Author: Gerald Morris

I did it, and preliminary tests promise excellent results! I scored a BRAND NEW, 1975, Micronta 22-1620 CD ignition box, all made in Ye Auld Republic of these here Yoonited States, sans ugly UPC barcode. Ecce:

Note the old style slotted head screws …

Greetings Cold Case & C Body Moparians!

Having purchased their MOP753A radiator from Cold Case explicitly as a First Five Customer, I now present for all and sundry my report on the fitment and performance of this radiator on Mathilda, our 1966 Ch…

Greetings Slab Side Elders! While I’m not YET REPLACING my old thumb wheel AM radio, it struck me that I can’t replace the dash speaker much unless I move it out of the way…. Even this doesn’t look easy. I read the FSM on this matter, and really d…

As many of you doubtless have seen, I found a second 2524984 radiator this past March, entirely without prior intent while extolling the merits of this particular radiator AND its rarity to my Better Half. So, I snapped it up instantly, then had it ro…

Gertrude, our 1968 Newport convertible, marks only about half the actual distance she travels on the main odometer, and seldom twitches the trip odo. I can manually reset the trip odo, and get it to log about 9/10s of the actual distance travelled, wh…

The Poor Man’s Master Cylinder Upgrade

by: Gerald E. Morris

Brakes first concerned me just 3 days after purchasing Mathilda (our 2 door ‘66 Chrysler Newport). I had to replace drums, studs, shoes, springs all within the first month of owning Tilly. F…

Living in Toostoned AZ means long stretches of DRY weather, oft interrupted by the lightest drizzle and no more. For this kind of muddy, light blatter, a 2 speed wiper motor does about as much harm as good. We need a SLOOOOOW low speed here. I have …