56D500boy - 2017-06-26 8:37 AM


Seller is Jeff P. in Santa Barbara. Any comments he might have made about being the original muscle car either came from the "Fear the Flags" article he sent me (and I thought I posted here) or email discussions that we had based on other magazine articles, etc. PS: Not even my wife could tell that this wasn't me driving his car:

RUSTORICHES - 2017-12-02 5:24 PM

Thanks for posting the FEAR OF THE FLAGS articles I picked something on P29 the photo of the double log intake and part number is 1733878 what surprises me is the# "173" I have always understood or thought the 7 indicated the year as in 57. The one I have is a Chrysler 1634285 dual log four bbl intake.Oh well something old something new…to me.Hang in there Dave like a Parrot on Perch go for cracker and we'll pick up the crumbs

56D500boy - 2018-01-09 6:02 PM
Dodge News Volume 21 No. 5 (which I just got in the mail today), a one-page article D500 article (previously had a jpg from Dave H. but hardcopy is better).

57desoto - 2018-02-02 5:15 PM
1733878 is the part number for the double-4-barrel aluminum intake for the D500-1

56D500boy - 2018-02-09 6:42 PM
One of two magazines that I got today.

sermey - 2018-02-11 2:27 PM
Thank you for the nice scans you post here, Dave. It's a pleasure to look at!  - SERGE - :)

sermey - 2018-02-11 8:28 PM I have cleaned somewhat and resized these pages in quality fitting for this thread (<250k). For many of you already well known. - SERGE

56D500boy - 2020-01-17 9:18 PM

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Anybody with the June 2009 issue of Mopar Collectors Guide and if so would you mind scanning the pages that cover Bill Allen's cloning (replica/tribute) of Lee Petty's D500-1? I am interested in seeing the article and especially anything to do with the wheels (for my forth-coming 56 D500 wheel post).

This is the cover (with Herb McCandless (Mike's dad)):

JimmyMac - 2020-02-10 1:59 PM
Here you go!

56D500boy - 2020-02-10 2:05 PM

Sorry Jimmy. Thanks for trying. Something must have gone wrong (file size > 250 kB?) because nothing shows up.

zaktoo - 2020-03-23 1:33 PM
First time poster here. Just wanted to thank Dave as well, his posting has been very helpful for me. I am trying to catalogue the 1956 Dodge range in a database, and the options were bewildering, especially the D-500 model versus later option pack.
When I am done, you will have another resource with power & torque figures for all the engine options, at least. Except maybe that Canadian 303 which I have only read about here and not seen official documentation for!

56D500boy - 2019-10-28 1:15 PM While paging the hardcopy (of the D500 Brochure), I rediscovered the page where it said "In the official N.A.S.C.A.R. speed trials at Daytona Beach, a Dodge D500 beat all other cars...regardless of price, size or horsepower...over measured mile from a "standing start". Since I remembered that a Chrysler 300B had the top two-way speed, I questioned that statement and looked for corroboration for/against that statement.

Found the answer (I think) in the May 1956 issue of Mechanix Illustrated in which Uncle Tom McCahill wrote about the Feb. 1956 Speed week.

First thing is the Chrysler Corp. copy writer probably should have mentioned that the record was for Domestic cars, not the world's cars.

Two pertinent bits from the article:

1. "The big events of the Speed Trials were the U. S. Production Car Flying and Standing Miles. The overall winner of the Flying Mile, two-way average, was Tim Flock driving a 300B Chrysler for a new record at an average speed of 139.373. Second in overall standing was Danny Eames driving a ’56 Dodge 500 at an average speed of 130.577 In the small car class, 259-305 cubic inches, Murray Hartley of Erie, Pa., on his first trip to Florida, ran away with the Division at an average speed of 121.335 in a 1956 Chevrolet. In the Women’s Division, Mrs. Vicki Wood of Detroit, driving a 300B Chrysler, set a new record at 136.081."

2. "For the Mechanix Illustrated Acceleration Trophies, one mile from a standing start, Danny Eames’ 1956 Dodge 500 just beat out Brewster Shaw in a Chrysler 300B when he ran the distance at an average speed of 81.786 against Shaw’s time of 81.762. In the under-305-cubic-inch class, a ’56 Chevrolet was very close to the top large cars and averaged 81.392, driven by Ned Decker of Sherwood, Ohio. In the Popular Price Class, Murray Hartley, whose ’56 Chev won the under-305-cubic-inch Flying Mile, also took this Division at the same time. In the MI trophy runs for Sports Cars, Chuck Daigh of Long Beach, Calif, ran away with the event driving a ’56 Ford Thunderbird at an average speed of 88.779, a new record."

I think the Danny Eames car was a D500-1 (i.e. the higher hp dual quad version, not the 260 hp single 4bbl version).