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I have my 65 Valiant Wagon set up with a 170 slant and a 1965 A833 with the 3.09 1st and 1 to 1 final drive infront of a 323 7 1/4 sure grip and it is a fun car to drive.I take it on long trips up to the Adirondack mountains and she takes the steep hills fully loaded with all my camping gear...

I restore vintage road bikes . Mostly Yamaha two stroke road burners with some Moto Guzzi and BMW thrown in. Been riding 58 years now.I mentored a guy in his 40's when I was in my 60's.Taught him how to wrench on this old early 1970's BMW R60/5 he had. It was a very rewarding experience .We...

Stock 170/6 in my 65 valiant station wagon with a 65 A833 behind it and a 7 1/4 323 sure grip with 13 inch wheels

Well,the way I see it is that I knew freedom .Anyone born after the 70's doesn't understand what we lost because they never really had it. All they have now is an illusion of an abstract version of something called freedom. You know,when I was in college in 1969 I could go to the airport in Los...

I'm glad I'm old !

That 850 T has carried me all over North America .In 2010 when I was 61 I took it on a 3 month ride all over the US and Western Canada 14,000 miles in 3 months alone.In 2014 she carried me up to the Canadian Maritimes for 5 or 6 weeks .If I'm still breathing I hope to ride her out west late...

I'm a biker. I've been faced with this so called problem of leaving my stuff behind for my whole life.I could get squashed like a bug on a windshield at any point.Been riding 57 years and if I worried about leaving my stuff behind for someone else to deal with I would never have had the chance...

I'm 73 and deal with this in my mind every day.Yeah it takes me 5 times longer to do **** today than it did 10 years ago but I refuse to give up.I've decided that in the end we all lose what we have so why worry about it .I already accepted that most of my tools and cars and motorcycles will end...

My wagon has been down since the reverse lever broke on the shifter back in Jan 2021.Every time I tried to work on it was a fight but I prevailed. I'd go under the damn car and get vertigo ! Got past that crap finally and I changed out the 4 speed and used a spare I had thinking that perhaps the...

One could probably get a pretty good business going getting these cars for cheap privately before they hit the scrap yard and sending them out of state . On a car like this the seller could get more than scrap value and the middle man could make a good profit on the resale even with the shipping...

My 76 Aspen was like this.I got it after my wife cracked up her 66 Valiant.It had 23,000 on it.The old man who bought it new died and his son parked it in the garage for a decade.Finally let go and we got it.Bought it to drive and we drove it.160,000 miles since 2008 .She's gettin rusty now but...

Found a couple more . My 65 wagon and my wife's old 66 Valiant

The day I brought her home back in 2003

Moth balls all around the outside of the car and under it.Mice hate moth balls .

In 67 they went from 57cc to 60cc I believe

Yes,I had one when jump starting my 1950 Ford F1 pick up back in the 1970's.The battery exploded. I was a kid and didn't know any better,I caused a spark disconnecting the cables ang BOOM !.The hood shielded me from the acid .I was a very lucky kid that day.

Mine's about the same.The family car was a 53 Desoto then a 57 Desoto wagon when I was a kid .My first MOPAR was a 65 Valiant I bought at age 25 in 1974 and have had an A body ever since along with a 48 Plymouth thru the 70's and 80's . Now I'm down to 2 A bodies and an F body that I use as a...

I'm glad I'm too old for this to be an issue for me

Most places that make head stones for graves do sandblasting I used Art Stone in Kings Park for motorcycle frames and small block exhaust manifolds quite a few times .

That is correct and the business coupe also has a longer more slanted trunk line

The first car I ever worked on was a 53 Plymouth Cranbrook 2 door .A 218 flat head 6 ,3 on the tree.My two friends and me spent the whole summer getting it going and all fixed up so we had wheels . These old cars are really cool. Those of us who grew up with these were lucky.In 1965 when I got...

Nice car Dartman !

COOL ! I had this gem from '73 - '88 and regret ever selling it .

Are you getting "engine fumes" or Gasoline fumes? The original post says engine so fooling with the gas tank venting isn't going do much to help this if it's engine fumes

The first thing I would look into is excessive blow by filling the engine compartment with crankcase fumes.I had this happen with a plugged up PCV system om my Valiant wagon. If your exhaust is tight there is no other cause for fumes other than this

My 48 Plymouth had caps like the ones with the boat

I never saw a certicard on any car before 66

Seeing the brake metering block up on the top of the fender well and the black firewall tells me the car was put together by someone who didn't pay attention to the details. There are probably all sorts of things .I'd be careful with this one

Looks GREAT ! and HAPPY BIRTHDAY !

Real nice ! I'd throw a timing chain in it while it's out of the car .