allbizz49

Man, if all you guys do is worry about safety, why even drive these old heaps. One fender bender with a Prius can kill you with metal dashes, big ol' steering wheels and no seat belts or air bags. May as well stay home watching Matlock or Golden girls, it's much safer. To the original poster, good job on the visor. I personally don't like them but if you do, then rock on!

I've done body and paint most of my life and have worked on some seriously hit vehicles. I'll just say this, it doesn't matter what you do with these old cars. When they get in any significant,(and not so significant), hit, the passengers usually don't fare well. If you're looking for safety, buy a modern car. If you're driving an old car, just enjoy it for what it is and accept the consequences if you get into a collision.

Pack it with petroleum jelly and bolt it on. The new one that is. The old one was shot.

Light it up or throw it on your weeds

Why not just wire it to a 12 volt negative ground battery on its own? Easy enough to do.

Just don't add hazards.

Old Mopars really don't bring that much money. Everyone wants what everybody else has which is typically a Ford or Chevy. Doesn't hurt my feelings, I like buying them cheap. Funny you bring up the Airflow. I just today got offered the possible job of swapping motors in a 35 DeSoto Airflow.

That's awesome, chuck an OD in it and maybe get it up to 50 MPH!!

If it sat for a couple years, carb is probably crusty. Sounds like you part swapped everything and still have a problem......Pull the carb off and clean it. Even a good soaking and blowing out all of the passages will work. Soak it, sonic clean, whatever gets the job done. These things are so simple, even a caveman can tune one. Good luck.

Pull all of the front sheet metal, stab the engine where it needs to be and build it around the engine. I'm mid build on a 49 Plymouth business coupe with a DeSoto hemi and 4 speed. Not too much rocket science, just patience, fabbing and gool ol hot rodding sense. Good luck.

Cherokee, Ranger, Explorer.........

Might be the angle of the picture, but looks closer to 003.

I've installed a few Rusty Hope kits without issues. Scarebird is fine if you don't want to run your stock wheels. My personal dailies all have drums.

Rusty Hope.

I don't think anyone is trying to talk you out of buying the car. I definitely am not. If you want it bad enough, go for it. If you want to run the YF, make it happen. Nothing on these cars is rocket science. If it were me, I'd chuck a Ball and Ball on there and be done with it.