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[Uncle-Pekka]

Rich,

Thanks for sharing very interesting information - Aluminium head in 1939.

Has your car been delivered for taxi-duty?

Was the compression ratio also higher for the al.head?

Do we know was there any "soup up" for the camshaft by the factory?

/Pekka

[pflaming]

Anyone drive one of these?

[greg g]

I think city streets and overdrives were at oposites ends of the need scale, plus they added more stuf to maintain. I would likely they would have leaned toward fluid drive for is simplicity and the fact that it might have extended clutch life by reducing shifting.

My father always used to leave his fluid drive Dodges in second gear for putting around in the city. Gotta believe that this would have been what Taxi drivers did also.

I remember when I was about 10 or 11, my Aunt took my cousins and me to NYC to see the Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall. That would have been 58 or 59 and there were still 48/49 Desoto Cabs running the streets.

[Don Coatney]

Anyone drive one of these?

At one time I was a school bus driver.

[pflaming]

Don, while I admire your knowledge of mopars, I have a bit of trouble seeing you as a School Bus Driver. The kids must still remember you.

[BobT-47P15]

Here's a link to an ad for a funeral home in St. James, MO who offers use of

some vintage cars if you wish......

http://jonesfunerals.com/vintage-cars.php

[BobT-47P15]

Lot of pictures of hearses and flower cars, some older ones, at this

HearsWorks website. http://www.hearse.com/pages_to_file_2/11657.html

Included is a pic of a 52 DeSoto..........

[1940plymouth]

Here's a link to an ad for a funeral home in St. James, MO who offers use of

some vintage cars if you wish......

http://jonesfunerals.com/vintage-cars.php

Bob,

I went to college in Burlington, Vermont, from 1967-68, one of the kids I hung out with had a 1951 Caddy hearse with a three speed on the column, supposedly the last year that Caddy did so

[JerseyHarold]

In Bath, New York the funeral home had a '66 Fury wagon as a hearse. I used to see it on my way to college in Geneseo in the early seventies.

I once saw a photo of a RHD '52 Plymouth hearse from Australia. Looked kind of weird, in my opinion.

[T120]

Anyone looking for a vintage limo to buy...

http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_detail.cfm?LOT_ID=FL0112-122467&entryRow=17&lottype=

[Frank Elder]

2 radios........spiffy.

[Dodgeb4ya]

Thats one nice Dodge Limo!

[50 Deluxe]

Back in the 60s I was stationed at HQ AF Europe as a radio tech and had to work on the generals cars which included taking them for rides around Germany to make sure everything worked ok. One 4 star general had a Cadillac and the other had this Mercedes. The Mercedes was hardened and drove like a tank.

[Uncle-Pekka]

Here's a link to an ad for a funeral home in St. James, MO who offers use of

some vintage cars if you wish......

http://jonesfunerals.com/vintage-cars.php

Yes, I said I'd love a ride in a 40's professional car, but this was NOT EXACTLY what I had in my mind...

I know I do not look as gorgeous as I used to, but the rumours of my d***t are preliminary and exaggerated.