Mudgy's 1937 Dodge Sedan

[302-coop]

[Mopar Mick]

Harry, are you going to use that "Poly 313"?

Mudgy and Harry, very nice to see a few more Mopars on here.

Mick.

[fat084]

Harry, are you going to use that "Poly 313"?

Mudgy and Harry, very nice to see a few more Mopars on here.

Mick.

Nar goin with a ls1 that motor that came out had been sitting for 30 yrs

[Mudgy]

I'm only going with a VS commy as an organ & brain donor....so it won't be a pure mopar kinda thing...

but it'll do for me...

[fat084]

Something I noticed there....all the front is Plymouth, but I see a DB badge on the boot?

I also noticed yours has boot hinges external mount. Maybe it's a '38 thing? dunno.
Waht I did notice though was on 37 jobs anyway; USA had external boot hinge, Aussie was internal. And US ones had a wind-out screen, and rear 1/4 windows hinged at a different spot to the Aus ones. There's probably some more differences, but I got no idea!

Yes the boot has been changed at some time and the external hinges are off a Mini the father inlaw done it with the v8 and disc brake front 30 odd yrs back

[Mopar Mick]

Mudgy the outside is "pure Mopar".

The engine choice is a "personal thing".

Probably a good choice anyway.

Good luck with it.

Mick.

[Mudgy]

Thanks mate. The net is still bloody slow, so no pics to come just yet

[stevenm]

Thanks mate. The net is still bloody slow, so no pics to come just yet

The joys of kids We can totally relate LOL We had our internet limit increased recently due to kids playing games and youtube videos on their ipod thingamywhatza's wasting away our download limits

[Mudgy]

yep. Glad they went back to school....watching Dumb Street , Dumber Bay - wasting my bandwidth

[Mudgy]

Well I've zapped all my bridging plates (chords?) in, and slapped a huge wallop of cold gal in there. I know some of it will come off when I plug weld the last side plate on, but at least the innards are protected as well as can be. I have 9 x boxing plates per side jammed in between the 2 x side (fish?) plates..

I suppose it will make sense after I can put up some damn pics!


I might stick the sway bar mounts on while I'm at it...

[Mudgy]

Well my net has sped up (about time too) but....(and Mr Murphy must be somewhere in the garage)...I ran out of mig wire!!!
Almost had the 2nd inner plate welded on too.

So I will wait til tomorrow for pics to load up, and welds are finished off after i get another roll..............bugger!

[Mudgy]

Mudgy the outside is "pure Mopar".

The engine choice is a "personal thing".

Probably a good choice anyway.

Good luck with it.

Mick.

Thanks Mick. I will put off looking for a commy ATM, as our dollar has hit 1.07USD, I will contact The Plymouth Doctor in the US and get me some patch panels


but that makes me go into debt too; unfortunately.

Gotta strike while the iron's hot though I suppose....

[Mudgy]

Well I've contacted Wayne (The Plymouth Doctor) while the Aussie dollar is at 1.07 USD


For 302-coop and anyone else that's interested, here's some dimensions of some chassis'

[Mudgy]

OK so I have done the front graft; time to get out "the drawing board" and think about the rear now....

cardboard templates...




onto the real thing...


drilled the inner plates to plug weld the chords...




and away we go


sway bar mounts added now, too.

[Mudgy]

off to pick up my grille shell & running boards from the blasters tomorrow, and drop off the steering rack to a mate who'll o'haul it for me...

I feel like I'm getting somewhere now