Since the day I got my 336 back in August of last year it's had an occasional "clunk" that seems to come from under the front seat area.

Just had the roof repainted and while we were at it, softened the over-arched rear springs by taking a few leaves out. Rides and drives immensely better now. Today, after a week of shakedown cruises about 10 miles each, it started making the dull clunk sound with an annoying regularity and I'm going nuts trying to find it. Happens when you let off the gas when cruising down the road, happens when you finally reach full disengage on the clutch when backing up. Once in a while going forward but not often.

Can't duplicate it with the car sitting still. Put my wife in the car, jerked on the driveshaft, it has a little bit of slack in it but doesn't make the clunking noise, nor does the rear end. Something in the transmission? Weird mount problem somewhere?

Help! I'm scared to drive it any distance until I get this figured out! Thanks!

Can't even tell what it is from those photos...

Looks nice, but did they have metallic blue paint back in 1942?

Since Corky sold the company, the foreign guy who runs it is killing Coker Tire. I've had a set of Firestone 7.00x20's on backorder since August of 2021 - again, with no restock date even being guessed at.

Lucas doesn't have any tires because they got theirs from Coker, Corky scoured the planet finding the molds for these things and has a giant warehouse full of them - problem is, the new owners aren't interested in making them. Even a lot of common size muscle car tires are out of stock - it's ridiculous.

Personally, I like the Firestones, just personal preference, but do remember, these cars didn't come new with wide whitewalls. Wide whites were generally shunned until 1932-1934, and they were never commonplace throughout the thirties - look at contemporary advertising, photos, and videos on YouTube, you rarely see whitewall tires on anything until after WWII.

Good luck!

Never believe the government!

Alls I know is my '29 ran fine on the summer blend non-ethanol 87 octane from a station about 4 miles from my house. Switched to winter blend, the thing vapor-locked on the first tank and continued to give me fits for a month until some of the wiser old owls told me to mix in some kerosene to dumb down the gas.

I just filled her up again last weekend, 18 gallons of non-ethanol 87 octane, 1-1/2 gallons of cheap Walmart kerosene, it runs fantastic on this mix and it also runs about ten degrees cooler. The kerosene costs more than the gas, but, it's darned sure proving itself worth it.

That is going to be a gorgeous machine! Power windows in a '41 - wow, that is a scarce one.

Amazing how a car that majestic ended up getting stuck away in a barn. Looking forward to the progress made on this one, she's a beauty.

Sounds like you've been a busy boy! Looking forward to hearing about this one getting back on the road. A '41 180 is a very classy car and a wonderful cruiser. Well done for bringing her back and hope you enjoy it.

It's a street rod. I'd highly suspect somebody simply grabbed a better looking plate off a coupe and slapped it on, figuring what difference would it make?

I'd steer clear of that one as well.

Okay, so my amp gauge had shorted out and was causing all kinds of problems which I recently remedied by simply by-passing the amp gauge until I can pull it out and have it rebuilt.

With my new coil and switch setup, and since it was a pretty and cool weekend, I took Sophie out for a drive Saturday and we put another 17.6 miles on her. Nobody was out for whatever reason so it let me get her up to 55 and 60 mph for the first time in a while. She doesn't seem happy over 60 because I REALLY need to adjust the valves, they are way out of spec!

Regardless! My oil gauge was giving me some odd readings. I use Lucas 30 weight zinc impregnated oil in the car, this oil only has about 350 miles on it, and I cleaned all the sludge out of the pan and from the pump filter when I changed the oil back in September, inside of the engine is squeaky clean and she was rebuilt completely in 2000. So, the dash gauge usually reads 35-40 pounds at idle and stays between 40 and 50 while she's at any speed over 40 or 45 mph. Last Saturday, the gauge kept going UP while she was at idle, between 45 and 50, and coming down to 40 or 45 when she was at speed. Once she was good and warmed up the guage settled down to showing her at 35-40 at idle, but it took almost to the end of the little drive to do this.

Just thick oil in the cold making the gauge give higher readings? I was just a bit confused why it went up at idle when the motor was colder. Never noticed that happen before. But, on the plus side, so long as the weather stays cool, she's super happy running the roads - just gotta' get those valves set! I swear you need three hands to do them in that car! Thanks!

No way that's a factory color combo. It looks like it was inspired by a vintage ice cream truck.