thebelvedereman

Awesome thanks, I had no idea there was a spring on the other side that went to the grill, I thought just the force from the hood closing is what pushed it back into place

Excuse the crude drawing, but you get the basic idea LOL

Does anyone in the group have a 1946- 1948 Chrysler, that could snap a few pictures for me, apparently when they chopped up the radiator support to put in the Chevy drivetrain, they removed the hood latch, I have an original hood latch, and I have a cable, and I know where they go, and basically how they're set up , but I seem to be missing the metal bar/flatstock that goes between the cable and the latch, I'm sure I could Fab one if I had a basic idea of how it goes together, there's not very much room with the radiator being so far forward now, but I think I could make it work, the latch on my dodge, and my Plymouth are both different

While on the subject of of charging things, I just got my 48 New Yorker, it's been swapped onto a Chevy frame and drivetrain, so it's 12 volts, I'm thinking I should be able to run a wire to the original cigarette lighter and use it with 12 volts ???

Took the 48 Dodge for a little Cruise today, I'll hopefully have the Chrysler by Saturday

I've built plastic models my whole life too, I have no idea how many I've built, I do still have quite a few of them, all Mopars of course, I built a few Chevys and Fords too but I always used them for target practice, and blew them up with m-80s and homemade fireworks LOL, the Chrysler is 1/43 scale, I'm not sure who made it, I will look tomorrow, I got it off of eBay, I just put Chrysler Windsor diecast in the search engine and it came up, I think they had a few other colors too

New additions to the family, I didn't even know they sold these

does anyone know if the fender skirts on a 48 Chrysler are the same as the ones on the Plymouth and Dodge, I assume they are, they look the same from the pictures, also does anyone reproduce/sell them

As far as the rear end being so high in the air, yes I noticed that too, in the video I could see it has a pair of heavy duty coil over shocks on the back, I'm hoping that if I remove them and put some regular shocks on it, that the rear end will settle down

Yes I plan on going over everything with a fine-tooth comb, no I've never seen the car in person, it was too far away, but the owner sent me very detailed videos, and pictures, I seem to never learn in that department, this is like the fifth car that I've bought in the past two years without seeing it, and I got really badly screwed on three of them LOL, the flannel material was actually really easy to work with, I made my own backer boards for the door panels, the deck panel, and the kick panels, on the back doors I even took the time to make the holes and put the original push in clips in, then I just used that 77 spray glue to put the flannel on, it was a big pain in the butt to try and get it exactly straight, as you can see in the pictures most of them are far from straight lol, the hardest one to do was the seat frame, that took a lot of gluing, peeling off, and regluing, I was so frustrated that the rear doors took so long to get the Clips in the exact right location, that on the front doors and the kick panels I just used chrome screws and screwed them right to the metal

The only thing that I'm going to be updating mechanically, is they never found a way to mount the front bumper, and it currently has a fuel cell in the trunk with no fuel gauge, I plan to put some type of aftermarket fuel tank back underneath where it belongs, it looks like an original 46-48 Mopar tank we'll still mount in the original location from the pictures I've seen of underneath the car it looks like there's plenty of room, it just needs body work, paint and the interior completely redone, I'm going to do the interior with the same basic idea of what I did in my 1948 Dodge, it's never going to be an all original Museum car, so I'm just going to have a little fun with the interior, but I think I'm going to use green and white flannel this time, because I plan on painting the car aqua, like my 39 Plymouth Business Coupe

Mechanically it's already completely finished, it's on a 1990 Chevy 2wd truck chassis, has a new wiring harness, disc brakes, dual exhaust, all the lights work, tilt column from the Chevy, power steering power brakes, it was driven like this for quite a while, the main body is in good condition from what I've seen, although the car hasn't been delivered yet, just the front fenders are shot, yes I could fabricate a bunch of metal and put what's left of the fenders back together, but I was thinking it would just be easier to swap the nose with a DeSoto, since I like the way the DeSoto nose looks a whole lot better, and they're exactly the same wheelbase, so I'm guessing it will work, all Mopar sheet metal bolts on exactly the same way, even though they look different

The car is already a Franken car, the previous owner removed the frame and drivetrain and mounted it on a Chevy C10 pickup frame and drivetrain, the front fenders are completely shot and loaded with cracked and broken Bondo, I was simply asking if anyone had put a DeSoto nose on a Chrysler, not asking what you think my taste should be

This is the one I'm looking for