About the parade... We had a 750 W inverter clipped to the battery and when they put the lights on the car it worked fine for a couple of hours non stop. When we took the picture you see above it didn't want to stay on. I attributed it to the battery being a little low and brought it back to a full charge. I tried the lights several times and they worked fine. Fast Forward to the parade. We were staged two hours before it started. We clicked the inverter on a couple of times for pictures and it worked fine. The parade started and boom it shut off within seconds. You could push the button and it would light the car for a few seconds and go off. My wife drove the whole route with a finger on the button turning it back on. She says her finger is raw! No one realized it wasn't supposed to go off and on and it was a success.

The moral of this story is modern technology let us down but 1929 technology worked fine!

Quote from: chetbrz on December 04, 2021, 02:40:58 PM
Very nice, very rare, restorable old Plymouth.  Is the dash tag readable?  The Fedco Plate.

As Russ said parts for an old car like this are hard to come by but not impossible to find or have made.  The hardest parts are body parts and for the most part this car looks pretty complete.  If you are interested in an original restoration, you can fix the obvious and drive it while you collected the needed restoration parts.  I puttered around with mine for around 11 years before starting the restoration.  All that time I collected the necessary parts, information, and decided on the restoration plan.   Then spent the next 4 years working on the project. 

If you choose to pass on the car, please let this site know who the seller is.  I am sure there might be some interest from a couple of members.   

Welcome Chet..

The Fedco plate it still on the dash and in pretty good shape. The number is RS335E If I have it right that's 46,3358

Since I am 69 now I probably don't have 15 more years to work on projects but I'm going to keep going as long as I am able. The owner is a friend and if we don't buy it I'll recommend that she tries here. She did say she would like to keep it local because it makes such a great parade car. The only reason it will be for sale is that her husband passed away last Feb and she needs to downsize. She hasn't officially put anything on the market yet but did offer them to us. She has a Model A sedan street rod that is gorgeous but it will be out of my price range.

Yes there are several things that even I can tell aren't original. The bumpers headlights are a couple. I am not a purist but also try to keep things as original as possible as long as its safe. Right now I am in the middle of another huge car project so if we bought this I would need to just do quick things for a while. The car was once in a museum and I am guessing they only addressed things that were visible. Underneath its pretty much original and what has been done was a long time ago and probably with the correct parts. My wife really likes the Plymouth. She will be driving it tonight in the parade since the owner is out of town. She will be driving the Grand Marshal. Here they are decorating it

It has the vacuum tank still on it but its running a little fuel pump and regulator. It has a GM alternator and is 12V negative ground. Here is a picture of the engine. I don't think its supposed to be John Deere green. As far as the price since there are no other 29 Plymouth touring cars on the market and I couldn't find any past sales I guess its just one of those deals where if everyone is happy it was a fair price. I am going to try to attach a little video of it running.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KttMsuSI8YA

I have been reading old posts here and this seems to be the most tech oriented forum on these old gems. I have posted on a couple of other Mopar forums before I figured out how to join this one so you may have seen this subject there.
I have been working on a 29 Touring for a lady friend /club member so it can be in the local Christmas parade. I got it running and after fixing stuck floats and several other little things I got it drivable. The clutch was not releasing completely so I adjusted it. While under the car I looked around and found that it needs some pretty major repairs. The drive shaft needs new fiber discs and the back one is really cobbled together. It has only 2 discs and no bolts that are correct. The rear main is leaking pretty bad. I removed the dust cover and greased the throw out bearing. While in there I saw that the ring gear is really chewed up. It starts but is noisy and its days are numbered. The spring shackles are all worn badly too. There are other things here and there but those are the ones that scare me. It runs like a top but I did notice that the distributor will move some which makes me worry about the drive.

I wonder if I bought it how hard is it going to be to find a flywheel or a ring gear? I know the discs are available and the distributor drive piece can be ordered from Germany. The car looks really good for its age. It has been painted sometime in its past and the seats rebuilt with good foam and vinyl covers. We really like the car but I do have other projects and I don't want to spend the next year hunting swap meets for parts that I may or may not find.