Charlie Olson

Welcome back We look forward to your reading posts again. Do ya wanna update us with a few pics of "the beater", so we can share in what 3 years of hibernation looks like?

I belong to a few Flickr auto pic groups, such as GMC AD Design and just for fun, I enter the word Plymouths in the Groups search window and VOILA!!!!!; I was shown this website: http://www.flickr.com/groups/363493@N20/ Currently has 4700+ pics of Plymouths. Enjoy!!!! As of tonight, there are 157 pages with 30 pictures on each page. I went to the last page, saved it and now I can retrieve it and slowly work my way back to the current page. This is the link to the last page number 157, start there and work your way back to the most recent postings of pics. To go to a certain page, just change the page number at the end of the link (currently shows page 157). http://www.flickr.com/groups/363493@N20/pool/page157/

For those of you wanting to install windshield sun visors, I have a personal recommendation of a very reliable source, in regards to finding mounting hardware. The man's name is John Romero, in West Covina, CA. I purchased everything I need to mount my new gift sun visor on my 52 Chevy pickup. Two Links: www.resurrectionvintageautoparts.webs.com http://stores.ebay.com/resurrection-vintage-auto-parts

I was bummed when an unlicensed driver ran a stop sign and hit the left front of PLYWOOD; however I have gotten over the mental part of being upset because my car is repaired and in better shape than before the crash. I hope you are getting past the self blaming stage and getting past your own "human error" experience. I am glad to hear you weren't hurt, right?

Today, 5/12/2011, I went over to Art's shop, in PHX, to look-see how and if the sun visor he had would fit on my RED RYDER, 1952 Chevy pickup. It lined up up real nice like and I said that I wanted it. When I asked Art "how much" he said "well, since it came in the back seat of the 48 Plymouth donor car and your insurance had paid for the donor car, you can have the visor for free". Just another reason why I shall never have the little bitty hole in my left front fender filled in, as long as Art can see the car , after Art had restored PLYWOOD because of my September crash and over looked filling in the hole.

I learned how to unhook a girl's bra with one hand, in Yucaipa, 1959. Ahhhh, those were the days. Oh, I also got my first car in Yucaipa, 1935 Ford 3 window coupe, Ahhhhh, those were the days.......... BTW, those two incidents were related, if you get my drift.........

\ That is a good idea. Instead of painting the whole presentable truck, get a very close match on the visor only and save a bunch.

It is a thirty yard paint job. Actually I can live with it as I apply plenty of polish wax to RED RYDER. If I don't paint RED RYDER, I'll paint my new visor a light, semi gloss grey, to match the interior.

Maybe.

That is good advice; I'll start asking other car guys, for a reliable, affordable paint shop. If I ever want to sell RED RYDER, a relaible paint job will be a good selling point.

I decided to find an outside windshield sun visor for my RED RYDER, 52 Chevy PU, and found one this week. It needs a little work and painting. The paint job on my okay driver PU is about 25 years old and is faded, chipped, cracked and worn. I think it would be cool to have the truck and the visor to be the same color; so I am thinking about getting a basic Earl Scheib paint job to pretty up the RED RYDER, a little bit. Any one have any comments or experiences to share with Earl Scheib paint jobs? Thanks in advance. PS: the visor I found, or it found me, was in the back seat of the donor car we used to restore PLYWOOD back to its original Phantom state. The visor wasn't even a close match for a P15, so I asked Art if it might just maybe fit a Chevy/GMC PU. Evidently, that is what it was made for, a Chevy/GMC PU.

Better ask the dog!!!!

What with the young ladies of today wearing less and less clothing; good eyesight is a must. Good luck!!!!!

December 2009, Rawhide Western Town/Wild Horse Pass Casino Car Show and Oldies Dance: When I left home, driving PLYWOOD, it was windy, cool and dark cloudy; arrived 20 miles and 35 minutes later. All the vehicles were parked in grass, big barbecue was smoking away, the band was playing inside a large metal roof/sides building with about 20 car related vendors in place. Two hours into the activities, the Heavens opened up and it started pouring good clean, sweet smelling, cool clear water. I was expecting people to pack up and leave, but no, everybody just moved their chairs, etc. inside the huge metal building; listening to the pellets of rain pinging away on the metal roof. I grabbed a cold beer and went to sit in PLYWOOD's back seat, to enjoy watching the rain through 63 year old windows and being right satisfied that PLYWOOD has no headliner or roof insulation. Next time it rains here in AZ and I happen to have PLYWOOD out of the storage barn, I'll definitely make sure I am out somewhere beautiful, sitting in the back seat, watching and hearing the blessed rain. PS: Some gentleman had come over to talk to me and take a picture of PLYWOOD. A few months later, that picture was placed in the Woodie Times letters section. The gentleman wrote he didn't know my name, but wanted to share the photo of an unusual Woodie. The editor, John Lee, answered that the car was PLYWOOD belonging to me and had been the subject of many photos sent to him, asking about the car. Made for a nice memory of my day in the rain; PLYWOOD style.

Yeah, once it goes on the internet, it is there forever.

Upon further web searching, I discovered that that same photo was included in an article in the Seattle paper, in the auto section weekly column about people's collector cars. I submitted the article to the paper, but had moved away from Seattle, to AZ, when the article appeared; so I never knew it was published, until last night. Feels very gratifying.

After witnessing all of these terrible tornadoes and floods, I wondered what do people, who live in those areas with repeat natural calamities, do to protect their collector cars; if anything. Are hundreds of old cars and trucks being destroyed or what? Your insights and observations would be appreciated.

This evening, I received the following link, from one of my on line Yahoo Chevy/GMC truck buddies. http://www.anythingaboutcars.com/1940scars.html (fourth page) I have not a clue how or why PLYWOOD was included in this website's article. Never the less, this photo was taken, the day after I brought PLYWOOD back to Seattle from Oregon; where I purchased it from The Wood Car Company.

A National Woodie Club member, who is a builder of scale model woodies gave me his version of a really nice looking 1940 Ford Convertible, that he had created to look like a post war Ford Convertible Sportsman. It looks like the Sportsman that Henry Ford should have built. Every time I look at it, I wish I had the resources to custom build a P15 roadster/convertible "Sportsman Styled" one-of-a-kind Plymouth Sportsman Woodie Phantom. There is one really nice looking "Phantom Sportsman Ford Postwar Roadster" in the Woodie World; built from several parts cars and not one original convertible was injured or harmed in the production. This is a URL to a Flickr photo, regarding the concept of a P15 Sportsman: http://www.flickr.com/photos/outletphoto/5458496095 This is an actual Plymouth Woodie Convertible: http://tiny.cc/8dnw0

Depending upon what else you are doing, when you have a lot of the sheet metal removed, you can do an extra nice and easy job of cleaning up, painting and detailing of your engine bay, IMHO.

Here are a few more nice Flickr photos links of 1939 Plymouth Woodies. Imagine my surprise when I found PLYWOOD was part of one of the photo streams. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sakehog/5105631736/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/rexgray/4766820584/

Being as I am very shy and introverted; having people come up to me, when enjoying one of my rides, and start asking me questions, allows me to come out of my shell and answer all of their questions and encourage their own comments about old car family memories. Actually, I am very honored that non car people take the time to want to learn about the history of my car/truck and old cars, in general. I think it also a great PR idea to be cordial to the public with our cars because the damn politicians are always trying to pass laws to curb (pun intended) in the enjoyment of our collector car hobbies.

Yes, that is what the owner said about this car being a "first series 1949", very much like a few P15 bodied 1949 Plymouths I have seen. His AZ registration is for the year 1949.

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Keep On Truckin'......