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I have this set of new, unused headlight connectors, FREE, to the first member who needs them -- just cover the UPS shipping. NOT selling these, so the posting was not placed in classifieds. Thanks Frank

I've got 9 quarts of SAE 10 W non-detergent motor oil remaining fro a full case. Bought a carton of 12 qts few years ago for my Gyromatic trans. Used part of one quart, and kept the other two quarts "just in case" PM me if you're interested in what I've got. Frank

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Thanks everyone for your ideas and comments. I tried earlier today to reply to each of your replies in one single post, but somehow I lost the reply before it was posted and couldn't find an auto-save. So, trying again: Don - YES, the thought of how much night driving I do and how little will likely be done in the future has been on my mind. Replacing the mirror glass with a regular daytime would be the simplest solution. But since when do we do things the easy way? That aside, I'm trying to keep the car as original as possible --within reason and affordability. Knuckleharley - Junk yard visits are on the list as the next stop if I can't find a direct replacement for the mirror. Problem I do have is there is only one auto junk yard/salvage yard in Sebring. The next closest is approx 45 miles away. This is likely the court-of-last-resort. Young Ed - The mirror was in/on the car when I bought it. It is not listed on the build-sheet, although that is barely legible. The mirror was probably installed as a dealer option--it is shown in the Dodge Accessory manual that was in the car --at a cost of $2.20 plus installation. Really! Maybe I should take the car and the manual to the local Dodge dealer............ DJ194950 -- I too have searched Ebay but haven't found anything recently fitting what I need. YES, nighttime driving, especially when facing head-on those blue laser headlights on some vehicles, is becoming difficult. It's almost like you imagine they delight in burning opposing driver's eyes and brain housing groups with those headlights. Maybe there's a special corner in hell for those people that own them. Bobostski - Outstanding idea. Thanks. Any memory of who you had used to that re-silvering work, or a current vendor? Andydodge - Thank you for this lead. Well done! I will call/be in touch with them next week. Again, thank you one and all for your thoughts and ideas. It's appreciated. Frank

Hello All - I need to replace the glass (only) for the interior rear view mirror on my '50 Dodge Coronet. The frame and dimming mechanism are fine, but the mirror itself is rapidly becoming useless as the silver and other compound coatings are "dying of old age." Local glass shops are of NO help. They can cut auto mirror glass to the width & length of my mirror, but they can not taper the glass from approx 1/4" to 1/8". This taper is required in order to achieve the dimming effect by manually flipping the tab at the bottom center of the mirror. E-nay has turned up zero results for my search/match. A Google search has yielded plenty of glass & mirror replacement shops but no one who has stuff for our cars. The usual range of the regular auto parts stores has hundreds of rear view mirror replace units as a whole assembly, but of course nothing for the year/make/model I need. Has anyone solved this problem on their cars, or know a source for this type of mirror glass? Thanks, Frank

Perhaps the "problem" is not so much a design fault, but Mother MOPAR's attempt at an anti-theft device. The alleged thief could be identified with bruises to his or her left hand.

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rb1949 - These transmissions, once you figure them out and get them set properly are bullet-proof and literally flawless. And fun to use, if rapid acceleration is not your game. First, recheck your fluid levels and what /which of the transmissions "drain/fill plugs" you are using. It's likely the transmission is over-full. The top most plug is for the shifter-forks & lock screw. PLEASE don't make the mistake of thinking that's the filler plug because that would be too full. Ask me how I know..... The middle plug is your filler plug & fluid --similar to checking your rear differential level. Fluid should be at the bottom of the hole-- obviously, it can't go any higher. The bottom plug is your case drain plug, as you stated. Now check your governor. There should not be a lot of oil in the governor switch. Learn how to clean the insides. Next, double-, triple,check your idle speed. Best speed idle is between 450-500 rpm, max. A tach, might be lying to you. Set the tach aside, and turn the idle down as far as it'll go and still run -- just fast enough that it'll idle in gear without stalling. I'm mean really low. See if that makes a difference. Hope these tips help you. Frank

Given the importance of this holiday, it's appropriate this is shared Semper Fi......The Few, The Proud........ I can only send this to people of our generation, since most of today’s people don't have any idea who these men were...and that's a pity. They were all heroes in their own right and made America great in it's own right! Back then Hollywood went to war! Alan Hale - Jr. - US Coast Guard. Aldo Ray . US Navy. UDT frogman- Okinawa . Art Carney - US Army. Wounded on Normandy beach- D-Day. Limped for the rest of his life. Brian Keith - US Marines. Radioman/Gunner in Dauntless dive-bombers. Buddy Hackett - US Army anti-aircraft gunner. Burgess Meredith - US Army Air Corps. Clark Gable - US Army Air Corps. B-17 gunner over Europe . Cesar Romero - US Coast Guard. Coast Guard. Participated in the invasions of Tinian and Saipan on the assault transport USS Cavalier. Charles Bronson - US Army Air Corps. B-29 gunner- wounded in action. Charles Durning - US Army. Landed at Normandy on D-Day. Shot multiple times, so awarded the Silver & Bronze & 3 Purple Hearts. Survived Malmedy Massacre. Charlton Heston - US Army Air Corps. Radio operator and aerial gunner on a B-25. Aleutians ( Alaska ). Chuck Connors - US Army. Tank-warfare instructor. Claude Akins - US Army. Signal Corps. - Burma and the Philippines . Clifton James - US Army- South Pacific. Was awarded the Silver Star- Bronze Star- and Purple Heart. Dale Robertson - US Army. Tank Commander in North Africa under General Patton’s command. Wounded twice. Battlefield Commission. Danny Aiello - US Army. Lied about his age to enlist at 16. Served three years. DeForest Kelley - US Army Air Corps. Dennis Weaver - US Navy. Pilot. Denver Pyle - US Navy. Wounded in the Battle of Guadalcanal . Medically discharged. Don Adams - US Marines. Wounded on Guadalcanal - then served as a Drill Instructor. Don Knotts - US Army- Pacific Theater. Don Rickles - US Navy aboard USS Cyrene. Earl Holliman . US Navy. Lied about his age to enlist. Discharged after a year when the Navy found out. Ed McMahon - US Marines. Fighter Pilot. (Flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over Korea as well.) Eddie Albert - US Coast Guard. Bronze Star with Combat V for saving several Marines under heavy fire as pilot of a landing craft during the invasion of Tarawa . Efram Zimbalist Jr. - US Army. Purple Heart for a severe wound received at Huertgen Forest . Ernest Borgnine - US Navy. Gunners Mate 1c- destroyer USS Lamberton. 10 years active duty. Discharged 1941- re-enlisted after Pearl Harbor . Fess Parker - US Navy and US Marines. Booted from pilot training for being too tall- joined Marines as a radio operator. Forrest Tucker - US Army. Enlisted as a private- rose to Lieutenant. Frank Sutton - US Army. Took part in 14 assault landings- including Leyte- Luzon- Bataan and Corregidor . Fred Gwynne - US Navy. Radioman. Gene Autry - US Army Air Corps. Crewman on transports that ferried supplies over "The Hump" in the China- Burma-India Theater. George Gobel - comedian, Army Air Corps, taught fighter pilots. Johnny Carson made a big deal about it once on the Tonight Show, to which George said "the Japs didn't get past us.” George Kennedy - US Army. Enlisted after Pearl Harbor - stayed in sixteen years. Harry Carey Jr - US Navy. Harry Dean Stanton - US Navy. Served aboard an LST in the Battle of Okinawa . Harvey Korman - US Navy. Henry Fonda - US Navy. Destroyer USS Satterlee. Hugh O'Brian - US Marines. Jack Klugman - US Army. Jack Palance - US Army Air Corps. Severely injured bailing out of a burning B-24 bomber. Jack Warden - US Navy- 1938-1942- then US Army- 1942-1945. 101st Airborne Division. Jackie Coogan - US Army Air Corps. Volunteered for gliders and flew troops and materials into Burma behind enemy lines. James Arness - US Army. As an infantryman- he was severely wounded at Anzio - Italy . James Gregory - US Navy and US Marines. James Stewart - US Army Air Corps. Bomber pilot who rose to the rank of General. Jason Robards - US Navy. was aboard heavy cruiser USS Northampton when it was sunk off Guadalcanal . Also served on the USS Nashville during the invasion of the Philippines - surviving a kamikaze hit that caused 223 casualties. John Carroll - US Army Air Corps. Pilot in North Africa . Broke his back in a crash. John Wayne - Declared "4F medically unfit" due to pre-existing injuries- (from playing football @ Southern Cal) - he nonetheless attempted to volunteer three times (Army- Navy and Film Corps.) so he gets ‘honorable mention’. Jonathan Winters - USMC. Battleship USS Wisconsin and Carrier USS Bon Homme Richard. Anti-aircraft gunner- Battle of Okinawa . Karl Malden - US Army Air Corps. 8th Air Force- NCO. Kirk Douglas - US Navy. Sub-chaser in the Pacific. Wounded in action and medically discharged. Larry Storch . US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus with Tony Curtis. Lee Marvin - US Marines. Sniper. Wounded in action on Saipan . Buried in Arlington National Cemetery - Sec. 7A next to Greg Boyington and Joe Louis. Lee Van Cleef - US Navy. Served aboard a sub chaser then a mine sweeper. Mel Brooks - US Army. Combat Engineer. Saw action in the Battle of the Bulge. Mickey Rooney - US Army under General Patton’s command. Bronze Star. Mickey Spillane - US Army Air Corps - Fighter Pilot and later Instructor Pilot. Neville Brand - US Army- Europe. Was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart. Norman Fell - US Army Air Corps.- Tail Gunner- Pacific Theater. Pat Hingle - US Navy. Destroyer USS Marshall Paul Newman - US Navy Rear seat gunner/radsioman- torpedo bombers of USS Bunker Hill . Peter Graves - US Army Air Corps. Randolph Scott - Tried to enlist in the Marines but was rejected due to injuries sustained in US Army, during World War I. Robert Altman - US Army Air Corps. B-24 Co-Pilot. Robert Mitchum - US Army. Robert Montgomery - US Navy. Robert Preston - US Army Air Corps. Intelligence Officer Robert Ryan - US Marines. Robert Stack - US Navy. Gunnery Officer. Robert Taylor - US Navy. Instructor Pilot. Rock Hudson - US Navy. Aircraft mechanic- the Philippines . Rod Serling - US Army. 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific. He jumped at Tagaytay in the Philippines and was later wounded in Manila . Rod Steiger - US Navy. Was aboard one of the ships that launched the Doolittle Raid. Ronald Reagan - US Army. Was a 2nd Lt. in the Cavalry Reserves before the war. His poor eyesight kept him from being sent overseas with his unit when war came so he transferred to the Army Air Corps Public Relations Unit where he served for the duration. Russell Johnson - US Army Air Corps. B-24 crewman who was awarded Purple Heart when his aircraft was shot down by the Japanese in the Philippines . Soupy Sales - US Navy. Served on USS Randall in the South Pacific. (that’s the ship which transported Elvis Presley...who was a tank driver in the U S Army from 1957-1960...to Bremerhaven , Germany . In 1959 I also traveled from Southhampton , England to New York on the USS Randall.) [ Chuck Allen...USAF aircraft radio repairman 1962-1966) ] Sterling Hayden - US Marines and OSS . Smuggled guns into Yugoslavia and parachuted into Croatia . Silver Star. Steve Forrest - US Army. Wounded- Battle of the Bulge. Steve Reeves - US Army - Philippines . Ted Knight - US Army- Combat Engineers. Telly Savalas - US Army. Tom Bosley - US Navy. Tony Curtis - US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus. In Tokyo Bay for the surrender of Japan . Tyrone Power - US Marines. Transport pilot in the Pacific Theater. Victor Mature - US Coast Guard. Walter Matthau - US Army Air Corps. B-24 Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer. Wayne Morris - US Navy fighter pilot- USS Essex . Downed seven Japanese fighters. Wiliam Holden - US Army Air Corps. William Conrad - US Army Air Corps. Fighter Pilot. And of course we have Audie Murphy, America 's most-decorated soldier, who became a Hollywood star as a result of his US Army service that included his being awarded the Medal of Honor. Would someone please remind me again how many of today's Hollywood elite, sports celebs and politicians put their careers on hold to enlist for service in Iraq or Afghanistan ? The only one who even comes close was Pat Tillman, who turned down a contract offer of $3.6 million over three years from the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the US Army after Sept, 11, 2001 and serve as a Ranger in Afghanistan, where he died from tragic ‘friendly fire’ in 2004. But rather than being lauded for his choice and his decision to put his country before his career, he was mocked and derided by many of his peers. Ladies and Gentlemen, I submit to you that this is not the America today that it was seventy years ago. And I, for one, am saddened. My generation grew up watching, being entertained by and laughing with so many of these fine people, never really knowing what they contributed to the war effort. Like millions of Americans during WWII, there was a job that needed doing they didn't question. They just went and did what they could to help win it. Those who came home returned to their normal life and carried on, obviously. Very few ever saying what they did...or saw. They took it as their "responsibility". Their duty to our country, to protect & preserve our freedoms & way of life. Not just for themselves, but for all future generations to come. They DID THE JOB! I'm forever humbly in their debt.

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/25/story-cities-los-angeles-great-american-streetcar-scandal Check out the MOPARS in the opening page pics and some throughout the video. Interesting comments what the car manufactures and tire companies did to the LA transportation systems.

I've got a stick of window channel, approx 66" long, left over from my restor job,on my '50 Dodge. Not sure if this is what you're looking for. Send me a P.M. if you are interested in it. Frank

Hello Everyone -- Apologies for not responding to you all sooner. Thanks for a sense of direction and for sharing your collective wisdom & experiences. Again, following your directions, my concern with trying to roll or snap the trim onto the clips is that the trim pieces radii or contour or geometry had to have been modified from their original shape to while undergoing repairs at the restoration company. Seaside Pete -- the clips are NOT new, they are the originals, believe it or not. I wires-wheeled them to remove the rust/corrosion then and painted with Rustoleum Gloss Black paint. YES, I was fortunate all 6 of those style clips were on the car. Jersey Harold -- Using your suggestion of applying painter's tape to protect the rocker panels on the body is a good possibility. My main concern is getting all the tape off afterward and not leaving any residue on the paint. In the past I have stuck pieces of painter's tape onto my shirt or jeans before applying it to a surface I was covering to give me "less bond" and easy removal. Might go that route again. AND yes, I've got some help. This is too cautious a job to handle by one's self. I will post the final results when "the deed is done." Regards, Frank

Hello All- I'm in need of your collective wisdom reinstalling the stainless rocker panel molding/trim on my '50 Dodge. I've searched the Forum, and having read all the previous posts I could find, my question remains unanswered............ Please know: I have all the original rocker panel body clips (6 for each side) as well as the "nose" (front) and "tail" (rear) clips for each side of the car. The stainless trim had recently been repaired/reworked/polished, etc.,, by a chrome/stainless steel repair & restoration shop. What I brought them was --on a scale of 1 to 10, were two pieces with a -2 to a +3 condition before restoration. Now they are a +10 and absolutely magnificent. My problem is I can't manage to reinstall them on the car without risking damage to the trim or scratching the new paint job. It seems I'm getting confused or reading conflicting advice from the posts & replies, on how to attach the trim pieces to the body clips. Some entries state to hook the trim piece onto the top of the clip and push inward and downward, while another posting states to hook to bottom of the trim piece and "roll-it-upward" onto the clip. Having tried both approaches, neither has been successful. Even using what seems to be a great amount of force of pressure to "snap" the trim onto the clip. No doubt, the trim pieces have been modified to some degree from their original shape to repair the previous damage to them while at the restoration company. Yet I think there should be enough slack or play in them to anchor them properly onto the trim clips. My second question, and this might answer the first, or solve the install problem is -- the correct location of the small legs on the body clip to the lip or edge of the trim piece. See picture below. It would be logical that the "legs" would go inside the lip of the trim piece. But................. So, what's the collective opinion or answers? Is position A or position B correct for placement of the trim onto the clip? And any new ideas as to how to install the molding onto the clips? Many thanks. Frank

Greetings All - Any ideas for a source for 3-way sealed beam headlight sockets? I have found plenty of online vendors offering universal type sockets/connectors but I'd like to have an OEM type with the proper color wire leads. Rhode Island Wiring's website has some parts & pieces for GM, but nothing for our cars that I could find. Thanks, Frank PS. good luck to your favorite? team in today's "Toilet Bowl."