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Classic Cars Project Cars--You Get to Vote on "Hold 'em or Fold 'em"
19397 messages, Last post on Dec 03, 2009 at 12:11 AM
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 09, 2008 10:05 am) Is the Desoto next for a freshening? I think my fintail is going to eventually eat up a little change, too. The tires and brakes are a decade old now, it needs a valve adjustment minimum as it smokes a little when the engine is hot, there's some kind of leak as the underside is grubby - I hope it is just an oil pan gasket, but it is all so dirty I can't tell, and I still consider having the body cleaned up. One of these days...or maybe not.
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Replying to: fintail (Dec 09, 2008 12:04 pm) The car looks kind of forlorn right now, sitting in the back of the shop. The hood is off, windshield out. The fluorescent lights give its pale yellow sort of a radioactive hue. Wish I'd had a camera to take a picture of it. The DeSoto's next, but maybe not right away. I'm just going to have to see how the economy/stock market do.
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 09, 2008 1:05 pm) For all of the money you are sinking into that battleship, the shop owner should give you some pics of the process! The DeSoto would make a good retirement project...when/if any of us get to retire  
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Oh. My. Word. My family actually owned one of those little turds, and I jumped a bar ditch in it. Backwards. At 60MPH. Why? Because if you hit a patch of gravel in a curve, the backend will come around so fast there is no way to catch it. On good pavement, handled like a go-cart. Engine is 843cc and has less horsepower than a VW. In a hard corner the seat tracks will break and only the seat belt will keep you from flying across the car. Does not use and oil filter. Change the oil every 1500miles. And it had cruise control. A slide rod that locked the throttle in place. The only thing that released it was your hand. Only thing on the piece of junk that was any good was the brakes. That thing would stop so fast the engine would lose oil pressure. Oh, yeah, the factory supplied jack stuck in a square tube on the side of the car and lifted the whole side at once. Problem was, as the suspension shifted, the jack got closer to the side of the car, and you couldn't let it back down. We won't go into the rust issues. |
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Replying to: jlflemmons (Dec 09, 2008 6:44 pm)
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 10, 2008 5:19 am) Which would just make that one a later model of the same junk. Miserably underpowered car. Had to keep the revs north of 4K to get anything out of the engine. |
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Replying to: jlflemmons (Dec 09, 2008 6:44 pm)
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Replying to: srs_49 (Dec 10, 2008 8:21 am) But didn't the increased cost of life insurance absorb all the profits? 
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Replying to: lokki (Dec 10, 2008 9:00 am)  Good point. But, knowing how cheap my brother-in-law was, he probably didn't have any life insurance!
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and he's already finished the welding work on the windshield base of my '67 Catalina. He wants me to come over after work to look at it. I'm gonna swing by my house first and get the camera so I can take some pics.
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