Heaters were still an option on some cars weren't they? You'll have a far better idea of that than me, my guess is the mid/late 50s. The heater was an option on my Pontiac. It was primarily an option on base models here until 1968, whereby a safety mandate was made that all vehicles had to be fitte...

Broccoli wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 2:20 am I think I’m doing it all wrong Phil…

Why you say that?

Obtained a battery. Means I don't have to swap the one out of the Pontiac just to play about with the Plymouth. 20230225_125537.jpg It's old and crap and not meant for this, but it was free and is enough to start the engine. 20230225_152311.jpg Cobbled together some radiator hoses. Got the stupid sh...

Well, the car has been parked up for a while. The brakes were feeling a little low too the floor so I decided to adjust them. 20230211_145548.jpg First drum off. Rear shoe sits there and waves at me, half delaminated. Those only did about 5000 miles but admittedly that's the one that never sat right...

If a car's got belts, I wear it.

Occasionally grasp over my shoulder getting into the Chieftain if I'm not thinking.

Cleaned up. Can now see the floor again.

Next task is try un-fold the remains of the roof off the other side of the wall.

paulplom wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 4:38 pm Very Christine?

Christine was a 58 Fury, B-body. It was a midsize vehicle.

This is a C-body, full-size. The largest offering of the sixties.

For scale, a base Fiat Doblo is 195L/80W/88H.
This car is 209L/79W/55H.

It is true YPLAC material.

Tested the gearbox.


It does gearbox things. All forward gears.
Polished the chrome and started on fixing the hood ornament.

Now, there is a transmission dipstick, carefully calibrated from measurements taken by another Plymouth owner tonight.

Phil

DodgeRover wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:16 am Arse, where is it coming from now?

Front of the pan seal (it has gone hard with age) and the base of the dipstick tube (that's easy, just an O-ring)