Mark D

Loren I have one on my stock that I did not use. I’ll find it and send you a photo. If you’re interested we can put a good deal in play. mark

Bought several from Mike for cars I've exported, they are good quality and nearly exact copies of the original.

Hey all, Just getting around to responding here. Glad to see the early positive responses. We had a fantastic time last year (and several years in the past) gathering a ragtag group of folks that have reported having a good time following us around New York and New England on our past tours. This year we are really hopeful to up our participation and are planning a real cool itinerary for three days of fun and touring. PLEASE NOTE THE EMAIL ADDRESS IN GREGS ORIGINAL MESSAGE ABOVE IS INCORRECT. THE CORRECT EMAIL ADDRESS IS mark@rdusaclassics.com

Hey all, Just getting around to responding here. Glad to see the early positive responses. We had a fantastic time last year (and several years in the past) gathering a ragtag group of folks that have reported having a good time following us around New York and New England on our past tours. This year we are really hopeful to up our participation and are planning a real cool itinerary for three days of fun and touring. I'd really appreciate it if you could all send me an email - mark@rdusaclassics.com - so I can add you to my email list. Having a real gauge of participation will help us size the Friday / Saturday hotel appropriately. As soon as we have some finalized plans are locked down I will send them out so folks can start planning. In general you can expect the following; Thursday Sep 17 - Muster point in or nearby Bolton Massachusetts for cars that want to arrive early. Lodging at our local Boxborough Host Hotel is nearby our planned first stop, clean, and not expensive. https://www.boxbororegency.com for those that want to get in Wednesday or sooner. Once we have folks collected, we will head to the Collings Foundation in Stow Massachusetts for a tour of their new museum, and potentially a tour of the owners personal multi-million dollar brass era collection. After the tour we will drive secondary roads south about an hour to our weekend hotel and get situated. We will be targeting a hotel location in the Fall River / New Bedford area of Massachusetts, but will adjust that based upon hotel negotiations and further tour stops. Anyone wishing to arrive earlier in the week would be welcome, we can help facilitate local sights and services. Friday Sep 18 - We will start the day with breakfast at the hotel, and head off New Bedford at noon. Friday afternoon we may try to organize a tour through the "cottages" of Newport Rhode Island. We will reassemble at the hotel around 4:30 to greet new arrivals and kick off our PICNIC. In true fashion we invite participants to bring a little something their home to share, we will facilitate with a BBQ grille, utensils, plates, cups etc. Lawn chairs, Libations and good humor are a must. Saturday Sep 19 - After breakfast we will head to Battleship Cove and a self guided tour the USS Massachusetts in nearby Fall River MA. Should make for a real nice backdrop if we are able to get the cars/owners lined up for a group photo. We will reserve the afternoon for some driving in the picturesque town of New Bedford where our goal will be to see sights and potentially tour the whaling museum. Early evening will find us headed to a local restaurant in hopes of tasting some of the local fare. We will arrange for a group fixed price meal and hopefully get us all into one room. Stay tuned for more info. Sunday Sep 20 - Sunday morning we will wrap up at the hotel and head our Plymouth's to Plymouth in hopes of gathering our cars at the 1620 rock for a memorable photo or two. Plymouth recently enhanced their on street parking lot along the oceanfront and it is a handy walk to all the shops and tourist stuff along Water Street. From this point the itinerary is turned back to our participants and you are free to tour the area and head home at will. We expect to be wrapped up by noon, however local restaurants are plentiful and good. So that's it for the moment - locals please chime in if there's a stop that we should consider along the route or potentiall pre/post tour. all the best, Mark

Looking forward to seeing a few more of you this year at our picnic. we will illustrate the route later this summer when our commitments are made.

Looking forward to seeing a few more of you this year at our picnic.

It’s not an R10

Trico vacuum pump. Got one new old stock on my shelf.

Also used to hold the trunk handle in place. I couldn’t find anything remotely Similar, so I cross drilled the handle shaft and installed and retainer clip.

There’s a decent rebuild video someone posted on YouTube recently that explains the tear down, machining and rebuild. I also posted some snapshots from an old magazine series on the documents section of this forum a couple years ago.

My second year flying over to the UK and attending the picnic. So well received and had so much fun. I hope I can keep attending for many years to come!

Andy I wish I had ventured north to see you. I know at one time we had conversed about this. My visits unfortunately always started Monday morning and my weeks were filled with meetings and job site visits until my flight home on the following Friday. But I will be back to follow up on business as usual down under and since our business (TKMaxx) is doing so well in Australia, I’m betting I’ll be talking about expansion down there very soon. I promise your on my list next visit.

I’ve got the Quickjack 5000 setup. Love it, incredibly handy for the average garage mechanic. https://www.quickjack.com/car-lift-systems/bl-5000slx-portable-car-lift.html

The slow lane is often the best lane.

Looks a lot like New England

Also made a visit to Ilkka Koskenheimos collection in Kotka Finland. He's done a fine job restoring these cars.

Passing under one of Finlands famous land bridges on the east-west highway between Helsinki and Lappeenranta. These bridges are built to makes sure the wildlife can traverse to the other side of the road safely

Tommi pumping expensive litres into the tank.

Hanging out at Tommi's place in Artjarvi Finland.

Tommi on the left, myself center and our friend Martin from Sweden on the right.

Some of you that have been here a while know that I have a hard time staying in one place for too long. Fortunately my employer has sent me around the world for work more times than I can count. Whats even more fortunate is that this affords me a special ability to actually shake hands and develop great friendships in person with a lot of other old mopar owners. Last year I made 9 trips to Sydney Australia as I was building a new office near the airport and met a Neville Bennett on several of the trips. He and I toured many places in Sydney I would have never have gotten to see if it weren't for his generosity with his time. But I fast forward to these last two weeks and include a few pictures of my visit with another P15 owner in the area of Helsinki Finland. Tommi (who is also on this forum) met me in London for the P15 picnic. (To his credit he trusted his life to me driving on the left side of the road for three days)... After the picnic we took for a few days in Finland and ripped up the roads to the west of Helsinki in his P15 business coupe. I cant advocate travel and meeting people on their own turf enough.

One of the easiest things to do yourself. The material does not need to be bonded to the steel band so its a simple removal of the old wear surface, cleaning up the band, and reinstall of the new wear surface. Remember to slightly countersink the rivets with a like size drill bit when you reinstall to prevent the rivets from being ground off by the brake hub. Oldmoparts.com has the replacement bands in stock. Mark D

You’ll be able to look at your morning coffee and be reminded every day. Lol, glad you came down Lee and looking forward to staying in touch.