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Location: Cincinnati | Sure some may have seen this beautiful D-500 but great photo expose at Cars of Dreams Museum
http://www.carsofdreams.com/cars/dodge_1960a_polara/index.html |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Fantastic car! I heard rumors that the fin lights actually are electro luminescent on the 60 Dodge's that have them - is this true or just a rumors? |
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Location: Ashley Pa. | Wow, that is really nice. Great colors too. |
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Location: New Philadelphia, Ohio | I'm in love! That's really cool! I love the colors too. Great car.
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Location: SWITZERLAND | This is an impressive prototype showing how a car should be restored. All I see is perfection! 
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Location: Yorba Linda, Ca | "I heard rumors that the fin lights actually are electro luminescent on the 60 Dodge's that have them - is this true or just a rumors?"
I'm pretty sure they were regular incandescents, I will double check with Aivar since He owns about 4 of them (well one is a Matador), It had the lighted fins, but He used florescent tubes as He did not want Individual lite spots --that would be caused by using separate bulbs)
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Location: Some Island called Prince Edward | THE D500 that was at Russo and Steele bid to 49K. No sale
Edited by toddst 2010-01-24 7:18 PM
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Location: Sept. 1958 | Looks like the same one at BJ '08 for $115K. The guy I bought my 58 Ply Conv from found that car before restoration for someone else. And it was a white car originally if it's the same one. These certainly had spaceship styling and a killer steering wheel too boot! |
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | This car was one of the Jess Ruffalo collection ( potato farmer in midwest ) . He passed away a couple of years ago. The car was restored by Classic Heaven Restorations in Arizona, http://www.classicheavenrestorations.com/ One of the owners of the shop, Darrell Dubovsky, owns a couple of 60 Dodges, one of which is a red Polara convertible.
The Fin Lights are definitely not electroluminescent, as I owned a 60 Polara with them. The bulbs are very small bulbs with one filament, like you would find in the dash board and are not connected to the brake lights . |
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Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | I remember that collection. Jess Ruffalo used to bring a brace of finned cars to the Iola Car Show every summer. I probably have pictures of some of them in my collection. I'm not sure what year he died; I think it may have been 2007, but the family brought a selection of cars from the collection to Iola that summer one last time before it was broken up and sold. Sad case.
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Location: Some Island called Prince Edward | What I couldn't believe is how that all red (including all the chrome) 60 Chrysler custom bid for something like 63k! I'd take the 60 Polara over that car any day! |
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Location: Cincinnati | glad everyone is enjoying those pics..wish she had the NOS spinners but just an amazing piece of work and design. The other thing that strikes me is the quality of the chrome. Imagine if that was factory spec! |
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | ExWagonista - 2010-01-25 2:33 PM
glad everyone is enjoying those pics..wish she had the NOS spinners but just an amazing piece of work and design. The other thing that strikes me is the quality of the chrome. Imagine if that was factory spec!
The wire wheels on this car seem to be missing the large knock off cap / spinners. I have pics of this same car with the centre cap spinners. |
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Location: Under the X in Texas | Sure looks like there are standard pot metal two-ear Chrysler "knock-off" center caps on all the wheels in all the pictures to me. |
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Location: Ohio | "Looks like the same one at BJ '08 for $115K"
It is |
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Location: Australia | my fathers good friend kevin, has an original 1960 D500 polara coupe... he is completing a concourse resto on it, here in Adelaide, it is black... adriana |
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Location: bishop, ca | Does anyone know/remember if this blue car is a real D500?
Adriana, if Kevin's car is a real D500, it will be listed-documented in Darrell Davis' 1960 Dodge D500 research book, based upon all of the D500s' VIN's.
I would suggest that Kevin buy a copy of Darrell's book .
Darrell's address is : ddavis8839@aol.com
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Location: Australia | yes kevin has this book and it is documented... i forget which number it is now... ill send him a link to this thread and hopefully he can shed some info with you guys... adriana |
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Location: Twin Falls, Idaho | They are regular light bulbs just like in the rest of the lights.... although they are very small.
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Location: Twin Falls, Idaho | I believe this is the car that sold at BJ two or three years ago and had belonged to Jess Rufalo in WI. If so, it is not a real D500. He had the x-rams put on it when he had it restored at Classic Heaven in Tempe AZ.
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Location: Twin Falls, Idaho | Neil....
If it was Jess Rufalo's, it is not a D500. A guy named Lee in San Diego found it and sold it to Jess (it was white with a blue top) and Jess had Classic Heaven restore it with the crossrams.
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Location: bishop, ca | YEP, George; just checked with the 60 D500 Guru, Sean Machado, as I was not certain that this car was a clone, but
Sean (too-) confirms that this car was not built as a D500 model.
Congratulations, Adriana, on Kevin's car being a real D500 model.
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Location: Spencerport, New York | Gotta love those FINS! |
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| can't thank you enough for posting these pics Would surley love to have this FL in my collection!!!! |
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Location: Twin Falls, Idaho | It is the same one and it is NOT a real D500. It was white with a blue top, bench seats and a single 4 barrel originally. Lee Meyer in San Diego found it for Jess.
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1960 Dodge Polara D-500 Coupe
