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I think Steer and Gear in Columbus Ohio do them, factory spec or special.
Bill The Magnumguy
Psalms 18:1-3
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Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 10:38
PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Mopar Fest
Photo's
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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