'59 Plymouth Forum

Finally got my '59 back on road today. Might have to take the title of WSM (world's slowest mechanic) from Dan. I think I started on this axle replacement around end of July. Knowing what I know now, could have been done in a good day if needed.

Anyway, got her all back together and road tested her about 20 miles. No vibration whatsoever. So the axle was the problem.
Parts car comes through again. Going to take her to car show tomorrow about 45 miles away.

So if anybody has a vibration and u-joint, drive shaft, tires, etc., checks out ok, check for play in rear axle.

Good to hear John Z. How many cars at your show today?

Any Pictures?

John Q.

Hi John - I'd say about 100 cars. Didn't actually hear anexact number. My car made it there and back with no problem (no vibrations). My buddy in his '71 Dodge Charger Super Bee was leading the way and he has a heavy foot so my 53 year old car with a 106,000 miles on it tried to keep up. In 65 zones he's going 75. Don't like to push mine that hard for too long.
Anyway the show was held in Wisconsin Rapids, WI and the city closes off one of their bridges and you get to park your car on the bridge over the Wisconsin River. I got camera problems so no pics.

Ran into an interesting situation at the show. A couple fellows from the area approached me and said they bought a '59 Ply Sport Fury convertible at an Auburn, IN auction; think they said last week. Reliable Auto Transport hasn't delivered it yet. I tried to find info on it on internet but without success. These guy have a collection of finned cars; DeSotos,Dodges,Chrysler letter cars,but up until now, no Plymouths. They invited me over to see the Sport Fury when they get it. Should be interesting, like going to a private museum. Their collection of the finned Mopars are only rare cars and convertibles. They said its hard to get your investment back from others.

I would agree with that statement of "not getting your money back.." If you just like your car...you don't care what its cost to buy or restore is but if you are trading retirement dollars or investing dollars then you are concerned with the resale-ability of the cars. Hope they at least drive their cars not just collect them.

Either way, it would be nice to see what the guys have in Mopar Fin cars and am glad they found the really hard to find SF Convertible. If you go there, grab a pic of the VIN number for Matthew's Registry.

John Q.

I would agree with that statement of "not getting your money back.." If you just like your car...you don't care what its cost to buy or restore is but if you are trading retirement dollars or investing dollars then you are concerned with the resale-ability of the cars. Hope they at least drive their cars not just collect them.

Either way, it would be nice to see what the guys have in Mopar Fin cars and am glad they found the really hard to find SF Convertible. If you go there, grab a pic of the VIN number for Matthew's Registry.

John Q.

I hear ya, John. Will do on the pics. I bought a $300 cam/camera recently and to me, so far, it's useless. In the sun, or even not to sunny days, I can't see what I'm taking a pic of. All I see in the view screen is the reflection of the good lookin guy trying to focus on the subject But indoors it works okay.
I really don't know how much they drive their cars. I know they take a bunch of them to the Iola Car Show and have their own little (actually pretty big) roped in area. They said right now they are restoring a DeSoto or Dodge '57, 58 or 59 convert, can't remember which year, but their budget is $100,000 on that car, and he said they'll probably spend all of that. They're not bs'ing, I've seen some of their cars at Iola.

I bet it is (likely..) a De Soto convert. Though Dodges that are totally done are getting close to the $100K levels at B-J in Scotsdale.

John Q.

Memory came back a little bit. I think he said it is a Chrysler 300 F. Must be a '60. I know they have a "E", a '59.