. SEDAN DELIVERY .............. ORDER #4709 75 $ 00 2-DR. SEDAN ......................ORDER #4709-P 95 $ $ $ $ $ $ 00 ThE mORE HARDTOP/CONV. ............... ORDER #4710 75 YOU SPENd ThE fREE $ 00 lARgER ThE PARTS 2-DR. SEDAN ......................ORDER #4710-P 95 REBATE Here’s how it works: HAVE FUN! 1953-54 2-DR. SEDAN OR $ 00 Place an order for any amount 2-DR. HARDTOP .................... ORDER #703 75 pr. $ 00 pr. and receive a rebate coupon towards your next order. 2-DR. SEDAN .........................ORDER #703-P 95 $ 00 CONVERTIBLE ....................... ORDER #780R 75 pr. $ 00 pr. 2-DR. SEDAN ...................... ORDER #780R-P 95 Example: $ 00 4-DR. SEDAN ........................ ORDER #704-4 150 set Save BiG Purchase $150.00 $ 00 set 2-DR. SEDAN ...................... ORDER #704-4P 190 $$$ Receive a rebate for $15.00 to use towards your next order. $ 00 Rebate coupon will arrive with your order. SEDAN DELIVERY ..............ORDER #704D 75 pr. All Sill Plates $ 00 pr. 2-DR. SEDAN ..................... ORDER #704D-P 95 1/2 Price and get a rebate too! Simple & Easy! Super Prices *Rebate good with any other offers. Rebate oNlY good for parts - cannot be used towards shipping. SAVE $$$ ON EVERY ORdER! on Sill Plates Wow! TM TM 2 The National Chevy Association May 2020 July 2021 The National Chevy Association 9 Now Showing ______________________ Dear National Chevy Association, Enclosed are recent photos of my restored 1953 Chevrolet 210 four-deer sedan “Hanna,” and a few before photos. 2013 is the 60th anniversary for this gem. The car was purchased new by the late George Watkins on August 17, 1953, from Roy Stauffer Chevrolet Sals, Inc. in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The salesman was John Bittenbender. See the copy of the original sales receipt for $2,050. George and William Hopkins, George’s father-in-law, drove the Chevy daily until Bill’s passing. I received the Chevy in 1968, from George’s wife, the late Evelyn Watkins of Scranton, Pennsylvania. “Hannah” is named for Bill’s wife. The ‘53 Chevy was barn-stored in Pennsylvania until 1990 when I flat-bed transported it to Lake Mary, Florida, and began the first of several restorations. The vehicle, with 74,000 original miles, retains most of its original equipment and all restorations are true to the original “as-delivered” features: 1) Three on the tree standard transmission 2) Original 235 cubic inch, 125 HP Blue Flame straight six engine with single barrel Rochester carburetor and oil bath air cleaner 3) 6 volt electrical system (with Optima 6-volt REDTOP battery and DelTran Battery Tender) All major elements of the automobile have been updated including: 1) New electrical wiring harness 2) Fully rebuilt front end 3) Replaced/rebuilt clutch assembly 4) Replaced muffler and tail pipe; headers are original 5) Fully restored original stainless steel bright work, re-plated all original pot metal parts and bumper, grill, etc. 6) Replaced brake lines and fuel lines 7) Replaced gas tank with ‘desert’ original from Arizona TM 10 The National Chevy Association July 2021 ___________________ Now Showing 8) Rebuilt engine with hardened valves to permit use of modern unleaded gasoline; thanks to Weber Machine of Sanford, FL 9) Rebuilt vacuum windshield wiper motor, starter motor, generator, distributor and vacuum advance, carburetor and fuel pump 10) Fully repainted woodland green lower body with campus cream roof (original paint was woodland green entirely) 11) Interior reupholstered to original design and colors including new carpeting, door cards and headliner 12) Dynamat sound deadened insulation a la Chip Foose 13) Replaced all rubber grommets and bumpers, and rubber gaskets 14) Replaced original door sills with Body by Fischer replica sills 15) Added Classic B.