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Jim Benjaminson

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  1. Try the Plymouth Doctor. Wayne's email is plymdr@aol.com He also puts out a catalog (latest one just came out) You can find him under Plymouth Doctor on the web
  2. Try the Plymouth Doctor for these parts. plymdr@aol.com is Wayne's email. He has a catalog and you can find him on the web....
  3. I interviewed the "chrysler rep" from Cuba when he still owned the car. Not only does the car have an interesting history - but so did the owner. He managed to get the car out of Cuba on the last "free" ship that left the island - Castro had put a price on his head so getting out of Cuba was a must!
  4. The story I've heard on this pickup is there were several built for a flower shop chain. Don't know anything more but if anyone knows something about them, I'd like to hear from you!
  5. Your car is a P15C Special Deluxe - not a P18. Somebody transcribed the info incorrectly.
  6. The first photo is Art Lacey's Bomber service in Milwaukie, Oregon. It is still there but as a restaurant instead of a gas station. The plane is slowly being restored.....
  7. My daughter posted a show saddle on eBay just before Christmas and got both phone calls (number blocked for caller I.D.) and emails, with two different email addresses from a party. She told him "paypal" but he sent a company check for "extra" and had a party that would coming to pick it up in person. The check was drawn on a law firm from San Francisco (one of the biggest/oldest law firms in the country!). She took the check to the bank and cashed it, putting the money in an account. The check came back as fraudulent. The money has been returned to the bank, she still has the saddle and we're starting an investigation into the perp......might not lead anywhere but it would be great to take one of these creeps off the street. Like the other ones mentioned here, the grammer and syntax probably indicated some one not educated in the USA. I heard on last nights news that these scammers "scored" six BILLION dollars over the Christmas holidays so its time for everyone to do what they can to put these guys out of business.....
  8. Chrysler Corporation sold new, in the crate, motors after the war. They did NOT have a serial number but should have had a brass tag riveted to the left side of the block with a number such as 219. These tags, of course, had a habit of disappearing over the years. The best way to determine the year of the engine is by the casting date - which you can find at the base of the distributer, in front of the starter. I believe there is a post elsewhere on this forum that pictures the casting date location and how to decifer it....
  9. Canada had a Belvedere sedan in 1953
  10. Any chance of getting a photo of that Aurora police car?
  11. Seems Canadian built and Los Angeles built have much more information on the firewall, whereas Evansville and Detroit had very little. Really don't have much to go on with the Dodge and DeSoto cars....still looking for info!
  12. Doesn't look like people are interested in this project!
  13. I am guessing that with the other modifications, the body plate has been removed. If, by chance, its still in place on the firewall, the numbers will tell what it is 512 - Deluxe club coupe 513 - Deluxe business coupe 502 - Special Deluxe club coupe 503 - Special Deluxe business coupe
  14. Several years back, I collected all the body number codes used by Plymouth from 1928 up to the early 60s when these code numbers were no longer used. The information was easy to gather from the registrations of cars owned by members of the Plymouth Owners Club, of which I am secretary. Over the years I've been asked if I could provide these numbers for Dodge, DeSoto & Chrysler. I have been able to collect a few of these numbers by observing vehicles at car shows, junk yards, original build records provided by owners, etc. From the few non-Plymouth numbers I have been able to collect I sense a pattern similiar to, but not the same as Plymouth. For example - a 1932 Plymouth convertible coach had a body code number of 536. The 1932 Dodge DM convertible coach had a body code of 546. A 1940 Plymouth convertible had a body code of 204, while a 1940 Dodge convertible had a body code of 224. If readers of this forum would be willing to send me the body code from their Dodge, DeSoto or Chrysler I will gather this information and post if on the forum. Please be specific as to model (Deluxe, Special Deluxe, etc) and especially to body style - is it a four door without a trunk or a four door with a trunk, for example. Business coupe or rumble seat or club coupe? The more specific, the less chance for errors in the final tally. Information can be posted to this forum and sent to me directly at benji@utma.com Thanks
  15. 40 Dodge had electric wipers - 40 Plymouth didn't. But with the similarities in the bodies a swap from another Chrysler product shouldn't be all that hard. I located a 40 Dodge in a boneyard this summer but haven't gotten the wipers out of it yet to "know for sure"...
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