Mr.Dids

Looks good! If you wouldn't have said otherwise I would have thought they were original.

Andy, no, it is just a diff although now you have me thinking about how sweet a transaxle would be... I'm loving the split bumper, so much so that I may have to steal........... I mean borrow, the idea. My car was missing its bumpers and I was going to do a roll pan but I really like that split look.

Til death do they part...... I not only introduced these two but well and truly married them. I still need to replace the 1x3 "shocks" with coilovers (or at least 2x4s lol) and source some proper bolts to replace my temporary all-threads but that'll be down the road a while. Looks like I'm losing my spare tire well and , if I wish to run these wheels and tires, widening the rear fenders but that's yet to be decided. On to the front end....

SW PA, near Bedford. I'm close to the MD line.

Well, I hate to part with such a priceless piece of technology, but I guess If the price was right...

Now to get the Plymouth and BMW to play well together. Anyone need/want an original rear and/or matching front end???

Finally clean up and sprayed with rust converter. There was barely any rust under the tar pit but I figured why not.

Well it's broke now. This is after stripping the frame down and removing a good 30-40 pounds of tar..........not sure who to blame.

So I thought I was finished with Mopars for a while when my '49 B1B went down the driveway but here I am again, this time with a 1947 Plymouth Deluxe Coupe. WARNING!!! Purists look away now! This will be more of a hot rod than a resto. There was no engine/trans, so it will be powered (fingers crossed) by a.....drumroll please....... . . . NO, NOT A SBC!!..........wait for it... . BMW V12, more precisely, the complete drivetrain from a 750 BMW (fingers crossed lol). Plans are for minor body mods and then sprayed likely a two-tone combo of copper metallic. Below are pics of the body and frame divorced (no, I don't have high-end equipment lol), a previous owner's high-tech suspension repair, AND the extremely rare lighted wheelwell option!!! Oh, FYI.........If you happen to be the previous owner who welded patches over the body mounting bolts on the floorboard, know that I may have cursed you and your family to the twelfth generation!

Well, every story has a beginning and an end. Here is the end of this one. The old girl is leaving me and headed a little farther North to begin the next chapter of its life in New York state. A little sad to see it leaving but it leaves space to begin something else. You die-hard Mopar guys will be glad to know that's a Ram dually pulling the trailer. lol

This is just cool to me. I was gathering up some leftover parts from my truck and came across the headlights. I converted to 12v so I replaced the headlights without really even paying attention to the originals. I turned the one over and was blown away to realize the headlights weren't just original to when I bought the truck, they are THE original headlights to when the truck was built! Next, I thought, "Well, surely they're beyond shot by now." Just for laughs, I run a jumper wire to a 12v battery (yes, 12v) and could not believe it. Both original lights burned on both beams! Now I can't say if it's because things were just better made then or if these lights were never used but below is photographic evidence. FYI: The light is being powered by 6v off the battery charger in the pic.

What is the proper resting postion (off position) for the vacuum powered wipers? My truck is a 1949 B1B. Mine rest against the center of the windshield but many pics I've seen are resting toward the outside (A-pillar area). If mine are wrong, are the wiper arms just positioned on the opposite studs on the wiper motor?

Thanks! We test fit the third hinge before painting and it seemed like it was going to scratch the heck out of the tailgate if we put it the other way. I wasn't sure if they just were that way or if it's because my tailgate is a little out of whack. My tailgate was nearly destroyed from a hard farm life and I'm not nearly a good enough body man to properly straighten it.

Technically my first driving experience was an ancient Craftsman garden tractor, followed shortly by the D15 Allis Chalmers we had/have on the farm. At about 8 my dad let me sit on my backpack and drive the Fury III home from the bus stop (1/2 mile or so). At around 11, my Pap died and I inherited his approx. '52 Willys Jeep. I beat the living snot out of the poor thing and learned how to keep old junk running. lol. Wish I still had it. Hindsight.