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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9902 Location: Lower Mainland BC | . The models and body codes are from Mike Petersen's book "1955 Dodge - by the Numbers" The base images are from the 1955 Dodge full-line brochure. Codes are very similar to the 1956 Codes (or vice versa) except for 1955 the 6 cylinder car codes start with 1 and in 1956 they start with 6. Similarly, in 1955 the 8 cylinder car codes start with 2 and in 1956 they start with 8. For example, in 1955 a 2dr Coronet V8 sedan would be a 212 whereas in 1956 it would be 812. Likewise, a 2 dr V8 Custom Royal hardtop (Lancer) was a 236 in 1955 and an 836 in 1956. Edited by 56D500boy 2020-08-07 11:21 PM (55DodgeCoronets_Annotated.jpg) (55DodgeRoyals_Annotated.jpg) (55DodgeCustomRoyals_Annotated_Trimmed.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 55DodgeCoronets_Annotated.jpg (196KB - 444 downloads) 55DodgeRoyals_Annotated.jpg (166KB - 399 downloads) 55DodgeCustomRoyals_Annotated_Trimmed.jpg (181KB - 402 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9902 Location: Lower Mainland BC | . Here is a consolidated version of the above: (1955 Dodge Models_Annotated_small.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1955 Dodge Models_Annotated_small.jpg (214KB - 357 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1890 | . Cool! Some corrections for Station Wagons (if we are looking at the ’56 models): CORONET L6 147 = Suburban 2door Station Wagon, 6P 148 = Sierra 4door Station Wagon, 6P 149 = Sierra 4door Station Wagon, 9P CORONET V8 247 = Suburban 2door Station Wagon, 6P 248 = Sierra 4door Station Wagon, 6P 249 = Sierra 4door Station Wagon, 9P ROYAL V8 258 = Sierra 4door Station Wagon, 6P 259 = Sierra 4door Station Wagon, 9P And at the end: LA FEMME had same body type code 236 – as a standard Custom Royal Lancer had… | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9902 Location: Lower Mainland BC | frwl - 2020-11-11 8:46 AM . Some corrections for Station Wagons (if we are looking at the ’56 models): Sorry Igor. This is all about 1955 Dodges, not 56. | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9902 Location: Lower Mainland BC | . From a different thread Igor said: frwl - 2021-11-03 12:57 PM Dave, some corrections to your body code interpretation on the picture you posted above: D56-1 – L6 Engine 117 = Suburban 2door Station Wagon, 6P 118 = Sierra 4door Station Wagon, 6P 119 = Sierra 4door Station Wagon, 9P D55-1 – V8 Engine 217 = Suburban 2door Station Wagon, 6P 218 = Sierra 4door Station Wagon, 6P 219 = Sierra 4door Station Wagon, 9P Sorry Igor, I can't see my "error". I have used Mike Petersen's "1955 Dodge by the Numbers" book to determine the model numbers that I labeled on top of the images from a 1955 brochure. The brochure I used did not show every model that was available so I might have seemed to miss some. I think that we can agree that, in 1955, if the Body/Model code started with: 1 it was a 6 cylinder car. 2 it was a V8 car. If the second digit was: 1 then it was Coronet, 2 it was a Royal and 3 it was a Custom Royal. The third and final digit in the body/model code gave us the actual body type: 2 = 2 dr Post sedan 3 = Convertible (all 2 drs) 5 = 4 dr sedans (there were no 4 dr hardtops in 1955) 6 = 2 dr hardtops 7 = 2 dr wagons 8 = 4 dr wagons with only two bench seats = 6 passenger 9 = 4 dr wagons with two bench seats plus a third smaller rear seat = 9 passenger (but the ones in that third seat must have been kids because it is not full width like the other two seats) Did I miss something? The recent thread is about Phil L's 1955 Coronet Sierra 4 dr V8 wagon in which he provided this cowl data tag with the 218 body code (which makes sense based on the above) (I think ) Edited by 56D500boy 2021-11-03 8:57 PM | ||
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