Greetings, I got a lead on a possible D500-1 from Dave Homstad. He relayed
that Richard Petty's cousin Don had once owned a Dash One and was a big car
collector and Chrysler fan (Whoda Thunkit). He did own one many years back
but it was sold and I haven't been able to track it down. Don however was
very nice and is a very active car collector. He has a complete collection of
300 letter cars, which he believes is the only complete collection at this
time. This collection includes a 300F 4spd, the actual Daytona Speed Weeks
recorder holder for 1960. Among many Forward Look cars he also owns two 57
Desoto Adventurers one convertible one coupe. He also said he had just bought
a computer and was interested in creating a web site to showcase his cars, so
that's something to keep an eye out for. I sent him some photos of my Dash
One car he was very surprised to hear of a surviving example. He said that
essentially all of the old Petty racecars were scraped including 3 or 4
D500-1 cars. He said most cars were completely torn up, especially on short
tracks (where Dodges excelled) and after that any good parts were sold off to
sportsman divisions. Nobody ever really thought to save these cars because
they weren't collector cars and the idea of collector cars was not anything
like it is today. Same holds true for the lot of our Forward Look cars. Hey
and that's exactly why it is what it is today. Especially for us Forward Look
fans-its pretty tough sledin. Good day all. Tim
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