Author: tbm3fan

Private messages

tbm3fan March 21, 2024

How many of you get a private message now and then asking you about a car you have for sale yet you have NO car for sale. Third time this year for me. Latest is about a phantom 74 Charger I supposedly have for sale.

YOM PLates

tbm3fan March 20, 2024

Part of my restoration was to always get correct YOM plates for the Polara. The seven digit white and blue plates look so wrong on an older car. Maybe not to younger folks but to me they are an eye sore. Well today was the day to go down to the DMV. I went to Window 18 and when I arrived I asked the lady if she was familiar with YOM plates. She said she was and so I handed her three applications. Oh, she wasn’t expecting that. One, to blue/yellow plates on the recently acquired 72…

I got a Station Wagon!

tbm3fan January 24, 2024

Sorry, it is not a Town and Country. In fact it is a very rare station wagon as only 5624 units were made and I cannot recall ever seeing one in my entire life. However, when I saw the front profile of the car I was taken and had to find out more. Only a few pictures now as the car is still at the seller’s property. Oh, and the seller!!! Somewhere around 50-60 cars on the property and he does restore them all one at a time as it is his long time business. Took me and a friend around the…

1973 Polara 4dr hrtp VIP

tbm3fan November 20, 2023

Being as how I am pretty much finished with the car now I thought I’d post pictures of it. Found it out in Lodi back in August 2010. My brother drove it home on a wing and a prayer since the master wasn’t in the greatest shape.

First thing that I did…

1966 New Yorker

tbm3fan August 19, 2023

This is posted on Facebook and normally I wouldn’t bother putting it up here after looking at it.

However, I think it is a good example of how a seller is detached from reality when selling a car.

1966 Chrysler Newport fair conditi…

An interesting background

tbm3fan August 5, 2023

I check Craigslist every night and saw this ad for a Pinto wagon in the Sacramento region. Yet what caught my attention was everything in the background. Great for car spotters.

Hood release

tbm3fan August 2, 2023

I moved my Polara back into the driveway today after doing transmission work on the Le Sabre and went to open the hood as I always disconnect the battery. The inside remote hood release failed to operate even though it worked 5 hours earlier. Now how d…