by waaytoomuchintothis » Fri Jan 27, 2017 11:51 am
That's a familiar sight. I had a blue/white two-tone '56 Plymouth wagon that I used as a fishing car for many years. It had an old 318 (with mechanical lifters), that was a workhorse, and those plaguey left hand lugs on one side. The car was practically indestructible. When it slid sideways into a tree, we pried the dent away from the tire with a jack handle and drove home with no trouble. But it was when we took the fender off that we got an education. That fender weighed a ton. There's a lot of good steel in those cars. We had to drive the car over the fender to flatten it out, then beat on it to finish the job. We beat on that fender a long time to get it back in shape.