#scarletsue 1972 Plymouth SSP

RJS · Feb 28, 2015

Very cool, let's hear more about it!!!
Ron

RJS · Feb 28, 2015

Just noticed your name, I answered a Stripe question for you on the 71-2 Satellite/road runner page.
Ron

Ron 73 · Feb 28, 2015

I would love to hear more about this one myself, more pictures wouldn't hurt my feelings either!!! Looks like one KA_oool ride!!!

trishhritz · Mar 2, 2015

I will add more pics as the restore progresses. she came out of Arizona and is rust free. The 2 barrel was replaced with a four, but I received the original manifold and am shopping for an original 2 barrel. I'm watching one on eBay. she also has a front end anti sway bar, looks OEM but I'm pretty sure it wasn't an option on the Satellite, either. The picture I received with the car, which was claimed to be a picture of Scarlet Sue, could not have been her, since upon closer look, the rear bumper is definitely from a 1971. I think it's what someone once wanted the car to be.

Trish

trishhritz · May 15, 2015

Added picture of fender tag and more info on Scarlet Sue.

barnfind · May 20, 2015

sweeeet

trishhritz · May 19, 2018

RJS said:
Very cool, let's hear more about it!!!
Ron

Hey RJS! Well, it's really been a while since I've been on this group and this is the first time I saw your comments on this garage. ScarletSue has been at the mechanic for the last couple years to fix the distributor drive gear. I found it was not installed correctly when PO had the engine rebuilt by a shop in Arizona. We moved and my mechanic got really busy with higher priority jobs. I had my mechanic install a dbl roller timing chain and fix a few additional mechanical problems.

trishhritz · May 20, 2018

Well, we finally got Scarlet Sue back home a few weeks ago. While she was at the mechanic for the correction to the distributor drive gear, I searched ads and found a couple things that we needed to complete the conversion back to the original two barrel. There was the kick down linkage, and true to the sellers ad, it was a perfect fit for the 400CID two barrel carb carb setup. The next find was the correct single-snorkle air cleaner body. The air cleaner body didn't come with the temp. sensor or the vacuum line clips, so we needed to move those from the double snorkle air cleaner body to the new air cleaner body. But when that was done, we were pleased to discover, with the help of a heat gun, that the sensor and the vacuum diaphragm were completely operational!!! Still in need of the tin air heater stove that mounts over the exhaust manifold to complete this part of the restoration. More to come.

trishhritz · May 29, 2020

Finally completed another project. Recovered the the rear seat. Lots of blood sweat and a few tears

chucklbunny · Jun 19, 2020

WOW ! ...It's beautiful !!!!!

trishhritz · Aug 10, 2024

After a hiatus for a torn rotator cuff, I'm back to tinkering with Scarlet Sue. She has all new vinyl seats and canopy top, now. I think I posted pictures of the back seat when I was done before the rotator cuff injury. The front seats and vinyl top was outsourced to an auto upholstery guy, Rick, in San Leandro CA.
Now I have moved into getting the AM FM radio restored by Bill The Radio Guy and while I was pulling the radio, I thought I would look and see why the AC / Heater wasn't working. Well the controls were literally hanging. Someone tried to glue the control to where it mounts on the back of the rally dash. Luckily it was rubber cement, so it came off easily. Also, the back was held up by some kind of metal strap (or baling wire). Also, couple of the plastic plugs for the vacuum control in the switch had also been broken off, so I found replacements on eBay. Thanks Recharged! I'm guessing I need a new cable or water valve under the hood as I cannot get any movement with the temp control. I sure hope it's not the cable. Anyway, that will get worked out when I can pull her out of the garage.
The reason why I can't pull her out of the garage is because I also needed to replace the ignition switch in the steering column since the one that came with Scarlet Sue allows the key to just fall right out while in the "on" position. Really very annoying. I have the books for the car and read and reread the steering column section, but I want to shout out and say "Thanks" to all those who posted there trials and tribulations and even shared some great youTube videos on how to get to the point where I could replace the ignition with a new one. I started putting the steering column back together today but ran into yet another tool I need to have in my tool box. I'll have to add phono's when I get the radio back in.
At least the rally bezel hadn't been cut to accommodate a modern stereo, but I have found several cut wires under the dash. Bummer. I was able to identify and find one harness for the front speaker, but I'm pretty sure there will be more since there was monster cable very poorly installed at some point for aftermarket speakers.
There are a lot of little things to do, but it does seem to be going a little bit faster than I thought it would.

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