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1946 plymouth P15 images

After the war there were more buyers for cars than there were cars for sale and the P15 remained with little changes until march 1949.

1946 -1948 P15  Plymouth parts

Basically a 1946 model was built in 1945. From January 1947 were 1947 Models . January 48 onwards are called 1948 Models and the first series 1949 were made after December 1948 and before March 1949.

Panel Vans and commercials were discontinued in early in 1946.

1946 – 1948 Plymouth are a great favorite amongst car restorers nd these cars and parts that fit are still sought after by many Plymouth Enthusiast. Among our users we have many who are actively rebuilding this great classic piece of US motoring history making sure they will remain on our roads for a long time to come.

If you have any parts for these model please pay a visit to

1946 -1948  Plymouth parts

Some of or members have Classic car or engine pages on the net, Members benefits now include the ability to place an image link to your web page.

 The link will be similar in size to the one displayed here. and available on the most suitable classified advert page.

 If you click on the Image displayed it will take you to a typical location where your image link will be displayed,  ( Classifieds parts pages)  Typical placement would be in the far right hand column.

 You can email Me an image and text – or you can reply to this blog to get started.    Most of us understand the value of links, It seems a natural progression of our membership benefits  to include this service.  This option  will only be available to members.

If you are selling for example 1946 Plymouth parts – give me a nod and I will create an image and link it to your email address,  or a Pod email if you are wary about scammers.

YB 19848 year 1948
ETB 43910 year 1952
BEC 35500 year 1950
YB 35696 year 1950
YB 6323 year 1939
YB 5581 year 1938
YB 42010 year 1952
J 23871 year 1946
AXC 23824 year 1946
J 34872 year 1949
PE 1450 year 1931
J 19582 year 1944
PC 3110 year 1935
PAA 7175 year 1939

PRE 1926 SOUTHERN CROSS ENGINES
‘Victoria’ model NA number 8

LAWN MOWERS
ECB 64010 year 1961

The photo on the right here has always been one of my favourites, it has plenty of visible moving parts sounds really nice, even a little bit eccentric

and it does an excellent job as a power supply for a water pump in an out of the way location.  Details of this pump can be found here  hit and miss engine.as the name suggest this little motor is not designed to fire on every stroke – it fires when it feel like it.  (centrifugal force mechanism) 

The southern cross Engine registers part  of the small collection of car and engine related sites that  related to restored – classics membership.  on this site  you will find Ian Mathews as registrar and myself as webmaster.

There seems to be a continuous growth of incoming engines to be recorded and now and then more photos and restoration details.  If you own one of these great little Queensland made  engines drop me a line.

Many automated systems allow the administrator to delete adverts, or move them to the right catagory,  but the truth is correcting all the incoming junk after it is published takes up more time than scrutinising them as they arrive.

I check the IP address to find out  the location of the sender and I check for known scams of spammers.  There are plenty of fraudsters visiting the pages.  . I cannot stop them visiting,  but I can stop them posting bad adverts.

When adverts first arrive and are approved the first go to the new adverts section  here  so if you submit an advert this is where it will appear first – It is only on a rare occasion that this takes more than 12 hours.

The next stage sends the advert  to be  listed in its specific catagory – Buick,  Chevrolet, Ford,  some categories are listed by year  example  ’193o Chevrolet’  this can take another 12 hours (hopefully less).

The third stage takes the advert to your State – California, Texas,  Utah’s, this can take a day or two.

Yes it is a slow process – but the advantage is that you the user only need look at one page.  If you are for instance an owner of a 1963 Chevrolet then you simply  add the  1962 chevrolet page  to your favourites.  That is the only page you need to look at for 63 Chevy parts -  You will not  find ‘girly’ adverts on that page or find it littered with unrelated spam. . If the parts you are looking for are not there. . Nobody has listed them.  Well worth the wait.

1930 1931 Hudson and Essex Mascots

This morning I received an Email from Mike in New Zealand,  He is currently producing a new run of   1930-31 Essex and Hudson Mascots.

Mike says   “I have have sent them all over the world,  each is hand finished   The last time I produced them was about 2 years ago  in Auckland   New Zealand, I have sent these as far as Sweden and England .

The Hudson mascot  is slightly longer than the original I  have been informed,  but only by 3/16″ or so, but if you don’t have mascot  it more than suffices.   Mike has one   fitted to his  coupe . . Mike mentioned  that they never fitted the mascots to any of the Australian vehicles,  but I am sure If I had an early Essex  I would have one bolted on to  the bonnet anyway  (I like shiny things)

Mike is located at ;   16 Portage Rd, New Lynn,  0600 Auckland. New Zealand, he has more details and can be contact via email  sales@essex-comshape.co.nz

Mike also has other parts for 1930 1931 Essex parts, some body panels and surround clips, radiator caps and things like that.

As most of you know paid membership is new to restored-classics.com and was originally started  to enable the use of the pod system that would eliminate spam for users that do not want to publish their email addresses.

The original thought was to give every email address a pod number,  but as it turned out  their were so many messages being sent by pod that it was impossible for me to handle.  Membership was created  partly to cut down on  large numbers of incoming  pod requests,   The site is basically a one man operation and not being able to handle the workload created problems.

Membership from this end is excellent – It adds to the income created by google adverts and hopefully will supply the site with funds to create more useful features and upgrades.  Total income is pretty basic  but I do not eat much so  the site will continue to plod along.

It is my hope that you will offer me suggestions in the  ‘comments’  space  below.  Any Questions asked will be honestly answered.

If you have a problem or gripe about the site let me know.  It is my goal to make all of you happy to continue being paid members.