Every Saturday night here from mid April through Mid Sept there is a cruise in at a local cafe.  I go on a semi regular basis, - its mostly street rods and muscle cars of the brand X variety, some low riders, &  some stock vintage cars some of which there are usually a few Mopars.   Tonight I managed to get the owners of my ex 60 Polara and my Ex-300 together there for a reunion of sorts.   Interesting thing is that the guy I bought the 300 off of  26 years ago was there as well,  and he sold the current owner of my ex-300,  a 300-H  back around 1982 when I bought the 300-Sport from him.   Anyhow here's a few pics of my current and my 2 Ex's.   These were the ONLY  FL cars there tonight. 

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   These tires are almost brand new,  came with the car.   My plan is for a set of Repro. Kelsey Hayes wire wheels and new tires, at some point !   The KH repros come in both 14 and 15 inch rims,   so I think I will stay with the 14"  units to keep my speedometer at the correct reading.    Then worry about tires at a later date as the wheels are gonna cost nearly 2 grand to get them landed here.       So anyone wanna  start a fund ?      I'm not going to buy the Chinese repros, which is apparently what Coker sells.   The good ones made in USA come with both chrome spokes and stainless steel spokes,  but the chome spokes add another $700.00 to the cost !    I think I'll go for the chrome.    

 While we were in Oregon in August,  I also picked up a set of disk brake adapter plates from Roger at AAJ.   Talk about customer service,  he actually delivered the package to me right to our hotel in McMinville,  southwest of Portland, where is lives.   I sourced all the other parts here and just picked them up on Saturday,  so there's my next project hopefully within a month or so.   Then on to the wire wheel project.    Speaking of the disk brake conversion,   this will be my second one,  but this car will have to have a brake light switch mounted onto the brake pedal arm,  whereas my 62 300 already had that type of switch.  Can Anyone out there tell me what kind of switch and mount they used for their conversion - as pre-1962 units used a pressure switch on the master cylinder instead of the brake pedal arm switch.   The 62 type bracket won't fit on the 60 as the setup is a little different etc.   Maybe I'lll have to fabricate a mounting plate,  anyone out there who can tell me what they made up or used would help.