Am I nuts? 1940 Plymouth Commercial Car (Truck)

moparpollack said

Nice work! The rear bumper for a 48 Chevy fits the front end nicely. Picking both up at the swap meet for $40 was a good deal. Also new one are like $159 new from LMC truck parts.

What are you going to run for wheels? The standard 60s' cap fits the spare steel wheels but isn't too blingy. Gonna do the rotor and axel swap to get 5 on 4.5" bolt pattern on mine. They make torq thrusts 5" wide with a 3.2 backspace.

The rear fenders need a big tire to fill it up. Have you done a mock up on this yet?

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We got four spare tire steel wheels from a few trips to the junkyards and are going to run 1950, "Plymouth" script dog dish full caps. For anybody wondering, the Dakota uses 6 lug wheels, so the normal 5 on 4 1/2 won't work. We are going to use the tires that came with the truck and are sitting under it right now. They fill up the wheel wells pretty well.

Thanks for the info on the bumpers. I will take a look at LMC and see.

The picture is the steel wheels on my 49 Plymouth with wide whites, but you can see what the "Plymouth" script hubcaps look like.