MackTheFinger

A friend who taught me much of what I know about paint and bodywork used the DuPont version of this with good results. He'd block through primer, wipe down with this stuff and shoot paint right over it. He was and still is considered one of the best bodywork\painters anywhere near here. http://products.axaltacs.com/dcat/us/en/dr/product/5717S.html?desktop=true

Same here, I drive too much for work. Around 60k miles for work in the past year and I doubt that I put over a hundred miles on a personal vehicle.

That's a really beautiful DeSoto!

BIL bought a new Super Bee in 1970. In '71 I ran it right into a tree for him. Not real hard, just enough!! Dragging it uphill out of the woods gave the old JD 50 all it wanted! That car was lots of fun!

I love VW's! I traded a '63 Dodge pickup for my first VW, a '65 Beetle; in 1970 and gave it to a girlfriend.. I didn't own another Beetle for several years until a friend gave me a '67. I started restoring it for my son, intending to let him drive it when he got his license. I wasn't finished with it when he turned 16 so he ended up driving my transporter instead. He wasn't happy about driving the bus at first but after a while he ended up loving it. His high school let the kids go wherever they wanted at lunch and he always had a van full. Once at a parent-teacher conference a teacher approached my wife and I and mentioned that while she didn't have him in any classes she had noticed that he and his friend's really enjoyed driving my old bus. She said it looked like there were always a dozen kids in it. Maybe some good came of being the local hippie/biker's kid..

Those are cool. I try not to but occasionally I have spoken in cursive when working on cars.

That's a really nice looking car! I can't see anything about it not to like! Well, other than it's way the heck down in Amarillo! ?

Time for a video!!

Front steer GM, Camaro, Firebird, or Nova. Good front-ends, they'll go down the road good even smack wore out. Or it could be a full frame swap, too. Dime to a doughnut it's got a small-block Chevy in it, too. Not to everyone's liking but I have no issue with any of it. More pics would be nice.

That's a beauty! Good buy!

It's actually clear glass with what I assumed were round bullseye chips on the inside, although I also thought they may have been something left by insects or some other unidentified substance. The weird part is that I've had that car a decade or longer and only noticed the diiference in the lenses recently.

My older brother's heat transfer studies taught him to not stick his tongue to a hot pressure cooker. ?

This one's clear glass but maybe it bleached out over the years. It has what looks like some little bullseye chips in it. I'm surprised I'd never noticed it before.

That all makes sense. I just never noticed it before and had no idea what it was for.

I was looking through my junk and saw something I hadn't noticed on the driver's side tail-light on a 1940 Plymouth. What's the purpose of the clear lens protruding from the tail-light? Only thing I could think of was a backup light.

Looks like normal condensation and carbon.

I believe Dave72dt is correct. Aftermarket Harley from the good ol' days. If you get more of 'em than you need I'd be interested in one.

Right on, brother.. And I'm sorry to hear about Mark's eye problem, too.. One of my son's friend's found out when they were in high school to never EVER use a pressure washer to clean under your fingernails.. he cleaned one right off the end of his finger. Like they say, it ain't a party until someone gets hurt!!

As noted, best first guess would be throttle linkage. Another possibility, dragging, smoking hot brakes.. Hey, it happens!!

We always had a garden when we lived on the farm. It took up about an acre. Lots of kids meant lots of gardening, canning, etc. My parents, having grown up in the early 20th century and accustomed to hard times; never gave up on those habits.

The way I understood it, and I wouldn't swear this is correct; after WWII when the Allies were splitting up Germany the USSR got the BMW factories and tooling on the Eastern side and cut their buddies in China in on the deal while all the U.S. got was to have the American dollar declared as the worldwide currency standard since the rest of the world was penniless and smoldering and the Allies were deep in debt to us. That isn't political, money doesn't care about politics. There's a Ural dealer just outside St. Louis. A friend had a Ural Sidecar rig that had been retrofitted with a BMW R60 engine. He thought about putting an R90 in it but the transmission and rear drive wouldn't have held up. They barely held up to the 500cc Ural motors. The first motorcycle I ever rode was a 1946 Harley 125 we had on the farm when I was a kid. It was the predecessor to the Hummer and had a rubber band suspended front fork. And thus began my decline into life as a motorcycle hoodlum.. Other than the skull fracture, broken bones, road rash, lacerations and contusions I wouldn't trade it for anything.. ?

I'll be happy to help but if those are flying monkeys you're on your own!!

It's good to see you enjoying the car with your family! My brother divides his time between Minneapolis and Mora and has really been enjoying the early spring!

I swapped out a motor in a Plymouth van once. IIRC it was a Mitsubishi V6 motor. A friend's OL had run it dry and blew it up. Junkyard motor was $300 and I charged her $150 to swap it out. I was impressed with the amount of power it had. Van ended up with my friend's brother in KC and now that I think about it those people are all underground now. Buddy died in '98. There were 9 kids in his family, only one of them's left, and she's nuttier than a monkey on crack.. ?

There's not much to a points ignition and nobody's gonna get by without working on these old cars sooner or later. I'd just carry some extra parts and be ready to get greasy.