"Hey Look @ THE OLD NEW GUY"

Hello All,

I guess I'll start at the beginning. It was a cold night in September 1955 when my parent got together and did the Horizontal Tango and then...Wait a minute to far back..

My name is George & I'm here to ask a lot of questions and to gain the knowledge to help my 22 year old son build a 29 Plymouth project. Here's what I know about the car,It came from Ft.Myers area of Florida about 17 years ago or so...The fellow I purchased it from said it was running when he got it but it sat for 14 years in his garage untouched, except for him stealing parts from it because he has another 29 Plymouth that he pulls out in the summer to go to car show around our area.

The engine hasn't run since the early 90's. But today it PURRS like an old cat with a pacemaker.It runs & drives slowly but drives. My son can't make up his mind if he wants to build it as a hot rod, rat rod or let it become a lawn ornament.

I have a complete drive train from a 50 Plymouth lined up for it, its a Flathead 6 w/ trannie, drive shaft and rear-end for $300.bucks...He keeps leaning toward building an Ol'skool Hot Rod from the 50's. He plans on leaving the writing on the car be cause it has history As a moving billboard. The company that once had this car can't figure out how one of there cars got away from the herd! Here the link to the company that had this car:

http://www.trulynolen.com/Corporate/mouse_car.asp

George (aka....Grumpyoldman)

welcome!!! don`t know if i would hot rod that car,looks pretty complete and in too good of shape!

Welcome George

Its nice to you have you on the forum. I see all the great links you've been posting on frame swaps/chopped top etc. I can never get too much help from those who have "have already been there". I like to hear their stories and suggestions. Always helpful. Good luck with the 29 Plymounth. I don't think I've ever seen one. At least no one pointed it out to me etc.
I think you'll like the 50mopar flathead etc. I once had--famous sound of regret- a really cool OEM Dodge pickup. It was back in the mid 70's(as old and grumpy as you are--I'm even older). I forget the year -maybe a 1950 or thereabouts. It was a halfton with the flathead 6 and "a fluiddrive tranny". I remember it had the "job rated" grill insert. It worked great. I still don't know exactly how that thing worked--I'm not a mechanic. But it had a column 3 speed shifter and clutch, but if you wanted you could just leave it in gear when you stopped and started and it would act like an automatic etc. Wild! I don't think I used that feature--but it did it with no special anything. It was cool. I did some nice cosmetics on it, but never touched the drivetrain and used it daily for years, and once even drove it up into the Sierras above Tahoe to get my then girlfriends broken down Honda. We'd driven to Tahoe in the "better car". So we had to rent a van/car trailer combo and haul it back home, and then I loaded the old Dodge on the trailer and returned rental and then we just continued on our vacation in the Dodge. It always worked. It never complained. It was a great truck. I sold it and bought a Volvo!!! That must have been one of those insane times when i thought i needed "something better". Big mistake. Goodluck here. Glad to have ya and good luck with your sedan.

Tom

Hey Dave

Thanks for the info on the tranny. I never really investigated it--that was pre Google. Things were harder to research. But I knew it was something along the lines you mentioned. It always worked flawlessly and never gave me any trouble whatsover. And like all young guys--or most of us anyways--I hardly did any maintenace on it. It suffered neglect, but always kept working. I was lucky and it was well engineered.

Tom

welcome!!!

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