Really chopped the top......

[BobT-47P15]

.......right off the parts coupe over in Kansas Saturday.

Son-in-law Dale took his grinder with cutting wheel.....now has the top to

replace the damaged one on the brown P15 coupe I gave him.

He trailered it back to his home in Kansas City a couple weeks ago.

Got a few fairly good items from the dash, especially the gauges.

Some other dash stuff wasn't much good. The center medallion

was painted black by some previous owner, but cleaned up pretty

well.....took a lot of rubbing with paint thinner and Mother's mag

wheel polish. Went thru most of my goodie boxes in the garage, gave

him a bunch of parts and pieces that were lurking around....kinda like

early Christmas. Also had to exchange the battery I bought at Atwoods

Farm Supply recently as it didn't hold a charge very well. Took another

one of the same type, and hope it does better. He has the car tuned

a little better now and it starts up very quickly, even with old 12 volt

style skinny battery cables. Will eventually get them replaced with

0 gauge. Had a good weekend doing old Plymouth stuff.

[RobertKB]

I normally don't like chop jobs but yours is one I don't mind! Sounds like you had fun doing Plymouth stuff and spending time with your son-in-law. It sounds like the old Plymouth will one day be repaired and I know forum members will love being kept updated. Thanks for posting the pictures.

[Plymouthy Adams]

that is going to be a rather involved project but whould be very rewarding when finished..the car is solid enough to merit this work...luck to him, hope nothing happenes that would take his time and effort away from the project

[steveplym]

Gonna be a neat coupe Bob. Glad you guys decided to fix it. Keep us updated.

[BobT-47P15]

The brown coupe has (I think) a 53 Plym engine with split manifold, which I'm sure

has been rebuilt at some time in the past. A local guy ran it in his 41 Plymouth

before switching to some type of V8. Seems to run good so far.....haven't been

able to actually get out and drive it down the road. Bought that motor

from a guy who had it stored in an old garage for several years.

Right now, it won't shift into reverse, so we discovered when loading it onto the

trailer. Probably just a linkage thing.

Have had the brakes completely re-done with new wheel cylinders and a N O S master

cylinder purchased thru a local truck brake company.

Dale says the heater works real good. And the fan works well. That sorta surprised

me. Now have another new battery for it, so hopefully it will continue to start OK.

Think I'll get some new 0 gauge battery cables from our local Battery Warehouse.

The engine and bay need going thru in terms of clean-up after the darn battery blew

up earlier in the year. Had the engine painted pretty nicely......and the firewall

didn't look too bad, had the radiator all painted and it was pretty clean looking.

Ah, well.

First pic is before......next pic, after.

It now looks even worse than that after having sat for awhile.

Washed off stuff with baking soda and Coca Cola, but still didn't stop

all the corrosion.

Am working on a set of correct horns for the car - painting them

mainly. Someone had replaced the horns with one 12 volt horn,

which they operated by having a 12V battery in the trunk. I guess

you could give them a couple points for inventiveness.

[Rollie���]

Bob,

your coupe actually doesn't look too bad after being yanked on, good job on saving the car and good luck with the new roof/cowl install.