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Location: Montreal, Canada | Too bad the engine was swapped.. This is a superb canadian 57 Custom Royal.
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Location: Montreal, Canada | Text from the ad:
Custom Royal, 2 dr. Hardtop tri colour black, yellow and white with 98% of chrome replaced or re-chromed, dual exhaust, new wide white wall tires and new brake cylinders. motor has been replaced with a 1963 Chrysler 413 totally rebuilt. Transmission rebuilt. Interior is totally refinished to original colours and style. Car show quality inside and out, trophy winner. downsizing not interested in trades of any kind. serious inquiries only ask for Murray |
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Location: Ontario, Canada | A Cdn. Custom Royal with a USA Royal interior. Weird but true!! That's how things were done.
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil!
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Location: bishop, ca | I forget the model year of this car's upholstery (57 CAN?), but it is not 1957 US Royal material.
The vinyl-trim patterns are 57 Royal, but not the cloth.
Too bad that 'they' decided to blast-over the trunk's asphaltic deader material.
Those aren't 57 US Dodge rear view mirrors on it, either.
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Location: Los Angeles, California | d500neil - 2014-05-26 2:15 AM
Those aren't 57 US Dodge rear view mirrors on it, either.
They appear to be 57-58 Chrysler-Desoto Rear View Mirrors |
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Location: Montreal, Canada | d500neil - 2014-05-26 2:15 AM
I forget the model year of this car's upholstery (57 CAN?), but it is not 1957 US Royal material.
The vinyl-trim patterns are 57 Royal, but not the cloth.
Too bad that 'they' decided to blast-over the trunk's asphaltic deader material.
Those aren't 57 US Dodge rear view mirrors on it, either.
The rear view mirrors on it now are the optionnal twin strut mirrors that were available across the board on any model in 1957 and 1958 through dealership order in Canada. That's what both 57 and 58 Chryco accessories brochures say. I have the same mirrors on my 58 Regent and I've seen them on very low-line cars too (Plaza and Crusader models).
As far as the interior, yes the patterns are similar to US royal, but as far as I know, the cloth is the same as US 57 Desoto Firedome. Ed, care to chime in on this?
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Location: Kennewick Wa | Just wanting some feedback before I contact owner... Is this from someone on this site? Does anyone know any more about this car? Is the tri color a real Canadian option? Etc,Etc |
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | "Car show quality inside and out" so says the ad but it seems people always forget to keep the engine compartment clean after a restoration. |
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | US Royal upholstery for 1957
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Location: Montreal, Canada | uncltank - 2014-05-27 11:48 PM
Just wanting some feedback before I contact owner... Is this from someone on this site? Does anyone know any more about this car? Is the tri color a real Canadian option? Etc,Etc
Yes tri colour was a real canadian option, and this (white/yellow/black) was really one of the available combos. |
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Had to dig deep (OK: Tulsa in '07) for these CAN CRL interior photos, of Rob Pauch's ride (Red Ram, on this site)...
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | So the car does have the correct cloth material, done in the US built Royal pattern, but apparently with DeSoto fabric!
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Location: bishop, ca | Also notice that the CAN CRL dash (apparently) can have only its upper area painted in the 'interior' color (like the US Coronets & Royal
models), or that it can get that paint applied in both the upper and the lower areas (like the US CRL's have on them).
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That is a beautiful car, Ian!
I did not see that interior anywhere in the large, vintage 1957 Desoto dealer's paint/fabric book that I have? Could it have been a special order fabric?
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Location: bishop, ca | No; I dunno what the official name is, for that fabric, but its styling was standard to the 1957 CAN CRL hardtops.
There's another interesting GEN DISC thread : "Name your Upholstery (style)"!
[Also; note Rob's car's 3-tone paint scheme; US only had 1 or 2 tone paint-schemes].
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Location: Ontario, Canada | Neil, I notice that you said "styling". Have you seen other colours for that pattern of cloth or vinyls ?
BTW, the CDN, 57 CRL paint code for white/yellow/black is:3021. The trim code is KBH for that particular vinyl/cloth and colour combination.
Do you have Robs paint and trim codes? It would be interesting to get it. My tri-tone codes start at 3001 and consecutively go to 3026 with no mention of red yet. My "codes" stop at page 1. There was at least a page 2. This was a topic of a much earlier thread. I could photograph my page 1 and email it to anyone who is interested.
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Location: Ontario, Canada | Hey, I wasn't born yesterday!!! I bought that car from Norm way back in the 80s so of course I have history of that car but I know nothing about it's present condition. I just have to wonder why it is being offered for sale so cheap!!!
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Location: bishop, ca | ...."Hard Times" [- P. Newman; Message in a Bottle].
I should have photo'd the P/T plate...even if I gots a hard time with the Canadian FWDLK 'dialect'.
You can PM Rob via a search for his nom de Car : RedRam on this site.
He hasn't posted for a couple years.
No, i haven't seen other 57 CAN CRL interiors; I used to have a brochure on them, though.
PM sent.....
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Location: Ontario, Canada | The valve covers on that car had Super Red Ram decals on them. I thought that was interesting at the time. It was a factory power pack car------quite rare!
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Location: Ontario, Canada | soiouz - 2014-05-26 9:
As far as the interior, yes the patterns are similar to US royal, but as far as I know, the cloth is the same as US 57 Desoto Firedome. Ed, care to chime in on this?
I took samples of all the interior materials to Tom Ames (Original Auto Interiors) and bought what his master fabric/vinyl large sample books showed as being correct for CDN Dodge. I don't remember anything about Desoto. I assume that whatever I bought was installed as shown today.
The interior was( as I recall) in pretty good shape so whoever sewed it up had nice patterns to work with.
Again, as I recall, that car had a padded dash, electro-touch radio, rear speaker and rear deck antennae.
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1957 Dodge Custom Royal 2dr hdtp - 23,5k$ CDN - Ontario
