Saved From the Crusher: 1941 Plymouth 2 Door! 

Hey! Thanks for letting me know! I didn't even think to check, haha. I thought we were weeks away for sure. Anyhow, thanks again, and I guess I'll have to get busy on a 10K special vid! Cheers from me and my best girl Stel.

Since I saw your note I've been keeping an eye on it, at the time noted today it was exactly 10K.

By the way, The UPFKATUP has been in a tizzy over this, running about, skipping along, singing little ditties to himself, etc. I'm starting to think he might be a little light in the heels, if you know what I mean. He even (univited) confided in me that he wants to be a secret agent. Sez I: "What in the hallucinating hell are you talking about?" Sez he: "I want to be one of those secret agents on those videos." Sez I: "Well, then haul your ass up to the Canadian Outback and put in your application, you fruity little turd." Sez he: "That's the nicest thing you ever said about me." Sez I: "Shaddup."

Hey, thanks for the clarification! Cheers!

coldwarmotors you're welcome the car looks like it's in really good shape body wise it looks solid you should try to put the motor back together and get it running also do you know any ways to hop up a flat head six from those cars I want to make mine a hot rod but I'd like to leave the stock motor in it

Hey good to hear from ya... thanks as usual for the note; I always look forward to some wisdom from the UPFKATUP... Hope your cycle is coming back together relatively painlessly! Cheers from myself and the lovely Stella...

I told Wifey I would have to cut out her beer money to pay for repairs. She told me I had to sleep some time, and went back to sharpening her switchblade.

Hey, thanks again for watching this nonsense; cheers from me and Stella!

Hmmm... Stella might be a little optimistic in this case, haha...

Hey, thanks for watching this stuff! Cheers.

Hey, thanks! Cheers...

Yep; she'll probably donate a few bits for my other one and get moved along... Cheers!

Yes; there are almost always usable parts on any car. I always find I use way more little stuff like screws and fittings than I ever thought about when I bought the parts car. Cheers from me and Stel!

+coldwarmotors I usually save that stuff then can't find it when I need it

Who, Stella or the car? ha-ha

bg147 not stell, especially with that Jackson five afro!

Glad you liked it, cheers!

Hey, thanks for the note! Yes, I only bought the 41 so it wouldn't get scrapped. It'll be a parts car for my 41 Road King that's in much better shape. I guess I have 50 cars right now, and probably 30 of them run and drive, and 10 of them could actually have plates on them, and 7 of those actually do. Cheers from all of us at CWMC!

Hey, thanks again for watching this stuff and continuing to encourage this type of behavior...

Hi! Yes, I know... I'm planning to start filming it next week... I hope it works out! Cheers from all of us here at CWMC.

Hey thanks! Let us know if you're in the area, cheers!

Yes! That is exactly what this car is for; you can never have too many parts cars if you're going to restore (or even just fix up) anything this old where few reproduction parts are available. It's got plenty of small parts that I will be glad i don't have to hunt around for. Cheers!

Haha, yeah, she's pretty proud of herself... Cheers!

Yeah, not sure what happened; the same fix as before is not working anymore and nothing has changed... I'll keep working on it... cheers!

Hi! I still have the 59; one of my faves too! Cheers...

Pretty comedic comment about the tread! This reminds me of an old friend who wore out the front tires on his Honda so badly that one would say it looked like a bald racing tire. Absolutely nothing. The funny thing is that it was front wheel drive and he drove those old tires to death into the winter snow and ice.

Exactly! Well, there were some 1942 models made, though... so technically they were the last made before the war... Cheers from us here at CWMC...

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Thanks for the advice! I'll try to sort it out, it's driving me nuts, haha...Cheers!

Certainly! Good luck with it!

Hey, thanks for the encouraging words; I'm not too bothered about the opinions of folks who don't restore cars for a living, and therefore often don't understand how useful it is to have several copies of any car you are going to try to build. Granted, this Plymouth is rough as hell, but I paid next to nothing for it and it will definitely donate a few parts to my other 41 Road King project. Cheers from all of us here at CWMC!

The thought just occurred to me that you're a young Stan Renolds of sorts. Soon people in your area will be calling you up looking to donate old cars because they know they will see a second life. Wouldn't that be the cats ass!!

Hey, thanks for the note... Many of these "crusher" cars are bought (like this one) as parts cars for other projects. I have a decent 41 Plymouth, so when this came along, I bought it. Same with a lot of the 57-8-9 Plymouth and Dodge cars... I need a lot of cars to make a couple of good coupes. Once I get one on the road (like the Frazer), I'll sell off the parts cars to someone or to a wrecking yard. Several cars I bought simply because I wanted one, like the 59 Chevy and the Nash and a few others. Several of them (58 Delray, 1955 Dodges) I bought literally so they wouldn't get crushed, and I'm just going to re-sell them to better homes. Also, I really just wanted a nice row of 1950s cars in my yard... no reason; I'm never going to fix up the 57 Studebaker sedan, but I wanted "one of each" for the row. Now I have GM, Ford, Chrysler, and each of the independents represented in my driveway. I just like old cars I guess. I have half a dozen plated classics at any given time, so I don't need to try to fix every one of them. I've got enough cars now, so from here on I'm going to keep rotating the weaker cars out and slowly replace them with better ones. I hope I was able to clarify my motivation a bit for you, cheers!

At the end of the day, do we need a reason to save these cars? I have a handful of old cars and trucks, one of which is my driver, and several others which I like the look of. They’re all 1942 or earlier, and they make me smile. I reckon that’s enough.

See the 1949 Frazer Daily Driver!

Hi! I haven't yet, but there is still lots of time this summer to try... I have actually started getting a different car running for the next "Will it Run?" series of videos... Hope you like it! Cheers.

Oh! This one will likely just donate parts to my other 41... The roof is actually rusted through because it sat around for many years with the roof caved in. I popped it out when I got the car, but the damage was already done...Cheers!

Yeah...sigh...well, that's the way it is. Not everything could/should be saved. Sometimes something simply has to "die" finally so that other things are able to live respectively live longer (equal to nature, humans, technique). Engine looks complete so that this car could spend many parts. I appreciate coldwarmotors very much and I'm looking forward to watch a lot more videos. All the best luck to you all (two- legged, four- legged, two- wheeled, four- wheeled and other- wheeled and weird "things").

She's adorable!

Exactly; still lots of parts left on this one...

Exactly! Cheers

It is a smoke influenced dialect.

Hi! Interesting; I've always heard it with the "z" sound, but now that you mention it, I've also heard it said with the "s" sound... maybe it is a regional thing? I have always just assumed it was pronounced "Chryzler". Weird, haha.

I had a neighbour back in the '50s who always had a new Chrysler Imperial in his driveway. He called it his 'Chryzler' and his wife 'warshed' it every Saturday when the Sun was shining. I have no idea why he talked that way. The local Chrysler dealer was one of his 'ceegar' smoking Poker buddies. He used a few other strangely pronounced words that slip my mind now. He seemed to be otherwise intelligent and he made tons of money. I'm sure that he knew better but to me it made him sound a bit dopey.

Jimmy Kraktov I went to IU and the Indiana locals always said warsh and they pronounced the S in Illinois.