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Spotted this one on ebay,and it looks like a deal to me. It's in arizona.
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Have any idea what happened to the 51 DeSoto engine for 25 bucks thread?
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I guess the moderator took it down? It’s still here; free to a good home.
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Not posting this to your thread because it is off-topic,but could you ask the yard owner if he has a 51 Ford in there that has the 6 cylinder engine and Fordomatic transmission? I need the bellhousing for a 51 coupe I am restoring,and bellhousings for 6 cylinders are hard to find,even though it was an option. Seems like people so cheap they went for base models were too cheap to pay extra for an automatic transmission.
I will even take a Flathead V-8 FOM transmission if I have to. If I could get one of them it would be fairly easy to make an adapter.
Thanks,
Arthur
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I have always been a big fan of the 49-51 Chev's,but I like the fastback 4drs best of all. It's falling off a log simple to put a 60's-70's 250 or 292 inline 6 in them,too. With the 292 you have the power of a V-8. Best of all,there is not much demand for them,and it's possible to pick up a nice original one fairly cheap.
I really like the 53-54's,too. Don't much care for Chevy's after that,though.
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Yeah this is my first venture into vintage GM....am originally a Ford guy but a good price on something vintage (not American Pickers or Gas Monkey garage prices) has eluded me so far.
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49-54 Chevies are pretty much unloved compared to Fords. Maybe even a little more unloved than 49-54 Mopars. This is especially true of the 49-51 Chevy 4dr fastbacks,which *I* think have the smoothest flowing lines going. They were beautiful when they rolled off the showroom floor. Their only real weak point was the old splash-oiling underpowered 216 inline six. The good news is 60's to 80's inline 6's are also dirt cheap with the exception of the Chevy 292's and the GMC 302's. Racers LOVE them because they put out stupid torque,and are pretty much bulletproof. The good news is they were used in a BUNCH of industrial equipment,and if you go nosing around you can buy them dirt cheap at surplus sales,farm yards,etc,etc,etc. My neighbors even have a John Deere combine that came from the factory with a Chevy 292 6 in it.
Putting one with a turbo 350 or turbo 400 behind it in a 49-54 Chevy is only a little tougher than replacing the 216 with another 216,but once you do you will have NO trouble keeping up with traffic,running a AC,etc,etc,etc.
The only downside to the inline GM's is that even though hi-po parts are plentiful and easy to find,they are usually a little pricey.
I worked part time at a gas station in Fayetteville right before I got out of the army,and the owner had a Anglia 2dr with a 292 in it with a head made from cutting two 327 FI Chevy heads and welding them back together to create a hi-po inline 6 Chevy head,FI,a radical cam,etc,etc,etc. Purely drag race. He didn't even have ramps for his trailer. He would pull up to it,hit the hammer,and the damn thing would just hop up on the trailer. I was in awe of how he did this.
He was running a 4 speed tranny with a Pontiac rear end and gears in the high 4's (4:88?),but never got a full run in while I worked for him because he had drag slicks on the back of the car and a drag suspension that allowed him to really hook up,and he kept twisting the Pontiac axles.
I love the inlines for the sounds they make,as well as the torque they put out. I purposely sought out a stock factory 51 Ford business coupe with the original inline 6 in it to semi-restore because of this. V-8's were pretty easy to find,but it took me years to find one that was completely mechanically,had a clear title,and worth fixing. I already have a 3 carb intake for it,and am looking for a finned aluminum high compression head and cast iron headers to go with the 3/4 cam I will be putting in it. Ahhh,but the sounds that thing will make!
Same reason I am keeping a flat 6 Mopar engine in my 42 Dodge coupe.
In the spirit of full-disclosure,I have to admit that I have a 6 carb 330 DeSoto hemi and push-button 727 to go in my 33 Plymouth coupe,though.
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Are you by chance related to an old friend of mine named Bill Edge from Texas? Bill was an original member of the Army Golden Knights Sky Diving Team,a retired Special Forces SGM,and one hell of a nice guy. Never heard a bad word spoken of him by ANYBODY that knew him. He died of cancer a few years ago.
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Maybe you can sell them to Restoration Supplies? They love getting stuff like that to use as patterns so they can add it to their inventories.
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Check your computer for viruses. I clicked on that link to facebook,and a virus locked my computer up. Just spend hours getting rid of it and restoring everything.
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You need to be more specific about which "window bar" you need.
Do you need the outside windshield divider bar,the divider trim bar on the inside,or do you need both?
If it is the door glass divider bar you need,do you just need one side or both sides?
You need to be specific if you hope to get any replies.
I am NOT trying to be "snotty". I'm just trying to help you. I most likely have the door window divider bars,but IIRC,I had to buy one from ebay for the P-15 coupe I sometimes drive. I have no idea why,but they seem to be pretty hard to find.
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Reg,let me know if you need a new pb booster. I have one that came with a 55 DeSoto I bought several years ago that had what I was told was a NOS PB booster and mastercylinder in the trunk. A guy I know that is a total Mopar freak tells me it was optional for DeSoto and Chrysler in 55,and very rare.
Have no idea if it is the same as the 56 or not,but if you are interested,let me know and I will sell it for considerably less than the 500 bucks that guy told me was a good buy price.
This guy is a skinny little geek that looks like a meth head down on his luck,but he has got some **** you have to see to believe,including an original 58 Chrysler convertible with the FI 392. Supposedly only 14 were made,and all of them but two were converted to dual quads after the recall.
He also has two 56 NY'er with standard shift from the factory.
Guy is dumb as a fence post about everything but 50's Mopars. Not even interested in anything else. Someone offered him a free 33 Plymouth coupe that had a 392 in it and had been sitting in a barn for 20 years,and he pulled the engine and sold the coupe to a junkard.
Ask him about a 50's Mopar part,and he can quote the parts number off the top of his head,though. Has a BUNCH of stuff,but drives a 73 half-ton Dodge 4x4 pu that is beat all to hell from running a half-mile up the unmaintained track he calls a road. He never drives any of them because he doesn't want anybody seeing and stealing them. Also,I suspect he doesn't want to pay taxes on them. He inherited a big ass farm and lets people share crop it,so he doesn't really give a damn about anything other than pleasing himself. If you are not talking about old cars,specifically 50's and early 60's Mopars,he has no interest in anything you are talking about. Guy is only in his 30's,too.
Only reason I know about him is I am friends with a 80 year old restorer and former drag racer that was friends with his father and grandfather.
His wife is pretty weird,too. Wears mens Sears work pants and shirts,and IIRC,collects and shows "show goats". I didn't even know there was such a thing. She got into the show goats because they raise and sell some sort of purebred horses,and for some reason horses love goats.
And here you were thinking all the strange people lived in Ca!
Arthur
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As soon as I get the time. Other crap keeps happening,and I'm only good for about 4 hours on a good day. Had two water lines blow off under my kitchen sink last night,and ended up driving over 80 miles and through 3 counties to find the parts I needed to fix the leaks so I can shower and flush the toilet. Started out at 10:30 this morning and got the water turned back on just before dark. I'm bushed.
I am hoping nothing else goes wrong so I can get out in the shop and do a little work tomorrow. That's where the bumper and brackets are.
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You are retired military?
I was a career NCO in the US Army until getting medevaced from VN in Nov of 69. I was on permanent profile after that,and out of the army by Nov of 70.
I did go back to work for SFTG back in the 80's as a consultant and role player during their Robin Sage operations,though. Started to get a little too intense for me,so I stopped after a couple of years.
Still friends with a few people I served with back in the 60's.
Arthur
