Recent content by 70DartMike

Update, I pulled the car with my tractor over to the hoist so I could get underneath easier. Got the parking brake cable hooked up, and the pushbutton cable installed. Someone had taken the pin with the release spring, and flipped it upside down... so you weren't able to press the spring to get...

45,xxx. I believe it's original to be honest, I realize it's got rust but it also sat outside for the last 40 years. The way it drives straight down the road: no bumps, no issues, no wandering; leads me to believe the mileage is original. The doors open and shut beautifully, the body lines all...

I ended up buying the adapter and putting in an LA 318 pump. I am doing some other work on the car so I haven't fired it up yet, but the arms side by side line up from new pump to my old one. The old one still works, and yes I'm going to keep it as a spare, but I like mechanical things. Electric...

Thanks. Actually, in searching I found there's a 318 LA fuel pump adapter that HotHeads sells. It's intended for Chrysler Hemi's but will work with the Dodge engine, with some modifications to the fuel pump mating surface.

Has anyone figured out another fuel pump option for a '57 Dodge 325 Poly? I'm only asking because I'm planning a long trip in the car for June, and the fuel pump really is my only concern. Not that it's failing, but if it does, I know I won't be buying one off the shelf at the parts store. I...

The answer is, it was missing a horn cap altogether and I didn't have any Plymouth ones that fit, but I have a pile of Dodge ones.

1965 Plymouth Savoy 2 door post 225 slant 6, auto, 8 3/4 rear Very rare Canadian only '65 Savoy. This was the only year the Savoy name was on a C body, and in Canada only. Same as the base model Fury I. And no reverse lights! Lots of work recently done including: Full brake system, new dual...

Sold. Young guy from Grand Forks, BC bought it. He also has a '68 F250 and a couple old Cadillacs, so I think it went to a good home. Hopefully you guys see it around.

They did, but they're gone. I put them on my '67 Newport and have since sold the Newport.

My '57 Royal Lancer had 15" chrome smoothies on it when I bought it, but the tires were old and dry rotted. I popped the trunk and in it were the original 14" Lancer hubcaps, in beautiful shape. To me, the car is so original (aside from a repaint in 1982), it deserved the original hubcaps. But...

Just fyi, your search doesn't have to end at '69 for C body housings. I used an 8 3/4 from a '70 New Yorker I have out back, and it bolted right in.

I pulled apart the fuel pump, the diaphragm looked good so I bench tested it and it works fine. The distributor .. I was changing the points and noticed as I spun the shaft, the lobes were only opening the contacts on one half, I'm thinking the shaft was bent. I dug through my distributor pile...

Not sure if you read above, but the car had a 301 in it when I drug it home, and from what I can tell it's an original V8 car, it had the V badging on the side, etc. I had a car here with a flathead 6 and yes those engine mounts were different. But the 301 was sitting in there like normal, with...

Got the engine & trans in the car this morning. Interesting detail between the welded brackets on the frame. The '58 Dodge ones were basically straight in the middle, and the '58 Plymouth ones turn back toward the firewall. So I had to swap the motor mounts on the engine, drivers side to...

The engine didn't have Spitfire font on the valve covers, I just happened to have a set hanging on the wall, so I used those.