By back I mean I got it home. I have always wanted to document my adventures in car building but never had the umph to do it. So here I go This is my fathers 1947 Plymouth business coupe. He purchased it in the mid 70s, this was his daily driver for many years but as new projects came into our family this one sat in the garage. I have numerous memories I this car when iw as a kid and convinced my father to hand it down. Not to sound sentimental or mooshy but I have a son of my own now and want to have him experience working in the garage like I did...so got the car home on Thursday April 19, the car has spent the last six years of its life sitting next to a cloths dryer exhaust vent. ( I have never seen so much lint) got her home and started hosing it off. Drained the fuel tank, blew the lines, dropped the oil, and did a complete tune up. Spent hours cleaning the carb and getting the rebuild done. Put power to it and off she went, for a couple seconds, carb is idling super lean mixture screws are no help. Beginning to wonder if the needles and jets took a lot of damage sitting for so long with rust and varnish. Anyway had choked it down drove it to the glass station a couple blocks of way got home smelled the burning lint. And called it. Let the tear down begin! Not sure how to attach pics.
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