I was so excited to see this! My old 51 Plymouth Concord was featured in Mopar Collectors Guide this month (September 2009 issue). I don't know if any of you remember it, it was a pale yellow 1951 Plymouth Concord, 2 door fastback. I bought it in San Diego in around late July or early August 2008. It had the original flathead 218ci six, three on the tree. I drove the crap out of it, swapped in a 'rebuilt' 218 from craigslist, dual carbed it with Offy intake, split Langdon headers, sidepipes. I then threw a rod in the new engine after about 50 miles, and didn't have the space or resources to rebuild it or do another engine swap. I ended up selling it to a real nice guy from Temecula in late December 08. He said he was going to build a gasser out of it. Well, 8(!) months later, he finished the car and it is awesome! It was just featured in the mag, so I bought a copy and scanned it. He did a great job, kept the cool yellow paint and all the trim and glass, and it looks great. I'm just so happy to see it go to such a good home, I really loved that car. It's also really awesome to see a ca I owned less than a year ago show up as a 5 page feature in a major magazine! Here's my old threads on the HAMB about it when I had it and was scrounging for advice: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=285026 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=296120 Anyways, here's the article: Evan
There's a few things I noticed in the article that aren't correct. He bought the car from me in late December 08 (I remember it was after Christmas, but before New Years, probably the 29th or so). He picked it up over at San Diego Rod & Custom where my buddies Abe & Tony that own the place were letting me store it after I blew up the old engine. Also, I never said that engine that was in it was the original. I pulled the original at about 102k miles on it, and swapped in the rebuilt flatty, which is the one I did the carb/exhaust/intake work to and that threw a rod. I also didn't purchase the car from the original owner, I purchased it from a really cool old guy that lived about a mile from me. He got it from the original owners son I believe. The guy owned it for about 10 years when I bought it. This also reminds me, I found the original radio, still painted yellow to match, sitting in the garage yesterday when I was working on the Star Chief. I've gotta get in contact with Bob and get that radio back to him! I put that radio delete plate in the dash when I pulled the radio to attempt to rebuild it, and couldn't find it when I sold it! Also, heres the cover of the mag, it got a cover spot in the lower right corner!
It looked much better when you had it! typical writing for a mag, only about 50% of what you read is truth. I like the rare part!
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