Well folk's I'm new here so hopefully I'm in the right place. To start off I acquired this beat up but fairly solid 48 Plymouth Coupe about a year ago. In the last few months when time allows I go to my tiny "shop" and work on bringing this old thing back to life. The ultimate goal is a sort of custom/hotrod. It'd sat for 30+ years when I got it and someone had partially dis***embled it. So here I am rebuilding, and cleaning things up (slowly) as time and money allow. These first two images show it as I found it on Facebook marketplace
Someone had swapped in a '68 318 and 727, along with the brake booster/master cylinder from what I ***ume is the same '68 Chrysler product (dart I believe). In doing so they cut the front floor pan out of the Plymouth Coupe and grafted in the 68 dart floor pan so the ****** tunnel had enough clearance. Over the last month I've wire wheeled and s****ed all the rust and hard undercoating off and applied P0R15
Lots of potential there! I hope you have the all the front sheetmetal and rear fenders as they could be a bear to locate. Also, what's that steering column out of? Looks like a great project!
Have all the front sheet metal.... didn't have a good however when I purchased it. I ended up driving from Pennsylvania to the Ohio/Michigan border and bought a slightly dented one for $50 Column was out of something GM and was all busted up, so a good friend donated a decent tilt column out of a mid 80's cutl***
My small "shop" it's actually an old school and the cl***rooms are garage bays...I can't complain, the rent is cheap.
Looks as if You are on the right track,, with a great player in the post war trafficing. My Step Dad had that in the 2door version. I'm glad you are continuing to bring it up to a usable level. We'll all be glad to see the growth. Thank You.
Appreciate the kind words! Currently have the front end all torn apart and waiting on parts... pictures to come in a few days!
The plan so far is to use 51 Pontiac taillights, skirts, lake pipes, and maybe dummy spotlights. And drop it 2" in the front and 3" in the rear
Way to go! A taildragger style works on these. You mentio9ned redoing the front end. Look into adding an upper shock mount on the frame. IIRC, the OE was between the upper and lower arms. I've got a 40 that's been stuffed in the back corner for decades. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/media/albums/project-1940.131/
Someone had already done that and used what I ***ume are motorcycle shocks...I plan on doing something a little bit different there
Uggh. Got my current project with Harley coil overs. They are gone now! Here is a listing for shock upper and lower mounts and length. It will take a bit to find exactly what you need, but once you do the number will show application and you can cross reference to another brand if you prefer. https://www.shockwarehouse.com/pages/monroe-measurements
For the most part it's ok for being done 40 years ago. Mostly it's me doing thing what I consider "improvements" the whole v-8 swap was done using nothing but donor car parts and a stick welder. Same goes for the mustang 2 rack they put in. It's easy to criticize someone else's work but after a while I came to the realization that not everyone is a Chuck Lumbardo or Gene Winfield. These guys were like me doing everything by hand probably in a rinky dink shop, with pennies and no Internet.
@SASROD to me they look like these, Chrysler 300 wheels. https://www.forcbodiesonly.com/mopar-forum/threads/road-wheels-on-e-bay.30716/
Nice project, good luck with it. The chalkboard would be very handy for notes, checklists, sketches, etc. Very cool!
You are correct....didn't know they were from a 300 though. I just measured the bolt pattern one day and made sure it was a "normal" Chrysler bolt pattern
Those look new. Consider some sort of protection in the area where the rim meets the inside. That little crack tends to rust, and the best time to deal with it is now. Either a really good wax/sealer/coating or a thin bead of clear silicone. Something to shed the water that wicks in.
The 318 will make that car a great driver. My 48 Plymouth business coupe was in a lot rougher condition then what you started with, but my son and I built a 47 Plymouth for him years ago. We put a 360 4bbl in his coupe. Do you have the gl*** for your car?
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