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Around 18 or so on my 52 Cranbrook non od trans. Somewhat better with the new carb setup.

Depending on your devotion to exact originality Langdons has a very nice system available to install a progressive 2 barrel carb that works quite well I have it on my 52 Cranbrook and really like it. Solved all my drivability issues. http://www.langdonsstovebolt.com/

Or maybe it will just seem like it.

Although a little late to the party I say that a 56 Plymouth is certainly within the area of interest of most of us V-8 or not and would enjoy hearing and seeing all about it.

In all honesty when folks try to modify/modernize an older car to any great extent they tend to run into a lot of trouble and if you are not really skilled in working on cars you can make mistakes that will affect the ride and drivability. The engineers who designed it all those many years ago knew what they were doing. They matched engines to suspensions to brakes and came up with a good working car. That said some changes make sense(disc brakes for example)or dual master cylinder can make sense if you feel safer with them depending on how you are going to drive it. Keep it mostly stock also delivers the experience of seeing how cars were in the past and just enjoying the difference between them and modern cars. I am some what of a purist but I have made some changes to my car for drivability and replace some items that just were unobtainium. Engines and transmissions are out there as Sniper has said and often not to terribly expensive. Nice thing about Early Mopars is that the fact that since they don't have the draw of Ford and GM so it you do go to a show you won't see a long line of your car unlike for example, 57 Chevies. Keep us informed about your progress. Many here have done a lot of work on theirs and can really help you if you ask.

As a young lad I owned two Corvairs, a 63 Monza and a 64 Turbo. Somewhat maintenance intensive as were many used cars in those days but fun cars for sure. The Turbo was fun when outrunning smaller engined Mustangs and Cameros, at least until their bigger engines got going.

I might be tempted to add some Bar’s leak even though I usually won’t put it into a modern car here it might help. If the JB weld doesn’t hold of course.

When I was in Dairyland region of the POC there was a member who had tracked down and bought many of the cars his family had owned throughout his life. He had at least one storage building full of them. I asked him how he did it and he said that most of them were local and relatively easy to find. He is gone now as far as I know but his wife may still be alive. Almost all the cars I ever had went in trade to get the next one and my Fathers cars went to the junkyard when he was done with them.

WOW! What a beautiful automobile

Although lack of maintenance was a factor my Father had flathead Plymouths and Dodges all his life. He drove by starting out in first and speeding up to five mph or so. Then into second and up to ten or twelve. Then into third and lugged it up to twenty or so. Every engine he ever had either threw a rod or spun a bearing. Heavy lugging even at lighter throttle is bad.

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Well the only time I cared enough to check several years ago before the new carb system and the latest tuneup I recorded about 17-18 mpg(US gallon).

My information that I found is NAPA Gold level filters are made by Wix and lower levels by someone else. This was a wile back so sould have changed I suppose.

Handsome boy. I miss having a dog. Last one passed last year and our health(or lack of it) preclude another one. Hope he and you have a long happy time together.

Have a great life and success always

I have one of the Century brand chargers I bought years ago when I needed a 6 volt charger and my old Montgomery Wards charger was 12 only. It has worked fine and done everything I have asked of it in the 15 years or so I have had it. I also have two maintainer chargers that I use more. I just installed an Optima on my 1980 Volare since my success with the current crop of lead acids available here has not been good. Cost was about $30 more than a top level regular battery. That said I have also read that the Optimas are nowhere near as good as they once were.

Back a bit ago this happened to me when Microsoft Edge was new and it would continue to return you to the last page you visited so you wouldn’t loose your place I guess. I turned off the computer multiple times but each restart returned to the stuck page. The folks who clean and monitor our computer finally got it fixed and I have never used that bleeping program again.

I wonder if there is a cafe at the bottom so you can buy lunch for the trip back up?

Pretend you Are Ettore Bugatti. When asked why the brakes on his cars were so bad he said his cars are made to go, not stop. Congrats on getting it running and moving.

I bought a tool off E-Bay a few years ago that makes the job pretty easy.

Well after some thought I guess I will jump in to add that my wife and I had dodged Covid since it started and got all the shots as soon as available. None the less my wife’s Boss(she works in a small three person business where everyone has their own room) texted her last Thursday that his wife had tested positive. Everyone went to work but stayed apart. On Friday he texted to let her know he was positive as well. Both of them triple vaxxed. On Friday night my wife started to feel crappy and took one of our two covid tests. Negative. So I went and had my second shingles vaccine Saturday. Started to feel sick Saturday night, severe headache, fever?, runny nose, etc. By Sunday morning my symptoms were subsiding and gone by Monday. My wife’s symptoms continue but diminished much like a regular cold. She did test positive for Covid on Sunday. So as far as I am concerned the shots were worth it. We both have enough wrong with us to make serious complications likely. Obviously all of you do what you like but I hope you all do as well as possible.

On another forum I frequent(non automotive) since I am such a sarcastic SOB I have used something like this with the notation “Sarcasm Alert” posted near it. Seems to help clarify my intent. Sometimes…..

On my 52 Cranbrook I bought a brand new heater valve for a 57 Chevy from a Chevy parts restoration company. Adjusted the hole in the firewall and put it right in. Like yours mine now is off at hot and hot at off but I will just have to route the cable from the other side and make it right. Some day…

They look very good. Nice fit and a good stock appearance.