Anyone out there know where I can get the steering box on my 56 Savoy rebuilt or purchase a rebuild kit or even a new box. Any help would be appreciated.
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Thanks
Land Shark
---- Eastern Sierra Adjustment Svc <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just had the time to look at Bill's pics, and realize that that Sunshine
> (yellow) and
> Ebony 58 CRL is well known to me.
>
> Back in 1980, it was shown by a Reno insurance agent (along with a lot
> of his other collector-cars) at the second-to-last Squaw Valley car show.
>
> The area was developed into condos, after 1981.
>
> I saw it there just before I went to Toledo to lay eyes on & drive my 57
> Dodge,
> which had been stored there since 10/80, after I had bought it sight-unseen,
> out of the Chicago area, and had had it be driven to Toledo, where my
> parents
> lived, pending my arrival there to visit them, in the late Spring (and
> arrange to get
> it back to CA, where it's resided since then).
>
> Anyway, that yellow/black CRL had 19K original miles, and was a stunning
> Survivor
> (before that term ever existed), and reportedly still had the "Original
> Detroit air" still
> in its Wingfoots, and still wore its vintage clear plastic seat covers.
>
> Its OEM dash pad was only very slightly deformed, from age.
>
> So, the car, about 10 years later, ended up in a SoCal friend's
> collection (he called
> it "The Bumblebee") and he eventually sold it & I haven't seen it, since
> then.
>
> One really interesting thing about it, when it arrived in SoCal (from
> the Frisco area)
> was that it showed clear evidence of having had some sort significant
> roof damage(!),
> which had been re-painted (not well).
>
> Also, its odometer was not working.
>
> As by then I had become well versed in maintaining a 57 Dodge, I
> offered to take the
> speedo head to my home, to see what I could do to repair/overhaul it.
>
> I get it home and discovered that someone, at an unknown time
> (obviously), had REMOVED
> the odometer-rod/gear from inside the bowels of the speedo housing!
>
> As I had acquired, by then, a spare speedo housing assembly, installing
> its rod/gear was a simple
> matter, along with lubing-up the housing's internals.
>
> So, somebody, after the car had acquired its 19K miles, had physically
> removed the odo rod/gear.
> "All" that they 'had' to do was leave it, lying inside the housing (as
> if it had fallen-off, somehow)
> but no.....
>
> It's a small MoPar world.
>
>
> Neil Vedder
>
>
> Bill T wrote:
> > Hi There,
> >
> > Here are most of the photo's I took this past weekend while attending
> > Mopar Fest.
> >
> > Enjoy,
> >
> > Bill Taekema
> > 1960 Dodge Polara
> >
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