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Drive my 48 Plymouth Special Deluxe most every weekend when the weather permits. Won't drive it in the rain as the vacuum wiper motor doesn't work that well, and needs lubed up. Don't like rain on it anyhow...It's got the original 218 flatty, dual B&B carbs on an Offenhauser intake. It runs great!

The '47 Desoto is the family car. I drive it some weeks daily and some weeks one or two times. If we need to go big time shopping it goes. If we need to run to our place out of town, it goes. If there is an old car event and it is raining and everyone else is bitching about getting their cars wet, it goes. Try parallel parking the 139.5 inch wheelbase car on a steep hill here in San Francisco on a one way street on the left side! Once you master that, you can drive anything and park anything in bust traffic!

some 4 speed manuals are OD, most all modern 5 speeds are OD and many of the later 6-8 speeds are multiples of OD.....My early 70's foreign cars with 5 speeds are OD in both 4th and 5th.....it is not new...

Fede, maybe the company you call has a chat feature.

When I first got DC Pete (1949 B1B) resorered in 1980 my drunken buddy backed into my drivers door. I ran to the local junkyard and got a new door and the body shop installed and painted it. It wasn’t until years later I realized I had a different door than the passenger side. It was off of a 51-53. So when I built my 53 Semi I robbed the drivers door and put on the semi. A few years ago when my son started getting DC Pete painted (again) I gave him a 50 1.5 Ton door to use I robbed off a parts truck. The body shop could not get the hinges to work so some very nice gentleman on the forum sent me a set of hinges from a 49 and it fit perfectly, I apologize for not remembering who sent me the hinges but he refused to let me pay for them. I believe the hinges may have varied within the three years.

It was a nice sunny day today... took my pick up for a drive in the warming sun...... Spring is around the corner!

"Best Dad Ever" c1940 is today's unfit parent.....

so, sitting right here now. Need more eyes at some point soon to finalize where things are for sure.