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Thanks for that when I go out to the shop today to help my neighbor with his car I won't be able to stop laughing.

Hey at least it wasn't the fonz wearing a pair of daisy duke cutoffs:eek:

I wonder if he would part it out:D

Too scary for me! I've blown my share of hydraulic hoses working with equipment on the farm and I'm never that far off the ground when they go:eek:

Sounds like a pop through the carb to me.

Great picture and a neat looking car. Some nice old pictures on the link greg attached too.

I'd think i'd like it better a little lower with wide whites and a hopped up flatty. Still a nice car though.

Count me number 80

Dad's original car also had a green body with black fenders but he wasn't going for 100% authentic (just close)and liked this color scheme better. Thanks everyone for the kind comments. Dad really like how it turned out and can't wait to start reliving some of his youth, now I'll just have to keep him off the old logging roads and hide the axe:eek:

I'll be 36 this year, but I got my old yellow chevy and started working on it before I could legally drive. And one day I'll be an old guy still working on old cars.

Vicroy,We hauled it home in the back of our cattle truck and towed a bale wagon we bought in Medicine hat.There's a picture of the car in the truck in my album on my profile page.

I like it! It takes some guts to make that fit and then paint it Black!

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I know this is a little older and not quite the make that this forum is used to but I'm kinda proud of this and wanted to share. It's a 1927 Chrysler that I restored for my Dad and we just got it back from uphostery. My Dad's first car was a 1927 Chrysler that he bought in 1952 when he was 16 and drove it for years even exploring the minning and logging roads around our area. When he couldn't fit the cans of milk in the trunk anymore to haul them to the train station he took an axe to it and made it into a truck. He parked it in the early 1970's. In 1991 we went on a "family hoilday", nobody in the family knew where we were going but Dad obviously did. He drove us right to a farmer's yard in Sask. and when the farmer opened the door to his barn the real reason for the trip became clear. At that time dad asked if I thought I could restore it for him and I said yes. The car was pretty solid when we got it but, I did have to replace the tailpan and make new cab corners and wheel wells and the trunk looked like someone tried to close it with the props locked. We were lucky and able to use some of the mechanical parts off Dad's orignal car when needed, and found things that had gone missing like headlight, cowl lights and radiator ornament on ebay. I even found a whole set of wheels and tires (two tires still in the wraper) at a swap meet from a guy who was turning a restored one into a hotrod and the only thing that haunts me from that day is his truck was full of all the drivetrain and I never took his name down. Restoring this car took a lot longer than that 17 year old kid in 1991 thought but seeing my Dad take that first ride and the smile on his face was worth every minute I spent on that car.

Make sure the tanks not full of fuel first:D Last fall when I took my pick up off the road for the winter I rebuilt the carb and rewired it. After rewiring it I started checking the circuits one at a time. The lights worked fine so did the signals so I turned on the key to check the gauges, guess what fuel gauge spikes hard to full. Well I couldn't fine anything wrong with the gauge(I thought I might have broken the contact inside when I removed the wire) The wiring looked good right back to the sender so I decided to check the sender. It was when I removed the sender that it hit me that I had fueled the truck right full before taking it off the road:rolleyes:

I used krylon fusion paint (the stuff for plastics) on my 51 chevy pickup steering wheel and it worked really well even without clear. I even changed the color from gray to burgandy with no problems. That was about 5 years ago and now its finally getting some marks but I'll probably just scuff it and respray with the same stuff.

I believe that you only need a 2lb residual pressure valve if your master cylinder is below the height of your caliper.

Thanks Don for the information you've shared, I use the search on this site lots and can't tell you how often I see your name( I'm guessing but probably 8000) Congrats

I had never heard of the show before I saw this thread so I tracked down some footage on youtube. I was entertained by what I saw but mostly it got me primed for swap meet season which starts here soon( gonna find me some "mantiques" for the garage)

I'm pretty sure they're 40 plymouth fenders because the headlight bezel looks the same as the one on my car. The parking light housing is mounted on a rubber pad and matches the contour of the fender well but didn't come with any lenses and looks to me to be off a truck cab. Just guessing though.

I'm trying to post a picture so I hope this works. I picked two of these fenders up at a swap meet a few years ago and was wondering about the star trim. The guy that sold them to me said they were fenders off a 3 star general's car I'm pretty sure that was B.S. but the fenders were in pretty good shape so I bought them anyway (you never know when you may need one) Was this a factory trim option or something from the jc whitney or canadian tire catalog? The turn signal on top of the fender looks like a clearence light off a truck cab and says dominom auto.

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Sorry but right me down for a big GO CANADA GO!!!

Happens all the time. Down the road from me is a farmers market everything is twice the price and I see the truck that delivers produce there drive on to safeway! I understand that we can't grow pineapples here and that stuff has to be imported but I've learnt to buy the vegetables straight from the farmer before it hit the stand. It's not him thats making the money though, his market is owned by another and he just supplies it. Thats why I buy straight from him if you figured out how much he's paid for the hours he puts in welfare starts looking good. We even crop more and more of his fields each year for our cows because he can't find anyone to help plant, weed and harvest his crop and (up here anyway) we have a thing called the agriculture land reserve so if you decide to quit farming the land it's hard to sell because it can only be used for agriculture and who wants to go farming? We have the same problems on our farm. Everyone's out of work but do they want to come work on the farm? No works too hard pays too low. Usually it's not the farmer that's making all the money it's the processer or retailer. I sometimes wonder when people will start to realize who's suppling their food. Sorry for the rant. Ed

Has anybody here relocated the shock to inside the coil spring? I'm helping my neighbour tidy up his 54 oldsmobile and was looking at the front suspension and couldn't believe how much it resembles my 40 plymouth. His spindle upright (Knuckle?) looks the same except the kingpin boss is further up the shaft and it doesn't have a lower shock mount on it because the olds uses some sort of funny shock on top of the framerail accuated by the upper control arm. I'm thinking of trying to adapt it to my plymouth to lower it while keeping all the suspension travel kind of a poor mans drop spindle (he has a spare set he'll give to me). My rough measurements show it pretty close I'll know for sure once I get my suspension apart but would there be a reason why the shock couldn't be moved to inside the coil spring? Any Ideas why this wouldn't work or anything special I should watch for? thanks Ed