I still do! Two four barrel carburetors on its 413 engine. At full throttle, the Torqueflite comes out of second gear at 95 mph! Goes by 100 like it never saw it there!! Carries six adults AND an eight foot Christmas tree at 140 mph without damaging the tree! Let’s see you do THAT with any new car anybody makes nowadays!! :-)
The ‘58 Plymouth is no slouch either. Down at sea level it will spin its wheels on dry asphalt. And carry a 4 by 8 foot sheet of plywood in its trunk with only about two and a half feet sticking out behind. The only thing I’ve replaced on that car in the last twenty years were the ORIGINAL rubber bushings for the front strut rods. About ten dollars worth of rubber parts that took me about two hours to replace both of them.
All of these cars have the original shock absorbers in them. And they work just fine.
Clark Kent:
I still do! Two four barrel carburetors on its 413 engine. At full throttle, the Torqueflite comes out of second gear at 95 mph! Goes by 100 like it never saw it there!! Carries six adults AND an eight foot Christmas tree at 140 mph without damaging the tree! Let’s see you do THAT with any new car anybody makes nowadays!! :-)
The ‘58 Plymouth is no slouch either. Down at sea level it will spin its wheels on dry asphalt. And carry a 4 by 8 foot sheet of plywood in its trunk with only about two and a half feet sticking out behind. The only thing I’ve replaced on that car in the last twenty years were the ORIGINAL rubber bushings for the front strut rods. About ten dollars worth of rubber parts that took me about two hours to replace both of them.
All of these cars have the original shock absorbers in them. And they work just fine.