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Location: Parts Unknown | Wow! .... an even better equipped one of these than the one I have !
This is a CUSTOM Sierra, denoted by the interior fabrics, Mylar door panel inserts, and painted
headlight bezels. Looks to be a VERY unmolested and correct survivor !
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Location: DFW, TX | Awesome car. I wonder where he got that production figure breakout?
Would this car have come with the Lancer four-bar hubcaps? |
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Location: Parts Unknown | The flippers were just an option and could be put on any car. |
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Location: CA | That's a really neat wagon with a great color combo! I hope this one is restored! |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Holy Cow!! Did this thing drop out of a time machine somewhere? It looks really complete. Lots of accessory parts as well. First time I have seen the accessory window shades on top of the door windows outside of the accessory catalog. Very cool. Hope someone for this list buys and restores this. |
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Location: Midwest USA |
what's the general "collector perspective" on station wagons?
i mean, i get an earful from other collector's and their 2dr rides-of-pride 'cause my '55 is a FOUR-door...
(oh, i also got an earful once from a brand-spanking-new Dodge Magnum owner when i called his HEMI-powered ride a "station wagon", he got all bent out of shape and red in the ears and furious with me, "it is NOT a 'station wagon'..." i told him to look up the definition of "station wagon" and report his findings... of which he never did, lol...) |
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Location: CA | That's a good question. I think folks are appreciating all of the vehicles "more" since so many have been used as parts cars, shipped overseas, etc. The whole "it's a 4-dr, wagons" are bad or undesirable is still prevalent though but becoming much less. I don't think too much about it much less get bothered by it. The hardtops and convt's were always more rare but more commonly seen anyhow. I think it's changing slowly. |
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Location: Midwest USA |
i'm personally a "fan" of the four-door - came "this close" to picking up a two-tone '54 Buick just weeks ago...
talked myself out of it only 'cause i "know of" a '56 Fury project car and my "fingers are crossed" that it will still be available come spring time...
i'm always on the lookout, i haven't given up on finding a '56 DeSoto ADVENTURER just yet, but the '56 Fury is a VERY close second on my project-car wish-list... |
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Location: bishop, ca | There is no way that the seller, or anyone else, without a month+ standing at the Historical Society's microfilm machine, could
determine the number of the 1956 D500 wagons that were built.
This is a wonderful car for someone to restore, correctly.
Looks like it may have the green interior, along with its white/yellow exterior.
The engine gives new meaning to the term "RED Ram V/8".
Its got a left-side antenna on it; was that its location, on the 56'ers?---or maybe, NORS to the car.
I'll bet that its Broadcast Sheet still resides in the car, somewhere (behind the dash/under the carpeting...)
Someone should post up its pics, for posterity.
Whatacar!
Edited by d500neil 2010-11-24 6:25 PM
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The antenna location is correct. I think all '56 and earlier (to '49) used the driver's side fender for the antenna.
The wagon is very cool...
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Location: bishop, ca | Thanks, Aaron; in its 2/57 issue, MT tested a 57 D500 CR 4-dr sedan, and it had a driver's side fender attached.
That's the only vintage-example-photo I've seen where an ostensibly OEM Dodge had an antenna on that side of the car.
Of course, it is possible that the dealership installed it there, on a radio-less car.
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