I was going thru some older issues of the bulletin this afternoon when I reread the article by Peter Hill about him and his Father driving their '40 Plymouth from Washington state to their home in Georgia.
Just wondering if they still have the Plymouth?
After almost seven years since the article was written, if would be nice to hear about their escapades with the Plymouth since the trip to Georgia.
Happy New Year,
Bob
Hi Bob........lol..........this is all your fault!!..........lol........trust you had a great New Year, regards, andyd
Andy,
Welcome aboard, you will enjoy this site.
Bob
Hi Bob, Thanks for thinking about Peter and me. I still have the car but don't drive it as much as I'd like. It lives in the garage (semi-heated) under the house and I drive it around but don't really have as many excuses to drive it as I did when Peter was in middle school. We live 5 miles east of the center of Atlanta, so the traffic is a problem for most of the errands I have.
The car is the same, basically, as when we drove it from Washington. I put a hose line shutoff valve in the heater hose and then it was prone to overheating. The thermostat was a modern one, so putting in an original one fixed that problem (on the trip from Washington we left with the heater working, and when we got past the rockies and it got hotter outside I isolated the heater and just ran the long hose from the front of the head to the back of the head, so that way the cooling system worked fine) I took the differential out of the rear axle and had some bearings replaced, then Peter helped me put it back in. I also had a new, modern driveshaft made for it after borrowing one from a friend (who has since moved away) to check if that was the problem. That really helped a lot, so it's much smoother now at highway speeds (50mph). The steering wheel and dashboard used to vibrate before I got the new shaft. I got the dashboard glass from SF, because what was in it was homemade (before I had the speedo rebuilt it looked almost melted, so I guess UV destroyed the silkscreening on the original glass. I also had the wheels powdercoated because my tire installer said they would need to be blasted and painted. So it has newer tires and tubes (still look the same, wide whitewalls). And the brakes started to hangup a bit, not wanting to release completely, and that turned out to be swollen rubber brake lines. All three of them were slightly different. The one in the rear looked really old and powdery, the two in the front each had different details, so I assume that they were all three replaced singly at diferent times.
I'm current in my POC membership, so I enjoy reading about the trips that some members have taken in their Plymouths--I'm envious of the trips in the Yellow Rose especially. That is some travelling!
Nice to hear that You are still plymothging around! Greetings! Lack of time seems to be everybody?s problem! Hope this will improve for me in a couple of years when I?m retired.Go
Tom,
Thanks for the reply and emails
Go, I have been retired for six years come March, LIFE IS GOOD:):)
Go,
BEWARE !!! My dad, who has been retired for twenty or so years,
claims that he still doesn't have time enough to do the things he
wants to do. PLUS, he says, that now, he never gets a day off !!!