Thread: brutal honesty needed 38-39 plymouth??

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It looks like most of the metal is there and in repairable shape but whatever is missing may be hard to find. One point not mentioned so far is the nostalgia angle. My family had two '36 Plymouths, a '40 and a '50 as hand-downs when my grandfather would trade in his Plymouth by trading my Dad's earlier Plymouth and giving us the later model. As a kid I recall a lot of low income adventures trying to keep those Plymouths running and they usually had a tractor-like low gear ratio; especially the '36 model! What I am trying to say is that I was a Fordnatic as a teenager and rebelled against the constant stream of Plymouths as straight-six dogs but my Grandfather swore by the MOPAR hydraulic brakes during a period when the Ford mechanical brakes were scary at best. So for me a '39 Plymouth would be a time machine back in memory lane and I would try to put a 318 into it and I would offer $1000 with the idea of trying to get it. For you with other projects it would seem there is not the nostalgia aspect so unless you have a MOPAR obsession it would be better for somebody else to bring it back to life.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Originally Posted by Don Shillady

It looks like most of the metal is there and in repairable shape but whatever is missing may be hard to find. One point not mentioned so far is the nostalgia angle. My family had two '36 Plymouths, a '40 and a '50 as hand-downs when my grandfather would trade in his Plymouth by trading my Dad's earlier Plymouth and giving us the later model. As a kid I recall a lot of low income adventures trying to keep those Plymouths running and they usually had a tractor-like low gear ratio; especially the '36 model! What I am trying to say is that I was a Fordnatic as a teenager and rebelled against the constant stream of Plymouths as straight-six dogs but my Grandfather swore by the MOPAR hydraulic brakes during a period when the Ford mechanical brakes were scary at best. So for me a '39 Plymouth would be a time machine back in memory lane and I would try to put a 318 into it and I would offer $1000 with the idea of trying to get it. For you with other projects it would seem there is not the nostalgia aspect so unless you have a MOPAR obsession it would be better for somebody else to bring it back to life.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

as for having other projects you are right as i sure do , i also have a donor dodge sitting out back that would do this body good and no i do not have a nostalgia aspect for any mopar in general other than the roadrunners and cudas i have owned in the past most of my interests have always been in muscle cars and until just resently i started getting interested in older rides
motorcycles , 50s and 60s cars i have a handle on , i posted this thread to find out what the members of this site would pay for a car of this age and in this shape , i also know the car has been sitting as is for at least 8 years
if i can get the car cheap i will buy it , if not i can live without it..