Author: carrman

What size would the screws be to attach my rear plate to my ’68 Newport?

Map light on the convertible won’t shut off all of a sudden, and it’s keeping the rear courtesy lights on too. The map light switch doesn’t feel right, like something is broken inside. Anyone have an experience fixing these? I never noticed until now, but will turning the map light on also turn those courtesy lights on?

Looking for a good used 26 tooth speedometer gear, the red one of part number 2538926. Anyone got one?

Well, I thought I had made enough of a sacrifice to the convertible when I bought the new steering wheel, but I was wrong. Took her out for a cruise and when I got off the freeway I could hear a tick and a miss. Checked it out and I have a couple valves that aren’t being moved by the cam very much anymore. I ad made the choice to reuse the Comp XE268H that came form the dead 451 and before that the 383 the car came with. Well now, that was a dumbass move on my part, even with the new…

Roller, roller, roller, make that camshaft roller, Rawhide….

So I installed a new FBO HRR688 box and pertronix coil in my Newport. Everything works fine except for my auto meter sport comp tach which quit working. Any ideas? It twitches when I start the car but after that it does nothing.

I’m alive, and safe. So is the Chrysler. We had a fire, the Almeda
Fire, rip through the southern end of the valley and charge north.
Two towns, Talent and Phoenix, were nearly erased from the map. Yeah,
the same Talent where Microtrain’s resides. They came through
unscathed, but some employees have lost everything. The fire came
within 5 miles from my work, pushed along with 40mph winds. A local
TV station has a camera on top of the retirement home structure which
is higher than any…

Almeda Fire