The 55er

Thanks rocketraider but I have no knowledge of Mercedes parts at all. I found that P/N on an active Ebay listing!

1966-era Mercedes.

That's a 1941 model, not a 1939.

Now that's what an automotive swap meet space is supposed to look like. It seems there are fewer and fewer of those "real" spaces.

Not nearly enough pictures to form an opinion. Car was not on the road lately, how long is a "few years"? Price seems very optimistic to me, especially with that interior.

IMO Carlisle was a lot more interesting 25 years ago than it is today. I go once a year in the Spring with a vendor friend of mine mostly for the social aspect of it and that's enough for me. I walk the whole thing but I don't find much to buy anymore. I've seen some really large crowds there Saturdays if the weather is nice, most vendors start packing up on Saturday by mid-afternoon. It's still a large swap meet with a lot of automotive stuff to look at and experience.

The new Hydra-Matic automatic transmission was available for all 1940 Oldsmobile series both sixes and eights. It was a $57 option.

Going back in time to about 1981, a friend of mine had an identical 49 Plymouth business coupe, dark green, in the exact same (rough) condition as this one. His ran & drove OK and he overhauled the brakes so we could drive it around in a field. He had big plans for the car, like a total restoration but that's about all he ever did to it. After a couple of years he decided it would take too much time and cost far more to restore than it was worth at the time. He scrapped it and never looked back. So now here we are 40 years later, imagine what it would cost today to restore this Great Cool Classic Plymouth project. I would have to pass even if the price was $1000. I doubt anyone will ever buy this car and even try to completely restore it, street rod it, or in any way finish something like this all the way to completion.

We have a 1946 Hudson on top and a 1950 Mercury Monarch (Canadian) on the bottom.

These pieces are from 1955 Olds wiper motor, I'm sure it's similar. The black valve pieces are supposed to slide, the metal top cover is stationary and mounts to the wiper motor with little screws. Arrow shows where the on-off control cable from the dash attaches, the little washer on the end of the cable goes in there. Make sure the rubber piece with the oblong holes in the third picture is mounted right over top of the motor itself. Hope this helps, if you can't get the motor to work, you'll have to send it out for a rebuild.

It's a Special "6".

1951-1952 Chevrolet.

I've never taken apart any automotive clocks from the late thirties but I've tried to fix at least a dozen electric clocks from about the 1949-1967 time period with no success at all. Many years ago I sent a 1949 clock out to some repair shop that was advertised in HMN or some other publication. They repaired it, it worked fine until about the time the warranty was up then it stopped again. That's the only one I ever had professionally $$$$ repaired and that wasn't a permanent fix either. I'm done with car clocks, maybe some other folks have had better luck with them than I have.

I gave up on trying to get car clocks to function properly years ago. I've wasted enough of my time on them. I've accepted the fact that those old electrical 50 & 60 year old wind down clocks with the internal points will NEVER stay working properly no matter how many times I remove them from the car, disassemble them and clean the points & internals. Sometimes they would work for an hour or two or maybe for a day if I was lucky. I quit. THE DEAD CLOCKS WON OUT, they stopped working way back when the cars were only a few years old and they certainly don't want to start ticking again half a century later. As far as I'm concerned they are for appearance purposes only and clock deletes should be filling those holes in the dashboard!

1966 Plymouths, Belvedere, Fury or similar.

I had an identical 1963 Olds Dynamic 88 4-dr. HT that I drove for a few years, I might add that the speedometer cable is on these is driven off the left front wheel hub instead of the transmission. Mine was a nice original used car but it was a dark brown color that I didn't much care for.

To me the pinnacle of Imperial class and styling was 1955-1956 and the looks went completely downhill after that, almost to the point of being unusual and sometimes bizarre, but then again 1958 Oldsmobiles are one of my all time favorite cars. Beauty has always been in the eye of the beholder.

1964-1966 are not the most popular years for Imperials IMO and that color isn't very attractive either.

10 grand? Bring a magnet along, those rear quarters look a little scary.

1939 Dodge front.

Yes it's different, 1956 had separate individual letters and 1955 was one long script. The original part number for your 1956 "O" is 1170630. Hope you find one!

Ernie Kovacs was a well-known actor, comedian, and TV personality of the 50-early 60s, I vaguely remember him. In keeping with the spirit of these AACA Forums, here's a picture.

1940 Cadillac.

Sorry, I wasn't much help with that one!

The car in your picture is a 1962 Dynamic 88. Super 88s had rocker panel mouldings, thin horizontal side trim mouldings all the way front the front to back, and also stainless trim on the lower edge of the trunk lid.