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Sticking with 9 teeth or are you planning on adding 10 and 11 on the Desoto grille?
Oh my!!!!!!
That's why I went another route on mine. Got them from Papke before he passed.
This is art. Excellent work!!!
Here's the part numbers for a '51-'52 desoto grille. 1346792LH (park light) 1346790 8911 1346773 8909 1346760 8907 1346758 8905 (center)...
'51-'52 grilles are the same, having 9 teeth total with the 2 end teeth having park lights attached to them. '53 has 11 teeth total, with the...
So are you happy with the Wilcap or are you thinking you should have went with the Hot Heads? I also have the 291 Desoto Hemi and will be mating...
He did taillights for me as well. I couldn't be happier. They exceeded my expectations and the attention to detail is amazing!!! Highly recommended.
Color at last!!!:D
Looks good! I think you made a good choice. If I had to do it all over again...
Been a while so I thought I'd throw in an update. Got the new battery tray in and a new battery with new cables and engine to frame ground....
I've got a pair of headlight bucket assemblies w/ trim rings from a '51-'52 Desoto that came with a grille I bought. I imagine they would be...
I'm diggin' the frame pics. Gives me some ideas and inspiration for mine. Thanks!!
Ever decide on a color?
Thank you. I know I am not the only guy out there with this issue. It's just frustrating sometimes when you get on here and see people moving...
Thanks. I love my Merc too. Just wish I was a little further along. Story of my life...
That's the plan. Once I wrote my last post of all the stuff I had gotten it almost sent me into shock that I had touched almost none of it:eek:....
A little to report but not much. Honestly I haven't done a good job of getting to any of my projects this summer. Did score a set of chrome...
A very nice touch:cool:
To be honest I wasn't sure about the grille before you had it chromed. Now I see what you were seeing. Great job thinking outside the box and...
Well we picked up the truck yesterday and already started cleaning it out. By the end of the day we even had the engine cranking over. With some...
Thanks for the tip. He'll bring pics in soon. He was just gonna throw them away so I can probably get them for next to nothing.
Thanks, I was wondering about the bumper.
Thanks for all the kind words and info so far guys. This should be fun for her and I. May have scored some steelie wheels already. Guy has some 6...
We are planning on working on it together so if there's something she doesn't like I'll just blame it on her.....:D
Thanks. I am completely new to these straight six's. What about it tells you it's a 235? And what would it have had originally?
For know we wanna get it on the road. It's another one of those "it ran when it was parked" kind of deals. I've had good luck with the last two...
Thanks for the invite. I joined yesterday. Hope to gain a lot of knowledge from you guys.
My wife has had her eye on these '48-'53 Chevy trucks for a while now. So for our 6th anniversary I decided to get her one. This one has a little...
Picked up my copy today. Great write up. Congrats man, that's so freakin' cool.
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