1958 Dodge

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Glovebox as found.
Nothing in it but the front of the map sticker.
This car sat 30+ years and there is barely a mouse nest in the back of the backseat, that's it.

Looks like nothing but non-smokers were ever in this car.
Found what appears to be the fasteners for the emblems, but sadly, I've run out of places to look for them.
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Sure looks better than the floor pans in my '57 Custom Royal! This was after I cut them out. Need to fix the rockers, but can't start on those until I fix the inner rockers... It'll get there, luckily this isn't the first one I've done, and I'm patient.

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Oh boy, I don't want to do that again.
Front floor isn't as good, but at least it's limited to roughly a foot or so from the rockers, came with new outer rockers as well.
It won't be a picnic, but manageable.

Cowl to rear floor and everything, and I mean everything, inbetween on my Dart.

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I picked up an old set of 4 Cragars that have been sitting on top of each other for a very long time. Covered in dirt, but in good shape.

One has pinstripes on it, different for each spoke. I can't bring myself to clean it yet as it will lose some of the paint.

Plan is to run them as-is, but thinking of either striping the others to match, or picking one spoke and doing all the same.

What say you?

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Found this pic in a Hamb post from a decade ago. I haven't been looking very long, but I've never seen this intake, or one similar.

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Found this pic in a Hamb post from a decade ago. I haven't been looking very long, but I've never seen this intake, or one similar.
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I think you can still get them from Hot Heads for the low deck Dodge Hemi's. I don't know of any for the tall deck Dodge Hemi's.
 
Got it in, with little room to spare.
Time to get to work.

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Tank out, and it's full of some kind of brown liquid.
Both J bolts broke, and the fuel line was rusted out, but no big deal. Oh yeah, there's barely a trunk floor to bolt the tank to, but not worried about it.

Looks like the filler neck was soldered on, iirc my 62 was the same way, but the new tanks have a rubber grommet.

Filler neck within a filler neck, never saw that before.

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I'm not really digging the patchwork 'patina.'
Thinking of spraying it flat black and getting the stainless back on, not a big $ paint job, just a sand a shoot.

This car needs to move under it's own power, I wonder what I could do to replace that 2 barrel?

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Looks like the filler neck was soldered on, iirc my 62 was the same way, but the new tanks have a rubber grommet.
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Interesting. I put a new tank in my 59 Coronet, and the filler tube went into a rubber grommet - both in the original and in the replacement tank.
 
One Lancer emblem down, one on the way.

The shield and lancer are separate pieces, with the lancer being 16+ inches long.
The knight faces forward on either side, so need one of each to be 'correct.'
Not going for correct, but somehow managed to find both within this past week.
There's a set on ebag for $1k, didn't pay anywhere near that, amen.

Still missing the Coronet emblems, and the Dodge hood letters, don't really care, these are the bomb.

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Coronet got the boot, need to finally finish the 62.
So close, yet so far.

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Like the pic, my 59 Fury and my 64 Fury are tucked away in the shed like this, but not quite that close
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One Lancer emblem down, one on the way.

The shield and lancer are separate pieces, with the lancer being 16+ inches long.
The knight faces forward on either side, so need one of each to be 'correct.'
Not going for correct, but somehow managed to find both within this past week.
There's a set on ebag for $1k, didn't pay anywhere near that, amen.

Still missing the Coronet emblems, and the Dodge hood letters, don't really care, these are the bomb.

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Love your 62. 68-71 Mopars get most of the attention, but the earlier stuff is awesome.

Your 62 is only four years newer than your 58, but it seems like they are from different eras. For good reasons, I suppose. But while the 62 lost the big fins of the late fifties, its rear quarter louvers are a reprise of the (optional) ones on 59 Dodges.

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Yes! I feel truly blessed for the opportunity to purchase. It is so cool, and he was pleased that I bought it.

Unfortunately, windshield in car is destroyed and the windshield that he got with it was cracked, so I need to find another.

It was in a crate outside forever, crate all but gone, windshield sank into the ground.
I dug it up today and what a disappointment.

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Sad, looks like my old yard. There is stuff there that the swamp reclaimed..
 
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I picked up an old set of 4 Cragars that have been sitting on top of each other for a very long time. Covered in dirt, but in good shape.

One has pinstripes on it, different for each spoke. I can't bring myself to clean it yet as it will lose some of the paint.

Plan is to run them as-is, but thinking of either striping the others to match, or picking one spoke and doing all the same.

What say you?

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Nice find on the wheels.
Concerning their appearance and if they need to match cosmetically.
That really depends upon how finished the rest of the car will be.
Personally I think that the wheels and tires are the single biggest accent on any car and especially on classics.
I would want all 4 wheels to match, and I would keep the pin striping on the wheels only if there was also pinstripe on the main body of the car and the pinstripes tied in together.
Even with the body of the car in a ‘patina’ condition, I would have those classic Cragers looking maybe not brand new, but maybe dusty nice.
Just my thoughts.
By the way, thanks for saving that car.
From my early youth, the first car I remember my Dad having is a 56 Dodge station wagon, he bought it new. Pink and Charcoal with a sand colored top.
IIRC had Red Ram on the valve covers. Push button transmission, big white wall tires,,, I would give about anything to have that car today.
 
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Had an ol 56 or 57 Savoy in the yard forna while. A bud of mine has a 58 Coronet...Classic Lines, and just like a Mopar, blows em all away..
 
Post #94. Magnificent 59 Dodge. How ugly are the 59 Chev fins in comparison.
 
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