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  1. After a lot of discussion we decided to not use the 1947 Desoto Suburban for our cross country retirement travels. The big issue is that we now live in an age where: 1. People just have no patience on the freeways and in the mountains for slow 1940's cars. 2. No trunk. We are seeing more and more reports of people with cars, both classic and not, getting broken into by bashing the windows to get to things in sight. The 1947 Desoto Suburban does not have a trunk. We do not want to worry about someone looking in and deciding to break a window to get to things while we are in some diner someplace. By dumb luck we ran across last week an 88 year old man that had a few cars. He cannot drive any more. One of the cars was a 1964 Chrysler 300K hardtop. It was his mothers that she purchased new in the fall of 1963. FACTORY paint still on it. The sheet metal unibody is perfect. A couple of small dings here and there but where it counts the metal is just fantastic. The car has a documented 98K miles on it. Now you have to understand that my mom and dad, in addition to the 1949 Desoto that a got back and restored, purchased a 1964 Chrysler 300K in the fall of 1963 as well. I restored that car as well a convertible. I sold them both in the late 1990's. I regret to this day selling the hardtop. Neither of the 300K's would fit into the garage space here in San Francisco at the time. So, we are going to rebuild a stock 265 for the big Desoto and not do all the fancy modification I was contemplating. We will use it for spring and fall cool weather trips in Northern California for fishing and the like. The 1964 Chrysler will be completely rebuild for cross country trips. James
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  2. met up with the 2022 p15 picnic crowd yesterday. beautiful day for a vintage car (and truck) ride. my odometer registered exactly 100 miles for the day!
    1 point
  3. enjoyed a great day with the picnic tour. super nice cars, and an even better group of people. will post pics once i’ve loaded them to the computer. perfect weather, too.
    1 point
  4. Biggest reason this continues IMHO, is lack of effective customer feedback. Use a credit card, give the seller a chance to make it right then contact the card company for a chargeback. That will prompt the seller to get with the maker. But that may be really difficult due to the distance, especially if the seller is not the original purchaser but is buying from a distributor. I don't do that, but I should. Instead I use eBay for as many purchases as possible . Them and/or Paypal have always taken care of any issues.
    1 point
  5. Yesterday I drove the P15 to brunch to meet several people I used to work with. One of the guys wanted to drive the car and I was happy to let him do that. After he tried several times to start the car he gave up and we thought it might be flooded. I had my friend get out and I scooted over and the car started right away for me. That's when I realized I was using a combination to start the car. Been doing it so long I didn't notice I was doing it. Choke cable in the correct position, throttle cable in the correct position and tap the foot feed at the correct time while the engine was turning over. When the car is warm it will start by just hitting the starter button but the car had cooled down while we were visiting and needed the combination to start. Brings back memories from my teenage years - I was the only one that could start the 61 Comet when it was cold.
    1 point
  6. Reminds me - funny thing: A friend from Tyler, Texas was visiting us, and he had a tire go bad. We found a full-size wheel the right size (3rd Gen MoPar minivan) in a salvage, and he left his 16 inch "doughnut spare" here with me. The funny thing is that it actually has the holes for the guide pin like on our cars.
    1 point
  7. ok, just down the road from DODGE’s general store. lol
    1 point
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