Cleaned up the Carter carb that the car should have. Put it on. It sorta works. Not very. Flattened the battery trying to get it going.

Vacuum leak seems to be order of the day.

It's a proto-Mustang.

Yup. Ralph did a bunch of harm to the domestic manufacturing of vehicles here.

Fuel was cheap, buying power was high. The economy was good, so you bought American for the week and something fun for the weekend. 440 Challenger to drive to work and an MGB for the weekend. That kind of split. That would be like buying a Cortina 1600E for the week and a Fiat 124 for the weekend. S...

... You figure also, 1966 and my Plymouth has all the scuttle and under the dash built specifically to fit and drain the aircon unit (which was an option), it's all thermostatic and soft-touch vacuum controls. Did wolesley have all that by '66? (Assuming I've got my BMC stable correct, where the equ...

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.