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GCastle50

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    Weslaco, TX
  • Interests
    driving, cruising, and classic mopars
  • My Project Cars
    1950 Dodge Meadowbrook, 1963 Plymouth Valiant

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    I am 20 years old, working on my first project car and learning as much as I can
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    College Student

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    South Texas
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    car restoration, metal detecing, coin collecting

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  1. @Sniper thank you, I've been wanting to get my hands on a parts manual for a while now for this exact reason. The only problem is in my area, deep south Texas, classic car junkyards are non existent as far as I'm concerned. I've been on the lookout for early mopars while driving through backroads and such but no luck other than that '48 dodge I mentioned. I'll have to find an excuse to make a trip up around Dallas at some point.
  2. Thanks y'all, I had my doubts but I wanted to verify if it would work or not. I'm going to have to get the front windshield replaced after all. My vent window glass isn't broken, but the frames are. On the driver side front, the post that the window pivots on snapped and in the back, the screw adjuster rusted and broke off. So I need to find new frames and glass for those. (I'm not sure if I can remove the glass from the frame?
  3. I am looking for the front windshield and vent windows for my '50 Meadowbrook. I know of a '46-48 Dodge sedan in my area that I may be able to pick up as a parts car. Can anyone confirm if the windshield, inner windshield moulding, and vent windows interchange between the two models? I know they are of different generations but the windshields look very similar, although I have my doubts about the vent windows. In addition, I assume the front seat brackets would be the same? Mine rusted away and the seat is sitting on 2x4s right now. I also want to pick some engine and linkage parts off the car.
  4. Thought I'd share my Indestro tool collection. I started collecting old American made tools recently and Indestro is one of my favorites, along with Plomb & Proto. The wrench set I just picked up yesterday for $12, with the box and only missing one wrench (a 25/32 x 7/8 I believe).
  5. Hey y'all, its been a while. I haven't made much progress on the car, I started college last year so there isn't really much time or money to go into my car. However, I did paint it this August. I used "Oliver Green" tractor paint thinking it would be closer to a hunter green but I'm still happy with the job. My bodywork could be a lot better but it's good enough for now. The engine is still blown apart and in boxes and probably won't be worked until after I graduate. I plan on fixing up the interior & suspension and leave the drivetrain and wiring for last. Recently, I've lost a lot of motivation for working on this car as I really haven't made much progress since I bought it over four years ago. I've been going back and forth between selling/parting it out or keeping it; however, I know I probably won't get much for it and I wouldn't want to sell it to someone just so they could go chop it up to hell and destroy a very original car. I think my next move is to find a parts car, which I probably should have done earlier, because there are big & small parts I need and that seems like the most economical way to find them all.
  6. In my Dodge Meadowbrook, I found what seems to be a plaque off a trophy for a junior bowling championship. The plaque is about 3x2 inches. I would like to know if anyone has information on where this plaque came from or knows someone who might have information. I know there's not much to go off of but any information would be appreciated
  7. Hey y'all, I haven't been on the site in a while but I've decided to update this thread. The car is stripped down almost to the shell and I've been working on the body myself, prepping and priming. All the wiring is fried so I will be replacing it soon enough. I had wanted to swap the original flatty for a 318 but after a lot of thought, I have decided to stay with the car's original engine and just rebuild it. I'll be posting some pictures here soon.
  8. I almost forgot, I need to remove the valves as well but I need to find a valve spring compressor. Does anyone know stores that stock them either in-store or online?
  9. This is the engine so far. I practically have it down to the block, just need to pull the camshaft and remove the oil strainer tubing
  10. @Adam H P15 D30 thank you, nice to know
  11. @Dan Hiebert I don't know very much at all except that the owner's brother bought it in Houston and brought it down here. It is in surprisingly good shape and I would venture to say it's probably more than 80% stock. The vacuum thing is a brake booster but I'm not sure exactly how rare or odd it is to have one ?
  12. Yes, It is a brake booster. I'm not sure where it came from as the person i bought it from didn't know too much about the car because he had acquired it from his brother who had bought it from someone else back in the 80s or 90s.
  13. This is what the engine bay looked like when I bought the car but I have since painted it and am currently rebuilding the engine. I hope to upload more pictures but I am having some problems with the size of the files.
  14. Hey y'all, I decided to create this thread to show the progress of my 1950 Meadowbrook restoration. I've worked on the car for almost 2 years now but I only recently found out about this website (which I'm glad I did). This is my first project so I'm probably going to be asking a lot of questions which would probably seem like common sense to a lot of you but I would greatly appreciate the help.
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