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They look about right. The price has gone up quite a bit since I bought mine decades ago. For what it is worth, I could not figure out how to install the springs without disassembling the "remote control" which entails bending the tabs that hold the side plates together. And that material was designed to have the tabs bent only once when it was assembled in the factory. I was careful/lucky and didn't break any of the tabs off. I could have just been blind and there is a way to install those spring without disassembly so check first. But if you do resort to bending the tabs and disassembling, take your time and be careful.

I can't really add to this with respect to seatbelts and associated harnesses for dogs in older cars. But I just had to post a couple of photos from 15 years ago on a trip that was several hundred miles from home in the old car. I never did figure out how she found that arm rest comfortable enough to use as a pillow. The biggest issue we had was getting all that Akita fur off the mohair, sure did want to stick on there.

Expectations do change with the era. When I was a child being raised in the desert we went all over the place on dirt roads including poorly maintained ranch tracks to get to picnicking and hiking spots. And we went in our family sedan. Nowadays people seem to need a jacked up all wheel drive to go to the local grocery store.

I would like to agree with you. That is certainly very similar to the "tool kit" that I carry in the car. But way back in the 1970s when I just got my '33 I took the car to a local tire place to put on the five brand new Sears Allstate tires I purchased. They gladly took money in exchange for swapping the old tires for the new. But they also badly damaged the area on each wheel where the hubcaps mount. Took me a long time to get the wheels back into half decent shape. I wish I could trust a tire shop to mount new tires. I would gladly pay a reasonable amount for the service, and I do exactly that on my daily driver. But I really don’t want the wheels badly damaged again. So since that time I have done my own tire mounting for the '33 using a couple of tire irons and a lot of choice vocabulary.

I have used cunifer too. For whatever reason my first thought when looking at your photos was copper. Thus my comment. Cunifer is far better for that application than copper.

Do you think there will be any issue with work hardening and failure of that copper tube from the firewall to the carburetor? (At least it looks like copper to me in the video.)

Yes, but there are policemen at most (all?) intersections directing traffic. I suspect a traffic signal costs a lot less per year than full time police.

I am sorry I came across too strongly. It was not my intent to judge you or be harsh. From your posts, you seem to me to be a very competent and thorough person when it comes to older cars, so it was just a bit surprising that this got past you.

I am puzzled about why these types of workmanship issues took 11 years to be discovered. . . I guess I am compulsive: On the occasions I don’t do the work myself I end up spending almost as much time as it would take to fix something just to examine the work I paid for.

And, believe it or not, they managed to make it work: https://v.redd.it/jyn556g3t3m61

I have heard that shingles is the worst with respect to pain and am sorry to hear you‘ve got it. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Very, very unlikely. There was a huge redesign of almost every part between the PB (last of the early 4 cylinder models) and the 1933 PC and PD (first of the six cylinder models). There is a slight chance that a 1941 transmission could, with some work on the shift lever mechanism, could interchange with a 1933 Plymouth but almost zero chance that it could interchange with a 1932.

Boy, I guess I just lucked out. Back in 1978 when I moved to Maryland from New York I went to register my 1933 Plymouth. The NY paperwork used the engine number. I asked the clerk at the counter in the MD motor vehicle department if they could issue the new paperwork using the serial number. I had a sheet of paper where I’d written down the engine number, body number and serial number. They said they’d check and disappeared for about 20 minutes. When she returned she said they all matched and there would be no problem using the serial number. At the time I figured that she probably just used my question as an excuse to take a long coffee break. But later I learned about the Chrysler historical collection and their service for looking up things by serial number and started to wonder if she’d been on the phone to Chrysler. What ever she really did in that 20 minutes is lost to history but the final result was my car has been registered by the serial number for decades now and it was about as painless a process as you can have with any state’s motor vehicle department.

I got an oil can, the old fashioned metal type with a squeeze handle with a tip on the spout small enough to go into the filler hole on my Delco-Lovejoy lever arm shocks. If the spout is flexible that is a plus. Something like this or this. I bought a new oil can and put a label on it, dedicating it to jack/shock oil. Anyway, pour the jack fluid into the oil can then pump the oil into the jack filler hole.

Here is a link to the video: https://archive.org/details/45354-1920s-auto-industry-mos The claim is that it is about Ford but that obviously isn’t correct. I am not even positive it is about one manufacturer or several as a wood frame body is shown at one point but when the glass is installed there appears to be a metal structure to the body.

I filled up the old car today for the first time in a long while and was a bit shocked about how much it cost. Some of that is conditioned by the fact that in hybrid mode my modern PHEV “daily driver” gets 60 MPG while my old car gets 14 MPG. And in EV mode, which my daily driver uses first, are half the cost of gasoline miles. Most of my driving is within local EV driving range so I seldom buy gas. I found this to be an interesting read: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/business/energy-environment/oil-prices-opec-shale.html

I have been wondering about that too. Thanks for the link: It makes sense to me that they won’t help for lateral (dynamic) imbalance. Since the tall narrow tires on my old car are only static (vertical) balanced, it seems they might work. At least work as well as the cheap bubble balancer that I can get access to. Maybe I’ll try them on my next set of tire. . .

That makes more sense: Serial Number HY-306-C Found in range HW-000-P to HL-685-L Serial 53062 of 76857 Year 1927-28 Make Chrysler Model Name 52 Model Code I Plant Detroit Engine 4 cylinder 170.3 cu.in. L-head Wheelbase 106 inches FedCo Number HY-306-C

I don’t have anything in my FedCo serial number lists for Chrysler products that looks like that sequence.

How did you get a 2087 model year car delivered to you in or before 2021? Enquiring minds want to know. . .

Concur with @Canadian PB Kid, that FedCo serial number is from near the end of the 1929 Model U production for the Windsor, Ontario assembly plant. Here is what I would make out of that number: Serial Number GC-346-P Found in range GP-583-W to GC-499-L Serial 7632 of 9168 Year 1929 Make Plymouth Model Code U Plant Windsor Engine 4 cylinder 170.3 cu.in. L-head Wheelbase 109 3/4 inches FedCo Number GC-346-P

Got an original Chrysler parts book to look up the number? For 1933 Plymouth the original Chrysler part number was 391951 which crosses into NAPA UP 36559 The 1928 through 1930 Plymouths used part 303102. Sorry, don’t have a cross reference for that one.

That image screams “created by an unskilled photoshop user” to me. Perspective on the wheels is the first thing that jumps out at me.

The gents on the bicycles appear are wearing uniforms that might be for police. And the equestrians are wearing what look like military uniforms. A few people watching the procession but not enough for a holiday parade. I wonder if that was the equivalent of a modern VIP motorcade? If so, who were the people in the motor vehicles?

Lots of old stereotypes and older than the hills humor. Bad enough to be almost good. Hummm. Embed did not seem to work per Peter’s instructions. Here is a link: https://archive.org/details/68884-hanks-gone-fishing-vwr