1932 plymouth pb sedan

The most unusual vehicle that I have ever driven is a 1972 AM General postal truck with a V8 installed in it.

That is a very nice looking car, I'm not a fan of whitewalls in most applications (just personal preference) They do look great on this car.

Bob, I took mine for a half hour ride to get it hot, brought it back and took the carb off to get to plenty of room to remove valve cover. What I am saying is they retain heat for a long time and adjustments can be made then. Billy

I would expect to see this posted on April 1st.

A balanced shaft will have large cast weights bolted on the crankshaft (both ends)

Your 19"wheel is not for 1932, 31PA used a 19" wheel. Not sure of earlier years. The crankshaft would be 31 or older as 32 was balanced.

Don't waste your time with an appraiser, do your own research to find what a similar car in the same condition is selling for (not what people are asking, but what the selling prices are). Insure your vehicle value on replacement cost.

If not working properly, I would suggest running a new ground wire and it will work as new. The chicken wire in the roof is not grounded and was used as a radio antenna.

To me nothing is ever "sorted out", you have a chance of breaking down, did you pack up the spare parts just in case? Who cares, take it out for a ride anyway. Another one is "do you have all your ducks in a row?" My ducks are not even in the same pond.

The answer to the original question is "depends how much you want to spend"

WOW, this story could go on for years. Those cars are in remarkable condition, and I see value in every picture. Probably a good thing for my wife that we live on the east coast. Thanks for checking it out and posting pictures.

What is "the right price"? This looks like a PA manifold

Many states used sample plates ABC123 for many different years, meaning that there would be more than 1 pair issued as samples. It would not be uncommon for more than 1 person to use date correct sample plates before the state may figure it out.

I had a guy that worked for me buy a Chevy square body 1 ton from them, he said they were a "nothing but professional company" to deal with and still has the truck. I do believe they also made the arrangements to ship it to N.H.

Nice car, the new garage may need an addition. (I did enjoy the garage thread)

When I was in high school, (1985?) the auto shop class got to take a trip from NH to Framingham Mass to the GM plant and see a pretty good amount of the production line. We about 20 kids with one guy giving the tour, the one thing that I will always remember was a guy on the line installing door panels on Pontiac station wagons, most of us watching him like it was a side show or something and then he downed a big bottle of Old Milwaukee, stuffed the bottle inside the rear door and installed the panel, we were all cheering the guy on and the tour guide had no idea what was going on. As 17 year old kids we thought he had the best job in the world.

Any updates on this story ?

Peter, you broke rule #1. Not that I really care, just thought I would call you out.

I would not know the year. I think these are great photos, look how happy everyone was. Perhaps they were happy because they just got done driving those cars.

My guess is about 800 bucks, parts and labor. Depends on where you are and what the labor rates are.

That looks like a roof rack, maybe intended to go on this car at some point.

That's a great idea, maybe I will throw the gum wrapper back in and find something else to go with it.

I would clean the passenger side of the casing on the transmission in question to see if it has white paint stating PA or PB, not sure if Chrysler or other model Plymouth's had the same painted model on the transmission as in these pictures. 1st picture is hard to see PB and second is easy to see PA. Billy

What interesting items have you found in an old car? I'm sure we've all found old pocket change at one time or another. I found an old box of rivets in the quarter panel of my old postal van and written on the box it said "RATTLE?" Anyway working on my Plymouth driver side window regulator this weekend, I found an old gum wrapper and yes, I know no value whatsoever but interestingly very preserved for being in the door for 80 some odd years. Then I Googled it and found it was made sometime in the 30s and researched the history of company and so on until I found I wasted a few hours on the computer getting sidetracked before I figured I better get the window back in.

It is funny that you mention the intake manifold gasket problems, I worked for an independent repair shop in the 90s and we worked on everything, over the years I probably changed a hundred gasket sets on GM v6 and v8 engines. The gaskets were molded plastic with permatex type inserts around the coolant, intake and exhaust manifold ports, the GM original gaskets were notched in the plastic around the coolant ports to prematurely fail in a short period of time. Was this done on purpose for the dealers to generate service $ ?, I'm sure many auto manufactures did and still build to fail intentionally. Eventually Felpro came out with a replacement gasket that was built without the "notches" and lasted forever.