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I've run into that attitude in two marque clubs I have and do belong to.
Both ended up printing corrections, or appendixes, as I would not let go and had proof.
One, former marque club, author wrote the definitive book on 49-51 Fords, often referred to as "The Bible".
In it he stated that all Customs had the silver/gray painted dash and side window surrounds, and all Deluxes had sand-coloured paint.
I had a Deluxe, in silver/gray paint without the drilled holes in the glovebox door and dash for the Custom chrome ends.
Seems he was only "familiar" with east coast production....mine being Richmond, California. His response initially was similar to yours, "We wrote the definitive book on the subject, and stand behind it 100%."
You run into attitudes like that, push into it, if they still ignore it, get the data out to all you can (with proof) and walk away.
Research is only as good as far as it goes. When the "author" decides he has proved his case, the research stops, even though the next page would have given him the answer.
Current marque club, they apparently only looked as far as North American imports, ignoring the vast numbers that were not.
That, too, is fixed now.
Both ended up printing corrections, or appendixes, as I would not let go and had proof.
One, former marque club, author wrote the definitive book on 49-51 Fords, often referred to as "The Bible".
In it he stated that all Customs had the silver/gray painted dash and side window surrounds, and all Deluxes had sand-coloured paint.
I had a Deluxe, in silver/gray paint without the drilled holes in the glovebox door and dash for the Custom chrome ends.
Seems he was only "familiar" with east coast production....mine being Richmond, California. His response initially was similar to yours, "We wrote the definitive book on the subject, and stand behind it 100%."
You run into attitudes like that, push into it, if they still ignore it, get the data out to all you can (with proof) and walk away.
Research is only as good as far as it goes. When the "author" decides he has proved his case, the research stops, even though the next page would have given him the answer.
Current marque club, they apparently only looked as far as North American imports, ignoring the vast numbers that were not.
That, too, is fixed now.