1942cowdodge

This will be the second car show that I have attended this year with my Dodge. I will bring out all my fun stuff and all my informational junk. Usually I get more people just checking out the informational stuff than most of the other cars at any show I have been to. People say that there are so many Chevy's, Fords or whatever hot rods that it gets kind of boring after a little while. But with the old Dodge it has so many stories to be told that it seems unending. Now if I ever figure out how to get that trailer on a proper hitch it will be a real show stopper. Its definitely a time period car and the trailer that put the icing on the cake!

Now this is kind of an interesting subject. If you buy a vehicle up here in Washington and the person you buy it from does not have a pink slip for it than you better prepare for along wait befor you can get whatever vehicle in your name. You can get ownership but you haft to wait three years to get that! I know a friend of mine who has a small trailer is having a heck of a time getting that thing in his name. But it can be done only it takes three years as I stated. What is it in your state?

Cool nice picture!

I bought a light Echo chain saw back in 1973 and have used the dog poo out of it. Great little saw and would highly recomend that brand to anyone looking for a great little peice of equipment.

Check your ground strap to see if its made for six volts. I change out mine and boy did it make a difference.

Yes and after almost 70 years they have gotten bigger! The window works great now and I might just go to the other side and clean up the inside and put some white grease on the moving part.

while using a curved forcep with the pin clipped in the jaws, What kind of tool is this? do you have a picture to go with this? Is it a doctors tool? Would like to know

Got the window back in and just took my time. I think the engineers that thought us the system for removal and installation of any car glass hast to be one smart guy. I reinstalled all the parts but the hardest is those little pins that hold the handles in place. Anyway tomorrow clean up my mess outside and then wait for the next thing to break on my car. An old saying someone said to me one time and it makes sense. You never own anything as everything own you!!!!!! and that the truth.

Well I got a good floor jack but that's about it. Must be nice to have the ability to just run your car into hoist and then just push a button and up and away!!!!! I tried many years ago to get a building permit to build a nice garage but the county wanted to check my drain field because it had to be up to there standards befor they would allow me to build a nice garage. Go figure I just gave up and built a nice car port with sides. Oh well maybe someday I will have a nice clean garage but for now its just a nice clean floor and good lighting that I have.

I really do not know how I broke the window but its a learning curve experience I would rather have not learned how to do. I can see where a good restoration job would be just in doing the inside of the door panels and the tracks. I know I peaked inside and just cleaned up 70 years of rust and primed the inside and then put a coat of roof tar over the bottom. Kind of mickey but hay the car is 70 yers old and I don't see me doing anymore work on it as long as I own it. Boy what an optimist.

Every time I take the door panels oft on my Dodge its a fight to get that little pin back in place that hold the handle on-just wondering how do guys do this job? I have my own trick but I know there must be a professional way of doing this. Thanks

Well I got a supper deal on a tow bar hitch set up from our local junk yard and should have it installed by this comming weekend. As you guys know I was going to tow my vintage trailer with one of my two bumper hitches but thinking it over I was not sure that would be the way to go. My main reason where in the world would I get another bumper from my old Dodge and in that the story would be told. So for 25 dollars I got a hitch out a Ford Chateau van and cut it up like a turkey only taking oft the parts I need. Should be good and strong as its rated at 10,000 lbs!!!!!!! Got a buddy all lined up to weld up my new creation and then give that little trailer a little pull. Here is my new logo for my trailer and another friend painted this up for me! It will go on one of the wings on the trailer itself. I think its kind of cool-JON:cool:

Hay if you put the new one in in exactly as the old one its probably good enough. No reason for anything to be different. Thats my two cents worth!!!

I use one of those portable type 12 volt batteries to power up my CD player while I show oft the car and it work ok for a few hours. This might just be the cheapest way to go as you only need it for your parades and they shouldn't last that long. If you really want to hope up your six volt fan than you can do what I did to get more life out of my CD player. I just installed two six volt batterys together and got 12 volts just like they do in golf carts. There a bit heavy but they were given to me and I could not afford to pass that buy. Here is a picture of my power plant for my CD player or anything else that may need 12 volts or just arrange them to get six volts.

Found photo's thanks!

Looks just like the one on e-Bay but I know you haft to have the correct length, this one will work and the price is cheap!!!

Basically what is wrong with your old ebrake cable? I have an extra one but I do not know if it will be the right lenght for your application? Mine is out of my 42 Dodge but I think there basically the same although the lenght might be different. Can you take a picture of what you have or have some physical dimensions that I might use to see if this one would work for you? Its in fair shape but I put a cable clamp on it some time ago as the wire decided to part, Let see here is a picture of the cable and the clamp:

I know we discussed this befor and you guys made my mind up and so I went to my local junk yard today and bought a receiver and hitch for 35 dollars. I know it will haft to be custom fit and was wondering how you guys did this? I would like to just use the old bolt holes that hold up the bump brackets also. Its a good thing I have a friend that is a welder as I will be using his services.

Well if worn out is the word for those high miles than I figure it was true. One of the cylinder had to be replaced as it was ecliptic in shape. I just figure the farmer who owned this old car just keep driving it and driving and servicing it in his barn. This family who owned the old car were not very rich and so they had to make things last. Maybe it did have a valve job or a head job but I think that would have been it. These people owned the old Dodge from 1948 to around 1988 or so. Of course it was not running when I got it and so it probably sat around for along time. I know the history of this car and even my 95 year old neighbor road around in it back in the early 50's. Just interesting to know this and know this was a well used family vehicle.

I was just wondering what the engine life of six cyclinder mopar engine would be? I know my old engine had 270 thousand miles on it and it was pretty well shot befor I had it rebuilt. Anyway some folks have cars here that have little or no miles on them and others well just like mine thousand upon thousand of miles of family run fun.

Thats what I did and works!

I packed mine with ice and then set up a fan to blow air into the opening to see what would happen. Well it didn't and I swear it was hotter in the car than outside. Mine is different than all of yours and I beleive the one I have must have been an earlier model. I use mine just for show and of course to brake my window!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks I could not come up with the word window channeling material and now I know what its called. Thanks

Does anyone know where I can pick up the material that goes in the tracks thats used to guide windown up and down. Hope I stated that right? Mine is shot and I hate to put the window back in without replaceing this material. Thanks

Well I did but thats because I hate just wasting my time while at home!!!!!!!Neew shocks and new spring helpers this past week! Ah retirement and all the fun that goes with it.