Dan - Thanks for sending the link about your new heater. It looks like a 4 footer to me, never get more than 4 feet away from it so as to maximize it’s warming effects.
Brrrrrrrrrrr!
Dick.
Wow, it’s been a long time since I posted in this thread… In keeping with the illusion of progress, I bought Coker tires today 
Saw them on Amazon, can’t beat free shipping. The best motivation I can think of for getting out in the garage is running out of space to put stuff! But soon, I’ll be done with the “Honey Do” kitchen and it will be out to the garage for me. The weather has been unseasonably mild, almost as warm as Dick Koch’s back porch.
I like the classic look of these whitewall tires and they are radials so they have a much better ride.
Good deal with Amazon… I wonder if you had bought them from Coker directly or from Jegs or Tire Rack, would you have had to pay for shipping?
That’s a good question - I’m not sure. Jim Benjaminson advertises a discount in the Plymouth Owners Club Bulletin - when I recently asked, I received this reply:
Goodyear 205/75R14 currently retails for $285 per tire. Your price $260 each. > Shipping $100.
That’s $1140 for Goodyears, I paid about $200 less (with taxes included).
Hi Dan
Got me a set of those also but as is always the case almost paid double here in Australia
Gotta have them though!
Cheers
Vic
I went for the Diamondbacks a couple years ago. The coker/bg goodrich (same tire) was on it before and 2 of them almost blew while driving. Hope you guys have better luck with them!
That might work 
they should last longer then.
If you put the car in storage. Move it every now and then. I guess that’s why mine went
Can’t get out of the kitchen. Tile backsplash, quarter-round, new appliances, touch-up paint, etc., etc…
Honey-Do. (sigh…)
But it has its benefits, if you know what I mean 
Ah, the illusion of progress…
I need to do this
…and I need to get my butt in gear! I’m surprised Dick hasn’t hollered at me for not getting back out to the garage. Well, it all has to do with a family trip to Ireland that begins next week (four sibs, all told), and the planning that goes along with it. But when I’m back - look out!
Dan
Have fun in Ireland, sounds like it’ll be a great trip.
Whew, what a job crating Faulkners splashpan and valence. Crate is 23 x 15 x 76 and weighs a LOT. Will have to ship motot freight, to heavy and big for UPS or FedEx. The parts themselves weigh hardly anhthing its the crate. Let me know when to ship it so someone will be there to receive it.
Dick.
Holy Smokes, Dick! What a job that must have been.
Thursday evening, Mary Kay and I leave for Ireland, Wales and England. When I return two Sundays later, I’ll do my wash, pack up and head to San Fran for a conference (I’ll be a zombie, but hey, you know, San Fran). I’m back 5/26. Can I ask you to hold off shipping until then, or will Yvonne have your hide? I hope it’s not sitting in your living room… Hey, will it work as a coffee table? 
Hey, I finally got something done on Faulkner.
I opened up the crate that Dick sent, containing parts that he worked on for Faulkner! 
I started off with the Weenie Hammer ™ and a toy crowbar. But no box that Dick Koch builds will come apart with that! So I called out the big guns:
Peeking through!
See, Dick likes to play this little game with me; I send him banged-up crap, beyond redemption, and he sends me NOS back. Look at the quality of this work:
Hey, I got it, Dick - how 'bout I crate up Faulkner, and just ship him down? I’m gonna check numbers when he comes back, though 
Many thanks, yet again, my friend.
My pleasure, glad you like it. Don’t send Faulkner, no room on the lift. I have a better idea, when you finish Faulkner’s redo, drive down and the four of us can do Florida stuff.
Dick.
Yeah. “When” being the operative word 
I was hoping you would have shipped the chains with the splash and valance, with Matthew coming I want to seize the opportunity.
Well, that’s OK - T.W. SAM got his butt out to the garage today and, despite it being 102 F (Oops! Time to open the windows and drop the screens), I did manage to fix one of the floorboard holes.
First, I cleaned out all of the loose rust from the supporting frame under the hole, using a screwdriver and reversing the shop vac
Sprayed the hell out of it with Eastwood frame coating
Cut a piece of 18 gauge shim stock, drilled for a pop-rivet and used the same to hold in place while I drilled for the others
Used some of the Eastwood seam sealer paste that Dick sent up with Matthew (Did I mention he’s coming? And that I’m hoping to chain him to Faulkner?)
Then set the plate in place with pop-rivets, and seam-sealed the whole shebang.
I’ll seam-seal from underneath and coat with rust encapsulator to give it a uniform look.
I have another hole on the passenger side, when I’m done with that I’ll rust proof the interior floorboards and start laying down the XMat.
Dan
Who was it that said “little by little”. Two 20 inch fans worked for me. Like your seam sealed patch, should last a long time. Get your own chains, I’m keeping mine just in case he comes back.
Dick
Some more pichuhs. Doing everything I can, to avoid crawling under the front end to detail it like the rest of the undercarriage. The hole on the passenger side was larger than on the driver’s side, but amazingly the rest of the floorboards are in excellent shape. All cleaned up and rust encapsulated - now for X-Mat, and then onto the trunk. Come on down and show me how it’s done, Mark! I’ve got timers.
Looking like new! You are doing great