Thread: A New/Old '48 On The Block in MD.

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Well 3-1/2 yrs in the dog house and finally out to sniff the trail. My town will hear & see a different car (amidst the Import sounds) cruising around. This was a long time com'in. What you think ? Bryan

I really like it. What engine is sitting on the motor mounts??

Originally Posted by mopar34

I really like it. What engine is sitting on the motor mounts??

Thanks Bob, It's a 1973 340. The last of the 340's. That year was a low compression motor (starting into emissions era) Nothin too special inside but a 509 M/P cam and a Edelbrock Thunder 650 carb. I have a nice 727 & 8-3/4 rear in there also. I havent hit the open road with it yet but I'm itchen though. Gotta get pipes on the manifolds to tone it down.
Bryan

Looks awesome! Got one like it myself.

Looks fantastic!
BradC

Very nice. I also like the idea of a Mopar in a Mopar, or Olds in and Olds, etc. You gonna run w/o a hood?

Don

Looks great! I wish I had that much room in my 36's engine compartment. Is that a ford master cylinder?

Thanks Don, I have been workin to get to this point for, seems like forever. But my club is havin their 1st show on Sat and I get to take the Plym. I'll tell ya this, I drove it back from the muffler shop yesterday and was sitting at a red light lookin around in my car and hearing the rumble, thinkin how lucky and fortunate I am to enjoy such an ULTIMATE HIGH. Then my foot started to shake on the brake pedal and I actually think I got butterflies! It has been a long long time since those man. Life is good, and I'm a happy man. Yes on the hood. I would love to run with it off. I do have it on now (raining) but have an Idea on hood pins for it. Yes I'm all about stickin with the orig brand thing too.

Thanks Larry, If that is your car in your avatar, that is sweet. I will look for you pics. in the gallery. No, the m/c is from a Volare w/manual/disc. I may ditch the booster. It works well when coming to a stop but as the RPM decreases (looses Vac.) the pedal gets hard as shit. My car is easy to stop though. But yea, no Ford stuff on mine. Gotta keep it Penstar.
Thanx guys.

Nice car. With a hood it will be a real sleeper. I am still carrying around the very old bias toward thinking Hot Rods are Fords. I can recall a '40 Ply convert back in 1954 that had a '50 Olds V8 shoehorned into it, but the owner advertised the car with a paint he named "Hot Rod Fuschia" which was a sort of light purple-pink. Today there a lot of neat Mopar rods but back in the '50s Mopars with flathead sixes were family cars as the "safer alternative" and my grandad handed down a '35, '36, '41 and '50 Plymouth to my Dad. He really liked the early hydraulic brakes! I guess younger rodders only see old Mopars as available steel but I still think "rod" when I see an early Ford and "family" when I see an early '35 or '36 Dodge or Plymouth. Just rambling in my nostalgia, but I have messed around with a 340 too and they were way underrated in HP but pretty gas hungry. Have fun, but if you get a hood back on that coupe it will be a neat nostalgia sleeper.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Bryan, park it on the street tonight. I'd like a 340. Great engines. Friend has a 340/275 in his 69 Barracuda (original car/engine) but he won't sell. So if I could just find one sitting on the street.......I can send the fellas over from the Midnight Auto Supply to procure it......

Hope to see around this year!