Jump to content

andyd

Members
  • Posts

    414
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    3

Everything posted by andyd

  1. Very nice, I don't need these pieces but would be interested in your explanation of how you did them as they appear very well done & quite professional......andyd
  2. Apologies if this info has already been posted but the February Collectible Automobile magazine has a 4 page feature on a 1934 Plymouth PE De Luxe 4dr Sedan, nice clean pics & basic info......good to see another mopar in print & a print magazine still in print.......lol............andyd
  3. I for one would be interested in seeing the adaption of a GM turbo hydro 350 trans to an original mopar side valve 6...........very interesting........andyd
  4. Thank you Doremonger & Sam.......what a wonderful car, looks to be worth every penny.......enjoy.
  5. Wow......what a beautiful car, absolutely beautiful.......so being a New Yorker it has the straight 8?............and, yes its a rude question but approximately what did it go for?............andyd
  6. The thing you need to be aware of is that whilst the 1939 upper arms look the same as the 1940 ones, the 1939 upper inner pin/bush assembly uses only 2 bolts to attach it to the frame, whereas from 1940 to 1954 at least they use 4 bolts.......I'm not 100% sure whether the 1940-56 arms will fit on the 1939 bushes & pins.......its been a while since I looked at the differences between the years........andyd
  7. A trick to installing grease into these type of bushing is to jack the car up and have the suspension sitting at roughly halfway between its arc, ie, more or less at the same angle it would be when driving down the road.......in theory this position should give enough clearance to get grease into the bushing.........its also worth pointing out that this type of bushing was/is quite common in suspensions of most makes of US cars up to when rubber bushings began to be used, around the late 50's, mid 60's.......I've had arguments with the so called local mechanics over the years when I have to get my 1940 Dodge getting its annual registration check..........sometimes they jack up the car...and find what they think is excess wear ...........o/k.here we go again I say.........lol...........regards from Oz..........andyd
  8. Mopar front suspensions 1940 to 1956 will essentially swap parts without any real problem but after that you are limited by your ability to modify/change/fabricate..........I have never seen a subframe swap that really impressed me apart from a couple of times when the whole frame from the firewall forward was replaced with box tube & an upgraded aftermarket independant style front end or better yet a XJ6 Jaguar complete front end was installed..........the original front suspension can be made to work well, just takes a little thought..........relocate the upper shock mount, rebuild the stock steering box or replace with a more modern rack & pinion, swap in disc brakes, a thicker sway bar and your done...........you won't outrun the latest Formula 1 car but it will handle I ride well..........my Oz 2cents worth.......andyd
  9. Moparboy.........the engine looks good, especially like the extra carb option.....lol........but what is that thing on the side of the block between the dissy & the generator?.........andyd
  10. Joe.......I'm pleased with your success........as for stupid questions.......lol...........I used to be young & stupid......but after playing with mopars for 50yrs I'm no longer young.....but still do stupid things.........the best one I can remember was finally being shown on this forum that my 1940 Dodge glovebox lid should have had a small spring on the hinge to make the lid spring open when the button was pushed.........it took me 40 years to find out this piece of info via a post on here.........I'd never realised that such a thing should have been there..........so none of us are too smart to not learn something new.............BTW have you had any joy with the Fulton Sun Visor?.........regards from Australia.......andyd.
  11. Robin.........good to hear from you and see another pic of your great convertible........I have a question tho' re running your car on the beach...........have you had any issues re rust as a result or what steps have you taken to reduce this issue............not trying to be a PITA but genuinely curious about this issue..........thanks......and Welcome Aboard DaveW.......that looks like a nice car you have there.........andyd
  12. GTFastbacker.........I have also just had another look at your pics and pic # 6 which shows just the centre piece from the passenger side appears to show at least from my perspective that the centre piece is a little too far back as it seems to be touching the front edge of the roof.............maybe try to move it forward 1 inch/ 25mm then insert the side pieces into the centre piece but try to keep the outer edge of each outer piece parallel to the outer edge of the centre piece...............as far as whether this is the right visor for the car, my understanding is that visor that I used which is the same as that GTFastbacker is using is a Fulton 1000 Series Sunvisor and was a generic type to suit cars from the late 30's thru to the early 50's.........andyd
  13. Also as the poster is in India..........was your car originally sold new in India?.........if so it may have had oversize wheels & tyres or a suspension set higher than what was original in North America.........andyd
  14. GTfastbacker....after looking at your pics again and those of mine that I posted you can see in the last pic I posted with the door opened that the end brackets are located on the inside of the door jam at a place on the door jam that allows the door enough clearance when closed.......looking at your pics it seems that the two sides of the visor need to be pushed into the centre piece a little further possibily at more of an angle at the front rather that the rear or just straight............pushing each a little more at their front edge will align the sirated circular piece to be more perpendicular to each other......................I'd try to work our where the body edge brackets go first and mount them then adjust the angle that they meet the two visor panels and then those to the centre piece............sorry I can't be much more help............my visor was taken off a 48 Plymouth and I knew that the body shells/design was the same from 1940 to 48 so I had the markings that were already on the visors to help me assemble it here in Oz(it was dissassembled for shipment to Australia when I bought it).........regards.............andyd
  15. I obtained the same style of Fulton visor and installed it on my 41 Plymouth Coupe........being a hotrodder & in love with chrome & polished alloy I polished the alloy end brackets which were the same as yours.....I don't have any real close pics of the end brackets but found that it helped to have a freind holding the opposite end to work out the location...........I also replace the flimsy centre bracket with a much more substantial bracket made from stainless steel that bolted onto the stock Fulton holes underneath the visor and clamped around the centre windscreen bar........I ended up selling the car like a dope so these are the only pics I have..........and yep, I do like Fulton visors..........regards from Oz......Andy Douglas
  16. I've had other types of glass lens stuck to the brackets, seals or gaskets etc & have found that spraying WD40 or similar around the edge of the lens helps to loosen it..........andyd
  17. Daniel.........thanks for the reference to the South Australian branch of the Chrysler Restorers Club.......they were started as an offshoot of the NSW original.......I think I remember reading Les Sonters story on the Imperial restoration in the NSW branch magazine..............the Imperial has also been a major feature in Oz's only true old car magazine...Restored Cars which has been published since 1972.........Les Sonters article brings back quite a few memories as the original restorer, Russell Cope as I mentioned was a good mate and even tho' he was much older than me at the time, I was around 20 yrs of age, Russell was in the early 40's I suppose, he & his family treated me as a fellow restorer and we got on well........lol............Russell as far as I know is still around, in his mid/late 80's (I'm 70 next February) and living in the town of Young in central New South Wales............your thread and the posts have brought back some pleasant memories........thanks mate...........BTW the Dodge Story was in that Restored Cars magazine & the 1940 Dodge shown was my actual 1940 Dodge Coupe the pic taken before I bought it in 1970, the other 2 pics are of that same car after me, a bright eyed 16 yrs old bought it and pulled it apart, the 3rd pic showing the fenderless but 318 Poly powered 1940 Dodge Sedan was taken of me driving the car, V8 powered for the 1st time out of the garage I built it in in August 1973.......I still have it 50 yrs later.......regards.....andyd
  18. Well...I have no idea why it worked this time..........lol.............but whatever you did P15-D24 I thanks you.......lol...............regards from Oz.......andyd
  19. Yep, look under the car just in front of the Parking Brake assembly on the gearbox.......the speedo cable screws into a slightly downward angled thing on the drivers side of the gearbox tailpiece.....regards from Oztralia.......andyd
  20. Daniel, that link to Joe Kennedys Imperial Limo is interesting.........the one here in Oz was originally found by a mate, Russell Cope in a wrecking yard in Brisbane, a local magazine here in Oz did a feature on this wrecking yard around 1972, Russell saw the pic of the car and bought it, I got to know Russell about this time as he was involved in starting the local Chrysler Restorers Club of Australia & I had visions of starting a Dodge Club but decided to give him the contacts etc I had and remember sitting in the back of the Imperial Limo and finding that with my back against the seat back my legs outstretched didn't touch the back of the partition devider.... .........Russells car was basically complete except for the starter motor which he had major problems in finding as I think from memory the 1938 straight 8 used a reduction gear starter which was impossible to find anywhere...............then Russell was told that a local motor boat manufacturer in Sydney also used Chrysler Straight 8 engines in their 30-40foot boats......a call to Halversons found a selection of brand new starter motors on the shelf........Russell was a happy camper....... .............anyway, Russell ended up selling the 38 Limo after a few years unfinished to another guy in the Chrysler Restores Club, Les Sonter who restored the car but restored it with that enclosed rear quarter window feature that the Kennedy car has and Les still has it.........if you do a search under " Les Sonter 1938 Chrysler Imperial" it should be found......... regards from Oztralia............Andy Douglas
  21. Taking nothing away from the 38 Imperial I was just checking the pics again and marvelling at the beautiful upholstery when I realised that the rear seat doesn't have a centre armrest..............a lack of which I am really surprised...........I only mention this as my Oz assembled, T.J. Richards bodied 1940 Dodge does have a rear seat centre armrest, the cars original upholstery was leather seats facings with cloth door cards, a felt roof lining and carpeted front & back.......admittedly when I got the car in 1971 the upholstery was, shall we say............worn.........lol..........what is the material that the Imperial is upholstered in?..........are the door cards in the same material as the seats?........just beautiful....andyd..
  22. Silver20....I just checked that link, thats basically the same type of belts I used...........tho' I must admit the current price as listed makes me shudder......lol......andyd
  23. Plymouthy.........loose change?........nah..........have loose bowels.......oops.........thats for a different forum.........lol........sitting here slowly cooking..........5.10pm and its 98degrees inside the house........aircon is working at the other end of the house but where I am it cops the full afternoon sun........gotta find those beers somewhere.......lol............andyd
  24. Many years ago in the mid 1970's a mate obtained a 1938 Imperial C-20 Limosene, one of 122 built ex Detroit, factory RHD(probably the only RHD one built) ex State Governor of Queenslands limo, complete with the glass partition, intercom & jump seats ..........a beautiful, huge car.........its been restored and is well known here in Oz owned by Les Sonter in Sydney. There was also a 38 Imperial 4dr sedan restored here in my local area in the 1980's it used a local T.J.Richards body shell.......now sold, whereabouts unkown....that one of yours is exceptional.........regards from Oz.......andyd
  25. I don't know if I'm logged in or not..............as I'm able to post this I have assumed that I'm "logged in".........but maybe I'm not?.......lol...........also I do all this on the home computer......I don't have a mobile/pay/cell/whatever phone.............I have tried what LazyK has suggested about 5 or 6 times but it keeps bringing me back to what seems like the start of the whole sherbang in the classified section, under the "Wanted" part.........lol..........maybe I'm not crossing my fingers/legs/tongue/other parts of my anatomy correctly.......lol.......oh to be young again........andyd
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.

Terms of Use