I have been able to find out the origin of my '39 Plym via Chrysler Historical to the point that it was ordered by a dealer in San Franscisco, being shipped to him on January 29, 1939.
The trail then goes cold until it showed up in Montana in 1950, then the man I got it from purchased it in 1951... Not to bad, only an eleven year gap in ownership....Bill

It is nice to hear the past history of these cars.  I traced my '28 back to 1965 and there the trail goes cold.

That was nice of the daughter to inform you about the Plymouth.  Information about the car in its earlier life is always nice to know.

All I know about mine is that I am the second registared owner and that the original owners drove the car from 1940 until 1974

Kind of surprising, I got a letter the other day from the daughter of the previous owner of the 29 Plymouth I bought a few months ago. She had a brief story about the old Plymouth. .... A postmaster in Toroto, SD saw this old car at the local salvage yard in Beresford SD, after some negotiations he bought the car, then sold it to the gent that did all the work on this car. The car had a lot of structural damage and the fenders and the trunk area. He had spent a lot of time and patiense (sp) on this restore. He did a lot of work on the engine also but she is not sure what all. She goes on to say "This was the last one he bought and worked on, I hope you are enjoying the car, that would make me feel real good, we all miss dad and this car was a great part of who he was."
.. I could tell someone had spent a lot of time on this car sometime in the past, just because of the shape it was in, which I thougth was mavelous for a car that old, and I knew it had been in the "barn" for the last 20 years, and he had driven it in a lot of parades (info given at the auction sale) I hope I can carry on with the same things this old gent did. Thank you all for your help and advice. (This must be an Original save from the salvage yard.)
Glenn