Wagon road trip

Young Ed · July 17, 2023

Dynamat project I posted about a couple weeks ago was part of prep for a 600ish mile road trip. This afternoon checked the spare and decided it was time for an update... The one in the rear was a G series bias ply that's probably older than I am!! Dug out the matching wheel I bought a couple years back at Mopars in the park. Cleaned it up and hit it with some spray paint. Tomorrow a used tire and one less thing to get ready. Interestingly also discovered the 14 spare is almost identical height wise to my 15s. So speedometer shouldn't be too messed up.

Plymouthy Adams · July 17, 2023

wheel looks spiffy Ed....going to Wally World maybe.....careful where you tie the pooch when packing.

Young Ed · July 17, 2023

We're headed to the national meeting of the Plymouth club in Lansing Michigan. Once we get there I'll post some updates on this thread. Sounds like we'll be seeing some pretty cool stuff. Top of my list right now is a few WWII fighter planes that were recovered from the bottom of lake MI after crashing during carrier training and the Mopar only show at the Gilmore car museum

Los_Control · July 17, 2023

I need one more of those 15" wheels. Will need a spare. They are not that easy to find in my world .... someday though.

I'm not sure if I have Mopar wheels or not. 3 take a 8" cap & 1 takes a 9" ..... no dog dishes for me til I straighten out the wheels

Young Ed · July 17, 2023

I bought mine at Mopars in the park which has a pretty big Mopar focused swap. I have 2 vehicles that have been swapped to more modern 15s. Paid $100 for the 2. What I discovered to get exact matches is there is a stamped in part # by the valve stem. I believe your 9" cap is an older wheel and the 8" is newer. Beyond that you also likely want to match width. Mine are 6.5 which is more in demand so more $.

Los_Control · July 17, 2023

Took the wife for a drive awhile back to a swap meet .... the swap meet sucked & was a bust .... I did notice a old run down house that was occupied & in the back field was a pile of tires & wheels .... there were old steel wheels all over the top of the pile. Hard to say what all is in the pile.

I keep telling myself I want to go back and see if can talk to the people. ..... Right now this time of year, that is rattle snake country.

3 acres of field with a tire pile in July ..... No thank you.

DJ194950 · July 17, 2023

Are not the snakes good eatin" ? ?

Fun for the young -ins" to catch. Field trip and picnic?

Just need to be the taught how! ?

Catch ya some and have a BBQ. Tastes like chicken from my small experience.

Too damned hot here to do anything outside . and I see the same for your part of the country!

DJ

Merle Coggins · July 18, 2023

9 hours ago, Young Ed said:

We're headed to the national meeting of the Plymouth club in Lansing Michigan. Once we get there I'll post some updates on this thread. Sounds like we'll be seeing some pretty cool stuff. Top of my list right now is a few WWII fighter planes that were recovered from the bottom of lake MI after crashing during carrier training and the Mopar only show at the Gilmore car museum

The Gilmore is an awesome place. The WPC Club meet had their car show there one year. I think I enjoyed the museum more than the car show, and the car show was good too.

Young Ed · July 20, 2023

Wagon and the rest of us have arrived. Started out in the rain until we stopped for gas after about 2.5h. Lots of traffic by Chicago - our 9ish hour drive took 12

Young Ed · July 24, 2023

I'll get some pics added but we're back. Wagon clicked off about 1200 miles with no complaints. Was a little warm towards the end of each drive but with just the vents open and the tailgate cracked about 1/3 we got good airflow without so much noise you couldn't talk or listen to music.

Young Ed · July 25, 2023

Thursday we went to the airzoo. Great collection of aircraft and NASA items.

Only surviving piece of the USS Juneau which happened to land on the deck of another ship as it was sunk.

This was recovered off the bottom of lake Michigan and restored

Only one of these ever made

Young Ed · July 25, 2023

Friday we did a military museum -didn't take many pics there is was more artifacts and smaller stuff vs vehicles. From there the lost railway museum. They had some smaller train cars called inter Urban's.

Third stop was called ye old carriage shop. Lots of very unique cars made in Jackson MI. A few of them were the only one known. These two are the only ones known and he had both!

Neat looking car with the cyclops headlight. He had the next model year which had conventional dual lights.

And a pocket door car

Young Ed · July 25, 2023

Saturday was Mopars at the red barn car show. There were almost 500 Mopars in attendance plus a swap meet and all the regular displays. One of the coolest things to me was this 64 Plymouth satellite