Right you are Paul, thank you, pg93, and only $65 plus shipping and handling.
Now if I could find a picture of what the business end looks like, I could get the torch out and fab one, just as a conversation piece mind you. I'd be willing to bet the original was forged and the reproduction ones are round stock with an engagement fitting welded on the end.
Was the original jack a scissor jack and if so, what did its crank look like?
I pulled the seat completely out this morning, by the way , thanks guys, so I could check out why the seat runners were so stiff and it turns out they are just dry. I doubt if they had ever been lubed in the last 56 years, after all, how many of us lube the seat runners when we do an oil change/grease job.
No tools, but I did find one very pleasant surprise under the seat, there is NO RUST, other than a little fine spotty surface rust where the metal was bare.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

Denny G
Sandwich, IL