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Today a i picked up my 48 business coupe at the harbour! Finally after 3 months she is home! Got her running almost immediately! Going to take her out for a test drive tomorrow! God night from Sweden!

Bigger hammer.

My old '51 Plymouth's 218 and my old '34 Plymouth's 201. BloodyKnuckles

Don: Did you ever attend the Das Awskfest that is held in August of every year also in Macungie for the car show. They have over 2000 cars on Sat/Sun but it can get realy sticky with the humidity up here in PA. HAve been attend for the past 25 years. Hartung

I unboxed and dusted off my official Fisher Cheese truck in preparation for the big day tomorrow. Plans for tomorrow are to air up the tires and lube the 5th wheel. Will that count? I should have mentioned that this truck was a gift to all Fisher Cheese employees in the mid 1980's when I worked for them. After I posted this I did a Google search and found one of these trucks recently sold on eBay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ertl-Fisher-Cheese-truck-/331149245086?nma=true&si=N%252FVcYF70WHEsHQEkGRBJBJQpEhU%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

I found a car-and-boat carpet at the local flooring store that was a close match to the brown hogshair carpeting in my 47 DeSoto. I'm sure the newer carpet is a synthetic, and can tolerate moisture better than the original.

On the 39 Cars and I had a 39 Dodge and currently have a 39 Desoto the bottom lower part of the door about 3 inches wide would have had a hogshair matierial at the bottom to protect the door as a kick panel. Then the rest of the door panel would have been material, mostly a plain color mohair or broadcloth. I still have the original interior in my 39 Desoto and the 39 Dodge that I had also had the same setup. Also on the rear doors the same thing and the foot rest at the bottom of the fron seat would also have the same hogshair material. it is a very stiff material and rouch. I can take pictures if anyone is interested. Rich HArtung Desoto1939@aol.com

after almost 1 year and two parts I finally got a great restoration done on a hood ornament. All the details kept and not buffed round. I'll pop this on FEF maybe tomorrow.

I almost forgot, here is my steam engine

The girl looks Russian in the red shirt & white hat. Blue or khaki would be better. Too bad about the radiator. The fan is too far off from the radiator to cool properly without a special offset shroud. Sometimes 1960's hotrods threw away the fan blades completely and used 2 electric (car heater) blower motors in front of the radiator to cool it. Works better at idle than a slow mechanical fan, and doesn't rob horsepower off the crankshaft under acceleration. American cars started using the thermostatic fan clutch instead, but eventually the factories all went to electric fans.

The door card bottoms would have had a maroon leatherette panel about 9 inches up form the bottom. Door fabric was typically a light grey material short naped wool like. But you could always echo your exterior graphics onthe inside.

Is there any place that will custom build a gas tank to a person's specs? I have a P15 tank sitting in the garage they could copy. Have seen some Ford tanks in a catalog (O'Reilly's I think) that are close in shape and dimension, but filler neck and float hole would need to be changed.

I heard that in the old days,they considered it dangerous to get in and out of the driver's side door, because of oncoming traffic, and in some locations it was unlawful to to so. You'd have to get in and out of the passenger's door and slide over.

1947 D25 Canadian Dodge, complete rebuild: 090 overbore, new pistons, rings, bearings and timing chain, shaved head, valve job, knurled guides etc. Intended to look like it had never been out of the car.