VCCA Home Forums TECHNICAL - 1945 AND EARLIER 1929-1932 open car door latches, ID these please

I bought a matching pair and a different single open car latch. The pair looks close to my 29' shown on the far right but the lever that would connect to the linkage for the interior handle is shaped differently and looks to me like it would be the actual inner release handle... Are these Pheaton rear door latches? The single one is marked 33 Chevy. Any idea fella's?

Pics would help...

Joe, The single latch on the right is used on open cars from 1929-35. The pair of latches on the left look like latches used on 1929-30 closed cabs. Maybe Skip (junkyard dog) or Chipper can verify this. Frank

Thanks for the reply Frank. Look forward to seeing you soon...

If you go to the FILLING STATION online catalogue you will see those same brand new door latches for sale for 1929--1935 chevrolet open cars. think they are $115 each

mike

Mike,
Yes, the Filing Station does list the front latches in their catalog (although they are out of stock) which is the same as the rusty one on the right, the ones I am questioning differ in that the rod that the linkage would attach to is longer, is bent towards the inside of the car instead of towards the door skin as my original one does. It appears to me to either be earlier than 29' or possibly for a rear door.

Joe

Joe, The rear door latch (Phaetons) looks like the front door latch. However, it does not have the arm sticking up because a control link is not needed. The shaft of the outside handle goes through the latch and the inside handle is attached directly it.

Ok, I think I might have narrowed it down. Found a picture of a set of rear 27' tourer doors on Chev4parts.com out of AU, they look to be a match. Also found a picture of Grants tourer, and it appears they match his rears along with his fronts. I also found an old auction photo for a 29' AU tourer that showed the rear door having this latch. So it appears they are definitely 27/8' and possibly correct for 29' Holden bodied tourer's.

http://www.shannons.com.au/auctions/lot/A1E7H9E8Y5TFN8W1

http://www.chev4parts.com/partsImages/miscpartsImages/1927%20b.JPG

Joe,

Here are the door latches from my 1929 Australian built (Holden bodied) sports roadster. All of the door latches, both front doors and back doors, in all of my 1929 & 1930 tourers are the same as this one.







To me it looks the same as the middle latch in the top photo of your first post in this thread.

Next question. Is that top bow pivot point in the corner of the picture typical of Holden bodied open cars, or is it a patch that someone was using to have a functional top? It is not set into the structural wood like everything else on these cars seem to be. It also looks fairly easy to duplicate.

Andrew,
First off, thank you for taking the time to take photo's of your roadster. Since my left door is from a Holden bodied car, I guess technically I could be correct using the latches I have.

Second, just from the couple of pictures of your car, I am intrigued by it and would love to see some more pictures of it if you are willing. You never see them unrestored up here and I love looking at them that way. I wonder what stories that car could tell you if it could talk.

On the original pictures the photo on the right appears to be a 32 roadster pass side door latch . Cant tell 100% but if there are 5 wood screw spots then that would be my guess.

I must say that I thought it to be original as it's certainly in the correct place and secured by period fixings.... but admittedly I'm no guru on these things.

Hi Joe, you can find an "as found" photo in a thread that I started to introduce my projects. You'll find it here:

Australian Connection thread

That thread has a bit of a background of each of the cars that I'm working on.

Hi Andrew,
Thanks. I actually saved a few pictures from that thread for reference.