JimKueneman
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As long as it is not like the Mile High Club I guess I am ok with it ;)
1968 Coronet 500 Project
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As long as it is not like the Mile High Club I guess I am ok with it ;)
JimKueneman
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First real test of the NOS water pump, 25% antifreeze and 2 bottles of Purple Ice. The monsoons are gone for a while so Tucson was 101F and beating sun today. 75MPH Freeway driving up a long grade heading home with AC blasting 34F air and the Coronet stabilized at 203F at (about 1/2 way mark on the guage)! I am a happy camper! It is a good 5F-7F cooler. This would have been a 209F and still climbing at my exit at least day on the freeway with the AC going before.
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Show in Bisbee, Az yesterday. Did not win anything but there were a few Mopars....
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More photos.
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westie47
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Jim, I've read this thread beginning to end a couple of times. I have to say, you did a phenomenal job for your first resto! Gives me confidence to try things I would never have back in the day!
JimKueneman
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Oh man, the itch will never subside. Just one more. Lol!
yours is a fantastic looking car ,bet you got a lot of lookers 
Could I get a good picture of your rear window defogger switch on your control panel? Thanks!
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Front or back of the switch?
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The temps were only in the 80's this weekend so I decided to give the Coronet a bit of a roadside tune. I set the timing so it would ping and then started backing it off until it stopped. Hooked up the timing light and found it was 14 degrees BTDC so I moved it to 11 degrees and it has MUCH better response to the throttle. The factory setting it 2 degrees ATDC, a HUGE difference and it runs much better.
Drove it to a show in Tucson Saturday and it worked great. The guys on the Small Block Mopar Facebook page say 12 degrees BTDC with about 34 degrees total advance range is perfect for these engines and I tend to agree.
Love this Plymouth.
Drove it to a show in Tucson Saturday and it worked great. The guys on the Small Block Mopar Facebook page say 12 degrees BTDC with about 34 degrees total advance range is perfect for these engines and I tend to agree.
Love this Plymouth.
Nice! I worked Saturday but the weather here is nice too. Hopefully it stays this way. My poly, with bigger cam, is 19° initial, 34° total.
JimKueneman
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Whoop! In the land of Chevy's, Fords, Horses and Stage Coaches the lone B-Body Prevailed! I also had an Arizona Ranger who lived around the corner offer to buy her off me on the spot to keep his GTX and other Mopar company. We traded info and when I am ready to sell I am to call him 
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Also learned a few lessons. People who to go car shows at venues that you go to FOR the car show are a different class of people than a car show that is at a place where tourists and people are just walking by and find a car show. I can't tell you how many people were putting their hands and bodies all over the cars for a "photo" shoot with their friends or girlfriend or kids jumping up to look in windows with their hands on the edge of the door.... I stayed by the car the whole time...... Not one parent said anything about respecting other peoples property....
Also tourists should be banned from wearing shorts in public.
Also tourists should be banned from wearing shorts in public.
JimKueneman
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Cruised to Tucson and met Bill with his Runner in the Little Anthony's show. Let him drive the Coronet.... I may have lost it
Cruised to Tucson and met Bill with his Runner in the Little Anthony's show. Let him drive the Coronet.... I may have lost it
Haha. I hope he left you his keys or bus fare to get home lol.
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