Spring spruce up of my '53 (pics and vid)

[Shifticus]

Hi all,

It's been a while since I last cruised by these boards, so I thought I'd come back with some visual stimulation for everyone. I did a much needed lubing of the chassis, replaced the old cracked muffler with the longest cherry bomb the local Pep boys had on the shelf, and gave the paint and chrome a good rub down. Here are the pics...

And onto the videos. You can really only hear the exhaust in the first clip...

[rolliejoe]

Looks and sounds good!

[eric wissing]

Looking and sounding good. I really like this model. Eric

[Frank Elder]

Nice...it's beggin' for a two tone paint scheme though.

[Reg Evans]

Car and girlfriend look good. I like that cherry bomb sound. Did she almost kill it in the first video after the near miss?

[BobT-47P15]

I don't know about the two tone paint on this car.

It's a plain-jane business coupe to begin with.

Sounds nice, by the way. Looks good. Glad to see you back.

[Shifticus]

Thank you all for the kind words.

Considered painting the roof tan as the paint has significantly deteriorated there. It would be as they came in '53: above the drip rails. I've decided against it though, and I'll just keep the car as is, waxed, and out of the sun as much as possible.

Yep, she screwed up! We were practicing her stick driving, and that was her first "solo." It's something we both enjoy-me teaching her that is-but it's firm that she won't be driving it unless we're in an emergency type situation. She loves the car, but we've got our sights on a 60-63 falcon for her to have as her own... they're cheap, plentiful, and it's no tragedy if she bumps it up a little bit!

[Frank Elder]

I hadda try:D It really does look nice the way it is:)

[RobertKB]

The car looks great and I love '53 Plymouths as I have one also. I really respect your decision to keep the original paint as well. The paint on mine is original too. As the saying goes, "You can restore a car any number of times but it is onlyoriginal once."

[Young Ed]

She loves the car, but we've got our sights on a 60-63 falcon for her to have as her own... they're cheap, plentiful, and it's no tragedy if she bumps it up a little bit!

Do yourself a HUGE favor and stay away from the 4spd ones! This one is a 6cyl 4spd. Had aftermarket hurst shift linkage that still had issues. It liked to get you stuck in first and reverse at the same time. Everything I've heard says the factory ford linkage was even worse.

Now when I was little Dad had this Falcon. Its now up to about 32K miles. Has had 1 repaint that Dad had done. The little old lady he got it from had smashed the front fenders twice.

[blueskies]

Ahhhh... the only other 50's brown Plymouth on the road... Good to see it in action.

Sounds great.

Pete