Frame assembly and painting

Hi Henry, Do you have that reversed. I thought cad. was originally used and zinc is being used know which is worse and does not hold up? Please correct me if I am wrong.
CORDially Mike

Hi Mike, I am sorry for the mistake. When "forum user" is used under your name in your post that is supposed to mean your not a member. It should have read "club member". It is hard for the site administrator to identify people when they don't use their names.
CORDially MIke

Both Mikes, I forgot the oil pressure line & the tach & speedo housings. Sorry about that! I believe that most of the fasteners were zinc plated (silver color) a standard way then & now (cad protection is lousey;I know it's used a lot of places). 31631F Henry

Mike:

I've been a member for 15 years or so and am a native of Auburn (and therefore can't remember the first time I saw a Cord!).

Mike

Hi Mike, If you are serious about doing this car right you should join the Club and come to Auburn a couple times and help judge. Then you will learn what you need to know to restore your Cord. It is easier to do it right the first time than to have to do it over. We would enjoy having you as a new member and Auburn is right next door for youi.
CORDially Mike

Henry:

Thanks for your reply. I have tried to consider how the car would have been constructed. It seems logical that some parts would have been bolted on prior to painting. I can tell that some of the nuts and bolts on my car were plated and some weren't, but I have a lot of them that are so badly rusted that I can't tell how they were finished. Are the finish of fasteners considered in judging of cars?

Mike

Mike, I doubt that there is anyone alive who can, with authority, answer your question. But as a manufacturing engineer of many years & breifly worked for International Harvester small truck devision, I believe I can give you a logical supposition. Consider the ease of assembly. Put all the stub frame parts together including the suspension arms, lower suspension stops (with rubber out bumpers), front spring & suspension bolt parts (spring could be compressed with a fixture to allow this) . I would leave all the fender braces off as they would be a hazzard on the assembly line & install later. Also install the clutch & brake shaft & lever arms , master cylinder bracket & master cylinder (mask openings), paint black. The brake lines may have been then installed. It is obvious that the bodies were painted the finish color before the stub frame was installed because the stubs that the frame slipps over were body color on any unmolested car. They likely installed the coil, accelerator linkage, main under dash harness & firewall insulator before installing the frame assembly on the body (engine & transmisson assembly would certainly be in the way). You are free to have their own idea, but this is mine. 31631F , Henry

I have a question about the way Cords were originally assembled.
I have disassembled my 37 Beverly from the cowl forward, to the last nut, bolt and lockwasher. Before reassembling it, I'd like to know how the stub frame and the components that attach to it were put together. Was the frame and the parts that bolt to it, such as the fender braces, painted first and then assembled with cadmium plated bolts, or were parts attached and the whole assembly then painted? Were some components attached before painting so that their attaching bolts are painted, and some components attached after painting, with plated bolts? Or, did it vary from car to car and there is no completely correct way to go?
Sorry for the long winded question. I've looked at several photographs and can't come up with a concensus.