Dave Bohn

Thank you every one for the info - it helps.

I've sold my D24 sedan and have been looking for a Dodge pickup - one of my odd ball criteria is a windshield that cranks out. That limits me to up to 1947. I recently looked at a 38 pickup and found the cab to be quite tight - only 48" across. Does anyone know if the 39-47 pickups are much wider? Thanks & sorry to be OT.

I'm a dog lover and an old car lover so it's great to see the two together. My first dog would shake and whine when being put in the car and on any car trip around town, once on the highway she'd be happy as can be. Didn't make sense - finally figured out that short city trips in her mind meant going to the vet, long trips meant going out to visit my folks.

My D24 has factory turn signals - but only the one brake light in the center of the trunk. I tried to rewire it to have the two turns also operate as brake lights for safety - but no success. The current fed back through and operated all three at once when I used the turns. I ended up adding an extra bulb behind each taillight and connected those to the brake light.

James, I'm a novice lurker on this site - there are many great guys here (yourself included) that provide much information for me. I work in an extremely large company where most of our inter personal interaction is by email and instant message. We've been told many times that the exact same words said face to face where you can see the person smile and hear the tone of voice is taken differently when in an email. I know a handful of people at work who are decent and kind, yet it is odd that their emails so often seem the opposite. I appreciate all your information over the years and wish you the best. Please know that your contributions have been appreciated even if the "typing tone" in responses sometimes may not reflect that.

I think those of us with fluid drive would find ourselves in the salty fluid at the bottom of the hill if we didn't curb our wheels and relied only on the parking brake!

Great looking car - I like when the motor is upgraded but the dash is kept stock looking.

I'm always amazed how high the prices go on ebay for the 6v defroster fans with the rubber blades. I'd like one, but the price is a deal breaker. As high as they are I'd think someplace would reproduce them.

I normally enjoy the pickers show - but I wonder if they often list the "value" of items on the low side. Low, so future pickees won't be leery of selling to the pickers, pickee's thinking they're getting ripped off by missing the huge profit. On another show the pickers bought some metal signs that they picked for $25 and the value listed at the end of the show was 50. The same sign I see in antique malls normally for $150 or more.

I'm curious what are the benefits of a new sub-frame. My D24 rides extremely smooth but my only complaint is heeling over during sharp cornering. It has the front anti-sway bar already. Does simply relocating the shocks fix the heeling over? Or is that why folks go to a sub-frame? I always learn something here.

I hate to admit it, but my best cars have been modern. 2003 Ford Escape bought new, not one ounce of trouble so far (knock on wood). Jeep Wrangler, rough ride but the most fun to drive for whipping around corners and being windblown. The car that still my favorite is my D-24, after driving the Jeep driving the D-24 is smoothest experience, like manuevering a boat on a smooth lake.

Hot Rod Delux - Nov 2009. It has a great article on Edgy. I can't take credit for spotting it - someone here mentioned it a post in Dec or so. I was able to find a copy still on the newstand. There was also another magazine mentioned at that time but I could not find a copy.

Hot Rod Magazine had an article with that F-Head conversion - said it would be around $6,000 without the carbs. My concern is, with the carbs on the drivers side, how would you ever access or time the distributor? It's an impressive looking set up though.

Skinned Knuckles is a good resource too - I never understood how/why ignition points worked until they had a great artical explaining ignition systems recently. All in all they have a lot of good how to articles for doing it yourself.

For the few years Plymouth PUs were made the windshield cranked open. The Dodge PU cranked open up thru 1947. 30 years ago I had a 39 Ford and a great part of the fun of driving it was the wind in my face with the windshield open. One of my "wanna haves" is to get a Ply/Dogde with the opening windshield.