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Stopped for a cool one in the shade. Trunk lid is up as the trunk floor makes an excellent lawn chair.

Random picture a month ago after a day of cruising around with "no particular place to go."

Tonight I headed out to a local cruize-in car meet. All types of cars. Hot-rods, muscle, tuners, vintage, classics. Everyone is welcome. It's a weekly unorganized gathering in a local parking lot. I took my '38 Plymouth out. It was the my first sort of semi-formal gathering with my '38 among other car enthusiasts. It was a fun gathering. Lots of folks approached to talk about, learn about and see my '38. It was great to hear people's stories and I was also able share some history of my old car. I thought about taking a photo but got I distracted with questions from people. Stayed longer than I thought I would as I was having a good time chatting with friendly folks. Even got to use the headlights on the way home. Was a great night. I will attend again next week and report back with a few photos. Pretty sure I was the only pre muscle-car Mopar there. I asked everyone who showed interest if they knew of any other 37-38 Mopars here in town. Nobody was able to confirm, as they could not recall seeing any.

Shades of the High and Mighty

There's my '49 Wayfarer after her first public drive. She was part of my old neighborhood's July 4th parade. It's been a tradition since the neighborhood was founded in 1954. I finished a full brake overhaul the night before just to be a part of the parade. It was rather hysterical to me to hear spectators on the street easily identify my friends '66 Ford wagon and '53 Olds, and then here comes my Dodge... I heard this often, "That's an old......................Dodge!" as if folks were happy they could at least identify some badging on the car as it rolled by. It was a great cruise.

We, my wife and I, tend to do mostly "Riding around in my automobile..............With no particular place to go." I am not very artistic so I don't take enough pictures. Yesterday I took this one as it sat in the driveway before we left for a "ride" so I could upload it here. Only the second picture this year. We drove around Prince Gallitzin State Park and took the long way home yesterday. Probably a 50 mile jaunt with a lot of picturesque scenery, and I didn't stop to take pics anywhere. Doh! There was a thread on here once about your car in front of..... I really enjoyed it, because it gave me a reason to take pictures. I love looking at pictures of the old cars, running, under construction, sitting, whatever condition, and I really miss Bob Drown's pictures of his and Cooper's adventures with his old Plymouth. May he rest in peace.

More green variation. This has been a pretty wet spring and early summer. Usually, things have started to dry up by now.

Got the wiring bugs out, tightened all the fuel line connections and bam she started right up.

My guess would be that in the process of swapping ammeter wires you removed corrosion on the terminals that had been causing low voltage to the entire system.

I can verify that the Pilot-House electric and vacuum wiper motors and linkages cannot be mixed...different motor arms, pivot arms, linkage geometry, and the vacuum pivots have their linkages riveted whereas the electric pivots are attached with a clip. I tried to make a B-3 parts truck electric setup fit into my '49 over 10 yrs ago, and after a lot of finagling, a B-1 electric setup popped up on eBay for 20 bucks and my experiment was over... Seeing that big wingnut on the spare tire carrier made me wonder how it kept from falling off, and I was reminded of the original thread locker: rust. I figured a fix is to cross drill the hanger bolt for a cotter pin, click pin, mechanics wire, rusty bent 8d nail...

If I can recall, I think it’s a 1 1/8. I just took several from my pvc parts crate. Til one fit.

If I remember correctly there was someone on this site that converted from factory vacuum to factory electric wipers without too much fuss. It was maybe 5 or 6 years back if you do a search. I bought a complete working spare set off ebay back around then for a $125. Jeff

My rear brake shoe adjustment tool. Will put tape on the drum for my guide.

Leave the fuel line disconnected from the carb and the end of it in a container. Remove the gas tank cap and push an air nozzle into the fuel filler and stuff a rag around it while you apple a few psi to the tank. This should push gas through the pump and prime the system. Hook everything back up and start the car. If no gas comes out of the fuel line at the carb while applying pressure to the tank, there is a blockage that must be addressed.

I think the two are different. The New Port Engineering website list motors for replacing stock electric and motors for replacing stock vacuum units. I would imagine you will find the arms are different lengths. Pick your best set of arms and go from there I guess. The kit did come with replacement pieces where the motor attaches to the arm to replace the rubber. Good luck!

I installed a 54 Plymouth differential into my 55 with 3.73 gears. Night and day difference from the 4.10's. I regularly cruise the highway at 70+. Those pop up from time to time on craigslist and ebay.

Yep, that is exactly the problem. The new motor extends to right under the hole for the switch and blocks off any room. Just glad I was able to find a hole to put the switch and did not have to make another! Anyone considering going with the electric wipers needs to take into consideration where the switch can be placed.

So I finally got a chance to install the electric motor for the wipers. Got it from DCM although it is a New Port Engineering product. It wasn't to bad of an install although doing anything under the dash does require some squeezing and such. The only issue is the switch - it will not fit in the location on top of the dash due to there being no room for it and the motor. I did find a location to the left of the steering column under the dash where the switch fits. Actually this works better as the big ugly black wiper labeled switch is now facing down and cannot be seen! I do have to do something about the hole on top of the dash - maybe it is time for a hula girl ? Also had to plug the vacuum line and the hole in the firewall, but now I have wipers that will actually wipe away rain in a timely and consistent manner! On a side note, driving along the other day and heard the most godawful scraping noise suddenly. Pulled over and found the large wingnut for the spare tire carrier had fallen off. I don't have a spare just the carrier so no rim and tire was there. A short walk back along the road and I found the nut. Now the wingnut is spun on with the ears up so the carrier covers them and will hopefully prevent a repeat. Another lesson learned...more to come I am sure!

I have been cruising mine at each monthly cruise they are doing in Downtown Enumclaw, WA. Hundreds of cars and people show up to watch everyone cruise down the main street through town. Here's some pics some bystanders took of me. I have also put on 2,500 miles on her since my rebuild a couple months ago.

well you close...but not red....and while in a Morris...it is a bit of a evolved BMC A engine.....lets hear it for burgundy

Same car but different location. Dark green trees and the green crop is peas. Then there’s the grass the car is on. I love summer!?

I've been messing with getting the brake lines run, new MC and bleeding them. Front caliper banjo bolts would not seal. Went through 3 sets of copper crush washers before I bought new bolts which finally did the trick. Installed the two rear door panels.

A bit more progress.

Properly tuning your engine and setting the timing also affects the amount of manifold vacuum that is generated. You can observe this by connecting a vacuum gauge and adjusting the timing. You will see the vacuum increase as you adjust the timing. Many old timers use a vacuum gauge to set their timing rather than a timing light. One guy recommended to me to set the timing to a point where the vacuum is at it maximum. I did so and found that although the timing was a bit advanced when observed with a timing light, the engine ran better. The 218 and 230 flattie's have a lower compression than most modern engines so pinging wasn't a problem either.