plymouthcranbrook

Say what you will about the Covid economy there are still some folks out there with a lot of money to spend

In the last year my wife has put cameras up to cover all entrances to our house and garage. She gets an alert on her phone each time a camera records something . I believe it then saves the film although I admit I don’t know where. These are battery operated stand alones

That is interesting. I had keys but all locks were frozen. Kept spraying and spraying them and one freed up.. Locksmith for the other. Thanks for the info.

The older I get the less I like Humanity. Not people you understand. Humanity. There is always some lying, cheating jackass who feels that only a sucker works for a living and tries to steal what little he has. I have found Police in general almost useless for robbery. If a gun wasn't stolen, or someone killed or hurt, they don't really care. File a claim with your insurance they tell you. Someone broke into my house 15 years ago and stole a bunch of stuff. A week earlier my employer was broken into but the thief was caught in the act. Turns out he was a former employee who had gone to drugs He had gone through the files and thrown them on the floor. Then I was robbed. Gave the Detective(yeah) his info. Never heard a word. Sorry to hear of the problems you have had. And hope that the thief is sucked into the mud.

New cars are built to a formula. Easier to build if they all have mostly the same components. And if you train your customers to think they absolutely must have computer screens and power everything very soon folks will not buy cars without them. When we bought our Kia several years ago the hardest part was finding a car not packed to the gills with options. For the Elderly the standard equipment was more than confusing enough.

I think that too many folks watch the Barrett-Jackson auctions on tv and think, hell my 19.. whatever is worth more than that. So since Barrett-Jackson is not always available and E-Bay is... If you watch the auctions on E-Bay you will see the same cars over and over, hoping for a Miracle.

Suitably dressed of course.

And in the off season you can keep the family silver in there.

Pretty windy by you then.

Sigh....

I am gong to toss out what I did on my 52. I got a kit form NAPA and disassembled the valve to fix it. Never got it to work again. Having it rebuilt was about $150. I found that a company makes new ranco style valves for 57 Chevies. I looked at the catalog and thought, why not. Cost about $80 and had to modify my firewall a bit but it works fine.

I remember buying a thermostat for my 52 from a guy on E-Bay about 18 years ago and when I went to use it it was completely different from what I need. Are the earlier cars different?

The last car I had painted was my 1983 Chevy G 30 van from Earl Scheib(wouldn't fit in my garage) and I did the prep. Resale Red, $250.00. In about 1990 pr so.

I am surprised no one has answered this. The wire goes to the big post on the starter. Make sure the screw you use to connect to the coke is not too long you as you don’t want to short it to the manifold. The choke is activated when you engage the starter. After the car starts the choke is then controlled by the bi metal spring in the choke itself.

I have heard tales of the dreaded Imron paint. The nastiest stuff I ever sprayed was POR 15 on the underside of my 52 Plymouth. Another open all the doors and wear a HD filter mask paint.

I sprayed several cars back in the 80's and 90's. Taught myself mostly to do the prep work and learned to lay paint. However that was in the days of Acrylic Enamel ande I really have no idea how to do base coat clear coat. Got good enough to the point where I did a few for a used car lot in town and several friends cars as well. Enjoyed it then, too old now. to contort well enough to do a good job.

1 An Airflow 2 Plymouth Valiant 61 or 62 2 door. Three speed manual 3. 1954 Plymouth four door. Manual trans 4 1966 Plymouth Fury III 2 door Hdt. 383 4 speed manual 5 1959 Plymouth 2 door Hardtop. Engine doesn't matter as I have plans... 6. 1964 Chrysler 300 7. Plymouth Barracuda Old model, big backlite. 8. A fifties DeSoto. Big Grill? 9. A fifties Power Wagon 10 1966 Chrysler Newport Now as to why. I either like them, had owned them,always wanted to own one, almost owned one, or enjoyed a friends car enough I want one. The list could go on for a long time.

Maybe this will help

Apparently just enough brains to hurt himself

You can look here: http://www.wilcap.com/index.html

I would hate to think of the name the UPS driver called you when delivering that box.

https://www.duricy.com Interesting stuff.

Some years ago I had a tech question I could not find the answer to and I called Vintage Power Wagons and spoke to one of their people who took the time to help me solve it. If you don’t get answer here you might give them a call.

Sadly although I do get a vote on this it most likely won’t mean much. I am not a fan of electric vehicles in general and modded old cars in particular. Just don’t see the reasoning behind it. I apparently foolishly thought the reason behind driving an old car was to experience/relive the past for enjoyment. We sure are not running low on gas and the relatively few gas powered old cars are not in my opinion destroying the environment.

Sarcastic? Us? Say it isn’t so.