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on heat soak....with modern fuels the alcohol has a lower expansion temperature and well the engine is going to run x degrees.....the cure at times is lesser fuel in the bowl by adjusting the floats. The very odds that you are going to outrun the fuel in those twin carb bowls against filling with an electric fuel pump is SLIM SLIM SLIM. Another easy overlooked item is the heat of the very coil itself...these cause hard start more than most fuel probs. Next occurrence...verify that your spark voltage is not weaker when hot. I cold pack about the coil for testing will be a quick and easy test.

Blue.........can't help re identifying your cars visor but I do like it.........similar to the Fulton 1000 series visor I had except for the way it attaches either side, I like yours as it seems to have a certain style that the various flat type don't........they look almost like a piece of board and with those weird brackets........lol...........but we all have our preferences..........my Fulton visor came from a guy on this forum 10yrs ago, he had it on his 48 Plymouth and didn't want it, I jumped at the chance, it fitted without any adjustment which was to be expected as Plymouth are the same around the front of the roof & windscreen 1940 to 1948......I painted it & polished the alloy brackets and kept the chrome edges shiney and made a stronger stainless centre bar bracket.............I'm a hotrodder .........lol..........regards from Oz......Andyd .

Stay with the flattie and my experience is dual carbs helped the most then the head and improved compression ratio then the split exhaust manifolds. I bored my motor .040 any good machine shop can perform this task and be sure the ignition system in good shape electric fuel pump to maintain constant fuel pressure. My wagon moves down the road way better than a stock one and gets 20 mpg and tons of looks when I raise the hood

Just back from Viva. She made it and it looks like just one noisy lifter/valve to troubleshoot. Otherwise good to go! The current plan is to cut the tops off of my spare valve covers so I can run the engine and find the noisy lifter without making a huge mess.

Well, I had a DTG-1 find me. It all started with this forum and the generosity of its members. Thanks so much for the support. Tom

Here are the rest, you know who you are:

I relocated the front shocks when I changed the front coil springs and installed the dropped uprights. I thought the factory method of attaching the front shocks to the upper and lower control arms made for little or no value in controlling the stability or dampening of the front end. It’s was the least expensive improvement and in my opinion did provide better stability. I do drive my wagon at 70 plus mph and find that the steering is improved

Hey fellas got my car running again (it was a faulty fuel pump) and I wanted to start a new thread and leave my engine rebuild thread as something separate. In this thread I'm going to post pics of me and my family's trips/shows/gatherings and anything else fun that we do with the car. Tonight we went out for a cruise over to a neighboring town. It was sunny and 70s here today with hardly a cloud. Perfect evening for a drive. Mostly I drove just 40mph because that's what felt good Its so much fun to drive the old Dodge; our new cars simply have no soul. There's a bunch of shows and gatherings coming up soon around here, we hope to hit all of them. Here's some pics from today: I guess only the first pic is from us being out and about. The other 3 are when we got back home LOL. The back roads around here are really fun, but you have to watch out for deer!

or, just use electric power steering. Lots of them available cheaply.

A guy in a late C5 vette wanted to play a little at the light in town. Off the line and up to about 75 I had him by a good car length... after that, he took me easily. But the short distances, I am surprised how quick it is. Just need an overdrive and more gears!

Hole may be hiding behind some door seal/moulding.

There is a guy who lives near Murfreesboro who uses the screen name of GATOR (pictured below) on a few hot rod forums who does pin striping. He belongs to the poor boys club. I am sure you will run into many poor boys at the shows in your area. I am surprised I never saw your car at any shows when I lived there.

Fuel system is good to go. Tank seems to hold gas now,, electric pusher pump installed and operational. I do have to fix a bad clamp on the fuel filler neck, but that is minor and a rather quick fix, I just didn't have time Sunday evening after I discovered it. I found that I have a slight coolant leak - lower radiator hose seems to have a bad seal at on end. Going to get a new hose and new clamps so that can be crossed off. Its doesn't appear to be a huge leak, but I did have a slightly damp floor under the front of the car after I returned it to the shop from beating on it hard to see what shakes loose. I spent some time trying to figure out what I needed for my speedometer. The drive and driven gears to run the cable are quite a complex mess the more I dug into it. I ordered a new driven gear that should get me close IF it works. Apparently there are at least 3 different diameters of drive gears combined with different tooth counts. I figure the new driven gear has about a 25% chance of working. lol It was $6 added onto an order I was already making. If it doesn't - then I will have to pull the tailshaft housing and swap out the drive gear and combine that with a new driven gear and I will be in business. Rough calculation says the speedometer is running about 20% too high. I took the car out Sunday to run a couple of errands and put it through her paces. It performed well, although it did have a bit of a time firing back up after I stopped to pick up some last minute items at the grocery store Sunday evening. I took her up to about 80 on a secret test track in Mexico. Everything worked well. I was concerned that the electric fuel pump I installed was actually going to be borderline too small at WOT, but it appeared to keep up just fine from a SOTP perspective. I'll make sure and have a pressure gauge installed to confirm, but for right now - I'm happy.

No Mr. Cold Blue....lol.....Don will tell you the "Rest of the Story" when he logs back on.

Don - I found the car not too far from where I live in Murfreesboro, in a little town called Rover. I do not know who had it before the guy I bought it from. The pin stripe work was done by Killer Designs by Darin Allen. He is a noted pin-striper; he has won the Easyrider's Builders Class Show and Sturgis Rat's Hole award, done striping for F1 cars for Gene Simmons of Kiss, and Gene Wilder, to name just a few. He did sign his work - if you look closely at the photo with the intricate pattern you can see a very small "Killer d" just above the dark blue loop at the bottom of the photo.

A couple of other details that will help... The business coupe has flat rear window glass. A club coupe will have a larger, curved rear window. Business coupes have a swage line that runs from the doors along the rear 3/4 panels above the stainless trim towards the rear lights. The swage line on the club coupe goes along the doors then around under the rear window.

When the Harrah's Auto Museum in Reno was still intact and on display, my wife and I drove to Reno just to see it....spent a great day there - it took a full day to see it all. After the Harrah heirs sold out to a hotel chain, quite a few of the cars were sold off or shipped elsewhere. I often feel like I was lucky enough to see a "Wonder of the World" before it fell apart and became a shell of itself. Please report back and tell us how big the place is, how long it took to tour and what were your impressions of it.

He’s a busy guy. I see him posting on Facebook, so he’s still alive...

And found a pic on HotRod Network..

P15 bz cp rear bulkhead and package tray

Plymouth used the short roofed Coupe from 1940 to 1948, in 1940 & 1941 it was the only coupe body that Plymouth had and is mostly known as a Business Coupe that came with just the single bench front seat, however there were some Plymouth coupes in 1940 & 1941 that came with the Auxillary Seat Coupe option or ASC........these had the same short roof as the Business Coupe but had a pair of folding rear seats.....my 1941 Plymouth ASC Coupe was one such Coupe, see attached pics, the seat back lifted up to the horizontal which allowed the seat bases to fold into the back of the cabin wall, then the seat back was dropped back but it allowed a large carry space where the seats had been...........in 1942 Plymouth introduced the Club Coupe which had a longer roof and rear side window as compared to the coupe body used in 1940/41 which then allowed a full sized rear seat and this longer roofed coupe body continued from 1942 to 1948.............Plymouth continued to use the short roof coupe body as their Business Coupe from 1942 to 1948, which still only had the single bench seat.............trust this helps.........easy way for me is.......is your cars roof the same size in side profile as mine............the rear side window is the key..........short its a business coupe......long its a Club Coupe and should have a rear seat.........regards from Oz.............andyd

BigDaddyO, Thanks for your research. -Bill

a coupe can come without a back seat...lol the best manner to determine business coupe is not only no back seat but a large package and bulkhead panel just behind the front seat.....there will not be any room whatsoever for a seat in a bz cp …..some ASC's had jump seats but that would also incorporate the bulkhead.

Do you have a back seat?

I made card board patterns and had them duplicated in 18 ga metal at a local sheet metal shop.. That saved me lots of $$ and they are not made of thin metal so much easier to weld in.

Hi Keith, I understand and agree with your decision on the engine. Why buy what you don’t need and can’t use? Regarding your tough crowd comment, you experienced why I seldom post on here anymore. Case in point; in the very recent past two separate individuals inquired about info on installing a V8 in their old Plymouth. Mr Plymouthy Adams referred them to the Hamb site where more of this info is available. Not a disparaging comment was made that I saw. However, several months back I made exactly the same recommendation (with different wording) and was jumped on hard and repeatedly. I have never been afraid of a fight but this is not the place for that. There are a few on here that are very knowledgeable and helpful. I both respect and enjoy the advice of Plymouthy and Dodge B4ya. But there are others on here who seem to more concerned with impressing us with how much they know rather than using this great site to lend a helping hand.

First one has to be Brett and may be holding the long distance award or the hard luck award or the "my truck was too big to haul safely so I had to take it back home and start my trip over " award. The others, no clue, but sure they were very deserving.

Hey Brandon Welcome to the forum. In this pic look at the center piece. It is the speedo. At the center is a post looking piece pointing to 1'oclock. This is the lube point (using a lite weight oil 3in1, liquid wrench or so) in side is a felt wad which soaks up the oil and lubes the speedo. It just takes a few drops. Joe Lee

I'm just the photographer, you'll need to speak with our stenographer. Maybe Tim can chime in with names/awards...

when they come to you like that....its a OMEN..! Long ago a friend asked me to appraise a car for his mother, kinda outside the collector years at the time but being an unmolested two door car I told her what she could expect for the car should she find a buyer, the type that, hey may dad had one like this. Couple months later I was told to come get the car for a ridiculous low price because his mother like the honest appraisal I gave her. My problem is I know how to buy, I can't seem to get a handle on the selling side...

If it was closer I'd buy it at twice that.

He told me there’s been no other interest and he’d take $500, or he is going to scrap it. I think I’ll buy it just so it doesn’t get crushed, but at the rate I’m going, I’m going to have to buy a warehouse building to store all this stuff and to work on it! I think $500 is pretty darn reasonable but it’s probably going to sit a few years waiting it’s turn. It’s hard to walk away at $500.

sorry not this year..... but, if it helps I had my wife video my "walk of shame" as I pull off the trailer back home oh yeah, a little "pre- BBQ" test run...... (John-t let ggdad1951 and myself drive his truck this year!) T-5's ROCK!!!!

Its really fun for me how much attention my car really attracts. Of course people wave at me because they see an old car coming toward them on the highway. But the people who talk to me at gas stations, etc. can tell that the car is basically untouched, and when you see that you expect a story of some sort. There's something intriguing about a car with the original paint and interior. I guess I can't say my car is totally untouched with its rebuilt engine and modern radials on it, but it still is largely original. For those of you who haven't seen some of my other posts, the car was purchased by Winona, MN native Ray Sebo (deceased 1996) new at Chrysler Seifert Baldwin Motors in Winona, MN. Mr. Sebo was a professor at Winona State University; remnants of his staff parking sticker are still in the passenger side rear window of the car. Mr. Sebo's initials are stamped on the back of the original Dodge emblem that came with the original keys, and his address is scribed on the back of one of those keys. I don't know when he sold the car, but I'm the 4th owner, and it largely sat from 1973 until 2016 with less than 1,000 miles put on it, which didn't do it any good mechanically. But as you know I've been fixing things as I go including brakes, engine rebuild, clutch, etc. One thing I wanted to do here in the coming weeks is track down some of Mr. Sebo's relatives (there's plenty of Sebos in the Winona area) and see if any of them remember the car or even have old pictures or documents on it. I think I may have found one of Mr. Sebos sons whom is in his 70s now. I just need to make that phone call. Maybe they would be happy to see the car is still going and would be willing to let me scan some pictures if they had any from BITD. I'll keep you guys updated on that.

For tonight I parked it in the woodshed, but will likely put it in the garage near my tools tomorrow. The cement in my woodshed is nicer though

I have a whole new fuel system now, including a brand new gas tank. Also just FYI I'm running Evans waterless coolant. So far so good with it; it runs 180 degrees or less and is guaranteed the life of the car without ever changing it because it will not corrode or break down...