knuckleharley

Yeah,to a couple of generations that are younger than us,65 Mustangs are now antique cars their granddaddy owned when they were kids. I've had people drive 100 miles to come here to look at project cars after learning I have some "old cars for sale",and when I would show them stuff like a 37 Dodge truck or a P-15 sedan,it was common to hear comments like "No,I mean OLD cars,like a 78 Camaro!" Then I would piss them off by telling the crap like 78 Camaros were junk cars only good for parts if you had a GM powered hot rod,and they would get all huffy. I don't like young people. They are just sooo damn YOUNG!

You get 14-16 mpg on local drives,right? What do you get on the highway with the OD engaged?

Ok,now you are just rubbing it in.

Well,you already have a set of used head bolts. How has that worked out for you so far? Have you tried suppliers like Fastenal and Summit Racing for new ones?

ALWAYS a good idea to remind newbies to old Mopars about that. Wunna these days *I* am going to get smart enough to start buying project cars that nice. Honest!

What is really amazing is that Mopar didn't dominate car sales in snow country.

I don't have a 1942 Plymouth so I don't know,but does the bottom of your bumper have notches cut out to fit the "stud" on that jack? It looks an awful lot like the jack that was in the trunk of the 38 Chrysler I bought when I was a kid,but I can't swear it was actually a 38 Chrysler jack.

The original intakes were bolted right to the exhaust manifold,so getting heat wasn't a problem. Some aftermarket intakes bolt to the exhaust manifold,and some don't. On the ones that don't,most are tapped so warm water from the radiator flows through them to warm up the carb. Race intakes have no need of such devices,though. When you are looking to buy an aftermarket intake,just look for one that has the fittings for water hoses to the car heater box. Most have it.

Pretty much any of the single barrel carbs that came on inline 6's will work for you. Buy whatever you can find a matching pair in for the least amount of money,and go from there. It SEEMS like the single barrel Holley used on Fords are selling for the least amount of money these days,and kits are easy to find and cheap to buy to rebuild them. All these flat 6 engines were basically the same size,so undercarbing or overcarbing isn't a major concern. The flat 6 Fords were 226 cubic inches,the OHV Chevy straight 6's were 235 cubic inches,and the Mopars were mostly 218 or 230 cubic inches. I have been told the Offy intake offers the least performance increase and the Edmunds offers the most,but I doubt anyone could tell the difference in an everyday street driven car. The Offy is still being made and is the cheapest,and some of the others can be a bit pricey due to being rare these days. I would be VERY careful to not buy a race intake,though. Buy one that has water heat to heat your carb in the winter. Race intakes don't offer heat. You can go to the for classifieds section on this board and find people making and selling performance cams,intakes,and even new finned aluminum higher compression heads. There may even be somebody selling used stuff there today for all I know,but I do know that is the first place you should look.

Not to mention horsepower and handling.

I want to "like" your post,but have a hard time "liking" reading about someone getting screwed on a carpet set. It is good to know who NOT to buy carpet sets from,though,and I thank you for that.

That's rough? Other than the back window being gone,it looks better than the majority of my project cars. Obviously I have bad judgement,but in MY opinion that car is worth restoring. Straight 8 NY'ers are hard to find. BTW,I have never seen a house lean over that far. Is it really leaning,or does it just look that way in the photo?

You actually loaded a antique car on a trailer and then pulled the trailer at 70 MPH KNOWING the trailer tires had cracks in them?????? You need to start buying lottery tickets.

Depends on your intended usage and the condition of the cylinders. If you plan on driving cross country to Mopar meets as well as everyday transportation,do it right and be done with it. Which means overbore and new pistons if needed,as well as turning the crank and buying new bearings if necessary. If your use is more casual,you can almost always get away with new rings and bearings. I have even taken oversized rings and filed the end gaps so they would fit into the worn cylinders with the proper clearance,and gotten away with that. No real problem on a typical 50's low-compression/low RPM engine. In either case,do yourself a favor and figure in a new oil pump,timing chain,and valve lap as a part of the process. Your rings aren't the only things that have X-Amount of miles and hours on them.

Same thing with new tires. If they are more than 5 years old,you need to throw them away regardless of how few miles they have on them because they WILL blow out when they get hot. This is the big reason I am considering selling my trailer. I don't use it very often anymore,and it has now gotten to the point where it's cheaper to just rent a U-Haul trailer when I need one than it is to buy 4 new tires for mine and have them mounted and balanced.

Brakes are never an area to cut corners. Replace all the hard line with the new copper-nickel brake line that will never rust in or out,and replace the hoses,too, Replace the rear wheel cylinders with new ones and turn the drums.

Another thing he got caught doing was turning the tubular chassis into a gas tank. NASCAR officials got suspicious when everybody else had came in for a refill,and Smokey was still circling the track.

If you have a new gas tank,standard fittings will work,and you can run pretty much any size gas line you want,although a 5/16th or 3/8th will be big enough. Do yourself a favor and run the new nickel-copper brake line as a gas line because it will never rust inside or out,and because you can bend it with your hands without it kinking. Also buy new ethanol-proof rubber gas line and filters.

" …if Christine spent a significant amount of time at Chernobyl. " That is my favorite quote from that site.

There has to be more than one. That kind of ugly doesn't happen by accident. It is institutional. I am guessing eastern Europe in the late 50's.

OUCH!

LOL! Maybe not even that long.

I give the guy boo coo points for being creative,but that thing is beyond Fugly.

You obviously have it up in the air,so see if you can engage first and reverse manually from under the car. If you can,you know it is a linkage adjustment problem/

I would sure love to have the bumpers and bumper guards. Let me know if you are interested in selling them.