Colonial Region Jan 2016 Presidents Message Happy New Year to all! I hope your holidays were enjoyable, especially with the nice weather we had. It’s very unusual in New England to have salt-less roads in late December. Don took his 1961 Fury out for a jaunt on the 25th. The grass was turning green and Read More …
Slant Six Timing Chain Oiling is important to insure long timing chain life and predictable ignition timing as well as valve timing. If you had your slant six rebuilt and have developed a rough idle plus loss of power in only a short period of time since the rebuild suggest your checks & diagnosis steps Read More …
We are building the Colonial Region Member Car Photos by adding to this area as the photos come in. When completed this will be an opportunity to see photos of the Colonial Region Member Cars and their owners. Cars under restoration may be shown more than once to highlight progress on the Plymouths or related Read More …
The Slant Six Valve Adjustment Tool can be useful for checking valve tappet clearances. An older Plymouth, Dodge, or Chrysler Slant Six having mechanical lifters can use this tool. The effort in making the specialized cover pays off quickly in reducing the time spent in adjusting the tappets. Specifications require a hot running engine for Read More …
Driving Your Plymouth During The Warm Months – Part II More articles in our “keeping cool” series covered water pumping capacity for the flathead 6. This time we move on to another typical cooling issue with old cars especially early Plymouth and Dodge flathead sixes: block coolant flow distribution and the efforts to Improving Water Distribution to Keep Your (Engine) Cool. Read More …
Use the following steps to get the video of the Colonial Region Plymouth Owners Club in Shrewsbury Parade: Go to: www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/smc 2) Go to online video library 3) Go to Community events 4) Highlight the Shrewsbury Parade Video You will end up at: http://home.townisp.com/~spacmac1/SMC_Video_Player/Video_Player.html The video of the cars & truck of the Colonial Region Plymouth Read More …
The Plymouth Colonial Region Banner had a large audience down main street in a rather large parade ….the yearly Shrewsbury Fall Festival celebration on 27 September. Fantastic weather with a clear day and rather high temperatures drew a large enthusiastic crowd. This parade was not without incident for us Plymouth Colonial members however as the Read More …
We love our old cars. We want you to join us. We encourage you to drive your Plymouth, Dodge, or any Chrysler product to our Regional events and activities – authentic or not. Below is an excerpt from the Dec 2014 Plymouth National Bulletin concerning participation of authentic Plymouths, non-authentic Plymouths and non-Plymouths in Region activities. Before Read More …
Driving Your Plymouth During The Warm Months – Part I Improving Water Flow to Keep Your (Engine) Cool is the first in our three part “keeping cool” series covering tips and techniques to prevent your flathead six from overheating during the summer months. If your dream of driving your Plymouth is being interrupted by reliability issues caused by Read More …
Rt 95, Exit 56 near Branford (East of East Haven, Ct.) Go Leetes Island Rd South which joins up with 146 Turn Right/East & go a few hundred feet on Rt. 146 Right on Thimble Island Rd South to Boat There will be a detailed handout at the boat for directions to the restaurant & Read More …