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thebelvedereman

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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 ???
  4. Took the 48 Dodge for a little Cruise today, I'll hopefully have the Chrysler by Saturday
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. The ones with the big giant teeth that people use in 57 Chevys, custom cars and stuff like that is actually 1950– 1953 DeSoto grills, the earlier ones are big and Chrome, but there are a lot flatter than the Big Tooth Style
  13. There's a whole bunch of different parts on eBay, I just did a quick look but I saw a center section, A left section, and a right section all from different sellers, if I can't find the whole one I'll just buy a bunch of parts LOL
  14. I think it might look a little better once I get a front bumper for it, maybe it will grow on me LOL
  15. I'm thinking about just trying to adapt the grill from a 1946 – 1948 DeSoto if I can find one, or even a 1942 DeSoto, it looks like it would be a closer fit
  16. I just acquired a 1948 Chrysler 4 door in a deal I couldn't refuse, the front fenders are pretty Rusty, and God is the nose ugly on these cars lol, the nose is much longer than my Dodge, or my Plymouth, but I'm pretty sure that it's the same length as a DeSoto, and I really like the DeSoto Grill
  17. Not yet, they're just sitting on there right now, I'm going to wire them up eventually
  18. I know, just got so much going on, I didn't want to spend extra time on the car, trying to have it running and driving for our first car show Saturday, otherwise I would have done one at a time, but my guess is probably those points, even though they looked like brand new when I took them out, they make everything out of cheap garbage these days
  19. The problem is, they only lasted about 3 miles, I got rid of the Champions today, and put some Autolite 306 in, and a new set of points, and she's running great again, ready for our first car show on Saturday
  20. My car set for roughly 50 years, the motor was supposedly rebuilt and I got a piece of paper with the car that says it was rebuilt and a lot of good records on the car even including compression and everything taken before I got the car, I put points, plugs condenser, rotor cap wires, the basic tune-ups in it, haven't taken it out on the road because I had the interior completely out of it and redoing it, but I drove it around the yard sitting on a cinder block it ran fantastic, checked everything out compression was still exact same numbers as on the list that I got with the car, put the seats back in the car a few days ago and took it up the block ran fantastic, started it up yesterday, ran like absolute dogshit, like it was running on three cylinders, and smells like raw gasoline pouring out the exhaust, checked to make sure the float wasn't sticking on the carburetor , pulled out the plugs, they don't look wet or anything, but I've heard a lot of bad things about Champion plugs lately, not to mention the only points that I could get had that stupid plastic cam on them, I did a compression test, still has the exact same compression everything else is good, so I'm pretty sure I have a defective plug, but I'm also going to switch out the points again, and see what happens
  21. I've always ran champions in all my Mopars, but I see that a lot of people on this page run the Autolite 306 in their flatheads, so I guess I'm going to give that a shot
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