1950 Special Deluxe

Just snooping from the P15D24 side of things. I spent about 2 hours yesterday trying to get the draft seals to stay in the holes in the floor boards of my car. Now I see that they are supposed to go through the floor and stay on the pedal arms themselves. Luckily I quit before I ruined them so now I can finish the job correctly.:) Thanks

Looks good Fred, Planning on turning on the heat tomorrow in the garage and getting some more done on mine. Neil

I am looking for a lead on a place to buy "in-expensive" seat covers. I cannot justify to myself right now the cost to redo the complete interior. I would like to find something better than the cheap generic universal fit. I have a 1950 Dodge Special Deluxe 2 door sedan. The seats should be the same as the Plymouth version. Thanks for now, Neil

I installed a heater this summer. Today was actually warm, about 25 degrees F. Just finished a week of about 20 below.

After reading everything that everyone else has done, I thought I had better start my winter list. I removed the seats and floor coverings, NO rust to speak of. Took my angle grinder with a steel brush on it and cleaned up the floor. Today I coated the floor with undercoating, next I plan to rewire the electrical system. I will rewire as original except that I am using modern wire, cost is a concern. I have new floor material and weatherstripping from Roberts. Hope to find some reasonably priced seat covers to tide me over until I can convince myself I can afford to have my interior redone. Thanks to all, Neil PS Tomorrow our football team partakes in the Grey Cup (Canadian Football League championship) GO RIDERS!!!!

Here it is http://www.robertsmotorparts.com/catalog.html

Did you buy the universal fit, T28K? I have that kit in my garage waiting to be put on. Bought the gas pedal grommet as well as a set of firewall grommets. Bought new trunk weatherstrip and hood seal too. New floor mats as well. I had them shipped to a UPS Store in Montana and then picked it up this summer while on holidays, saved a bunch on shipping and duty. I hope you don't mind me "looking" over your shoulder. Finally got the gas installer to come and finish the heater install in my garage then I got swamped at work. Snow is here, so I now have all winter.

If you decide you don't want them, I would love to have them in Saskatoon.

Me too

I just make the "younger" crowd at mid forties and down. I am 45. I belong to the local antique auto club here as well. As my kids tell me, dad not just the cars are old. I feel very young at those meetings. But, they have been very helpful as well as you guys on here. As before, my car picked me and I am very greatful. On another note, my oldest son pased his driver's test today in a snowstorm. His next mission is to learn to drive the standard in my little Ranger truck. The three on the tree is aways away yet.

Thinking of using this on my floor. Take the seats out, clean up the floors, paint them, lay something like this down and then my new floors from Roberts.

Hoping for the best. Be nice to her. Neil

Looks great now and will look awesome when you get it put back together. You will soon have the winter to put it back together. Forecasting flurries for us next week.

It was originally bought by my wife's great grandmother in 51 or 52 after the local car dealer's wife drove it for 1 or 2 years.(or so the story goes) It was passed to my wife's great uncle and then 20 years ago my father-in-law got it. Drove it a couple of times and put it in the shed till next year. 16 or so years later, he had a bad stroke and can no longer drive, can walk short distances. The car was passed to my wife (free as per one of the other recent threads). We decided we (I) would spend a bit of time and a little money to get it running and drive around. Well, after more than a bit of time and money, we are on the road. It was not a car I would have picked, but now it is the car I pick to drive whenever possible. Thanks to this forum and its members.

My 1950 Dodge Special Deluxe has a factory radio. I was able to get it repaired by a member of our car club. It just seems right that it works. I have a spare radio if you are interested. No idea on the condition of it.

Again with my 13 year old son. For his school picture, he wore black shorts, pink Bill-a-Bong (?) belt, black long sleeve dress shirt and a pink tie. He leaves for school after my wife and I go to work. We get the pictures and my wife comments on how nice he looks. I look at the pictures and I ask him, don't your peeps (friends/cronies) pick on you? His response, "No they are jealous:) that's how I roll." I had to leave the room as I refused to laugh at this in front of him, but wow did I laugh after. No lack of self esteem.:D:D

When I first brought ours home last year and got it going, my 2 sons were concerned about the lack of seatbelts. Through our local antique auto club, I was able to get the radio repaired and again my 2 sons were not impressed. What will you listen to on AM radio was their question?

As I follow this thread, it reminds me of going to work Monday morning and seeing what the young single fellas did on the weekend. We call it living vicariously through them. It seems like a lot of us are living vicariosly through the two of you. From Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Thanks for letting us share your adventure. Neil

Trying to get home before dark, I fought the urge to go above my self-prescribed speed of 50. I made it just at dark, all lights work, but still wanted to make it before dark.

16 monthes ago when I trailered "our" new car home from my in-laws after my father-in-law's stroke I told him that I would get it running for the local car show in August and they could come in and I would drive him down to the show. The show was on a Saturday and I got it running (sort of) on Thursday. We drove it the 6 miles to the Wal Mart for the show. I was feeling smart and told him I would drive it the 75 miles out to their town, Rosetown, Saskatchewan the next summer for the 25th anniversry of the local show. Well, that weekend appeared very quickly and I was committed. My son and I left Saturday morning, at 50 mph on the speedometer the GPS read about 47 mph, close enough for me. There was my car and 3 others in the survivor category, 3 trophies and I received a "Participant" plaque, too funny. We travelled 200 miles in total and all went well. Only other Mopar was a combination of a 40 Dodge truck and a 40 Fargo truck.

Tomorrow after work, I will remove the sender and put the plastic float on. I am in this deep, I might as well complete the task. Thanks for the help.

I re-used the float off of the old donor sender. There is a plastic one with the universal. Should I change to the plastic one?

I could not source a universal sender with the proper ohms ratings locally. Found a 30 - 240 ohm sender and proceeded to alter it to fit. Then I added a couple of 220 ohm resistors in parallel across the single terminal and a ground terminal that I added. This brought it down to about 77 ohms when empty, I adjusted the float arm (not shown in my pictures) so that it travels further up when full to lessen the resistance to about 40 ohms when full. Right now from looking in the sender hole of the tank it looks about just over 1/2 and that is what the gauge reads. I am more concerned about the bottom half of the tank as opposed to the top half, Thanks

Based partly on the good reviews here, I just ordered a voltage regulator from him. Hopefully I will be as successful as others.

Welcome aboard from Saskatchewan. I have a 1950 Dodge Special Deluxe as well, it is a 2 door version. It has been in my wife's family since new. It is in similar shape, it does not have the marker lights on the front and back like yours' does.