1947 Plymouth Special Deluxe

Well I have finally gotten my car home. So know the fun begins Heres a shot of what it look like know.


The short term goal for this is to get the breaks working and get the engine working. I know I'm going to need to get a 6 volt battery.

I'm going to work on getting the body work done on it first after I get it mechanically sound. I'd like to get rid of the smaller grill bars and just leave the 3 bigger bars. I also want to get rid of the stainless steel on the front fenders and on the running boadrs. I'm also going to shave the driprails and fill in the seams between the fenders and the body.

I haven't decied what I'm going to do about the interior and wheels. but I got a little bit before I need to work on those.

I've seen 6 volt batteries at Sams for a decent price. Don't forget, you will need a battery charger that is capable of 6 volts also.

I went and bought a battery from Autozone. And luckly I already have a 6 volt charger.

Hang on to that charger. Alot of the new ones don't even have 6 volts anymore.

I have some new brake parts that might fit it along with some new tune up parts and some new voltage regulators.

One thing I forgot is the electrical system is positive ground.

Well I had read that it was a positive ground system. I did put the battery in it but so far it doesn't have any power anywhere so now I need to chase the electrical system. Well I'm headed back out the to work on it some more. Some point this weekend I'm going to try and find out what is wrong with the brakes but from what I have read it pretty much is going to have to be completely rebuilt. Though so far I haven't even been able to find where you would add brake fluid.

There should be a place in the floor on the drivers side to check the brake fluid.

I'm having some problems with the electrical. Specifically that I'm not getting in power to anything. So I've been debating on if I should trace all of the wires to see were the problem is of should I just rip it all out and replace it all.

I was wondering what you guys would do.

If the wire look to be in good shape and not all cobled up it may be easier to just figure out what the problem is. If the wires look rough and the covering is coming off then redo it. I wouldn't rip everything out. Just wire it up enough to get it running and see what you have to work with.

Some of the wires definitly are in bad shape. But some still look like there in good shape. I know for one thing I will have to rewire the lights, the radio doesn't work and theres not much else left to the wiring harness.

Edit but I definitly get what you are saying. I think that the best option might be to leave the stock wires in there and run new wires.

Cole , my A is a positive ground as well, I had the same problem when I got it home. Try checking continuity thru the main battery cables, my positive cable was all funked up in the connector and keeping any current from flowing thru it. I changed both cables to some heavy welding cable ground wire, ( I will check size for you but any good battery cable should work) and viola I had it running in no time flat. So after that I made sure all connections where clean ground points main thing on 6 volt or any volt is to make sure all your connections are clean. Use emory cloth or something like 180 220 grit, also make sure you have good voltage/amperage from your battery...Good luck, oh and buy you a good multi-meter and test light, just make sure it has a 6 volt bulb in it...lol ( I won't go into thet story)

Well I finally got some new battery cables made. I did change the ground a little bit from stock. It only had a cable going from the positive side to the motor and I add an extra one from the positive to the body. But know that I have good cable I was able to hit the start button and the motor turned over. I still have some electrical problems but I don't think its anything major. The headlights didn't come on but the taillights did. I also found out that the horns definitly work, and they are LOUD.

So now my next plan now that the motor is turning is to get a coil and see if I can get some spark going and see if I can get the beast fired up. I was so glad to here that motor turning over.

Does anybody on here know a good place to get a 6 volt coil?

6-71Kid wrote:I also found out that the horns definitly work, and they are LOUD

Before you go buying any parts come over and look through my garage and shed as there is a chance I might have what you need since I had a couple 50 chryslers.

Its about 10 till 8 on sunday and while looking in the garage for a trailer light harness I found a coil for your plymouth,if you read this soon come on over as I am watching something on ebay and the phone will be busy for about a hour untill the auction is over.

Well I did go ahead an bought a new coil at Autozone. They happened to have one in stock and it was only 15 which I didn't think was to bad.

I did get some new plug wires and plugs installed. I poured a little gas down down the carb. Got in the car. Turned the key on. Hit the starter button. The engine turned over but nothing else. So I pulled one of the plug wires off and stuck an old plug and set it on the head and tryed turning the motor over and got no spark. So now I will have to dig deeper in to the distributor.

I was reading on another site and it look like almost every body is running copper core wires so I'm thinking that maybe the problem.

Well I installed new point and condensor and I'm know getting spark. So I tried putting a little more gas down the carb. The real cool thing was that I actually got a puff but the bad part was it was out of the carburator. So know I think that my next big challange will be to get the timing right.

Well I have tried to get this thing running. I thought for sure that it was my timing that was messed up. So I have tried way of that I can find and I'm still not getting any firing at all. I'm running out of ideas on what to do.

Hopefully somebody on here can give me some new Ideas to try.

Well the update on this is that it is still not running. I'm at a loss on what to try next. Though now I have loss the title and I'm having a hard time getting hold of the guy so that I can get a replacement. Thats making me a little hesitant to work on it if I can't get a title.

Let me know when you are working on it and will come over and help.

Ok I'm going to try and work on it this weekend.

Well now I finally got the title again. I think I've narrowed down a plan on what I am going to do with the car. I'm going to start with tearing it down. All the interior is coming out with lots of pics to help put it back to gether. Then I'm going to work on the body. I want to do a middle custom. Nothing to radical just cleaning of and smoothing out with a few things here and there. I want it to not be stock but I don't want anything that immediatly screams at you. I still haven't figured out how I'm going to do the interior. While I am doing this I'm going to be saving up for a baby hemi. I think it would be the perfect motor to set the mood for the car. I'm going to leave it mostly stock maybe headers and intake. So what do you guys think does this sound good?

Sounds really good!