Sighting

[pflaming]

Driving home this afternoon I mistook a street I seldom if ever drive. Was driving slowly and through the cracks in the fence boards sighted an old plymouth. So I investigaged. It's a '51 - '52 four door sedan, with www tires, fulton sun shield, light green, dentless. It looks like it was driven there and parked.

 

Will investigate when we return. Did'nt have my camera but would have gotten permission anyway.

 

Maybe it has an overdrive!!!!!

[USMC1188]

Any updates?  It's always fun finding cars like this!

[pflaming]

we just arrived in Maine, will be here four weeks with our oldest soh and has family. Upon my return I'll check it out. For someone who likes the four door, this appears to be a nice one. We have a very DRY climate, last year 3 " of rain from Jan 1 to Dec 31. Normal is 15". I see nice old cars all the time.

[USMC1188]

That's awesome!  Most of them I see here are rusted out sitting in someone's driveway or yard... Once a car is parked and sits outside here in Ohio, they don't last long.

[pflaming]

go to Classiccarparts.org in Fowler CA for a nice selection of pre '60's cars for sale. They are a reasonable source of parts. Steve has become a good friend to me.

[Mark D]

Welcome back to New England!

[Plymouthy Adams]

unfortunately in the 49-52 bodies..physical indicators as external rust does not always show the underling problems..the Briggs bodies of this era had inherent problems by design that extended to other bodies built by Briggs for the period..Packard be almost 100% the same relational problems in the body as Mopar.  So at first glance the car can appear pretty solid but yet have some pretty major damage..sad part is that in a  body with minimal rust compared to one with major rust..the repair action to correct is almost the same...a repair exacted in the past may well appear solid yet today but the underlying metal to which this patch is situated continues to degrade..and stay hidden to the eye until disturbed by a related repair or modification of the body as one cuts into a trace of this damage and finds that as he cuts away the problems get larger and larger as it is traced back to the root cause.  Determining if a car of this era has problems will require floor covering removal and removal of any undercoating to allow for visual and I suggest, probing for thin rusted substrate..only this will determine if the structure is solid.