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58DeSoDodge59 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1112 Location: Wild Wonderful | I figured that I would start this thread for the people with just a couple/few photos from car shows and get togethers. There are not a lot of Forward Look cars at the shows around here. I have been to two car shows so far this year. Here are some pics. (carshows 0210.jpg) (carshows 025.jpg) (carshows 026.jpg) (carshows 016.jpg) (carshows 017.jpg) (carshows 031.jpg) (carshows 034.jpg) (carshows 0220.jpg) Attachments ---------------- carshows 0210.jpg (217KB - 277 downloads) carshows 025.jpg (196KB - 260 downloads) carshows 026.jpg (228KB - 250 downloads) carshows 016.jpg (211KB - 258 downloads) carshows 017.jpg (212KB - 263 downloads) carshows 031.jpg (174KB - 266 downloads) carshows 034.jpg (175KB - 270 downloads) carshows 0220.jpg (204KB - 286 downloads) | ||
Alex |
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Veteran Posts: 253 Location: Victoria Australia | Great stuff, thanks. | ||
lownslow |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 440 Location: Vermont | That 59 Dodge is gorgeous! | ||
jimntempe |
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Expert Posts: 2312 Location: Arizona | When you see a picture like 0220 you realize these old BIG cars were not a whole lot different in size then today's full sized cars. Between that 1959 and the 2014ish the 59 wheelbase is only 2" more. It's total length is about 17" more. The other dimensions are not greatly different. The 59 actually weights LESS by a few hundred pounds. The 59 has over twice the trunk capacity. The 2014 has low seats giving it significantly more headroom. Anyway, my point is that the 59 really isn't any more a "big huge car" then the 2014 except for it being a foot and a half longer. Yeah, it's handling and acceleration are worse, that's the area where the real changes took place. 9.5 v 5.7 0-60 difference. The info is from http://www.automobile-catalog.com/ attached is a pdf of the comparison. Attachments ---------------- Comparison table in automobile-catalog 1959 v 2014_opt_opt.pdf (201KB - 314 downloads) | ||
Powerflite |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9666 Location: So. Cal | Here are a couple of pics I took of my friend's car at Spring Fling in Van Nuys. This is an original fuel injected '58 300D. Notice the weird oil fill tube. If anyone has info on original parts or details to be able to make up the original system, we would be very grateful. My 331 hemi Plymouth is the last photo. DepsilonD's '56 Dodge was there too, but I didn't make it over to get pictures. Maybe he will post some here. Edited by Powerflite 2015-05-12 1:23 PM (IMG_5311.jpg) (IMG_5312.jpg) (IMG_5313.jpg) (56PlymSpringFling_Small.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_5311.jpg (82KB - 258 downloads) IMG_5312.jpg (82KB - 271 downloads) IMG_5313.jpg (70KB - 254 downloads) 56PlymSpringFling_Small.JPG (88KB - 249 downloads) | ||
DepsilonD |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 792 Location: Buena Park, CA | As mentioned by Powerflite, I do have a few more pictures from the 2015 Spring Fling. Not all of them are friends, but I wish some of them were . . . . (IMG_0927.jpg) (IMG_0932.jpg) (IMG_0948.jpg) (IMG_0974.jpg) (IMG_0988.jpg) (IMG_0993.jpg) (IMG_0990.jpg) (IMG_0999.jpg) (029-mopar-spring-fling-cpw-car-show-2015.jpg) Attachments ---------------- IMG_0927.jpg (78KB - 257 downloads) IMG_0932.jpg (68KB - 243 downloads) IMG_0948.jpg (91KB - 254 downloads) IMG_0974.jpg (84KB - 258 downloads) IMG_0988.jpg (87KB - 257 downloads) IMG_0993.jpg (101KB - 284 downloads) IMG_0990.jpg (86KB - 259 downloads) IMG_0999.jpg (77KB - 261 downloads) 029-mopar-spring-fling-cpw-car-show-2015.jpg (80KB - 251 downloads) | ||
mstrug |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 6500 Location: Newark, Texas (Fort Worth) | I like the blown cross-ram! Marc. | ||
1960fury |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7400 Location: northern germany | went to a car show past sunday and took pictures of the most beautiful car that was there (or elsewhere in the universe) Edited by 1960fury 2015-05-12 5:13 PM (rocket1.jpg) (moonbeam2.jpg) Attachments ---------------- rocket1.jpg (63KB - 248 downloads) moonbeam2.jpg (61KB - 261 downloads) | ||
christine-lover |
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | Nice 300D. There was one for sale on eBay in 2010. It was a solid driver car, same color. | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | If the Challenger and the 59CRL would have been model cars, then they would appear to have been built in different scales! | ||
MOPAR-TO-YA |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 5139 Location: cornpatch county, Southwest IOA | Image # 0999 is stock 56 Windsor grill and stock 56 New Yorker headlight rings... I think the bumper is stock with the guards removed. . IMO the 56 Chryslers looked like custom cars of the day---right out of the factory...............................MO | ||
60 Imp |
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Location: North Australia | Sid, the 60 is a beauty! You should post up some recent pics in the members rides, am keen to see some detailed photo's. The supercharged 59 is also a ripper, as is the custom 56 Chrysler. I was thinking to put up some pics on this thread, but I am a bit humbled. Steve. | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Sid's car must be quite a sight on the roads of Germany. | ||
1960fury |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7400 Location: northern germany | 60 Imp - 2015-05-13 8:05 AM Sid, the 60 is a beauty! You should post up some recent pics in the members rides, am keen to see some detailed photo's. The supercharged 59 is also a ripper, as is the custom 56 Chrysler. I was thinking to put up some pics on this thread, but I am a bit humbled. Steve. " thanks! the restoration is over 150k miles/25 years old and recently some unknown ******** "keyed" the drivers side from taillight to headlight, last year i lost the drivers side stainless skirt at high speed on the autobahn after a car show. i guess someone fiddled with it. there is no rust, visible or elsewhere but its not a "show" car. but it still looks nice and drives like a dream at any speed. that old car is the embodiment of dependability and the love of my life. (moonbeam.jpg) (60fury1big.jpg) Attachments ---------------- moonbeam.jpg (54KB - 251 downloads) 60fury1big.jpg (147KB - 241 downloads) | ||
GregCon |
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Expert Posts: 2524 Location: Houston | I really like the 300D, a lot. I also like the blown crossram car with one exception...the air cleaner/air duct is too 'Mickey Mouse'. I'd take the time to make on out of something other than press-braked sheetmetal. Small detail but on that engine it is 'front and center'. | ||
60crossram |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 836 Location: Layton, Utah | I'm pretty amazed at how much power these blower/pro-charger set give an engine. One of my buddies has one in a 65 Chrysler 300, really nice unrestored car that has a 4 speed now too, but for being a heavy car is really digs in hard and sets you back. His is an early pro-charger so it is a bit geary sounding which is normal for the early ones I guess. He says the newer versions are quieter. He does run methanol injection through it from a bottle in the trunk, which I think is just windshield washing fluid but don't quote me on that. His has amazing power even just coming out of the hole unlike a turbo would do. With a Crossram engine not really kicking in the power until higher in the RPM scale, I would really like to know how this 59 Plymouth blown crossram runs. Does anyone know him ? I tend to agree with GregCon about the square tubing. Not knocking any ones work at all because it looks amazing, but everything else is round/oval flowing tubes. I kind of would like to turn my 57 plaza into a blower sleeper like this someday. If the world hasn't imploded first. Mopar or no car ! | ||
1960fury |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7400 Location: northern germany | went to another car show today. met a couple of friends there. "desotogirl" is the owner of the lovely little goggo coupe. i really want to have one too! so nice! like a miniature 50s american car! (sidgoggomoonbeam.jpg) (sid&Goggo&moonbeam.jpg) (goggogalaxie.jpg) Attachments ---------------- sidgoggomoonbeam.jpg (53KB - 248 downloads) sid&Goggo&moonbeam.jpg (63KB - 239 downloads) goggogalaxie.jpg (36KB - 235 downloads) | ||
58DeSoDodge59 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1112 Location: Wild Wonderful | The only other FL at the Cruise-in. (megans 031.jpg) (megans 032.jpg) Attachments ---------------- megans 031.jpg (176KB - 242 downloads) megans 032.jpg (143KB - 250 downloads) | ||
58DeSoDodge59 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1112 Location: Wild Wonderful | Cruise-in. Cumberland, MD (megans 035.jpg) (megans 036.jpg) Attachments ---------------- megans 035.jpg (141KB - 238 downloads) megans 036.jpg (154KB - 239 downloads) | ||
58DeSoDodge59 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1112 Location: Wild Wonderful | Ya don't see these too often. (megans 033.jpg) Attachments ---------------- megans 033.jpg (142KB - 234 downloads) | ||
58 DESOTOS RULE |
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | The only FL car seen at this year's Springfiled (OH) Memorial Day car show was a 1961 Chrysler 300G with long ram minfolds. It seemed pretty good to me although there was one old timer who looked at it and told me that he thought the seating leather had been replaced and badly at that. You be the judge. (1961 Chrysler 300G Front.jpg) (1961 Chrysler 300G rear.jpg) (1961 Chrysler 300G Ram Manifold.jpg) (1961 Chrysler 300G Left Side.jpg) (1961 Chrysler 300G Interior.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1961 Chrysler 300G Front.jpg (163KB - 253 downloads) 1961 Chrysler 300G rear.jpg (128KB - 237 downloads) 1961 Chrysler 300G Ram Manifold.jpg (134KB - 234 downloads) 1961 Chrysler 300G Left Side.jpg (130KB - 227 downloads) 1961 Chrysler 300G Interior.jpg (135KB - 244 downloads) | ||
58DeSoDodge59 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1112 Location: Wild Wonderful | Relaxing at the Drive-in movies. Had a great time again this year. I love that show. They showed American Graffiti. (2016driveinlong.jpg) (2016driveinshow.jpg) (2016driveinrelax.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 2016driveinlong.jpg (210KB - 187 downloads) 2016driveinshow.jpg (235KB - 177 downloads) 2016driveinrelax.jpg (249KB - 180 downloads) | ||
57desoto |
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Expert Posts: 1488 Location: New Castle PA | Your drive-in pics remind me of the time I took my '57 Desoto Firedome sedan to a drive-in about 45 minutes from where I live. I forgot that today's drive-ins, if they still exist, usually use FM radios to transmit the movie sound. (When I grew up, you hooked a speaker-on-a-pole to your car window...). I didn't have an FM radio, but with the windows down, I could hear sound from cars parked around me. That is, until it got cool and everyone rolled up the windows! With no sound, the movie was bad, so we left. To top it off, a couple blocks from my house, I hit a skunk that came out in front of me! THAT'S a bad evening! | ||
60 Imp |
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Location: North Australia | 57desoto - 2016-10-17 8:30 PM Your drive-in pics remind me of the time I took my '57 Desoto Firedome sedan to a drive-in about 45 minutes from where I live. I forgot that today's drive-ins, if they still exist, usually use FM radios to transmit the movie sound. (When I grew up, you hooked a speaker-on-a-pole to your car window...). I didn't have an FM radio, but with the windows down, I could hear sound from cars parked around me. That is, until it got cool and everyone rolled up the windows! With no sound, the movie was bad, so we left. To top it off, a couple blocks from my house, I hit a skunk that came out in front of me! THAT'S a bad evening! Thats funny! Not for the skunk though. What happens when you hit a skunk, is it as bad as I imagine? I hit a cat with my Imp on one of its first 'legal' test runs in 2013. I nearly cleaned up an aboriginal drunk the same trip. The brakes worked good from 50 MPH! They still work good too. Steve. | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | The degree of unpleasantness involving skunks depends on if said skunk unleashed its spray of love juice and to what level you or your car get sprayed. A direct shot can result in a heavy stink that lasts a LONG time .... months ! Back in my high school days, a friend's Dad was quite the miser and gathered all sorts of stuff to barter around to keep the family in stuff they needed. This included stacks and stacks of crated fruits and vegetables. It was my friend's job to go through these on a regular basis and cull out the stuff that was going bad and feed it to the livestock. Being the devious kids we were, some of the rotting goods were set aside as ammunition for a device we called The Funnelator .... a 12" plastic funnel with 32 feet of surgical tubing woven through some holes we drilled in it to get a 4x loop. On the other end of the surgical tubing loops were 6" rings, used as handles. With 3 people, one holding each ring, and a 3rd pulling the funnel back with a launch object, we could place apples, zucchinis, or just about anything into earth's orbit with ease. Enter the drive-in theatre .... ! Out towards Bellevue was one such drive-in. Up on the hill above, the old NP mainline ran past on it's way north to Canada. By 1978, the BN merger was 8 years old and the old NP main was pretty quiet, with traffic all redirected over the GN water line out of Seattle. Anyway, we'd take a couple crates of rotting veggies and the old funnelator out there, park the truck, and walk them down the tracks to a good launch point across the screen of the theatre. Now, the objective here was not to rain junk down upon the cars below, but rather, to make a trajectory with the veggies across the projector's path, causing large black "shadow objects" to fly across the screen. The challenge being to get them as close to the projector as possible, thusly creating larger black blobs to "eclipse" the screen. It was quite hilarious to see the tumbling silhouette of a flying zucchini fly across the screen. Moviegoers must have found it halarious too, as soon a horn storm would erupt and much mayhem would ensue. Good thing there was a high fence to keep people from sneaking into see the movie without a ticket, because it seemed many people wanted to come up on the tracks and join us in our fun. This might go on for 30 minutes. We'd usually end up emptying a couple crates of goods and make our way back to the truck and go get some late night chow at the Burgermaster drive-in, letting the moviegoers sort out what all the black blobs were about. Today, we'd be on a national terrorist wanted list for doing such things. | ||
SavoyPlaza |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1172 Location: Georgia | Excellent story, Doc! Kinda makes you wonder where all that produce landed! Pete | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | There was a strip of woods beyond. Probably all splattered with rotted fruit and veggies. | ||
ABloch |
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Expert Posts: 1476 Location: Pacific Northwest | Mmmmmm, Burgermaster. | ||
58DeSoDodge59 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1112 Location: Wild Wonderful | (americanmetal.jpg) (neonruby.jpg) (rubyneon.jpg) Attachments ---------------- americanmetal.jpg (221KB - 179 downloads) neonruby.jpg (171KB - 159 downloads) rubyneon.jpg (219KB - 155 downloads) | ||
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