Can anyone locate me a original set of 39 Chevy fender skirts?
Also need parts for the 39 Deluxe steering wheel.Need the center horn spring and contact and retainer for horn button. Need original horn button and horn ring. Anyone that has original 39 accessories for sale contact me with your condition and price.

You and me both!! Let me know if you find two sets!

I have a pair that came with a 39 Coupe we bought 12 years ago. Forgot we had them and sold it without them about 8 years ago. They just reappeared, and I listed them yesterday for sale on eBay. Naturally I found your post here today.

Sorry to say those are NOT original 1939 Chevrolet skirts. The only year Chevrolet sold a tear drop skirt is 1940. The 1939 skirt fit in the wheel cut-out only, had a chrome strip on the bottom edge to match the runnig board moulding, and had an exposed chrome nut on the top part of the skirt. Turning the nut moved the locking levers....the only year to have that feature, The 1937-38 skirts fit in the wheel cut-out also but had two locking levers behind the lower edge of the skirt and had two chrome mouldings on the skirt.

Wow! Thanks for the quick update. So they're 1940 Chevy skirts? Or could they be for another make even? Did you look at the pictures, and if so do you have a sense of what they're worth?

Actually, you seem to be wrong. I found reproductions of these skirts on several websites with the same dimensions and attaching points and they're listed as 1939 Chevy skirts. See, for example this site.

Just because the skirts you looked at all have the same attach points doesn't mean they are close copies of the originals. It just means they found a easier way to make repop skirts. I'd be wary of telling someone else they're wrong unless you know that to be a fact.

Are you saying I'm wrong? If so, then I guess you must have the facts. Are the skirts that the company has for sale not 1939 skirts? ChevyNut said Chevy didn't make teardrop shape skirts (or wheel opening) except in 1940 and I took his word for it. Yet I've found…as I said earlier…several sites showing skirts just like mine that the manufacture states are 1939. With that evidence it's hard for me to accept one opinion to the contrary. Still, they may all be wrong, and I may be wrong, and ChevyNut may be right. If you think you know better how 'bout helping out by explaining what they are and what they're worth instead of just ragging on me?

Tailspin: You might want to look at the genunine Chevrolet accessories catalog for 1939 (the catalog is available in reprint) and check out the photo of the 1939 fender skirts that are in the catalog. You will be surprised.

:) :grin:

Description of the 1939 Streamliner, fender, prime, Part NO 985443


Manufactured for Chevrolet by

Thanks AntiqueMechanic, the description you posted sounds exactly like what I have, except for the stainless moulding. Which just means I'm more confused than before.

JunkyardDog pointed me to the catalog, which I don't have, so that's not much help; but he implies that it looks nothing like what I have which does help. Yet several sites show pictures of skirts just like mine and they claim they're for a '39.

Does anyone know how I can determine exactly what they are, short of taking them to Pomana and some other swap meet?

Thanks to everyone for your opinions, by the way. To be clear, I'm not suggesting that I know these are '39s. All I know for a fact is that #1…they came with, but were not installed, on a '39 coupe, and #2…they're identical to skirts that are shown online by after aftermarket manufacturers who claim they're for a '39 Chevy.

I guess my earlier question is the crux of the matter: how do I find out what they really are if they aren't for a '39 Chevy?

Well, instead of getting all ruffled up and defensive, you might start with posting a picture of the front & rear of the skirts you have and then maybe we could help you I.D. them.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300256399391

The Streamliners on eBay do not have the correct profile as compared to the genuine Chevrolet Streamliners and they do not have the chrome strip across the bottom. The original correct liner mounts in the curvature of the fender, where the ones on eBay are obviously made to be placed over the fender curvature.


time-out !

Time for some definitions.

NOS: is an item that was made by the original manufacturer and has never been installed.

NORS: is an item that was a copy of the original item but was made by another manufacturer.

AFTER MARKET: A new item made for a vehicle that WILL FIT, but is neither NOS or NORS.

If a vehicle is to be judged by VCCA, the latter two items will bring deductions.

The stremliners on eBay are aftermarket and will FIT a 1939 Chevrolet.

tailspin,
If you send me your email address I will send YOU a picture of the Genuine Chevrolet skirts for 1939. :)

BowtieBob: There is a link to the eBay posting and images in mu first message. The pix are …> here

I'm not defensive, I'm confused. I have several apprently reliable sources here, and elsewhere on the web, offering conflicting information. As I've written, I'm perfectly willing to accept that what I have aren't '39 skirts. But I would dearly love to know what they are.

thrty9chev@aol.com

Here is the link to the catalog page showing the genuine
chevrolet streamliners as discussed by Junkyard dog and Antique mechanic.
http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/accessories/1939ab/39acc14.htm

And another link to the genuine items
http://1939chevy.com/images/Fenderskirt.jpg

NOW we're getting some where! Thank you very much for the clarification.

Apparently, then, the skirts I have (and those that I've seen online like them) are an aftermarket product that will fit a '39 Chevy. but they are not the OEM part.

Again, a thank you to everyone for your time and expertise that helped clear up my confusion.