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I need more help in putting
together my '57 Plymouth Savoy 2 door club coupe (2 door post). For those
that don't remember my previous posting, it is a very early production '57, with
the early lower grille (no vertical slats in the holes) and the '56 style
steering wheel. The cardboard inserts on the door panels were dated Aug
10, 1956.
I wrote down the engine number
today, and it's P31-033305. The P31 tells me it's an authentic '57 V8 (I'm
pretty certain it's the engine this car came with new). The VIN # is
26597393, so I know it's the 2,393rd V8 car made in the Los Angeles plant that
year. Even though the engine number is the lowest P31 engine number I can
recall ever seeing, I wonder why it's so much higher than the
VIN?
I have a '59 Savoy that was
originally a stick shift that I was going to use the clutch, bellhousing,
flywheel, etc off of to convert my '57's current Powerflite to stick w/
overdrive (The actual O/D trans came off a different car).
Unfortunately, when we went underneath the '59 to start unbolting things, it
became apparent that someone in the past had started to convert it to an
automatic, complete with engine and transmission already loosely put in, but not
set up, and with all the automatic parts (steering column, linkages, pedals)
stashed in the trunk. Now I don't know what drivetrain is resting in the
'59. The engine block number is MP8-251021 (I suspect '58 Plymouth?
350?), and the tranny has part number 1638530. Can anyone tell me for
certain what these are?
Finally, my original '57 V8 has
power steering. The steering column I found for the manual, OD trans does
not have a power steering gearbox. Obviously, to switch to the manual
trans, I have to swap out steering columns. Has anyone ever seen a '57
power steering/manual trans steering column? It looks pretty much
impossible to graft the power steering gearbox onto the manual steering
column. . .can this be done?
Mark
mjh
'57 Savoy, '57 Fury, in green
sunny Oregon, where spring has sprung and the old cars are out of
hibernation!
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