what a beautiful truck--dont forget the cab lights (ya right)

 

Imagine that you are the production manager at the truck plant in ________, & inventory contol tells you that all the glove box doors in stock haven't yet been masked & painted red, black, meadow green etc., yet. Your customers are farmers. You have a boss in Dearborn who looks at numbers, not glove box doors. Now make the call.

 

Yeah, but isn't that the exception rather than the rule? Stu

 

Look at the guy in the cab... he must be under 5'-6" to be stretched out like that!

 

All of my glove box doors have been two toned as pictured. I've never seen an original one that was all silver. Even my Mercury, which was build unpainted, only in red oxide primer from the factory, had the silver portion of the dash painted.

 

That guy looks to be about only 4 feet tall!

 

I believe that's what they used to call 'artistic license' ;-)

 

Maybe 5 Star Deluxe versions had the glove box doors painted in two-tone color while the standard cab truck didn't?????

 

No, I'm not buying it. If yours is truly original, it's an anomaly. The '51 F6 I parted was not deluxe interior and had a normal two color glove box door. The prupose of the trim is to separate the two colors. It makes no sense and looks totally out of place to have the silver color above the moulding only on the glove box door, mixing with the body color on the rest of the dash.

 

Here's a 51-2 glove box door on ebay. Standard cab. Looks pretty original.



http://www.ebay.com/itm/1951-52-FORD...sories&vxp=mtr