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Location: Ocean Park, Washington | great shots!!!!!! I so have a hard time knowing that my project is about 3-4 years from completion so these kind of drives can happen. I love the lines and fins on your Dodge. The steering wheel center is probably my favorite of all. |
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Location: Yorba Linda, Ca | If you like steering wheels, Floyd, check this out! They are all forward look steering wheels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwmeL-VhxH4
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Location: ZH, Switzerland | Thanks a lot Gary. I love it. Happy New Year to you and your family!
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Location: Yorba Linda, Ca | You are welcome, Dieter, Happy New Year!
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Location: Ocean Park, Washington | Great video Gary, thanks for that!!! Once I completed the rebuild on the chassis and engine, I sent it to a buddy for storage. Now that the body is in the garage, it is a daunting task, to repair the rust problems that I have uncovered. I find myself coming up with reasons NOT to get in the cold garage and continue on this massive '56 4 door Windsor. Its tough on the mind. Any words of wisdom to push me? |
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Location: Yorba Linda, Ca | Well, How about having "an appropriate car" to do some of the cruisin' ya just seen in that video?
If that doesn't inspire you, then What Will? WAtch it a few more times (LOL)!
Good luck with the "Project"!!!
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Location: Brisbane, Australia | I took my 57 Fireflite for a ride today with the top off. It was only a short run over to the Bobby Grant, my gearbox builder. Such a beautiful day, slight breeze, sun shining down about 30 deg. Certainly got some looks! I of course was up front with my fav girl by my side -- in the truck!!!
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Location: The Netherlands | Swapped out the drive shaft for one with new joints and checked the problem the old one had.
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Location: bishop, ca | Did you have the chance to test its speedometer/odometer accuracy, like you did for H. , when you visited here,
this past fall?
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Location: The Netherlands | Mine is not correct. I've got an incorrect pinion. If I remember correctly I've got a 19 tooth while I need an 17 tooth.
It's a lot better than before as I had an 20 tooth in there. While doing 60mph the speedo showed 90mph.
Can't wait for the summer!
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Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden | earleebob1 - 2012-01-02 7:17 PM
I took my 57 Fireflite for a ride today with the top off. It was only a short run over to the Bobby Grant, my gearbox builder. Such a beautiful day, slight breeze, sun shining down about 30 deg. Certainly got some looks! I of course was up front with my fav girl by my side -- in the truck!!!
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Location: Brisbane, Australia | yes Joakim, I cant wait to get back into the reassembly, hopefully by mid 2012 it will be drivable, but there are still so many things to finish and a few more parts to acquire.
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Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden | earleebob1 - 2012-01-04 3:52 PM
yes Joakim, I cant wait to get back into the reassembly, hopefully by mid 2012 it will be drivable, but there are still so many things to finish and a few more parts to acquire.
Bob
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Location: bishop, ca | Matt---I may have a 17-toother; PM me and we'll talk--think I can use a 19toother, IIRC for H.'s 2.76 rear end.
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Location: Brisbane, Australia | show car? probably not! Drive car definitely. cant wait to go cruisin!
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Location: Ocean Park, Washington | Exactly Bob!!
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Location: little rock, AR | I'm working on cleaning up my '60 Plymouth Aero wheel. I may end up selling it as my '60 Plymouth is all original and the green doesn't match my interior. It just depends on what its worth.
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Location: Muskego, WI | d500neil - 2012-01-04 3:10 PM
Matt---I may have a 17-toother; PM me and we'll talk--think I can use a 19toother, IIRC for H.'s 2.76 rear end.
Give a call to Fatsco Transmission, I bought I wide variety from them for my old cast iron TorqueFlite. |
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Location: Ny | It's been a while since I've logged on or posted. Even longer since working on the '55. Now that the husband is back home from Iraq and the holidays are over, we're ready to get down and dirty once again. I bought a small shop vac and gave the interior, hood, trunk areas a good sweeping this afternoon, and we managed to pull the gas tank as well. Baby steps to the elevator... |
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Location: Williams California | Jessica - 2012-01-06 2:44 PM
It's been a while since I've logged on or posted. Even longer since working on the '55. Now that the husband is back home from Iraq and the holidays are over, we're ready to get down and dirty once again. I bought a small shop vac and gave the interior, hood, trunk areas a good sweeping this afternoon, and we managed to pull the gas tank as well. Baby steps to the elevator...
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Location: Ny | Might have to hit you up for more parts, John. The trunk wasn't as solid as I originally thought now that we've scraped away some of that undercoating. |
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Location: Muskego, WI | Just finished rebuilding my power window motors and then degreasing and re-greasing the regulators. Now doing the same for the power seat. |
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Location: Rawlins WY | Chrome58 - 2011-11-27 8:45 AM
I've done little today ...
Cleaned, oiled and installed the speedometer cable.
And then I started to install the main wire harness behind the dashboard.
A big thanks to Greg Legatt for his all labeled new harnesses ... :cool:
Where did you get the harnesses from?
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Location: Townsville,Qld,Australia | Put a new trunk lock in.
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Location: The Netherlands | Changed all the fluids and the oil filter.
Still working on the torqueflite but I need to remove parts of the old gasket |
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Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden | sixpack - 2012-01-12 1:49 AM
Put a new trunk lock in.
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Location: Jamaica Plain, MA | I built a portable garage and put her away for the winter. 
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Location: Brisbane, Australia | Hello Jon is that a 57 peering out of your portable garage? I would love to see some clearer photos if you have them. |
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Location: Williams California | I installed a recored radiator in the '59 Dodge yesterday, today, I am pulling the transmission to repair an intermittent front pump area leak.
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Location: canandaigua, ny | Its been a while since ive posted, cancer was kicking my ass for a while, im back on track now.
After driving the wagon for 2 year as it was, its time to DO IT. So far we gutted it, and getting it ready to remove the body from the frame
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Location: Sept. 1958 | wild440 - 2012-01-15 6:26 PM
Its been a while since ive posted, cancer was kicking my ass for a while, im back on track now.
After driving the wagon for 2 year as it was, its time to DO IT. So far we gutted it, and getting it ready to remove the body from the frame
fun, fun, fun
God bless you. Right now I'm in the hospital with my brother who's 31 and has cancer. Right now he's battling a very nasty infection but is now showing positive changes. It's been hell. |
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Location: bishop, ca | Bummer, you guys---hoping for the best for y'all, this year.
Cancer can affect any body part, and does, but there were only very few of them that ever got any real publicity,
in the 50's-60's.
And, in case anyone doesn't already know this, each type of Cancer cell appears unique from all of the others (under
a microscope), and it is quite common for one type of C. to metastasize into another organ, so that a person might
get 'brain' cancer in his liver.
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Location: seattle, Wa. | Matthew's cvt has a '59 P speedo, but a '61 C transmission. Therein lies the problem w/ inaccurate speedo reading. |
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Location: Blythewood, SC | Drove it to church. Drove it to lunch. Drove it to Bible study. Miles seem to be just flying by... |
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Location: Heaven Above (Formerly Oklahoma City,OK) | I moved the '55 CRL from the warehouse to the newly renovated Cushman shop where I hoe to continue putting the car back together.
The past six months have bee takenup by moving a complete business out of a 10,000 sq. ft. warehouse, and consolidating it into a 5,000 sq.ft.
warehouse in which my brother also has his Cushman business. Finally got the shelving up and all the paint and materials, etc. onto shelving,
the other un-installed parts of the interior and A/C located and stored to be installed the next several months. It seems that time is getting shorter
with each passing day. Now there's only the '55 CRL to finish, the 63 Corvair to start, the LOLA 342 race car to be stripped to the bare frame exrayed and a jillion rodends (Heim joints) to replace and rebuild, plus maintaining the Mazda GT3 race car, and the Mazda GT Lite race car. And, I don't touch the Chump race car.............LOL |
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Location: Heaven Above (Formerly Oklahoma City,OK) | I moved the '55 CRL from the warehouse to the newly renovated Cushman shop where I hope to continue putting the car back together.
The past six months have bee taken up by moving a complete business out of a 10,000 sq. ft. warehouse, and consolidating it into a 5,000 sq.ft. warehouse in which my brother also has his Cushman business. Finally got the shelving up and all the paint and materials, etc. onto shelving,the other un-installed parts of the interior and A/C located and stored to be installed the next several months. It seems that time is getting shorter
with each passing day. Now there's only the '55 CRL to finish, the 63 Corvair to start, the LOLA 342 race car to be stripped to the bare frame exrayed and a jillion rodends (Heim joints) to replace and rebuild, plus maintaining the Mazda GT3 race car, and the Mazda GT Lite race car. And, I don't even think about touching the Chump race car.............LOL
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Location: Netherlands | Proceded to work on the design of a discbrake conversion on my '60-NY.
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Location: Albuquerque, NM | Well, today I replaced the sender in my gas tank, and also put on the wheels with 2 new tires (pics in wheels section)
FIlled up the gas tank to verify that the gauge worked - man, I can't recall the last time I had to put in over 22 gallons to fill up a car - ha ha ha
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Location: bishop, ca | Drove, but didn't exercise, H., today; very much a cruise-around-and-show-the-colors type day, but, I did remove his
clock, which had indicated that it was getting lazy in its operation.
Lubed its guts with WD-40, but think that its problem was a slight loosening of the power-wire connection to it.
Felt good to be back behind the wheel after a couple weeks 'off', but, precipitation is forecast the Sierra Nevada (which
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Location: UK | Took the speedometer out of the dodge as it was sticking at whatever it felt like sticking at. It was impossible to read the numbers on the odometer as well due to the layer of grime that had built up. Glad to be back the right way up to get the blood back in my feet.
I'm sure they designed the dash so you couldn't get it apart, half the screws have got lost behind the dash and I think I'm going to have twice the fun putting it back in... |
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Location: ZH, Switzerland | I checked my Chrysli. The upper LH front brake cylinder is filled with air, because the rubber umbrella, the piston and the spring jumped out of the brake cylinder when I was installing the rear brake shoe. The RH side brake is stuck again. Under the brake pedal is a wooden block to resist any apply of the brake pedal. (more about the story in the brake/wheels/tires - brake locked on).
But there is some more work - small leakage at the bottom of the radiator (could be the lower hose) and a - more severe - leakage at the transmission...
Happy Motoring!
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Location: bishop, ca | Yeah, good point; Horrie's flat-topped Delco lasted from 1987 -2008 (just went back & checked
on its purchase date).
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Location: Muskego, WI | Cleaned the hell out of my radiator. I had it checked out and sealed up, but it was still a rusty mess. Pretty clean now, also vacuumed out a big marble sized chunk of old lead. Currently soaking the inside with mild vinegar solution to finish the job before repainting. |
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Location: bishop, ca | Jon, have you had the radiator be pressure checked?
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Location: Williams California | Test drove the '59 Dodge after reinstalling the transmission. No more leaks, and ready for M'lisa to use it.
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Location: Muskego, WI | d500neil - 2012-01-25 7:07 PM
Jon, have you had the radiator be pressure checked?
Yes, and they discovered a few minor leaks. The radiator was patched and retested okay. They then spray painted the whole thing even though the mounting brackets were rusty. So I stripped it back down to repaint it properly. I have a warranty tag on in and I always keep my documentation so if something comes up I can take it back in. |
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What did you do to your FL car today?
