56 Chrysler Windsor Wagon with 354 HEMI - Ran when parked. Vegas to Sioux Falls adventure Part 1 

When I was a kid we had a ‘55 Windsor 2-door for a time. The only problem I remember is that, according to Dad, it had aluminum headers and a few times it quit on us on the road after coming to a stop. He said is was vapor lock and we just waited 10-minutes and it restarted. I did not have this compulsion at the time, but I wish I would have had the foresight to have at least ONE of these cars salted away for “when I get grown up.” (I am 71 but still not sure about being grown up.)

I look forward to the second part! ;)

My grandfather had a 1956 Chrysler Windsor car, not a wagon, this brought back some memories. It was really nice to see this, hear it start and run.

Great video, I enjoyed it very much. Those old Mopar hemi's are are bullet proof. Looking forward to part 2. Bill

When I first started driving we had a '56 4 door sedan but I think it was a New Yorker. Beautiful car, and it carried our family of 7 around with no problems. Nice roomy car. Good luck with yours. I'm looking forward to more videos on it.

Thanks for the video. I got lots of information from it. I have a 55 Windsor nassau car 2dr hardtop. good luck with your car. I love it. Not many around that are running.

This car deserves a nice paint job and interior! it will be beautiful !! And I am a CHEVY guy.

Dude you got a great car there. Gotta love old wagons....

cool. I bought it's cousin earlier this year, a 56 New Yorker Wagon in the same green color. Mines in similar shape. restoring mine from top to bottom and doing some upgrades along the way. can't wait to see what you do next!

Awesome car! Looking cool! :)

I too have a 1956 Chrysler. To be more specific, it is an Imperial limousine which I got when I was 16. It was "the" party car in those days. 50 years later, I still own it. The grand-kids love taking rides in it. For me, it was no surprise you got 'er fired-up, after all, it is a hemi. One thing to watch out for is the horn ring. Extremely valuable now...and easy to break. I have been through a few of them.

nice car and you did a good job

Good luck with your Windsor !! Like Dennis before me, I also had a 55 Windsor And traded it away for another car and have regretted it for the last 55 years. The only trouble I had with mine was I rear-ended another car and had a different color front end on it. Wish I could find another one. Always started in the cold winter days of PA back then..

Nice car! Great video. Thanks

There is a LOT of green on and in that car! But it’s a really good looking green. As your working on and walking around that car, looking at the shapes and lines on this car, I see that this is a very stylish and good looking car.

very cool car! I have a 64 Chrysler New Yorker! Absolutely love it!

my uncle had a 1956 chrysler imperial with the 354 hemi. it was a cool car and sounded great with glass packs.

Boy that's a great one right there ma mopar's version of The nomad What's even cooler is the fact that one of them hasn't been crushed or rusted out through the years and has been found that is what you call beyond a rare bird

My dad purchased a 1955 Chrysler New Yorker 300 Station Wagon from the Stan Sears estate sale. Mr. Sears owned a Chrysler dealer ship in Seattle, WA. and was a hydroplane racer back in the 50's. He special ordered this vehicle so that his wife would be able to keep up with his hydro on the floating bridge on lake Washington in order to relay his speed via two way radio. Loved that car and was to young to have an opportunity to drive her. Yes it was a hemi.

Camera work = Spot on 👏

muy lindo automovil, precioso video ,gracias desde URUGUAY Sud America

that car was born in the same year i was,,,1955.. great video, much appreciate guys like you, sharing the adventure. my only future advice would be to filter that old gas, and add one pint of diesel fuel to it and run it through. p.s. i had the chance to buy the same wagon, minus the engine and trans, really cheap a few months ago, but had no room for it on top of my other projects. keep up the good work,,,,all the best from B.C Canada.

I love old Chrysler vehicles. The Chrysler Windsor Assembly Plant currently assembles mini-vans and Pacificas. I spent a lot of time working at the plant installing the new assembly equipment the decked the body and the chassis to these new vehicles. I made many friends of the Chrysler employees who worked there for many years and hear many of the stories of the 50's and 60's vintage vehicles. I referred to the over assisted power steering as "Chrysler No Feel" oiser steering. It was standard for many years on the big Chrysler vehicles.

lovely car. twin fan belts back then!

Great find. I do love my wagons and this one is the same age as me. Thanks for sharing and good luck with the car.

Grasshopper, you will gain polish. Thanks for the nice station wagon video. Don't see too many of the old mopars around anymore.

Amazing you found a car like that in Vegas. I figured Danny had already gotten all the good stuff.

I liked, I subscribed .

Man you must be a carb whisperer because after you clean and rebuilt that thing it idles perfectly.

Those piston rings are dry so your compression wont read right. Really need to lube them up and run a while then test compression. Probably be fine after that......cool car by the way.....

That glazing or coating inside the intake looks like something I came across in an engine i bought some years back. Turns out it was that liquid fuel tank liner some people use to seal rusty fuel tanks. It had coated the intake valves and craped up the carb pretty bad. The guy I bought it from latter told me it had coated the fuel lines and he had problems with clogged filters.

🤩 A Chrysler from the great era for USA , American way of life 50's. She's pretty beautiful with her green on green colors combo. She deserve all the same one thing, to find its original rims of whitewall tires and its hubcaps in chomes. Great car anyway .

Lots of typical tappet noise . For those who have never worked on one of these magival engines,never rev one when cold because the rockers are not lubed properly until the engine has run for a minute or so and rocker shaft wear results. I'd love that wagon!.

Looks like fairly new stainless duels on that.

Wow. What a survivor

I had a 55 Windsor, and never realized that 56 was the beginning of the 12 volt systems. (hand / forehead) Same engine as here but a 2 bbl carb. Dash was almost identical as well. Gear shift was a lever to the right of the steering wheel. (similar to today's Caravan) My first thought on that extra noise under the hood was dry generator bearings or rusty belt pulleys. That gen had oil caps so put a few drops in there for good measure. BTW, they were famous for the "one finger" power steering. The girls loved that!

In the mid 60's my mom had a 56 New Yorker wagon.

lovely hemi warble at tickover.

Nice car.

Cool factor 7 fold on that ol car.

awesome car

idk what ya gave for it but it looks like ya got a nice ride! nice choice!!

What a awesome car yeah the Windsors had the Poly they did not run the Hemi but it's cool someone put the hemi heads on the Poly anyway I'm a big Mopar guy and love anything Chrysler and I got to say that thing is nice. It's too bad the car has the power flight instead of the torque flight trans anyway love to see this thing come back to life it make it to Sioux Falls I'm sure it will since it's a Mopar

I have to applaud your knowledge of these cars. Either you researched the heck out of them after you found this one, or you've owned them before. There are other guys on RU-vid that have done Will it Run on early Hemi's and they mostly just stumble their way through them. I thought your observation that it is more like a modern SUV than a modern sedan was very important. This was just before station wagons started offering what we'd now call third row seating. I think Chrysler earlier models , like 1946 to 52 that were "8 passenger sedans" with extended passenger compartments and wheelbases and two jump seats ahead of the rear seat also compare to SUV's of today. I have a 52 Saratoga project. Also a 331. It is still about 10 percent incomplete and needs drive train repairs for what is there. It has the Semi Automatic Fluid Drive transmission which is a whole lot different from all Powerflite and newer transmissions. There is nobody doing those transmissions on RU-vid. Not correctly at least.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas! Nice old Chrysler

If you can't find the proper Kingpin set up for that you can take those pins to a machine shop and then the bushings you can buy all day long through Granger you need to pop out both upper and lower and measure them and you can get bronze bushings any size all day long through Granger I had an imperial I had to do the same thing to except I was the Machine Shop

hey mate im lpping forward to see what happens with this great old girl , she can be a fantastic street rod .

lots of the early power steering units had no road feel. that was normal. these were set up so that a 90 year old woman could parallel pard a 5k pend car.

When doing a compression test you have to turn engine over the same amount of times per cylinder. Otherwise you end up with different readings.

I am new to your channel awesome 👌 what are you r plans for this car I love the old wagons it is awesome 😁 good 👍 job 😀

So what's the plan with the old wagon? Gonna keep it or sell it?

I'm surprised that 110 degree heat hasn't been an issue with the cooling system.

You were pushing the wrong place for the horn. Try the chrome bar that comes off the steering just below where you pushed. Interesting old car.

There is an adaptor available to run an LA fuel pump.

Did you sell the Wagon?? Or is it up for sale?

When you pull the carb off make sure not to put a rag in the intake that way when you drop screws and bolts down the the intake it will clean out the pistons and cylinder walls and combustion chambers! I will also make the engine run better and even pick up some MPG .. Also make sure not to pull the plugs and fill the cylinders with Marvel or ATF before cranking, that way you will bust a ring when it hits the ridge or rust in the cylinders and score the cylinders with the dry rings and pistons . When pieces of rings and pistons blow out your exhaust driving down the road you will know you have your engine cleaned out @ Please mount a Go Pro in the rear of the car so we can see the chunks blow out the back ! Your Tech Tip for Today 😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛

pour alittle ATF down the carb while revving the engine, smokes abit but usually takes care of a sticky lifter...if thats what it is

Good ol SD44!

Seems like the simple thing would have been to just drop the tank to begin with?

Think you need to check the lifters they are mechanical i think probably need adjustment. Most people never do it because they don't know. You could tell the minute that you pull valve covers and grab the rockers.

$4.10 per gallon would be very low here in Los Angeles.

The spacer you removed from under the carburetor is not a factory it is a California mandated smog retrofit kit that also included a temperature controlled vacuum advance. At one time defeating the systems was a game for California car guys.

Correction... Compression test.

Why wouldn't you drop the tank and clean that so you wouldn't have to worry about sediment?

You can keep that one.

I do not believe it is possible to put hemi heads on a polyspherical engine. It is more likely that someone installed a complete himi engine and transmission from a New Yorker to replace the original engine. The chrome ring on chrome arms that spread out from the center of the steering wheel is the horn ring. You press on the outer end of the chrome arms. Do not push down hard on the top of the chrome ring or the bottom of the chrome ring. If you do, you may crack the pot metal the horn ring is made from (I had a '56 Windsor myself years ago and that happened to me). The horn rings are just about unobtanium. Most all of them have been broken over the years.

Can ANYone tell me how I can get a car that STILL can drive during an EMP ( ElectroMagneticPulse ) which would knock off our electric grids ? I understand 1. There is a certain year that ends this allowability. 1974 ??? What year ? 2. You can turn your car into a Faraday cage whatever that means. 3. We might be able to fuel our car with alcohol because we won’t be able to get gasoline. Let me know what we can do.

My son has a 56 for sale in denver if your interested it's in very good condition

I just revived a 55 plymouth wagon 2 door

u do not want to put synth oil in that not good, just good old plain oil thats it

If you have crud in the tank most people would just pull the tank and flush and clean be better than a $2000 tow bill 🙄

Should be a 392 Hemi. FYI

Test

Wax the patina.

before you flushed the old oil out you should have drained about half and then put marvel mystery oil in - allowed it to run - don't yank on the door handles they will come off in your hand, and for God's sake be careful with that horn ring !!!!

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Please dont wave the camera around so much . Makes me dizzy trying to watch your videos . Thanks

You are fooling yourself about the test results when you don't do a compression properly.

what a disappointment. soo many other u tubers i watch would have got the steering parts and drove it home even it off a boat tank.. . sad

Its not anything Poly, its a Hemi as it was off the reduction line. You could have poured a bit of gas into the carb and tried to get it to fire..That glaze it simply from the dribbling gas, its varnish.

Most overused and misused term.. Sight Unseen. This means NO pics, NO photos.. UNSEEN in any manner

idk what ya gave for it but it looks like ya got a nice ride! nice choice!!