My 1st car. You almost never see those factory fog lights. Bought mine at 16 in 1965 for 85 dollars. I loved it, slower than hell. The last year for suicide doors from Chrysler.
Cool Plymouth, and nice job on the carb rebuild and tune-up. It runs and idles perfectly! My grandparents had a '48 four-door Special Deluxe, just like this. in the early to mid-1950s when we were young kids. I fondly remember the cool-looking art-deco style dashboard, suicide doors and that innovative Plymouth-themed stop light on the trunk. You kind of skimmed over the instruments too fast, and it would've been nice if you discussed the operation of the AM push-button radio so viewers who don't know these cars have an understanding of how the tubes and tuner work, etc. I'm assuming that it's not operational since you converted to 12-volt. Also would've been nice to address the clock-delete on the dash and that they were offered as an option, too. Anyway, thanks for sharing your cool car.
The ship on the stop light is the Mayflower, being the ship that brought the Plymouth Brethren to America. Early Plymouths were sometimes known as Plymouth Mayflowers.
Looks great, is this mostly original? I had the same model and year, I just didn't have the extra bumper bar, but did add on an outside visor. I always joked about having A/C and cruise control. I did have issues with vapor lock, I replaced the gas line, bought one about a foot longer, and had it bend further away from the block and manifold, solved the problem.
It was mostly original in regards to the engine and drive train. It was converted over to 12v and I did some updating to it to make it more reliable and if it broke down I could use auto store parts parts. AC would be nice, but the car was awesome as is. I never had issues with vapor lock, I did run new fuel lines/fuel tank/fuel pump etc. sadly, I no longer have it.
@@origionaldz Thanks for the response. The A/C comment was a joke, I was talking about the handle that opens the front air cowl/scoop. I always called that my A/C. Same for the Cruise control , that was just the throttle. Is the oil filter the toilet paper style? Many guys in the era used TP inside as a filter material. Mine was the factory yellow, I painted it in 1978 to Maroon.
My 1st car. You almost never see those factory fog lights. Bought mine at 16 in 1965 for 85 dollars. I loved it, slower than hell. The last year for suicide doors from Chrysler.
How sweet she is! My Grand dad had a 47 and I remember the dash lights were red.
Dad had one in black in the early 60s 👍🏻🇦🇺
A true classic 👍👍
Cool Plymouth, and nice job on the carb rebuild and tune-up. It runs and idles perfectly! My grandparents had a '48 four-door Special Deluxe, just like this. in the early to mid-1950s when we were young kids. I fondly remember the cool-looking art-deco style dashboard, suicide doors and that innovative Plymouth-themed stop light on the trunk. You kind of skimmed over the instruments too fast, and it would've been nice if you discussed the operation of the AM push-button radio so viewers who don't know these cars have an understanding of how the tubes and tuner work, etc. I'm assuming that it's not operational since you converted to 12-volt. Also would've been nice to address the clock-delete on the dash and that they were offered as an option, too. Anyway, thanks for sharing your cool car.
The ship on the stop light is the Mayflower, being the ship that brought the Plymouth Brethren to America. Early Plymouths were sometimes known as Plymouth Mayflowers.
Love! :)
Looks great, is this mostly original? I had the same model and year, I just didn't have the extra bumper bar, but did add on an outside visor. I always joked about having A/C and cruise control. I did have issues with vapor lock, I replaced the gas line, bought one about a foot longer, and had it bend further away from the block and manifold, solved the problem.
It was mostly original in regards to the engine and drive train. It was converted over to 12v and I did some updating to it to make it more reliable and if it broke down I could use auto store parts parts. AC would be nice, but the car was awesome as is. I never had issues with vapor lock, I did run new fuel lines/fuel tank/fuel pump etc. sadly, I no longer have it.
@@origionaldz Thanks for the response. The A/C comment was a joke, I was talking about the handle that opens the front air cowl/scoop. I always called that my A/C. Same for the Cruise control , that was just the throttle. Is the oil filter the toilet paper style? Many guys in the era used TP inside as a filter material. Mine was the factory yellow, I painted it in 1978 to Maroon.
I just purchased this car from a guy in NJ. Can you tell me the history of this car?
No valve clank
Sweet car
what is involved with converting it to 12v?
How much do you want for the little jewel?
I live in New Mexico