Curt Lee

That looped wire looks dodgy as hell. I think it's shorted out. The blue "wire" is just insulation for the points -condenser connector. Point gap may be too large, and the condenser body looks like it might be contacting the lobes of the shaft, but that's just what i think I see. Those are the things I would address, anyway. Never throw away a set of points.

When I was a teen, the local stores we liked were all family run joints. The bigger stores hadn't invaded our podunk town yet. The biggest one was Fisher's and they started out in Staunton VA, branched out all over VA and I worked for them for several years. Prided ourselves on catalog knowledge, because computers hadn't started changing the landscape of auto parts yet. Even my first year at Advance Auto, we had nothing but paper catalogs for lookup. Computers were the cashier's realm. Rock Auto would be my source of choice today. You can look at the part before you order it, it usually arrives in a couple of days, they have a good return policy, and you can waste all day looking at the "catalog" without buying anything.

Yeah, I was looking down Clifton Forge and southward. Wherever I land, my patch of land is red as a baboon's butt.

Me too; I'd rock that '56 as-is as long as it could manage it. Even buy me a Dobbs fedora to wear while driving it.

Youtubers run the gamut from entertaining and actually quite talented (Vice Grip Garage) who are genuinely enthusiasts with interest (Jonathan W and UTG) to some really hard-to-watch dummies with no charisma (gotta be able to hold the audience's attention) to those guys who are reading verbatim right of wikipedia about everything they're showing you. There's a flood of "Will it start" videos that have shown up in the last few months that are actually painful to watch.

As a personal opinion; I find the Savoy much more attractive than the '57 Chevy. IMHO the '57 is simply too fussy looking (don't EVEN get me going on about the '58) compared to the "Forward Look" MoPars. Even the '57 Ford is too heavily sculptured in comparison. Luckily for us, the MoPars kinda got ignored when the muscle car builders went hunting.

Any closer to me and I'd be making some kind of deal for that. Can't pass up a seemingly solid/complete original these days.

New Hampshire a two-plate state? I know Virginia is, South Carolina and Florida use just one. Some (probably most, actually) make you turn in plates if you drop your insurance. It's well preserved from it's appearance. Couldn't have been out in the open very long.

The car. I could be way off, but it looks a little like it's overslept the alarm clock and hit the snooze button; get her up and going!

This is a problem rapidly approaching my wife and I. We have this place in Florida but I can't stand the heat (neither can she, but she's stubborn as a Missouri mule) and can't stay here indefinitely. I have to be able to work outside whenever possible and the heat and humidity here is simply oppressive; can't do more than a couple of hours before I'm wrung out. Couple the heat with neverending bouts of thunderstorms all summer long, peppered with the occasional hurricane or two, possibility of the power going out for weeks at a time. insurance rates rocketing skyward while insurers drop customers by the hundreds daily... I'd never buy property here. Definitely would not RENT here. I need a climate with four distinguishable seasons. I don't care to travel; I traveled in the Navy. This is why, even with the blue state politics there, I'm looking for a place in Virginia, Shenandoah Valley preferably; up in the hills definitely. Presently, we're encroached in on by golf courses, "resort" communities, a couple of National Parks (I don't mind those a bit, they don't have people filling them up), and WalMarts.

Those are Standard brand spark plug wires, still being sold today; if A/C doesn't make spark plugs anymore that's news to me, but the Big A oil filter is definitely a dated item. I'd say it's been idle for thirty years. Time to freshen everything up and give it some exercise. Anything that visually complete and apparently correct should be in operation, not wasting away as yard art.

No snow in Tennessee? Since when? Other than Spring, of course.

Not to throw any extra stones, but the Iron Duke is not a well-regarded engine even among GM enthusiasts. Mother MoPar didn't bless us with large engine compartments, either... a Slant Six would be my late model engine of choice if the flathead would not work at all. And even those aren't simple one-day jobs.

Again, in my best Johnny Carson; "I did not know that." Great catch. I probably would have made a few different lengths of that brass spacer until I found one to suit. But, then again, I'm a cheap tightwad Luddite ex-Navy guy...

I used to have a bunch of those big manuals, picked them up cheap at the thrift store; might still have them somewhere but still don't know where all my stuff is from moving out of Charleston. Lucky I have my shoes and socks.

Since I've been unable to actually acquire another p-15-23 so far, I've been making do satisfying myself with watching videos about them. Some of them are pretty informative and the producer seems genuinely interested in the cars; some are so poorly presented that they are actually painful to watch and the inevitable judgment of the producer is "Imma put a V8 in it anyway", which is genuinely off-putting after watching several minutes of them struggling with 6-volt batteries and positive grounds and Lockheed brakes... A couple of guys do come across as fairly genuine car nuts and MoPar fans, and do a decent job of reviving slumbering flatheads into life. And some of you guys have some videos on repairs and maintenence out there, it seems. Having a visual representation of the theories of operation of the various systems is really great. So; anyway; if you have content to share, please do! (So far I've watched Keith rebuild a 218, some other fella adjust the brakes, a few guys get stuck engines running without tearing them down(!!); all pretty informative and watchable stuff.

Will keep an eye out for it.

I might be relocating back to Virginia next year; what kind of issues have you guys been encountering vis a vis licensing, insuring, and operating your older cars? I was born and raised there but I haven't been back since 1995 when I left Lynchburg for Charleston SC. No firm destination per se but prefer the boonies and am looking in the Shenandoah Valley mostly.

Well what am I going to do with all these tossed salads and scrambled eggs?

No answers for ya but I'd like to know the proper procedure myself

Very pretty little rig

Funny you guys mentioned shoes and foot size... not only were folks a few inches shorter, they had smaller feet. My GrandDad wore a size eight, Dad wore a 9, I wear 11's. The Depression affected people directly in their height and size depending on their diet and occupations.

Is it a constant leak that drips relatively fast or does it take a while to accumulate? More than likely the rear main seal but that is an undertaking to replace. Sitting doesn't do these cars any good at all.

The same for carbureted manual trans cars throughout the sixties and seventies; prevent stalling and overrunning (back firing). Used to sell 'em by the dozens

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