ChevNut, the breather tube is engine color-I'll get back to you on the fan and trans cover color-most of the car's pinstriping is still there yet also, with the three stripes on the beltline-(Gold Bronze)

My breather tube was Black when I took the engine a part! I on the west coast! Also the fan was gray. Funny!

On my StLouis car both items were black as were they on a friends Janesville car

Has anyone ever contacted the GM retirement department or the auto unions to see if we could get the names/addresses of people who worked the Chevy lines in the 30's? I know some of this information is not available to the public, but a lot is available now. I bet some of the union or GM people would like to help, maybe putting something in their mailing about old photos. Does GM/UAW send out a newsletter to retirees?

I bet there are a lot of photos in family albums of "dad at work", etc. I know a lot of them would be in the 'Great dealership in the sky' but the families and the photos would still exist.

Just 'brainstorming' here to try to find documentation for the cars.

I'm afraid that they wouldn't know what cemetary to find them in unfortunatly.There again you would be going by memory with no documentation.Also I,m sure that GM didn't allow the union or anyone else to take pictures.Probably the best assembly line pictures are in our hands-that is the various collectors that have had intrest over the years.Trouble too is that these old photos are in black and white and that along with the poor quality make colors difficult to verify.