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Same with old aircraft. Look up micah muzio here on RU-vid. He has/had a helicopter built in 1978. Probably the only thing the helicopter has factory original from the beginning is the air frame chassis.
What a fantastic use of imagery; "to swim towards the comfort that sustains us in our memory is to swim against the currents that pummel us back towards the shifting and unstable shore." I come here for the cars, I stay for the writing. Thanks!
I'm 31, located in Germany and I own a 1955 Plymouth Savoy, also with a flathead 6 (225ci) and a 3 on the tree. It also still has the 6V System. The car came here from Arizona shortly before I bought it. I owned it for 4,5 years and it actually has been less of a headache than some of the newer stuff that I own. Everything is straight forward on these and you can find the 446 page service manual online for free. It is hard to get some parts but most mechanical stuff can be sourced in a reasonable amount of time for a reasonable amount of money or even super cheap. Some parts are hard to find, some parts are hard to find and expensive as hell. On German roads the car is happy at 55-60mph, everything above 80 is turtle head poking out. I also don't have issues with a pinging unmotivated engine at high loads and my oil consumption is near zero. I have some cooling issues in city traffic above 90F outside temperature, despite a new radiator and a new waterpump. It's most likely the water distribution tube in the block, a very well know issue. Replacement tube is cheap but the work is a pita if the old tube breaks apart or doesn't want to come out. Oh and the car in this clip most likely has 12V bulbs in the 6V system, that's why they're so dim. Here in Germany I can source 6V bulbs easily in stores that also sell motorcycle parts because 6V systems were around way longer in motorcycles and scooters.
I've gone across the USA on a 1969 Honda CB450, and I agree with the statement "less of a headache than newer stuff I own." I collect antique motorcycles, but I've got some new stuff too. I recently hit 70k miles (55K of that was my own doing) on that little CB450, and it's only been rebuilt once. on the other hand, my 2012 Harley road glide has needed service every thousand miles or so, for one thing or another. I don't even bother with it anymore, and it's only got about 18k miles on it. mostly electrical issues with the newer stuff, security features going wrong causing a no-spark, all the lights simultaneously going bad at once, starters going out, just a load of crap. on the other hand, both of my vintage hondas, the other being a 1966 Ca160 with 17k miles, is a "kick-it-and-go" thing. never worry about them, they'll just go and go and go.... in the unlikely event that something goes wrong, it's almost always the main fuse, or one of the CV carbs is just slightly out of adjustment. easy fixes.
@@tankacebo9128 As a vintage motorcycle restorer/collector I agree with your statements. I also have a 1930 Willys-Knight (sleeve valve engine) that I used to regularly take on 3 day tours with a club. Total mileage over 3 days is around 500 and that is about enough anxiety for a 3 day weekend. About the only "comfort" item I have upgraded is the (updraft) carburetor to something a bit less fragile
These cars were very simple and straightforward. Assuming the motor is not worn you, with fuel and spark you'll get a running car. There is nothing wrong with the 6V system and no need to change in my opinion. How often is a 70 year old car going to be driven at night anyway?
Who cares if the gawkers know what it is? It's a 71 year old work of art. Every last knob and gadget in and on that car is an aesthetic experience and a reward in its own right. Thanks to the owner for sharing.
True, bugger all when it comes to performance or safety but the craftmanship of the 50s era cars is obviously unmatched in anything that came before or after. That's why premium brands like Rolls Royce held on to a mid century kind of aesthetic for much, much longer. Every detail, i.e. shapes and material choices have a premium feel and well thought out appearance, no cheap plastic that turns grey in the sun to be found.
@@mndlessdrwerit’s quite terrifying driving that on anything but small country roads haha! I live near lots of backroads so I do get to drive it a lot!
@@TheDasbull But a very beautiful job of faux-wood graining. That dash is a thing of beauty, though I'd not want to be in that thing in any kind of accident.
The oil bath air filter is basically like a bong filled with oil. Particles get suspended in the oil and you just change it every so often. They actually work really well.
this was my first car in 1986. It was notoriously hard to start. Especially when hot. It would cruise 50mph all day long and get around 23 mpg. They are not an exciting car, by any means. But among car guys they are well known as being one of the best built cars of the 50's.
Seeing the awful fit of the hood, I WOULD NOT say THIS particular sample is 'best built', unless this one had a front end mishap that was improperly sorted. Hard to imagine a car leaving the factory looking like this. Compared to 'laser fit' of todays cars, this one would qualify for a 'buy back'!
@@TheOzthewiz If you think cars of the 1930s - mid 1950s were up to modern day quality, damn, son; you be young. It was built in 1949 when even an oil filter was an optional accessory and engines always had overhauls under 50,000 miles, and you think the hood's gonna always fit right?
@@101Volts You misunderstood my comment. What I meant was that this car (supposedly) had a full restoration and seemed nearly perfect, why was the hood alignment not tended to. I was old enough to observe the "quality" of car build in the '50s, and AMERICAN build quality stunk! This is the reason I pushed my Dad to purchase a European (English Ford Zephyr) car as our FIRST family car!
Just like how Doug D. couldn't understand a 1976 Cadillac convertible when he reviewed it, I think RCR is in a similar boat with this Plymouth. It's easy to overlook such an old car's earnest value.
Doug Demuro can't understand the cassette player controls in a mid 80's full size GM car. He's like watching my mom point and things and say "What's this? What's that?". Hard to believe people think he's a source of anything.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Nah you don't know. We got air bags on everything and also an improved seatbelt setup for modern cars to prevent further injuries. These cars, for as beautiful as they are, are a much higher risk of being in when an accident would occur.
@@Abel-Alvarez oh, I was referencing the part when the crumple zone doesn't gently pawn the 45 mile per hour toy car to a gentle halt with its fluffy swan like feathers. And instead the concrete wall or damaged car going headway into the windshield section (section 2) like that of a cunning bowsprit full of sharp frame metal. I know, too dramatic in my wording, almost as dramatic as you all describing the un-collapsing non-breakaway anti-safe steeringwheel column that SHIFTS into Marys hard, impaling her like a damaged goods skewer as her husband, George, is blasted out the front dashboard out of the front windshield, shards of glass dancing upon his 3 layers of suit wear, taking aim and landing chest first into a 1930 Duesenburg's Hood ornament hanging him like a ornament himself. Of course only when that car is then also traveling 15 miles per hour.. (because of course no car until 1970 went over 20 miles per hour as we all know does he soon realize his fate) smashed by the very ersatz cannon he took flying lessons from. Oh I might of been a little dramatic there, the husband was in the front seat, everyone knows wives sit in the back, sucking on their paccive aggressive pacifiers waiting to go on a strike against all men.
As the owner of a 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook club coupe I've never clicked on a video faster. This car and mine have the same power train. Also I daily drive a 1983 Chevrolet Chevette. Thanks RCR for making that car known to me years ago because I've now been driving mine for almost a year.
They were dimmer. You need double the amount of current for the same wattage… current that will melt plastic and crack glass. Even the 24V bulbs on my airplane have bubbled the plastic from when they’ve been left on on the ground.
And, he may have used 12 volt wiring for a 6 volt system. You really can't use tiny 12 volt wiring for these old 6v cars, you gotta use wiring that's big enough to carry the smaller amount of voltage to the lights.
Great video. I have a 1948 Plymouth Special DeLuxe sedan. Mine also belonged to my grandfather. He bought it in 2006 because it was very similar to his first car, a 1940 Plymouth in which he dated my grandmother in. He passed away rather suddenly in 2009. I have had the car ever since.
Hey Roman, that's a very neat idea with these time-travel outros. Kinda hypes up the next episode, I can see that it's a reference to next week's car. What's it gonna be though? We shall wait and see.
Driving a vintage car with all of the original ignition system and fuel system can be very rewarding. One only needs to keep some redundancy inside the trunk. An extra set of points and condenser. A coil maybe, and a fan belt. If you've done your due diligence on maintenance you should be just fine. Even a journey of a hundred and fifty miles feels like a heck of a lot more!. But that's how you fully immerse yourself into that time capsule. Any of the aforementioned things are just basic motoring skills that any man or possibly even a woman would have had. It was definitely a 45 mile-an-hour world when that car was built. You can't even compare today's most modest economy car that will stay at 90 miles an hour all day long.
Oil bath air cleaners work ok in certain instances. My 1977 f150 has one, though I only use mine on winter. It's all baffles inside that direct airflow to take a sharp turn. The air can take a sharp 90 degree turn, but the dust can't because of inertia so it gets trapped in the oil. Then you wash it out every oil change.
My VW Bug had one of these, I later swapped it for a paper (and later cloth) one. From what I hear they are very effective, filter the air very well and can hold a lot of dust without loosing effectiveness or restricting airflow. Hence they are still used even now on some vehicles that will encounter massive amounts of dust, such as tractors and construction machines. They are more hassle and somewhat more air restrictive than paper or cloth ones, hence their falling out of favor in most vehicles - mine on the Bug leaked (though I might have been overfilling it) hence why I swapped it out. My understanding is it has the sharp bends plus a mesh or Scotchbrite-like media the air passes through, oil gets on this mesh and any dust that contacts the oil gets stuck. The procedure I recall for cleaning it was to change out the oil every oil change, on the Bug I recall some suggesting using the remaining half-quart of new oil (the engine took 2.5 quarts), others suggested using the dirty oil drained out of the engine, should work fine for that purpose. I recall that I used the dirty oil, keeping the remaining half-quart (or I often used those 5-quart jugs) for top-offs as it burned and leaked oil.
@@quillmaurer6563 The oil-bath system was available on my Corvair too, as a special "dusty/desert climate" option. But it was setup as a prefilter, with the air then going through the normal paper elements.
@@kw9849 Ah, interesting - wonder why they had both. Maybe more chances to catch dust and debris? Or perhaps the warranty department didn't want sending cars out with a filter the owner might forget to fill. Though come to think of it I'd think it would be as or more likely to forget to reinstall the paper filter before closing the box.
One of the things that killed the oil bath was the fact that the engine always sucks a small amount of oil into the chamber and burns it. Fouls plugs, adds more carbon buildup and it makes the exhaust dirtier.
Nobody was thinking about how clean the exhaust was. Oil bath air cleaners went away because they wouldn't fit under the increasingly low hoods if you had a big engine.
When I became a sentient being, around 1958, my family still had these cars. It was the earliest memory of riding in a car. My mom had a 1950 Dodge hand-me-down and took us to the beach in the summer with it, before we got an updated 1953 Dodge hand-me-down. The smell of the fabric, the bakelite or whatever material was used on the steering wheel, the 3-on-the-tree that I tried to duplicate years later with a 1969 Dart - as you point out in this video - not the same - but these were basic cars. Amazing to find survivors like this - kudos to Alex. I would love to own one of these one of these days, but I have no stomach for the maintenance and repair, and as I age toward 70 this dream becomes less and less likely. So I live through these great videos...
The safety factor in these old rigs is non-existant....in a head-on collision, the steering column would frequently crush/impale the driver...no seat belts back then either...marginal brakes, mushy suspension, etc...and people did not even give a crap about safety anyway!...Like it or not, we have evolved.
@@curbozerboomer1773 Is that what you think. I'm glad you have the proof of being oh, 20 or older in 1950 to tell us this. Oh, whats that you weren't ohhh shut the fuck up then and get in a car crash.
When this car was new, the speed limit in most of the USA was 45 mph. Sixty was considered fast. Plymouth cars had a reputation of boring stodgy but were I to buy a new car in 1950, it probably would have been a Plymouth like this one except I would have chosen Fluid Drive. This system is, in my opinion, better than any of the early automatic transmissions. In city traffic, just leave it in second gear and the generous torque of the long stroke six will pull you along just nicely. The Spitfire Six is, in my opinion, the best motor of the low priced cars. The Chevrolet didn't have full pressure lubrication and the Ford V-8 was not known for its longevity. It was so good that five of them were mounted on a common crankcase as the Chrysler A-57 Multibank tank engine. It is just so smooth and quiet, with a 450 RPM idle. If it is pinging on modern fuel it is either in need a decarbon (easy on a flathead) or adjusted timing.
Fluid Drive was never an option on Plymouths. Closest they came was Hy-Drive in 1953 and 1954 but that had a real torque converter instead of the old fluid coupling.
A modern Pertroinx Iginition/12V upgrade and a decarbon and possibly a timing change would fix the pinging. Dont forget a 230 CID and dual carb upgrade would make for splendid motoring . The 218/230 family were legendary for durability. Adding a BW 30% overdrive easy enough to find would be great (period correct factory option too) . Aside from the Iginition a few tweaks would be within the realm of logic and pretty easy all things considered . And not change the cars character either.
@@jasonirwin4631 Ha! Perfect description. I've always liked the honest straightforwardness of that first generation of new postwar cars. The baroque fantasies of a few years later look silly in comparison.
This is choo-choo… choo-choo-cho-bugga…. woo… woo. That era when they still had steam locomotives “because of the war” postponing dieselfication by a decade and a half.
Really, there's some truth to the rant about making Classics livable with modern tech. My '78 F-150 has fuel injection and ignition by Holley. It's not any better than a carb, but it starts like a modern vehicle. Makes it so driving isn't always a game of "what's wrong now?"
I put an aftermarket pair of prototype "LED" bulbs in my 6volt VW Ghia...they improved the night vision by maybe 40 percent...this was in the early 70s..I had to order them through J.C. Whitney!
A truly gorgeous Plymouth I have to admit. It is amazing to see how well kept it is considering how original it is. I myself have a 1963 Pontiac Laurentian (Canadian version of a Catalina) 4 door sedan, and basically everything on that car is very much all original. Any replacement parts needed that it has are all original period correct parts. Pretty much no rust on the car at all, the interior is damn near mint condition with all of its original 60 year old materials. And the car still has its original 230 Astro I6 with a Rochester BV single barrel carburetor, and its all mated to a 2 speed Powerglide automatic transmission. It is not a fast car, and nor does it handle very well, but that's not the point of enjoying driving it. Because it is so original, driving it gives you a sense of charm and a good feeling knowing you are adding to a car's story and keeping it running is something that makes you feel happy... And rather passionate. This 63 Pontiac of mine only has 58,000 miles on it, and it is such a joy to drive the way it is.
The older they get the harder it is to keep them on the road the harder it is to keep them original. I know somebody who has two model t's and before you go anywhere there's an hour of fuel blending and checklist like you're getting into a supersonic airplane or something.
I wonder how much capital "original" really carries except as museum pieces. Of that era is the birth of hot rodding proper, customs, and scouring junk yards to keep cars running. That is more "authentic" than the Barrett-Jackson crowd. Ricers probably have more claim to the hot rod throne than the classic car crowd of today. There has to be a happy medium between "period correct" and put an LS in it. Isn't it more important that it is still enjoyed in what ever means are available rather than a shrine or discarded completely?
@@quintessenceSL nothing lasts forever and someday there will be no more 63 stingrays but I'd like to keep as many of them as original as possible for as long as possible. But you're right the inevitability is that that someday they will be extinct. Some cars are right on the verge of going extinct today when's the last time you saw a fox body Capri? Or a Geo Metro convertible? I bet Cash for clunkers got a lot of the second one there can't be too many left. It would be a shame if the only ones left where LS1 swapped though an LS1 swapped Geo Metro convertible would be hilarious.
@@quintessenceSL “Ricers probably have more claim to the hot rod throne than the classic car crowd of today”, 100% truth, but the kind of truth that’s harsh to accept.
@@robertstone9988 I see quite a few Geo metros and it’s corporate siblings in my city Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Convertibles are rare but I’ve definitely seen a couple
You don't even know what that is. The cliche of a "1950's" suburbia is a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air because everyone over 45 and under 80 treats it like the only vehicle in the damn era!
Because if you get into a front wreck with a new car, you can live compared to one of these where the steering column will go through your chest plate like it’s made of jelly…
@James Ring Yeah but they could make the safe ones more exciting. To be honest as far as deaths go crashing in a 70 year old car is pretty cool so it hasn't put me off
Because these were boring once. And people didn’t care. And they scrapped these cars by the thousands and bought new ones. Believe me… there will be at least one person who looks at the door handle of the few remaining 2017 Hyundai Elantras in 2092 and say “that’s beautiful!”
Cool car. Nice to see one in original condition / partially restored to original condition. Cranking the engine that long doesn't help the longevity of the starter.
I appreciate the description of what it is to drive a classic car. There's a great deal of stress with a car like this. If it is too hot or too cold, or you need to do much highway driving, or it's going to rain, etc. They're fun once in a while. Otherwise, they're a service to a community that'll never pay you back.
Well, one great thing about these Chrysler cars from that era: they had electric wipers! Not fast though. And when you drive faster than 40 MPH they will start to flop around like the flaccid P of a nudist boomer running after that guy trying to steal his rubber dinghy.
I still chuckle hearing every comment and seeing people stop everything they're doing to stare at my 76 Cadillac Eldorado convertible custom when I'm out just even to run to Walmart or to work. People love it, and it's just an enjoyable sensation. She's a land-yacht. Smells like old, smelly exhaust, but it's absolutely amazing. Just to cruise with the top down, or even up. People hold doors for you, comment, go out of their way to do things for you... etc. I ordered a burger through a drive-thru last week and they gave me a double patty deluxe, with bacon and all, for the price of a single crappy cheeseburger. Absolutely love having a piece of history, elegance, impracticality, and a Detroit built steel beast
I daily my 1950 Pontiac Chieftain. Still 6 volts, still all original with a Hydramatic transmission. The difference with mine in comparison with this Plymouth is that it comes with with a flathead straight 8. Even if its sidevalve engine those extra two cylinders make a huge difference if not just in horsepower but the torque to get you going quickly. Plus with a redline around 5000 rpm you can play around with it a little more than many of the hum drum economy 6's (which many top around the 3500 rpm or so mark)
"Why are you buying this in the first place? Well you are buying it because sometimes you just want a slice of that dream, to feel the undiluted joy of impairment because there's no way to keep a classic car going forever, eventually every piece of metal will be replaced, and the only thing left would be a small square where the serial number is. Time will collect its tax but for a time you will have had the experience and that can last longer than the classic car itself." This is so powerful, I am crying every time I hear it, you have really condensed one of the biggest truths of life in couple of sentences, and for that I thank you, thank you for sharing yourself with us, its very brave and I hope that it is rewarding for you as much as it is rewarding for us who can hear you.
Which is why you see so many '50 Plymouths on the road today, right? That's OK. I'll take the 290,000 mile '05 Dodge Ram extended cab that I bought 2 weeks ago which is still in great shape and which I have to say I'm happy with. Power steering, power brakes, power windows, a/c, cruise control, 6-way power seat, CD/DVD system with remote control, heated rearview mirrors, fog lights (none of which this car has), plus, the 5.7 Hemi engine which was on Ward's list of top 10 engines from 2003 to 2007 and again in 2009.
@@ih302 I'm guessing where most cars from 40, 50, 60 or more years ago are? I get the feeling you're one of those types who makes out the past as doing no wrong and the present as doing no right. That's not the case. You did hear what the guy said about this car, didn't you? About how much of a pain it was to drive because of all the primitive, outdated systems? If you offered this car to me, I'd rarely drive it. Heck, I'd probably sell it. It's just an ordinary, plain-Jane car, even if it is from 1950. There's old, valuable cars like Cords and Deusenbergs but this isn't one of them. It's just some seats on wheels that dates from 1950. Plus, where are you going to get parts? The local Autozone probably doesn't have much of a selection. I'm sure if you do enough scrounging around the hinterlands, you'll find what you need. As for me, I'll just pass.
@@Red-rl1xx You couldn't be more wrong about me actually, old cars like that are complete death traps and I wouldn't be caught dead (alive?) in one on the highway (but maybe around town). My vehicle is a 2018 and will probably be gone once the warranty is. My point was regarding Chryslers reputation for solid engineering prior to the mid 50s (1957 specifically) in comparison to their lack of it since (I'm not making this up, research it for yourself). It's great that you got a good one and all but it's the exception and certainly not the rule.
I love the cars you review. I'd just wish you would slow down the, ''I'm the car poet.'' thing. You're not writing a play. In a good car review, the vehicles are the stars.
When I was 14 1/2 years old, my dad let me learn how to drive with the '49 Plymouth. One of the best things about this car was the air flow coming into the inside via the airscoop. Seems better than the AC units today. I was in Myanmar in 2012 on a tour. We were finishing our boat ride and returning to shore. Lo and behold I see a 1949 Plymouth on shore. I ran to see it and the owner was there. I was amazed it was in decent shape. The owner said whenever an interior or exterior part wore out or whatever, he would self manufacture it himself. My childhood car, still rolling!!!
It's not meant to ping or hesitate. That one's just a typical classic/enthusiast car. Most settle for "barely running condition" and think they were as rubbish when new.
I own two late forties Plymouth’s and drove them regularly on thousand mile trips. My brother lives in Holland and also owns a 48 Plymouth. Two years ago we drove his 1950 Plymouth special deluxe from Rotterdam to Kassel Germany and back. Never encountered anything but smiles along the way, and we have incredible memories from the trip. Those that listen closely to the reviewer should remember that those who don’t like one brand, make or model, can usually find what their looking for in another model. Critics are easily found everywhere.
My friend I grew up with drove his father's 65 Mustang that was passed down to him when he turned 18. He took good care of it, and in the mid 1990's offered to sell it to me. I was so stoked, I always wanted a classic Mustang, especially one in such great condition. I drove it a day in SoCal traffic...no AC, no power steering, manual rear drum brakes you had to practically stand on, no power nothing. By the end of the day I was exhausted from all the work needed to drive it, gave it back to him and said no thanks. No regrets
My first car in 1966 was a 51 Plymouth Suburban, wish I still had it. I loved that car. I live at the beach and we used to drive it on the beach and go surfing and camp out at night. Can't do any of that anymore. My second car was a 53 Belvedere, great little car. I just got a 37 Dodge Brothers 2 door Sedan. It's my retirement project. It's all there, just needs a lot of work. Can't wait to drive it.
There’s really nothing inherently wrong with 6V systems except that the wiring ages and grounds get rusty. Any early 12V car with aged wiring will have all the same problems. The bulbs are made for full brightness at 6V and the starter is wound to spin at full speed at 6V. Generators don’t make very much power at idle which takes getting used to from a modern standpoint. This was a time when Chrysler’s President was an engineer himself and demanded a well-built and well-designed car that was very reliable. This engine has full pressure oiling and hardened valve seats, as well as many other details that weren’t standard on economy cars for a while longer.
Starters don’t use voltage they use amperage. That’s why you can boost a 6v with a 12v because voltage is going to be almost nothing anyways… only current. Generator is part of it.. but also the bulbs were lower wattage because you have to have double the current for the same brightness. Generators were generally only 30A so if you had to have 50 watt headlights.. that was over half your amps right there.
Back in the late 60's and early 70's I had two 1949 versions of this car. Neither one of them would start on rainey of foggy days. But what fun they were, Love driving them and taking rides with all my wackey hippy friends. Very good memories to have. I don't want to fail mentioning how beautiful the air circulation was in those cars. Side window air vents and that monster air vent below the front window would let air flow into the cabin on hot summer days like a hurrican.
Those old Plymouths were a trip ,, my grandfather had one like the one in the video ,, and Everytime it rained he would curse it ,, he had to get the tractor out and pull start it ...
I have the same 1950 Plymouth special delux with 78k original miles unrestored. Drove it from Rockland county (15 mins north of George Washington bridge) to buffalo a couple years ago surprisingly with no problems. I use a ratchet strap to secure child seats in the back for my kids (no seatbelts). Mine starts rite up and runs perfect just leaks a bit of oil. Also mine has the optional sun visor that looks super cool but makes it almost impossible to see traffic lights when stopped at an intersection.
In my case, I daily drive a 1966 C10. It was built not bought. But it’s still running a 50 year old Buick engine with unknown albeit high mileage. A bunch of pieces acquired on a budget. If you don’t care about keeping a classic original you can sling hundreds of thousands on miles on the cheap.
I had that car in '62. 1950 Plymouth Special, but not Deluxe. Looked just the same. Blue, but less chrome, no radio. Got it from my high school biology teacher. The deal was either $100, or help her move. I helped moving. It had worn out wicker seat covers. tore them off, and I had brand new upholstery. Yes, consumed lots of oil. Late one winter night, on way home to New Jersey on Staten Island ferry, oil pressure dropped. I knew it needed 2-3 quarts of oil, but I had none in trunk. Was hoping to find a gas station open in Staten Island. Just then a ferry crew-member came walking along with a 5 gallon oil can. Told him my story and asked for oil. He said "This is steam engine oil for the ferry. You don't want to put this in a car." We did. Worked fine, and stopped burning oil for about a month. You didn't say anything about how the handbrake works. If you jack up to change a flat on a hill, car can roll away.
I have a 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air!!! ♥️♥️♥️ Old cars bring people together!!! Total strangers being nice and swapping stories. I've met some cool people thanks to my old ride. Thats my favorite part.
Oil bath air filters are actually great, they work by drawing the air through a difficult turn, where in theory most deposits will be flung off or be unable to make the turn and sit in the oil, and that the air passing over it for the rest of the way will leave deposits on the oil due to gravity pulling them down or simply the particles sticking to the surface of the oil. They're very efficient and not very restrictive, but they don't like angle and it's another fluid you have to remember to check and replace, so they fell out of style in the late 60s when paper elements became cheap and effective.
"For the man who wishes he could live in Toontown". Yep. That about sums me up. I had a '60 Plymouth Savoy with FINS and a pushbutton automatic in the '90s that made this one look "understated", currently ride a Royal Enfield original engineering fossil style Iron Cylinder Engine pre-unit model Bullet 500 in "Military" trim, a corpulent '57 Zundapp Bella R201 scooter, with a '67 Norton N15CS hybrid "Desert Sled" in the shed awaiting resurrection, and a '67 Amphicar, one if those cockeyed amphibious boat-cars. I am the Mayor of Toontown, and I approve this message and car. You can count me subscribed with the notifications chaser!
In H.S. in the early to mid 70s a class mates daily driver was a 46 Plymouth Coup. His brothers DD was a 55 Chevy, another guy in my school but not in my class had a 57 Chevy.
Him buying this car in 1989 would be the equivalent of buying a car from the early 80s today. I wonder what “classic cars” will look like in another 30 years
As much as I love the ending songs... man these "Time Gate" mini epilogues are brilliant!! Also, these old cars will out last a good 90% of cars on the road today even though they are vastly younger. A quick example Budget electric cars... after ~10 years when the battery is really on its way out & it will cost $5 - $10 grand to replace the battery pack... Just how many are going to be scrapped? I've heard on a couple forums (maybe you can confirm?) that Tesla replacement batteries can cost a good $15 - $17,000.... so what happens when the market value of a Tesla drops to lets say $10 - $20K but the battery pack needs replacing now or soon... & as for the normal dinosaurs (petrol, diesel) they are so full of computers - a new ECU can easily set you back $700 - $1K ...Cars have certainly become a lot more refined, but at quite a cost.. The next generation... Those being born now... will likely grow up in a world where electric cars are the norm. (at least in city to outer city areas) - anything breaks in the electric cars... nothing much a handyman can do to patch it up. Electric cars could be wonderfully simple, easy to work on & cheap... but there's limited profit in that so we keep getting fed garbage, cars full of features that the majority of us don't use (or need).... well that turned in to a bit of a rant... I'll see myself out, bye!
My father and his brother bought a brand new’49 Plymouth. They had no money and got it as stripped down as possible, it didn’t even have a heater. One New York winter disabused them of that decision, and they forked out the $25 to have an aftermarket heater installed. They drove it cross country a number it times. My father spoke fondly of that car for the rest of his life.
You've flooded it. You have to know the number, stroke and frequency of accelerator pumps to apply during starting. These will vary with temperature and humidity. It helps to point the car toward Mecca as well. I know this as a former owner of a 1949 Dodge Club Coupe.
No you don’t. You guess at what to prime it with… and then as you crank you slowly open the throttle. Somewhere in there… the exact stoichiometric mixture of air and gasoline will be present and it will fire up. Works on anything I’ve run from my old motorhome to vintage aircraft.
My mom, who owned a 1950 Plymouth Special DeLuxe just like one here (even down to the same color) until I rolled in 1962, always used to say if you can’t say something nice then don’t say anything. I grew up in the 1950’s that Roman (who obviously didn’t) speaks of; he has much to learn. The car shown here plainly has engine/mechanical problems as belied by its lack of performance. BTW, the turn signals are an after market add on. ‘nuff said.
My Grandmother bought 1950 Dodge ... It was a tank! She had lots of wrecks, even hitting a train. By the time I inherited it, was mostly body filler. You failed to mention the nifty air scoop in front of the windshield, which did very little in the New Orleans summer heat. There was no heater either-remember, that was a extra cost option then. I carried blankets on the back seat for my dates. Worst was the door handles, which any young child could operate-and I did- while the car was moving along. I still have gravel in my scalp that the Doctor could not remove. It was my college car, and it had lots of stories....some not really appropriate for publishing.
My dad had one in the late fifties....(My mom decided she wanted to learn how to drive in this car it was short-lived and she never did learn how to drive because basically she didn't want to learn how to drive in a tank) And yes we took a trip from Chicago to Weirton West Virginia in the summer(picture me my brother and my sister in the backseat sweating profusely) it was special really special! The house down the street was being tore down because the expressway (Eisenhower interstate system)was coming through he bought it for next to nothing tore the whole house down and was dragging sides of the house down the street to get all the wood to build a garage... the thing was a tank
If it is knocking an pinging on acceleration, that is because these required a mechanic that could tune the engine by adjusting the jet sizes in the carburetor, advance curve tweaks, adjust spark plug temperature, per all the variables of altitude, air temperature, etc. Everything is analog which many of the digital age just don't seem to get. Those mechanics are rare now, don't blame the machine.
