What year (model) mopar is this going under the torch

[greg g]

[desoto1939]

Since there is only a single horn I might guess either a dodge or Plymouth might be a dodge truck. I would say mid 30's but by looking at the cowl there looks to be a hot water hose going into the right side of the cowl

This is my best guess.

Rich Hartung

desoto1939@aol.com

[1940plymouth]

Looks like there are outside hinges on the driver's door also, so that would make it in the '30's if it is a car

[littlemo]

Wonder if he's working by the hour or by the pound??? Cass, alias littlemo...

[TodFitch]

Lever arm shocks, running boards, imply mid-1930s or earlier. Six cylinder engine implies 1933 or later if Plymouth. However the frame front cross member does not match the '33 Plymouth DeLuxe (PD) and the illustrations of the '33 PC frame I've seen look more like the PD than this photo. I guess it could be a '34 PG or a '35 PJ but I don't know enough about what those frames look like to say. Here is a photo of a '33 PD frame, you can see the front cross member under the radiator does not angle forward like the un-identified one.

Edited December 29, 2011 by TodFitch

[Young Ed]

Boy not too much to go on. Still has a straight axle front end with leaf springs. Generator with cutout should make it 39 or earlier. Looks like it might have knee action shocks-did mopars have those?

[TodFitch]

Boy not too much to go on. Still has a straight axle front end with leaf springs. Generator with cutout should make it 39 or earlier. Looks like it might have knee action shocks-did mopars have those?

Except '34 PE and PF had unequal A-arm independent front suspension. Not, "knee action" (Chevy trade name for its independent front suspension) but lever arm shocks were used up until "airplane style" (modern looking) shocks were introduced in 1937 for Plymouth. I think that Chrysler switched all of its car makes to the "airplane style" before other manufacturers. Don't know about trucks.

[Young Ed]

The 39-47 trucks have airplane style so they couldn't have been too far behind the cars. I think some of the larger trucks may have carried on with lever arm ones if equiped with rear shocks. So we've got it narrowed down to 34PG or a 35-36. Not too shabby.

[dezeldoc]

Looks just like my 36.

[old stovebolt]

Looks like a Victor torch set up.....

[Don Coatney]

The cutter has his hat on backwards and his safety goggles out of position. Where is OSHA?