Have A Peek: 1933 Plymouth 5 Window Coupe
It looks like a nice old car peeking out from under the cover. It’s a Plymouth, an all new and improved model “PC” introduced for 1933. An all-new six-cylinder engine replaced the old four-bangers. The new engine introduced insert bearings for the main and connecting rods. If you’ve ever had to do babbitt bearings, especially if you had to pour your own, then you can really appreciate this. This same basic 190 CID, 70 horsepower flathead six was used by Plymouth from 1933 until the introduction of the slant six engine in 1960. The new model, the “PC”, though, did not last long. The 107″ wheelbase was too short and stubby for most buyers. The “PD” with a 112″ wheelbase was introduced later that year. This Plymouth listed on Craigslist doesn’t have the longer headlight buckets so it appears to be the shorter PC model. It’s listed at $17,800, which seems rather high. I wonder how the seller came up with the price. The seller says it all original but it’s most likely an older restoration. The only mechanical information revealed is that the engine turns.
The dash looks complete from what we can see in this picture. The upholstery looks nice as well.
This old Plymouth might be really nice. The seller provided a few “teaser” peeks at the car and not much other information beyond “All Orginal Take it or leave it!!!”. It might not take much work to make this a nice driver quality car beyond the usual mechanical restoration and a new windshield. There is no way to know what it might be worth what little information the seller has provided. It might also be a good start on a street rod or custom project. There are lots of possibilities for this car but it depends on the condition and the price.
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Gone already… I don’t know if that’s good or bad.
I was more interested in what appears to be a Mercedes 170 behind it – or are my eyes incredibly bad??
I think it might be a ’32-’33 Chev rather than a MB.
It looks like a ’30 or ’31 Model A Roadster behind it to me.
Incredibly bad.. look at the spacing of the headlights in relation to that grill surround.
Also is that grill simply comprised of vertical components? I think the 170 grill is a grid or matrix of bits??
That looks like one I made a deal on when I was around 13-14. Roy owned it and multiple farms in the area, his son’s family lived on the farm next to us and his SIL on another about 2 miles away. It was parked in the corncrib on the SIL farm having not moved in over 10 years. I hired out in the summer for doing hay, that’s when I first saw the Plymouth. Roy said the U-joints went bad so he picked up a 47 Plymouth to drive out to the farm, we talked about it around 1964. For 10 years I kept in touch with Roy with the intent of getting it once I had a place to work on it. Roy passed away about a year before I got a place of my own with space. His SIL claiming he had no idea Roy and I had a deal, sold the Plymouth and a Model T of Roy’s. In fact, I once saw a picture of the Model T, it was out in Montana at that time with a note it had been purchased in the town in Iowa we lived by.
Roy had been all in favor of getting it back on the road again, and it didn’t hurt that he liked me.
I really miss not get it, but it was what it was.
Re: 1933 Plymouth
Maybe I never realized what I had, but we are not agreeing on some of the data you gave. My first car was a Plymouth coupe with a rumble seat (registered to me in 1949 in California, as a 1932). That was an important date because I always wished my first car would have been a 1933, the year I was born. My car had what they called the first “Floating Power” engine (on only two motor mounts, allowing it to rock sideways to lessen vibrations). It was the first 6 cylinder engine for Plymouth. It was also the first to have roll-up windows, and I remember the wire wheels.too. And I seem to remember the designation “PC” somewhere in the back of my mind. I knew that engine very well, as I was a student at the time, enrolled in an Auto Shop class at Fresno Technical High School. That old engine had pistons the size of a diesel. I know because I tore down that engine in the shop class almost every week. On the weekends I raced down a hill from Friant Dam into Fresno, trying my best to make 75 mph (but never made it). Every time I tried, it would rip the top of #1 piston off at the top ring groove, and I would go back to the Dodge truck parts house on Broadway in Fresno to buy another piston and rod. And yes, it did babbit bearings. I don’t remember mine having the painted pin striping shown in your pictures. Everyone wanted to ride in my rumble seat because I had installed a remote cigarette lighter back there. I have tried ever since to find another like it, as this one is. But I’m not able to do any auto repair work any more, and I wouldn’t pay that kind of money for a project now.
I bought one almost the same, 1933 5 window coupe but with side mounts, so must have been later, it used a longer dodge chassis frame, I found mine in westville near to Durban South Africa, RHD, it came with the 29 Dodge DA that I still have, sold it to a guy who has just finished restoring it, it had some sort of freewheeling clutch so no engine braking! I also bought an Austin 7 from Ken Tilly to fill up the container to make the shipping to the UK a bit more worthwhile,
Hi Pat Gill. Glad to know that you are still supporting our movement and that you still have the Dodge. What did you do with the Austin 7? As we both live in UK now we must try and meet up sometime.
I would want to bolt in a modern Hemi drive train without any welding if possible. Then save the original drive train so I could put it back original. Change the brakes as well as the windsheild and it would be a fun car to drive.