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  1. The windshield looks to be a 36, sharp bottom corners. I think Dodge or Desota had headlamps like that.
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  2. I have found MMO at Ace hardware stores in southern Ontario! $65 for a dozen and an ad from a 1948 Motors magazine.
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  3. 40 here. I've been a mopar driver most of my life - 1971 Dodge Dart was my first bought in 1993 and I still own, had a 1993 Dodge Shadow for awhile, '95 Grand Cherokee which I also still own. Had a Grand Cherokee SRT8 for a few years, VERY FUN CAR but was forced to sell when finances got tight. I got into the post-war Mopar hobby by accident, somebody posted a dust-covered P15 for peanuts on Facebook, been sitting in a barn for 20ish years, super cheap, I took a chance and snapped it up before anyone else could. I got lucky, once I knocked the dust off it looked amazing, and it only needed little TLC to become a daily driver. I'm still amazed at how well it drives for being 70 years old and sitting for at least the past 20.
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  4. I have to admit this forum has quickly become my #1 destination on the entire internet. I am thriving information on old Mopar vehicles. I have only been frequenting here for a short time and already see that this is "Thee" place for vintage Mopar owners. There many great folks here who are kind and very helpful. My gut tells me there are a lot of mature members here. That's great. I hope to pull whatever knowledge I can from any of you willing to share. I searched for a while to find the right home for vintage Mopar enthusiasts. Very happy to have found this one. Just for fun I thought I'd add a poll. To learn of the majority age of the members. The poll is anonymous. I will reveal I'm 46 and have a ton to learn. I could only choose 7 options, so I'm sorry but I had to end it at 71 and up. Here we go:
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  5. What is the going price these days for the stainless grill bars (both as found and restored)? What is the typical price for restoration? Where do people recommend getting them restored?
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  6. A few pics from this evening's cruise. These darn cars make me eat so much ice cream. I wonder how many cones have been eaten in this car over the past 64 years? I was experimenting with my iPhone tonight taking some pics. You can get some groovy distorted looking images. Lots of fanatical waves and thumbs up tonight during my cruise route. I stopped for gas and a guy approached and said he loved the car. Could he take a few pictures? Of course, I replied. Thank you. I took her up several good hills tonight. Testing her for speed and watching the temp gauge. I hit my local hill in 3rd, pulled hard, shifted into 4th and pushed on up, hitting 50 MH. Speed limit was 30 MPH so I did not go any faster. She ran great. Great cars these old Chryslers.
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  7. My best friend turned 68 Tuesday and has always been a dirt track racing fan. He decided it's now or never and paid to drive a sprint car on a 1/4 mile oval. He got over 25 laps for whatever he paid. The hardest part was getting that senior body shoe-horned into the car. Wife and I drove the old Wayfarer about 110 miles to see him - we had a perfect weather day. The Wayfarer runs great - my only complaint is the amount of chatter from the clutch on startup - it seems to be getting worse. It works fine otherwise. The clutch disk was just resurfaced this winter.
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  8. I just sold the top bar of the 3 for $100 + shipping. Stainless. I paid $600 to have mine restored. Ask for Dave: http://www.fatfenderedrelics.com/ I HIGHLY recommend his work.
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  9. Like Dodgeb4ya says, the exhaust seats are already hardened. I don't think you need to change them unless they are damaged in a any way...I'd leave 'em alone if they look good, except for a recut if necessary. These engines were built with high quality materials. If you were working on a Chevy or Ford of the same era, perhaps new seats would be compulsory. Even on my little 230 block they're hardened and were kind of a pain to recut with a stone because of the hardness...the stone had to be re-dressed twice or more on each seat. I've put about 15-20k miles on it since the rebuild several years ago, and it had over 100k miles on it before then, and no abnormal seat wear was apparent. I have SBI valves and guides too, no complaints.
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  10. I always remove and replace both the thermostat housing and the heater hose adapter housing on the water pump as a complete assembly with the inter connecting hose . Makes this job easy and fast.
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  11. should be on the sides as in the picture below circled in red
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  12. Not sure what this is,but I like it.
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  13. Back when I was first getting involved in old cars in the 1970s there were some old folks who would tell me "a 'coo-pay' is a car, a 'koop' is where you keep chickens". Way back when there was a S.A.E. guide to body style names. It seems to have been largely ignored by the marketing people at all manufacturers, I guess the marketing people figure that engineers don't know how to market. Basically what Ford called a Tudor and Chrysler called a Two Door Sedan was, by SAE standards a coach. Starting in about 1935 built in trunks became available for sedan models. Plymouth called them "touring sedans" to distinguish them from what is sometimes now called a "slant back" but what was then still called simply a sedan. Originally it was pretty easy to tell a "two door touring sedan" from a coupe but as time passed and car shapes morphed it sometimes became difficult to tell the difference. Anyway, a pre-WW2 reference I has says of the S.A.E. body nomenclature:
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  15. Took the dogs with us. Mostly they laid down in the seat, but on one turn we had to slow down for a 4-wheeler that had 6 or 8 sheep tied to the rear rack as they were leading them likely to some field to graze. The dogs perked up and wanted to get a closer look!
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  16. A tree fell down out of the woods and into our yard by the barn. It had grown oddly on the hillside, and erosion finally got it. Anyway, I cut up what was cluttering the lawn with my chainsaw and then hauled 4 loads away with my 1977 John Deere 444. What does this have to do with the Meadowbrook? Well, after working outside all day I couldn't wait to eat supper, clean up and then go for an evening cruise. Plus I thought you guys might like to see a pic of my loader in action too. Its a great piece of equipment.
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  17. On the farm we always used a block of wood and a sharp axe. Nice clean cut and even the right lenghts if your hand/eye coordination was any good.
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  18. Take the axle to Napa on Street road they have a machine shop and they will do the job for you. I'm not sure of the price but you can ask first.
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  19. I sure am loving this one! especially that sideview!
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  21. And if it does I'm sure he'll be happy to have you pay for it again...............lol.........andyd
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  22. For the US built trucks black fenders and running boards were standard with body color an option.
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  23. Damn! That's prettier than a speckled puppy.
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  24. The length of the spline from the front surface of the T5 to the end of the shaft is 7 1/4". The shaft is 1" diameter and the splined portion is 9/16" diameter. The T5 is a Borg Warner out of an S10 pickup. The spline number is 14 or 15 (it's tough to get old). What I did was do all my measurements several times. Then I did them again. Finally, I went to a clutch rebuilder in Kansas City with my old disc and pressure plate. The stock 10" will be fine for what little HP I'll be dealing with and I had them make a disc with the spline count and diameter to match the input shaft. They had to move the center part in a little to make the splines center where they should be. Part 2 was them building me a 10" diaphragm pressure plate so i could use a hydraulic release bearing. Again, I'm not working with 700 HP here so it ought to work fine. The real pisser of this whole deal was that the clutch rebuilders charged me $150 for the engineering, clutch disc, and pressure plate. A stock disc and PP would have cost more, i think.
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  25. Nice update today from my machine shop. They ditched the old small truck valves and installed new car valves, springs and hardened exhaust seats. Slow, but we are getting there!
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  26. My '39 coupe with its art deco grill
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  27. I haven't had much to do with the earlier model trucks, but I would suggest that the 2-tone paint was a factory option. I put the word out a few years back for a girl who wanted to sell her 37 Dodge and I had quite a few people contact me saying that they were interested in the truck. I would have bought it myself if I wasn't planning on going so deep into my 53 coupe truck project... but I put the seller in touch with the buyer and the deal was made. I must say that Ben had done a fantastic job of restoring the old rig - check out the 2-tone paint on his truck...
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  28. Chrysler 1929 updraft carburetor with its intake and exhaust manifolds.
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  29. I have a friend considering selling his ute Reg... I'll have to keep you in mind when he finally makes up his mind and gives me some numbers.
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  30. "I have a 48 club coupe with a title and complete running works" Why not get tags for this one then switch the bodies and don't tell no one.
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  31. I am 75. My first car was a 1935 Plymouth coupe with a rumble seat when I was 12. It was a former stock car at a local Saturday night racetrack. Not long after I got it, the former owner returned from Korea and offered to trade me a 1937 Packard rumble seat coupe which I did. He wanted to use the Plymouth to go racing again. Those were fun times. John R
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  32. My cousin gave me a 52 Concord 2 door when I was 14, didn't run had lots of rust and the exhaust was rotted off from under the seat back. But it was all there, my next door friend and I got it running after a weeks wait to get money together to get a used battery from the junk yard down the street. Drove around the field, taught all the 12 and up kids in the area how to shift and drive, charged them 50 cents or two gallons of gas for a half hour behind the wheel. Even set up a spot with hay bales to practice parallel parking and three point turns which was part of the NY drivers liscence test. Every kid who practiced passed their tests first time. It was a killer way to meet girls, they came from surrounding towns to practice. Drove it for two summers on the lot, never used my own money for gas after the first week it was up and running. Put on a cherry bomb and a side exit tail pipe. Rebuilt the carb, fuel pump, the Genny,and rebushed the starter. Sold it to a neighbor for 50 bucks. Bought my 46 when I was 21 for 200 dollars in 1970 from the original owner. Done 80% of the work to put it in its current form. Drive it about 3000 miles a season, and endeavor to put one long road trip a year on it. Other than a fan belt and a couple of hot start problems it has never left us stranded. Plymouth builds Great Cars.
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  33. @50 coupe the results are starting to agree with your comment. This is is cool to hear the stories and learn of the average level of experience here. I don't count my cars when I was a teenager, as vintage. A 1973 Ford Pinto, a 1974 Dodge Dart or a 1976 Mercury Capri. However I was forced to rebuild engines and clutches in every one of those cars. I started wrenching right at 16. All I could afford was cheap wore out cars. I was working just to keep up with repairs cost from 16 to 19. I goy my first vintage Car 2 months ago. My '53 Windsor Deluxe. Years later, my time behind the wrenches all my life is helping me a lot. Patience has found me. Way less skinned knuckles. No broken bolts. No loosing or mixing up parts. No throwing tools in frustration. No waiting 2 more pay checks to get the next part. I learned how to get all the oil in a drain pan with little mess lol. Growing older has its benefits.
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  34. Does this mean that only us old guys know how to have fun???
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  35. I'm 28 my Wife is 27, we have two daughters 6 y/o and 3 y/o. We are happy to have our 49' Club Coupe and I intend on keeping it and eventually getting rid of my 2009 Kia Rio in the next 5 years, bringing on in a 57' Bel-Air as my Wife's daily (outside of her driving the 08' Enclave). I firmly believe we have enough old cars in the museums and the rest on the road are ours (including everyone else) to enjoy, drive and keep on the road. I'd like to keep my 49' fairly unmodified except for creature comforts and eventually after I retire form the Navy in 2029, that I'll hopefully get to grab a 40's to mid 50's Plymouth Business Coupe to make my hot rod daily. It will be in need of restoration as I do not want to tear up something close to excellence like many of us work hard to keep.
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  36. Learned to drive in a '51 Dodge truck in a hay field about 1964 (I was 12 yrs old). My brother and I became partners in a '41 Plymouth in '66 (a mistake on my part). Flatheads only, I have owned a '51 Plymouth, a '58 Dodge truck and my '53 Dodge truck (got it in '75 - the truck in my avatar). I have worked on my family's and my personal flatheads, as well as all sorts of them at the full service Sinclair gas station I worked at as a kid (best job I ever had). And like the others, I am continually learning more from the other folks on this site.
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  37. I drove my first Plymouth, a 35 PJ on farm roads in 1956. Before I got to drive it, I had to install a water pump. I was eight years old and could hardly reach the pedals. I have not been without a six cylinder Plymouth since and have covered a lot of ground, fortunately most of it paved.
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  38. Nice 1934 Plymouth in Sweden
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  39. A better picture of my 1941 De Soto
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  40. I like these..... One I'm just trying to finish up..... a 1948 Chrysler NewYorker 3 passenger straight "8" cpe.....
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  41. 47 Ply that we have worked on.
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  42. My-41De Soto and -49 Dodge
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  43. I'm telling ya the truth,here. The 31 to 36 Plymouths are as pretty as any cars made anywhere at any time..
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  44. And I'm partial to my own as can be expected.
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  45. I like mine so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urXr2J9ZDAk&t=2s
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