Is your '51 a car or a pickup/truck? If its a car, it had push button (solenoid) starter from new. If its a car and has been converted to 12V, the resistor probably runs most of the rest of the electrical system, except for the starter and coil. As a high school student, I drove a '51 Chevy (car) to school & a good friend had a '51 Chev pickup as his school "car". Its starting system was entirely different than the car's was, but the starter motors were the same. We converted the starter in my car to 12V using a resister to power everything except the coil and starter, thats how I know its possible to do this. You could use a solenoid type starter in a PU if you added a push button starter button. You might check the #'s on the tail light bulbs to see if the lights are 12V. That should give you a clue on the lighting part of system. If converted to 12V the radio and heater were probably left as 6V, hence the resister, as 12V would "fry" both, but all of the light bulbs could have been changed to 12V. Both of these vehicles originally came from the factory with 6V systems. (My $0.02 worth. jal-SD)
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