PatS....

This is a 1948 M5. This is a 1949 standard 3 speed transmission. A regular 3 speed has first gear towards you and down, an M5 or M6 won't have a gear there at all. This is a 1942/42 M4 Vacamatic Nothing is as confusing as 40's and 50's Chrysler Fluid Drive. Sounds to me you have the M4

Have a look at 88-98 Chevy/GMC seats. The floor is flat and the bases are just the right height. Some have seat belts built in as well.

How true that is!!!!

Nice job, enjoy!!!!!!

I thought he drove very well as well for a 7 yr old, and he runs alot faster than a fat cop!!!! When he got out of the car and looked at the cop and ran like the wind, I laughed like hell!!!! I bet he goes to church tomorrow!

As usual, Bill has it straight. The article I quoted and linked to was evidently NOT done by a real journalist. NO facts were checked. A quote from the man in charge at Walter P. Chrysler Museum denies the accuracy of the article and says all important historical documents were retained. I usually don't believe unbelievable crap I read on the "internets", but this one got me good. It should be coming out soon publicly from the Walter P. Chrysler Museum. The good stuff is safe in their hands. My apologies for posting unresearched bunk from a pretend "journalist"

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just let nature take it's course?? Just how many "clunkers" are really on the road and just how much are they really driven? Thousands are junked every day naturally...they just wear out. Seems to me most folks who can afford it will buy new or nearly new rather than deal with an "old" car. Up here, there are very few daily drivers over 15 yrs old. And what about people who can't possibly afford a new or near new car, are they not allowed to get the last few miles out of an old "clunker"? Or kids just starting out whose Mommy and Daddy can't buy them a new car, are they relegated to public transit for the time it takes to be able to save up to buy a new car? Why can't they get the 7 year old minivan or Jeep Cherokee??? And if you crush all the old pick-ups, who is going to haul the stuff we have that needs hauling? Some stuff won't fit in a Toyota Echo. Me for instance. I don't fit. Taking a running driving licensed and insured car and destroying it seems like a total waste to me. How much energy and resources does it take to replace that vehicle? Why not let it live out it's usefulness?

Seems to me that if the owner of a vintage Chrysler takes the time to write for info and the company responds with the info or as best they can, that is as good a quality PR as you can get. The company can begin a positive relationship with a potential new car customer for the price of a stamp or the time to write an email. How much does even a local radio ad cost?? Much more than sending out the requested info. I wrote Chrysler in 1970 for some info on a school project and they sent me a huge package with every sales brochure for every Chrysler Corp car for 1970 and a bound book of the history of the corp with some great pictures (I still have all of it plus the report I wrote) Good long term PR for a very small investment.

Jumping with a 12 volt car will work BUT, you can't leave the cable hooked up. You need 2 people and the second person touches the cable to the battery for just the time it's cranking and you can't crank it for too long. If it won't go right away, stop. If you are alone and clamp the cable on and the try to start it a couple of times or leave the cable attached to charge the battery, you'll fry the regulator and maybe the points too. (ask me how I know THAT ) For the cost of those, I would replace them and double check all the grounds. For what it's worth on my Chrysler #1, I carried a new voltage regulator with me...came in handy a couple of times.

This was done well before Fiat took control. It was Cerberus. Let's see what Fiat does with what's left.

Hey Andy, any pics of the New Yorker?? Has it been converted to RHD?

If this is what you see through the transmission access hole, you have an M6. Chrysler Corp. used a different trade name for Chrysler Dodge and DeSoto hydraulic shift semi automatic, but in 49 and 50 they were all M6's The other access panel further up the transmission hump is for access to the Fluid Coupling to add fluid.

Proof that they haven't a hope of success because they obviously are simple bean counters, and not car guys. Bean counters got them into this mess, and bean counters will throw the last shovelful of dirt on the grave and wonder how it happened. THIS mindset that would allow something like this to happen is the mindset that will kill these companies off for good. Any loyalty I had to this shell of a company is gone now. Now, where's the closest Ford dealer....

Unbelievably stupid...it sorta makes your heart skip a beat...

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/editorial-chrysler-destroys-its-historical-archives-gm-to-follow/ an excerpt: "Chrysler was incorporated on June 6, 1925. Over the following decades, the automaker centralized and organized its archives, records dating back to the very beginnings of the American automobile industry. And then the company’s new owners decided history is bunk. Cerberus eliminated its archivist position. They stopped funding the documents’ maintenance. The company limited access to their archives and then stopped it altogether. Worse was to follow. With little notice and no planning, Cerberus literally abandoned the engineering library at the Chrysler Technical Center. The library was shuttered and the librarian laid off. And then the real crime: all the library’s books and materials were offered to anyone who could carry them away. I repeat: the documents were free for the taking. Within a week, a collection spanning decades was scattered to the winds; the books and other materials will never again be available in any coherent, comprehensive form."

I'll have to have a shot or twelve just to get those pretty faces unetched from my brain! Bottom centre is particularly fearsome

Freight is different, the interline agreements have the shared revenue built in. Car shippers generally have no interline agreements. Each car is different and they are not always interlined. There are no rate schedules, each shipment is priced individually by the originating shipper. If they think they will take it straight through, the rate will be different than if they have to share the revenue. If they discover it will need to be interlined AFTER giving a straight through quote, it MAY account for the "bait and switch" It may not and it actually might really BE a bait n switch. Also, a truck will take many freight shipments whereas a car carrier can only take 7 or 8 vehicles. There is a volume advantage for the freight companies. Also beware of the bait and switch upon arrival where they say there is an extra amount to be paid BEFORE they will unload the car. Do the research when you ship a car to know what's happening is all I'm saying.

One trucker I spoke to a while back told me that many car haulers will "interline" a car. They'll pick it up in their home territory, take it to a central "hub yard" and drop it off...usually unlocked, in an unlocked, unguarded lot...and it sits there until another trucker going that way picks it up. Could be a few hours or a few weeks. Problem is that while it sits there, it's in limbo. The first guy has dropped it off and is on to other things and doesn't think about it anymore and the next guy doesn't know it exists yet, so nobody is really keeping an eye on it. I have no problem with a guy making money, I do have a problem with my car sitting in a yard who-knows-where unguarded. They won't tell you about interlining unless you ask. ASK...nobody likes surprises! If a car will be "interlined", then the fee will go up so each truck makes money on the haul. Maybe that's where the higher price on your quote came from. The first quote was for a direct trip, the second was an interline quote.

I would be checking to make sure the kingpins are good, as well as the tie rod ends, both of which, if worn, will do as you describe. If they are bad a new box will solve nothing. Yes, the truck can be made highway safe. Kingpins are not expensive, nor are tie rod ends. The box can be adjusted easily. On my instructions with Charlies kit, he specifically and emphatically advises to rebuild the front end before installing the new discs...great advice which I followed on mine. I also adjusted my steering box.

The September 2009 issue of Street Rodder has a article featuring the old master hisself Tex Smith showing how to modify a 50 Plymouth firewall to make room for a Hemi. Page 72 Nice clean way to do it. All Mopar.

I bought 49 Chrysler #1 in 72 from my Dad who bought it from my Uncle who bought it almost new as a demo. I've had a Mopar of one kind or another since. (along with all the others as well...gone through alot of cars) 62 Dodge D300, a 75 Dodge motorhome and a 2000 Caravan in the driveway right now, and 1949 Chrysler #2 and a parts car.

Check his other auctions, too

Fred, Both my Dad and Uncle ran anti-freeze year round back then as I do today...50-50 mix. Summer and winter t-stat as you said. Remember, the water pump has a grease nipple...no conditioner needed James seems to have done everything right, so it's hard to figure what the problem might be. Short of tearing down the engine to triple check that all the gunk is gone, I can't really think of what he has missed. If it were me, the least expensive and least drastic solutions are the shroud and the water misting idea. I think between the two, they would solve a perplexing problem until such time that the engine needs other work done at which time checking the cooling system again would make sense.

The 42 Chrysler was one of the nicest Mopars ever built IMHO. Simple and elegant. 1942 Chrysler Windsor

I have this one of my cousins on my 1949 Chrysler #1 when it belonged to their Dad in 1956ish. Not a portrait but special nonetheless.