Yep, that's Jak Phillips!

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> 51 CROSLEY parts
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> You are bidding on 1951 Crosley station wagon parts that have been
COMPLETELY ASSEMBLED into a very nice [except phor the rear quarter
bummer;, cracked passenger door window and a small tear in driver
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phake radio phront, a phunky Crosley jack, lug wrench, 17,500 miles
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On a CD body, were the support brackets that attached from the grille
to the frame painted body color or were they black?

Also, is the CD windshield taller than a CC?  I have found a center
garnish molding that holds the rear view mirror but it is definitely
shorter than the CD windshield height.

Larry

by Michael A. Banks
==========================

  Using contacts from his
Indianapolis days,
Crosley lined up
editorial mentions for
his new American
Automobile Accessories
Company (or Americo) and
Insyde Tyres in magazines
such as MoToR and
Automobile Repairer. He
also bought ads in
Popular Mechanics and
other consumer
publications.
The modest single-column
ads carried the
heading "Inner Armor for
Tires", along with a
descriptive drawing of
the product in use.

  Small though they were,
the magazine
advertisements pulled in
orders by the hundreds.
Business grew so fast
that Crosley soon dropped
his other activities in
favor of developing new
products for Americo.

  Then winter came,
bringing with it near
disaster.

  "That winter -- the
winter of 1916 -- almost
wiped out the business,"
Crosley
remembered, "because in
those days, people with
cars just put them away
during poor weather."

==========================
Next: Powel Crosley
fights back.

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Larry" <lhabarth@...>
wrote:
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> On a CD body, were the
support brackets that
attached from the grille
> to the frame painted
body color or were they
black?
==========================
Now there's a tough one.
I haven't seen a Crosley
in original paint for
decades, so I can only
guess. (Big help, huh?)
Hmmm ... after they were
stamped they needed to be
painted almost
immediately to avoid
rusting, so I'd say it'd
be primer.
To avoid extra labor
costs, Crosley Motors
would logically just use
body color on any part it
made. (Non-Crosley-made
parts such as generators
and the like came already
painted.)
The only way to really
know is to cut down
through the paint layers
to the first coat.
I salute you on your
quest for historical
accuracy!
==========================
> Also, is the CD
windshield taller than a
CC?  I have found a
center
> garnish molding that
holds the rear view
mirror but it is
definitely
> shorter than the CD
windshield height.
>
> Larry
==========================
This one I know. No,
they're identical in
height, Larry. You're
sure that center garnish
molding is Crosley?

=Lou=
>

by Michael A. Banks

  Powel Crosley had already decided that his future was in the automobile
business.
So he hung in, with Ira J. Cooper advancing hundreds of dollars to keep the
small business afloat.
In May of 1916, he bought out Cooper's interest with $1,500 in notes.  Cooper
was ready to launch the Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, so he was just as happy to
sell out.

  Crosley added several products to his line, including a blowout patch called
Tredkote (which he later patented), and his own gasoline fortifier, Kick.  The
business grew so quickly that he was forced to move it to larger quarters.
A few months later, the company had to move again, to 1601 Blue Rock Street in
Cincinnati's Northside district.
This building, which stands today, would eventually house the first Crosley
factory and serve as WLW's home in 1922.
============================
Next: Powel Crosley goes for the bigtime.

Lou,  Thanks for the reply.  The brackets have the original body
color on them.  I was assuming they should have been black since
they are going from the frame to the grille but I just finished
holding them in position and realized that they actual mount to the
hood support cross bar not the grille.  Now it makes more sense that
they are body color since that were probably attached to the lood
support and painted as an assembly.
Larry


--- In Crosley@yahoogroups.com, "mrcooby" <x779@...> wrote:
>
> --- In
> Crosley@yahoogroups.com, "
> Larry" <lhabarth@>
> wrote:
> >
> > On a CD body, were the
> support brackets that
> attached from the grille
> > to the frame painted
> body color or were they
> black?
> ==========================
> Now there's a tough one.
> I haven't seen a Crosley
> in original paint for
> decades, so I can only
> guess. (Big help, huh?)
> Hmmm ... after they were
> stamped they needed to be
> painted almost
> immediately to avoid
> rusting, so I'd say it'd
> be primer.
> To avoid extra labor
> costs, Crosley Motors
> would logically just use
> body color on any part it
> made. (Non-Crosley-made
> parts such as generators
> and the like came already
> painted.)
> The only way to really
> know is to cut down
> through the paint layers
> to the first coat.
> I salute you on your
> quest for historical
> accuracy!
> ==========================
> > Also, is the CD
> windshield taller than a
> CC?  I have found a
> center
> > garnish molding that
> holds the rear view
> mirror but it is
> definitely
> > shorter than the CD
> windshield height.
> >
> > Larry
> ==========================
> This one I know. No,
> they're identical in
> height, Larry. You're
> sure that center garnish
> molding is Crosley?
>
> =Lou=
> >
>

Take a look at the pic of the serial number tag on this car.  It
shows that the tag was attached to the body and masked off prior to
the body being painted.  My car was done the same way but the mask
was a lot straighter! Has anyone seen body color paint under the
serial number tag? Or how about the tag painted body color?
Larry


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by Michael A. Banks
==========================

  While continuing to sell
auto accessories by mail,
Powel Crosley, Jr. began
investigating retail
channels.
Success in placing his
products directly with
auto supply stores in
Cincinnati and
Indianapolis encouraged
him to go for the big-
time and pitch Insyde
Tyres to Sears.
Buyers for the Chicago
mail-order giant were
suitably impressed, and
immediately ordered
thousands of Insyde
Tyres.
The product appeared in
the Sears catalog
as "Inner Casings" for
several years, until the
advent of the cord tire
made reliners obsolete.
==========================
Next: Another Crosley
invention debuts.

by Michael A. Banks
=======================

  Sears Roebuck also picked up another Crosley invention, a steering aid for the
Model T called the Lit'l Shofur.

  The Lit'l Shofur was brilliant in its simplicity.  It was basically a flat
spring that connected the Model T's front frame rail to its steering tie.  When
a car equipped with the device hit a chuckhole, the spring pulled the wheels
back to a straight path.

=======================

Next: Powel Crosley makes his fourth try at car-building/ the flag-holder.


=Lou=

~~~~~~~~~~ **-=\/=-** ~~~~~~~~~~

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.       Robert Anthony

by Michael A. Banks
==========================
  When World War I ended
in 1918, the American
Automobile Accessories
Company had grown to
ninety employees.
Powel hired his brother
Lewis, recently returned
from the battlegrounds of
France, to manage the
production side of the
business, freeing him to
pursue new ideas.

  Crosley subsequently
developed more automobile
products, among them an
anti-draft shield that
installed above the
windshield of a Model T
Ford.  Crosley designed
most of his products for
the Model T because, he
said, "there were so many
of them".  The American
Automobile Accessories
Company sold thousands of
these, as did Sears.

  By 1918, Americo
customers could order
from a 50-page catalog of
automobile accessories.
Along with Insyde Tyres,
the Lit'l Shofur and
Tredkote, the catalog
offered Ses-a-me
windshield wipers, a
waterless car wash called
Dri-Klean-it, tires with
Insyde Tyres pre-
installed, and dozens of
other products.
==========================
Next: Powel expands
beyond accessories.