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1958 Plymouth Infina |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 468 | Just one more look at this barn find 57 swept side!
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imopar380 |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7207 Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | Doctor DeSoto - 2012-06-10 3:43 PM Ian, ... you better get a proper Saratoga grille in that car of yours. You are misleading the unwashed masses into thinking that recessed job is standard Saratoga fare ! I'm keeping the NYer grille, but if there was an el-cheapo method that I could get rid of those black bumper guards.......... | ||
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Expert Posts: 1295 Location: Nasco , SWEDEN | somewhere in california 2012 http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cc-outtake/cc-outtake-1957-chry... Edited by mogge65 2012-06-10 10:45 PM (1957-300c-1.jpg) (1957-300c-21.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1957-300c-1.jpg (220KB - 196 downloads) 1957-300c-21.jpg (151KB - 198 downloads) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Ian, Can you post pix of those bumper guards ? I don't think I've ever seen or noticed such a critter before. | ||
Windsor59 |
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Expert Posts: 2596 Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden | mogge65 - 2012-06-10 10:43 PM somewhere in california 2012 http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cc-outtake/cc-outtake-1957-chry... Given that the leaves look red in autumn, should then be up north in CA? Fun and intresant image (300C and a tough Barracuda) | ||
rbmain |
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58 DESOTOS RULE |
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | phurious - 2010-08-01 4:27 PM Did any notice the rear lower bumper on the fron t bumper of the 57 Belvedere drop top? That's weird... Here's a FL Dodge that I saw a couple months ago, all I had to take pictures wiht was my iphone. Not sure of the year and model, but I'm quite sure someone here knows. Spotted in Paoli, PA headed east on Route 30 towards Philadelphia. PA Antique Historic Tags do not allow you to drive at night, bad Dodge... Sorry for the quote of a two year old post, but is that right? You aren't allowed to drive a car AT NIGHT if it has Pennsylvania Historical plates? What's the rationale behind that ruling if true? Any Pennsylvania collectors care to comment? EDIT: No need to comment. I see from a post made a little after the original one was made explains that the confusion stemmed from a mis-reading of the pertinent PA Motor Vehicle statutes. Cars with PA Historical tags CAN drive after dark so long as they have the correct lighting equipment. Edited by 58 DESOTOS RULE 2012-06-11 4:43 AM | ||
1958 Plymouth Infina |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 468 | 57 Chrysler ver above i thought all of those were I air conditioned garages is it for sale I wonder? | ||
imopar380 |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7207 Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | Doctor DeSoto - 2012-06-10 10:51 PM Ian, Can you post pix of those bumper guards ? I don't think I've ever seen or noticed such a critter before. They aren't stock, and were left to be re-installed after the bumper was re-plated, before I bought the car. Chryslers didn't get front bumper guards in 1960, but the DeSotos got nice ones at the outboard lower edges. This is an old photo but shows them clearly. So what the deal is, is that I would have to have the holes filled/ welded up and the bumper re-plated just to get rid of these ugly things. Edited by imopar380 2012-06-11 1:44 PM (1111.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1111.jpg (64KB - 263 downloads) | ||
big m |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7807 Location: Williams California | Doctor DeSoto - 2012-06-09 11:47 AM A wrecking yard in the middle of nowhere, Oregon had a number of interesting cars scattered in the sage brush. When asked about 50's Mopars, the owner said "Not a chance. This here is derby country !" Doc, Was that yard pictured Albert Beachler's place in Paisley Oregon, about 60 miles Northeast of Lakeview? I bought a '57 Belvedere 4-door hardtop from him, and he still had two '59 Plymouth wagons, and a stripped out '57 DeSoto sedan. The cars you spied in Lakeview belong to Bobs car lot, he plays with vintage cars on the side. Both these guys are good to deal with. The red '60 Dodge is still visible heading north out of K falls on the east side of the highway.. ---John | ||
firedome |
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Expert Posts: 3155 Location: NY & VT | That Cad you pictured is a '39, we had one in the family back around WWII, wonderful car. Thanks for all the great pics. | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | The first place was BF Egypt. Not terribly far south of Burns and Hines, and a mother of all thunderstorms NE of Lakeview (see pic !) I saw none of the cars you mentioned ... no FL cars at all. Lakeview isn't very big. You are probably right on that one. They guy had a number of oldies, many were Brand X. (DSC00407.jpg) Attachments ---------------- DSC00407.jpg (18KB - 200 downloads) | ||
big m |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7807 Location: Williams California | It probably was Paisley, then, as there are no other places along that highway with collections of cars visible from the road. Alsoo, the three Plymouths I mentioned were being stored there for Bob in Lakeview, so they may have been moved in more recently, depending on the time of your visit. ---John | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | The sage brush wrecking yard was on "Wrecking Yard Road", if that tells you anything (?). I was there last week. | ||
1958 Plymouth Infina |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 468 | Ever been to wildcat auto wrecking in Oregon I counted about 35-40 FL cars 5 were verts! | ||
1958 Plymouth Infina |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 468 | Here's their website! http://www.wildcatmopars.com/ | ||
big m |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7807 Location: Williams California | 1958 Plymouth Infina - 2012-06-14 7:31 AM Ever been to wildcat auto wrecking in Oregon I counted about 35-40 FL cars 5 were verts! I know the owners of Wildcat personally, I refer folks to them that are looking for muscle era cars or parts, and they have very little Forward Look cars, and get referrals from them on FL parts. They may have gtotten some new ones in lately, though. ---John | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | 1958 Plymouth Infina - 2012-06-15 7:31 AM Have you ever been to wildcat auto wrecking in Oregon ? I counted about 35-40 FL cars. 5 were convertibles! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Where are you doing that counting ? I see nothing about convertibles. | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | Brent, here's what it looks like from a FWDLK'er.... Liquid sunshine enroute to Tulsa. Rain-X, doin its job; note the large water 'drops', at the top of the windshield. Edited by d500neil 2012-06-14 11:48 PM (Liquid Sunshine.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Liquid Sunshine.jpg (95KB - 215 downloads) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | I like Rain-X. Especially on my old cars w/o intermittent wipers. | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | It's also great on cars that don't have Jiffey Jets! The stuff truly does work, but, I shooda put another application of it onto the W/S, before leaving Tulsa. It does not last for a very long time, with the wipers operating against its film barrier. | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Yeah, .. if left without using the wipers, and occasionally washed of road film, it lasts quite some time ... maybe a month in a daily use Spokane winter ? But turn on the wipers, and it is all over in a day. | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Back to car spotting .... Saw this beast while on my way to get my hair squared up before coming back from leave. It was at Silver Auctions. Probably still available, if someone wanted to contact them. Sign on the windshield said "no reserve". (60 Plymouth.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 60 Plymouth.jpg (54KB - 200 downloads) | ||
bel5758 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 716 | Finally saw a FL at a local car show. National Capitol Region chapter of AACA at Solomon's Island, MD, Saturday, June 16, 2012. 58 Dodge Coronet. I told him all about this group and he told me about the grand total of four or five FLs that he knows of in the VA/DC/MD/PA area. He said he would check us out and gave his permission for me to put up these photos. (corofront.jpg) (coro1.jpg) (coro2.jpg) (coro3.jpg) (coro4.jpg) (coro5.jpg) (coro7.jpg) Attachments ---------------- corofront.jpg (95KB - 205 downloads) coro1.jpg (94KB - 202 downloads) coro2.jpg (89KB - 201 downloads) coro3.jpg (84KB - 206 downloads) coro4.jpg (87KB - 194 downloads) coro5.jpg (92KB - 200 downloads) coro7.jpg (66KB - 226 downloads) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Deduct 50% from final score for contrived drive-in movie speaker and window tray of fake food. Neat car though .... lo-bux Coronet 4HT with Powerflite and A/C ... something of an unusual car ! | ||
bel5758 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 716 | The props were fun, he was certainly all about the motif. Sadly though I think they had almost as many trophys as cars - about 50 of each. I asked the chapter folks about joining and they told me this is their only main show each year. Then they told me it ain't like it used to be with most of the membership dying off. Indeed most of the car owners there were....well....let's just say substantially aged. It made me a little sad. I'll join after I get my Belvy home and we'll see how things go after a meeting or two. By the way there was a mammoth and beautiful black two door Packard there with a 502ci motor, new tranny, and Corvette suspension. It was a '36 model perhaps? Owners weren't around. FLers are number one in my book but that Packard was da bomb! | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | That's the post-initial-production (as opposed to mid-year-) "Saddle Trim" paint motif on that Coronet. Nice car; if I had it, with its very nice original condition interior, I'd spend the money, or save for it, and get the 2-tone-blue steering wheel properly restored, instead of merely painted in blue. | ||
Windsor59 |
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Expert Posts: 2596 Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden | I See this nice New Port? (or Windsor) 1961 yeasterday (in Västberga Stockholm) Edited by Windsor59 2012-07-20 10:51 AM (DSC_1330.jpg) (DSC_1331.jpg) (DSC_1332.jpg) Attachments ---------------- DSC_1330.jpg (67KB - 208 downloads) DSC_1331.jpg (66KB - 196 downloads) DSC_1332.jpg (75KB - 206 downloads) | ||
58 DESOTOS RULE |
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | An interesting import truck that came to the Wednesday night cruise-in at the Gilmore Automobile Heritage complex while the W.P.C. Club was there. I'm not a big fan of rice grinders, but I've never seen one like this before. It's supposed to be a 1965 Toyota Stout mini-truck. (WPC 65 Toyota 2.jpg) (WPC 65 Toyota 3-Tiny.jpg) (WPC 65 Toyota 4-Tiny.jpg) (WPC 65 Toyota 5-Tiny.jpg) Attachments ---------------- WPC 65 Toyota 2.jpg (260KB - 196 downloads) WPC 65 Toyota 3-Tiny.jpg (162KB - 192 downloads) WPC 65 Toyota 4-Tiny.jpg (169KB - 323 downloads) WPC 65 Toyota 5-Tiny.jpg (141KB - 213 downloads) | ||
SavoyPlaza |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1172 Location: Georgia | What an odd truck! I can't say I've ever seen one. I wonder what the buttons on the dash operate? Thanks for posting, Stephen! Pete | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | ...Well, that is a 'first', for this website, I believe. | ||
Myke |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1110 Location: Tulare Ca | W For Wipers? | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | One used to occasionally see these around Seattle back in the day. I am kinda surprised some of you say you've never seen one. I had always assumed they were sold all over (?) | ||
big m |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7807 Location: Williams California | I worked on one for a customer in Reno that had it since new. Wasn't a whole lot exciting about it in my opinion. I don't think Toyota had much dealer support except on the western seaboard in those days, as they were still dealing with backlash from the Toyopet car a few years earlier which was a complete flop. ---John | ||
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | Doctor DeSoto - 2012-07-20 9:27 PM One used to occasionally see these around Seattle back in the day. I am kinda surprised some of you say you've never seen one. I had always assumed they were sold all over (?) Nope. It was apparently never sold east of the Rockies (like Coors Beer as they say) The only Jap mini-truck that I remember seeing around here in the East in the early 1970s was the Datsun (Nissan); in fact my uncle had a 1972 model for his work truck. (He was a TV repairman) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | Forward Look Car Spotting: At the W.P.C. National Meet there were two 1960 Imperials. They were owned by two different men as near as I could figure, but it was nice to see them and they didn't appear to be trailer queens. They parked next to each other on the day of the show, but it made for a hard choice to pick which one should get the first place trophy. (WPC 60 Imp 2 Tiny-b.jpg) (WPC 60 Imp 2 Tiny-a.jpg) (WPC 60 Imp 2 Tiny.jpg) (WPC 60 Imp 1 Tiny.jpg) (WPC 60 Imp 1 Tiny-c.jpg) (WPC 60 Imp 1 Tiny-a.jpg) Attachments ---------------- WPC 60 Imp 2 Tiny-b.jpg (182KB - 197 downloads) WPC 60 Imp 2 Tiny-a.jpg (166KB - 349 downloads) WPC 60 Imp 2 Tiny.jpg (182KB - 189 downloads) WPC 60 Imp 1 Tiny.jpg (180KB - 321 downloads) WPC 60 Imp 1 Tiny-c.jpg (178KB - 327 downloads) WPC 60 Imp 1 Tiny-a.jpg (164KB - 210 downloads) | ||
ChristineFury |
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Veteran Posts: 254 Location: Auburndale Florida | chrycopsycho - 2010-07-30 1:34 AM looking at rvs on northern vancouver island and i came across this! Nice, there are plenty of those Amphicars here in Florida especially around here but are usually at the big Concours car show at Lake Mirror in Lakeland Fl. | ||
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Veteran Posts: 233 Location: Oxnard/Ventura, California | 1960ny - 2010-05-27 2:25 AM me and a friend pulled this out from an old barn in Ca last week! Somewhere on a beach in Southern Spain, a former Forwardlook owner is yelling obscenities and throwing a tantrum!!!! KFD | ||
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Expert Posts: 3480 Location: Montreal, Canada | Last weekend's car spotting: At a small local car meet, this 1960 New Yorker convertible with a couple of extra trim pieces: This 1960 wagon was poorly "restored", but still pretty cool. Talked to the owners and it's their daily driver: Not a car per se, but this is a very cool sign. I spoke with the owner and I might end up trading another sign for this one: | ||
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Expert Posts: 3069 Location: Scotland | DeSoto Diplomats in the Middle East (1958DesotoDiplomatDubaiUAE.jpg) (1958DesotoDiplomatDubaiUAE2.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1958DesotoDiplomatDubaiUAE.jpg (86KB - 215 downloads) 1958DesotoDiplomatDubaiUAE2.jpg (96KB - 208 downloads) | ||
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Veteran Posts: 234 Location: Chambersburg,PA | Last Friday evening (Aug 3rd) around 6:30, my girlfriend and I were driving South on I-81 just below of Chambersburg,PA (In her soon to be gone and replaced w/a MOPAR, 07 Camry oil burner) and saw a tan 58 Fury just cruising along in the right lane,she was going to take a pic but her digital camera was in the trunk :O( so she held up her Forward Look T-shirt w/ the red 58 on it as we passed but the guy didn't look. She even thought it was so kool to see and remarked that too bad we weren't in our Desoto,that would have been neat! | ||
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Regular Posts: 80 Location: Mid Atlantic | DesotoRandy, That would have been me that you passed and beeped your horn at me which about scared me. I did see the red Plymouth shirt but you had pulled up past me by the time I turned around and saw it. I was on my way home from the car show in Macungie, PA. I had already been on the road for two hours in the heat plus being at the show all day in the heat so I was about half spaced out and was just concentrating on the final 20 minute drive home. Michael | ||
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Veteran Posts: 254 Location: Auburndale Florida | If your counting cars spotted at car shows here is this beauty. http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j206/kngtmat/Matthew/535148_10150... Here is a nice 59 Fury right here in Polk County Fl. http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j206/kngtmat/Car%20Shows%202011/P... Poor old 55 Plymouth with powerflite they wanted $1500. http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j206/kngtmat/Zephyrhills/PICT1507... http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j206/kngtmat/Zephyrhills/PICT1518... This poor 56, not the body but what is under the hood is shameful. I don't know what the part I saw on the trunk means by limited edition. http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j206/kngtmat/Zephyrhills/PICT1611... Here is this beautiful Chrysler. http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j206/kngtmat/Zephyrhills/PICT1713... | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Have we been forced to only post pix of cars we see at car shows ? No one sees barn finds and field cars anymore ? | ||
58 DESOTOS RULE |
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | What is under the hood of that 56 Plymmie? The photograph you posted gives no hint. | ||
vedette |
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Expert Posts: 3069 Location: Scotland | Syria in 2000 (SyriaDamascusDeSotoDiplomatCustom1957.jpg) (SyriaDierEzzorChrysler1955.jpg) (SyriaDeSotoDiplomat1955.jpg) (SyriaMayodinePlymouth1956.jpg) (SyriaDamascusDodgeKingswayCustom1958.jpg) Attachments ---------------- SyriaDamascusDeSotoDiplomatCustom1957.jpg (50KB - 189 downloads) SyriaDierEzzorChrysler1955.jpg (39KB - 208 downloads) SyriaDeSotoDiplomat1955.jpg (136KB - 223 downloads) SyriaMayodinePlymouth1956.jpg (42KB - 207 downloads) SyriaDamascusDodgeKingswayCustom1958.jpg (51KB - 209 downloads) | ||
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Veteran Posts: 254 Location: Auburndale Florida | Sorry car shows is the only time I get to see anything except years ago I saw a black 58 Dodge in Lakeland Fl sitting in someones front yard but I didn't have a camera at the time so I don't have any pictures but it look real nice although I don't know how it looked underneath. I didn't take much pics after I saw the steering wheel, it started with Ch but it wasn't Chrysler and it had newer seats too. Check out the steering wheel. http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j206/kngtmat/Zephyrhills/PICT1624... Edited by ChristineFury 2012-08-10 4:08 PM | ||
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Veteran Posts: 234 Location: Chambersburg,PA | Sorry Michael, Didn't mean to scare you, Was a treat to see a real car among the jelly bean cars on the highway rolling along under it's own power,got a little excited I gues? How was it up there this year? Randy :O) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | ChristineFury - 2012-08-10 3:06 PM Sorry car shows is the only time I get to see anything except years ago I saw a black 58 Dodge in Lakeland Fl sitting in someones front yard but I didn't have a camera at the time so I don't have any pictures but it look real nice although I don't know how it looked underneath. I didn't take much pics after I saw the steering wheel, it started with Ch but it wasn't Chrysler and it had newer seats too. Check out the steering wheel. http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j206/kngtmat/Zephyrhills/PICT1624... Blasphemy! I know what you mean now!
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 538 Location: Hamburg-Germany | an old barn in mid new mexico the dodge stand in front and the ford inside the barn without a back wall (coe dodge.JPG) (ford nm.JPG) Attachments ---------------- coe dodge.JPG (132KB - 200 downloads) ford nm.JPG (90KB - 197 downloads) | ||
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