Fresh project 37 Dodge and a pretty solid one.Most likely another gasser type car.Missing a few items,rear 1/4 window garish moldings,vent window frames and the lower track for the door glass.

Has a rebuilt flatty 6 and 3spd looking for a new home.

Are the missing parts the same on a 38 or 37-38 Plymouth?

Sweet!

For the most part, Dodge cars are bigger then the Plymouth. Dodge & Chrysler shared some parts, and Desoto & Plymouth shared some parts. I suspect the Dodge doors are longer then Plymouth doors would be.

Now, hopefully for you, someone will tell both of us my info is wrong. Gene

according to my hollander, the door glass [which is listed as "vent type"] fits 37-38 chrysler bus. & sport coupe,desoto 37-38 bus. & sport coupe, 37-38 dodge bus. & sport coupe, and 37-39 plymouth bus. & sport coupe. the vent window glass fits the same applications as well as the windsheild. the back glass and the 1/4 window glass is not listed. so that, to my mind anyway, would indicate those glass parts would interchange as well. the roof panels, however, show 37 chrysler C14 &16,desoto S3[all coupes],dodge D5, and plymouth P3 &4 coupes as interchanging. in 38 it shows stationary windshield and swinging windshield with all fitting except plymouth. the doors in 37 & 38 show all business coupes interchange with all chrysler, dodge desoto and plymouth but note that the "ventless" doors will also fit. hope this has been useful info to some one and i hope i read the book correctly.

Thanks,very useful info.

Some progress.

Amazing what a set of wheels will do. Now what? engine? body work?

I don't take as many pics as I should.Body was off and the chassis redone with a 8.75 rear along with rebuilding the factory front axle.Engine,4speed mounted.I am wiring it right now and should be ready to fire it up in a week or so and test drive it as long as the winter weather holds off.Sorta going after a 60s gasser look.

what year rear housing did you end up using ? looks like good progress !

It came from a 67 Coronet,i did have to move the perches to match the factory springs.

Wiring completed this past weekend.Used a Rebel Wiring Harness off ebay and was pretty easy.Hope to try and fire it this weekend.

Very cool!! Keep up the progress pics

Some Hot Rod Black

Awesome stuff. Everything looks spot on - 60's gasser look. Them turn sigs gotta go though. Roll bar looks right. Nice work!

Grille repainted and installed and did need the make the center strip as it was missing.

Damn that's nice! What kind of paint did you use?

The flat black Summit sells

I was watching Dallas Car Sharks and a 38 Plymouth came across the action block. It got bought and was part of the show. The clown who bought it kept insisting it was an all aluminum car and it was worth a lot of money.

Yeah, I owned a 38 Plymouth, only aluminum in that car was the can holding my beer.

But I sure wished mine looked as nice as your Dodge does.

I was liking how this build was going till I seen this picture.
I understand how it is "CHEAPER" to go chevy but it's just sad that another Mopar will be out there with a bellybutton motor.
a mopar deserves a mopar in it in my Opinion.

maybe someone will buy it and put a mopar in it
I doubt it but I can hope.....

Like I said Ron in your facebook post that was deleted by the guy that runs the page, better to be back on the road then sitting for who knows how long rusting back into the earth? I wasn't always a mopar guy and still have gobs of gm stuff that needs to be used up and not sit on a shelf forever,sorry but I am a hot rodder not a purist like many and use whatever I have available and if its gm in a mopar so be it.I still feel its open season on any pre 1950s car or truck as far as the drivetrain goes.

I have built a few fords and a few chevys over the years.
and I used a ford in the fords and a chevy in the chevys.
but I am mopar loyal and would never build one with anything other than a mopar in it, I just think it ruins the car(again just MY opinion)

chevy stuff can be sold and replace with mopar stuff on a mopar build, I have done this myself. sold a 350 and trans and bought a 360 and trans and had extra money too.

I disagree with you on the pre 50 stuff because as the years go by 50's turn in 60's and 70's

I have been seeing LS's in cudas and challengers lately
and for some reason chevy guys think chevys belong in everything.

I dont believe Mopars belong in everything
and chevys don't either.

oh well I guess you had to do what you did with what you have around, I just think it would have been cooler with a mopar in it..

good luck on your sale, it will probably go to a chevy guy and stay that way and thats to bad..
"Another chevy powered mopar"

I hope no hard feeling, just rather see a mopar in a mopar....

All is good Ron.I was expecting some flack when I posted it but for the most part the mopar guys like it.Crappy vid but I did fire it up today,not to bad for a cheby?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqDf4PjKVcw

Good luck with you car. Here is another thread I won't be following on this MOPAR site. Too bad, it was looking like a neat project. Gene

It IS a Mopar specific site. What I read above is what I would expect to read.

- EM

They're Mopar Guys so they're weird....nothing knew....LOL

Most Mopar Guys are not true HOTRODDERS....just ignore the BS and thanks for posting up your very cool builds guys !!!!!!!

Rickster

I don't care what rear end or front end you use under your car
or what wheel,tires or paint you use,,
"BUT" the engine choice you use in a MOPAR is the heart and soul of the car.
I don't care how "CHEAP or EASY" chevys are. They don't belong in a MOPAR.


Like I said before chevy guys think chevys belong in every thing,
they just don't get it.

it's just as wrong as putting a slant 6, 318 or a ford in a corvette or camaro, JUST WRONG!!!!!

hell if you like chevys, fine, build one, there are a lot of nice chevys out there.

If you build a Willys,austin,anglia or Studebaker and put a chevy in it your a chevy guy, so if you put a chevy in a mopar your a chevy guy.

so why come on a "MOPAR" site with a Chevy powered mopar and think its a good thing.

If you like chevys and think it's OK to put them in anything FINE.
I will always believe a mopar should be in a mopar.

I guess we will have to have a different opinion
on what a mopar is.

good luck with your mopar build

Could be worse the car could be still rotting away to never see the light of day again.I am a hot rodder not some anal purist and will use whats availailable and not have some stalled project like many.

That is about the most lame excuse there is. He searched out and found a very nice clean Mopar body. It was not rotting away somewhere. He went through the effort and spent money doing all the other stuff, its just not that expensive to put a Mopar engine in it.
The Chevy motor comes from being too lazy to locate the proper motor for that Mopar car, which would be a Mopar motor. In reality, a carbed 318 is probably cheaper then a carbed 350. Around here, small block Chevy motors (any size) that don't need to be rebuilt to use are very hard to come by. I doubt he has a rebuilt small block Chevy laying around, but if he does, he can certainly find a Chevy body to stick it in.

You are a Chevy guy, you don't and will not understand. I'm a Mopar guy. I'm not going to waste a perfectly good Mopar motor putting it in anything less then a Mopar body.

For the record, I would rather see that Mopar body sitting then to see another Mopar with a Chevy motor! Really, I'd rather see the Mopar body sold to a Mopar guy, then the Chevy guy can buy a whole list of Non-Mopar or Non-Ford projects just waiting for that Chevy motor. Then he can use what he has and be happy about it.

The worst part is you come to a Mopar Board and brag about how you shoved another Chevy engine in a pristine Mopar body and try to make it OK because it was what "you had available".

Some day, some of you Chevy people will encounter a real Mopar, that has been built right, and then maybe you will see what you have been missing all these years. Gene

I don't consider myself an "anal purist", far from it
I am A hot rodder (street rodder).

and if the "stalled projects" dig was aimed at me.
yeah I wish I had better cash flow and could get my cars done
like I did when I was younger. I have slowed down with older age.

but between me and my sons we have like 10 projects to do
most are mopars and will get mopars in them.
2 are willys, a sedan and a coupe that belong to my boys
and they plan to use 440's in them.(because they like them)

also we have a few extra BB and SB mopars here that we could use.
but the one Chevy COE that we have IS getting a BB chevy and a 3/4 ton chevy chassis,

went out and bought a running driving chevy truck for that project because we felt it was just right to build the chevy
with a chevy.

Dang you just runied a great car. Sorry but that's just the way I feel. When I'm at a show and I see a MOPAR or Ford rod with a Chevy engine in it I don't wast my time looking at it. I once seen a 53 Chevy with a 440 in it and boy you should have heard all the bow tie guys bitching and to the owner about that MOPAR engine. The owner just sat there in his lawn chair and grinned at them.

Another lol

I saw a 55 chevy with a hemi in it and all the chevy guys were upset and I LOVED it.
Your coupe looks Nice. If I bought it I would change out the motor since I have mopar engines laying around. I am fine with what you did in such a short time and the chevy engine doesn't bother me at all since you are the owner of it.
They are easy to sell if the next owner doesn't like it.

Congrat's on the Cool Looking Coupe !!!
David

Looking forward to my '69 Camaro build even more now. First thing I'm going to do is yank the small block and install a turquoise 318 Poly engine. Then paint the engine bay the body color. Final justification for the ultimate 'budget build' ride. #notsorry

I am just getting started on this..

https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/ubbt...tml#Post1787652

Cant hardly wait,make sure and post plenty of pics.

The new owner is happy so that's all that really matters. It will be heading to CA.