I just found a copy of the March 1958 issue of Speed Age magazine I
didn't know I had (Dave I'll finish the xeroxing today, Sunday) and read
a drive report on the 1958 Dodge D-500. Says the D-500 comes with dual
four-barrels.
Is this true? Isn't the dual four-barrel the D-501? I have a '58 D-500
(actually, I'm still trying to figure out whether it is or it isn't)
with a single carb.
Good thing is that photos in the mag show the Dodge being tested to have
the underside of the trunk painted black. Like mine. Even though the
outside of the trunk is white. I guess it's SUPPOSED to be that way.
Will anyone recommend a good chrome buffing polishing/rechroming place
in the area of Philadelphia? I'm beginning work on the car, now, and am
ready to send the bumpers out.
All the magazines show the '58 WITHOUT grille teeth. Mine has grille
teeth. Anyone else out there with a '58 with grille teeth? Just
curious.
Will write to Chrysler with the VIN number to find what they have on the
car tomorrow, too.
Anyone familiar with Motor Life magazine? From the fifties? Its editor
up through '59 (he went over to Popular Science then, I think), Ken
Fermoyle, wrote me because of my web site. Stunned to see articles he
wrote forty years ago. He asked if I had any interest in the '55
Chrysler 300. Thought of it because of all of those '99 Chrysler 300M
ads out there, now.
"I was the first auto writer to do a Driver Report (not a road test) on
the
300 back in early 1955, not too long after I joined Motor Life. It was
one
of my very first pieces for the mag. Bert Bouwcamp, Chrysler engineer
who was the project mgr (or equivalent), another engineer whose name I
forget, and I took a 300 out one Michigan winter morning for about 4-5
hours. Loved that car! Great performance & fine handling for that time."
He wrote. Anyone have a copy of the article, maybe? I don't.
Regards,
Chris
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