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Hi Fellas, Many Years Ago (When We Were Young & Stupid (Now I'm Old & Stupid) We Used to Pull a Mates Hub Caps & Fill Them with Raw Prawns. I'll Leave the Rest to Your Imagination. Regards Tony.M

G'Day, Regards the Record Player, Strictly for Playing While Parked. The Mystical Land of OZ has Far Too Many Potholes for Playing While Driving. I Speak From Experience, Owned a 59 With the Same Player. Nice Car! ENJOY! Tony.M

G'Day, Just a Little Info. A Few Years Ago One of My Club Members Decided to Change His Diff Ratio From 3.23 to 2.76. Within a Few Months He Changed It Back. When I Asked Why He Said That Every Time He hit a Head Wind or Came to a Not Terribly Steep Hill He Had to Pull it Down a Gear. Not...

G'Day, I'm Somewhat Intrigued. In the Mystical Land of OZ, The Dodge Phoenix's (Plymouth Furys) had Three Different Diff Width's. 1965/6 was Approx 60.5 Inch Wheel Track. 1967/8 was Approx 62 Inch Wheel Track. 1969-1972 was Approx 63.5 Wheel Track. We used to Swap in the Earlier Model to be able...

G'Day, Just a Thought! Gear Vendors & a Set of 3.77 Gears.(2.94 Final Drive) Maybe a Truetrac as Well, Just for Fun! Regards, Tony.M

G'Day, For Many Years a P/Beaters in Five Dock, Sydney used to do All the Repairs for That Sort of Stuff. I Remember Giving a Fellow Club Member a Rear Wheel Wrap-Around Mold for a 62 Phoenix. It was in Terrible Condition But That was the Only Thing Available After Months of Searching. When he...

G'Day, My Comments for what they are worth! Due to Finances I had to Work Till I was 69. Over the Last 10 or so Years I Slowly gathered all the Good gear to do my Car. G/Vendors, Trutrac, Disc Brake Rear, All New Shocks & Bushes, Reco P/Steer Box & Pump Reco Brake Booster & M/Cyl , New Radiator...

G'Day Fellas, I Have mentioned this before. It Depends on how Much you want the H'Caps! Many Years Ago A Fellow Club member had a 59 Dodge Custom Royal. He wanted to run 15" Wheels but he Loved the DCR Spinners. In the Mystical Land of OZ we Only had 14" Spinners. So, What He Did was to Get Four...

O.K. Stupid Question Time Again. Recently had My Mechanic (A Friend of 40 Yrs Install a New Set of Valves & Springs in a Set of 906 Heads. While Chin Wagging with Him I asked about Reco-ing the Heads. His Suggestion was that with the Cost Involved Nowadays it would be a better Idea to Install a...

G'Day People, Long and Perhaps Boring Rant to Follow So Be Warned! About Forty Years Ago I Purchased a MAKITA Impact Wrench. Was Used to Disassemble All the Spare Parts Cars our Club Bought. Absolutely Fantastic Mind You it Cost a Week's Wages back in Those Days But Never Regretted Spending the...

"Odometer reads 33 K, I'm pretty sure it's rolled over once." G'Day, Speaking From Experience I Can Only Say That I Have Never Worried About the Mileage on a Chrysler. I Bought a 1969 Plymouth Fury with 106,000 Miles on the Clock Many Years Ago and It was Only Just Run in. My Opinion... If Its...

G'Day People, I Have Given This Advice Before But Hopefully It Might be Helpful to Repeat It Many Years Ago I Worked Briefly For a Wind Screen Fella with Years of Experience Hiis Advice How to Save an Old Windscreen Rubber was to Use Glycerine Massage Gently into the Rubber And NOT a Little...

G'Day, Going to Mention Something That I am Certain Does Not Refer to Your Problem But Just a Curiosity Thing. Back in about 1990 Odd a Few of Us Club Members Hired a New Ford Fairlane for a Trip of about 4,000 Miles. After Driving for Quite a Few Hundred Miles we Stopped for a Feed & Refuel...

As We Get Older We Realise Why He was Called Solomon the Wise! One Small Point I Will Mention Only Because You Have Stated That You are a Novice. I Once Bought a Burnt Out 68 383 at Auction. It Had All the Hallmarks of an Insurance Job. Couldn't Figure Our Why It was Burnt, Until I Dissasembled...

G'Day Again, As with ALL Advice I Give Nowadays, I Suggest You Try a Small Piece of Scrap to See the Results! Glycerine in the Mystical Land of OZ May Have Slightly Different Ingredients to You Fellas' Stuff. Anything I'm Not Sure Of I Always Check FIRST! Sadly, That's How I Learnt Many Years...

G'day, Many Years Ago I Worked Briefly for a Windscreen Specialist. The Advice he Used to Give in Trying to Save an Old Windscreen Rubber was to Smother the Item with Glycerine. Never Use Petroleum Based Lubricant as This will cause the Rubber to Swell. Continually & Gently Massage Glycerine...

G'Day, Just My Opinion But, I Think the 295s Might be a Little Wide on 8" Rims, I'm Looking at Running 275 - 295s on 10" Rims. (69 Fury / Phoenix) Forgive Me But I Have This Cartoonish Thought of Drifting Sideways into a Left Hand Corner at Speed And Having the Sidewalls of the Tyres Suddenly...

O.K. A Little Advice From the Depths of Experience. There is Nothing More Embarrassing Than Giving it a Boot full, Spitting a Plug & Ending Up in the Guard Rail, When the Radiator Empties Under Your Tyres. Our Solution was to Drill & Tap Either Side of the Plug & Lay a Strap Across the New...

G'Day, Sorry to be the Bearer of Bad Tidings But You Were Right About the Disaster! Not a Single Photo is Displaying. You May Have to RePost! Regards Tony.M

O.K. This From a Dumb Aussie Who Doesn't Know What He's Talking About at the Best of Times. But I Seem to Remember Reading Somewhere that Back in Those Days Some of the States Would Not Allow Dual Headlights, Take a Look at the 57 Plymouth. I'm Sure Someone of Vastly Superior Knowledge will...