[You know what you get, when you cross an elephant, with a
prostitute...well..]
I'm not gonna toot my own (car's) horn, but I have been a 1-man-brand,
since 1980, and I have been around the block, a coupla times.
Before I list the stuff you-all, & I've found, on this car, which are
not "correct" on a "Best-of-Show restoration", please understand that
I'm not nit-picking a $35 -$40K asking- price car, but an ostensibly
beginning-point $100K car ( & that's @ $USD ).
Ok, in no particular order:
1. Interior: absolutely-wrong upholstery cloth (may be 58 CRL cloth; I
think it's actually aftermarket stuff , that resembles 57 Royal "Linear
Lucidty" material, which I have seen installed, on a Royal. Also, the
"gold(?)-colored seat-beading has an absolutely-wrong
installation-pattern, & the vinyl, itself, may not be the correct
"texture", or color. Red color is correct, for code 231, & door panels
are also correct, with plain-black center-sections.
2. Carpeting: it looks to be loop-pile, not cut-plush.
3. Carpet foot-pad & pedals: whats-up with them? They ain't for any
1957 Dodge.
4. Paint: almost certainly a clear-coat (a VERY rare option, in 1957).
Black color IS correcet, for "1AAA" paint
5. Top: Hartz-cloth , not cheapo-vinyl (actually, "ivory' top bows are
'fine').
6. Tailpipes/exhaust-hangers: the pipes appear to be oversize (hmmm,
that's what I'm looking to do, with Horrie's newly-bought, but
not-yet-installed Sanderson "Block-Hugger" exhaust-headers!) Theyalso
bend DOWNWARD, so that, to try to fit exhaust deflectors to them would
require a careful 'trimming' of the H.D. pipe-steel . The hangers are
also not "stock".
7. Weatherstrips: I'd bet "pink-slips" that the car does NOT have the
correct, but very-expensive "flocked" weatherstrips, on the windows &
convertible-top (available "only" from Finland--Timo Tanskanen, where
are you?)
8. 15" Wire wheels: OK, these are somewhat "discretionary", but why not
find/restore/install spinner hubcaps? Also, Dave Homstad advises that
Dodges/Plymouths had the 'wires' installed very-close to the edge of the
rim, while Chry's had them located considerably-more-inboard, on their
rims--check-out which style this car has. Also, wouldn't the 15" wheels
kinda throw-off the speedo/odo (not that anybody dropping 100- large,
would ever DRIVE this car, & depreciate their "investment"!)
9. Battery & cables: nuff said.
10. Aircleaner: NO DECAL? c'mon.
11. Carburetor: I "missed" its gold(?) anodization .
12. Oil cap breather-system: (?!) It might be a "California
closed-crankcase system", which was instituted in late 60's (Sherwood?)
& later rescinded.
13. Generator: incorrect finish; the end-plates should be
'natural-finish' (hey, we're talkin $100k, here)
14. D500 emblem: obvious, not-very-well rechromed, but the knight's head
should be GOLD-plated (bonus points , fot this one!)
15. Amber park lamp bulbs: Some jurisdictions might require them,
though.
16. [And last, but not least] Trunk mat: Aftermarket printed-vinyl
stuff--GOOD O.E.M. Rubber mats ARE found, on East-coast wrecking-yard
cars (see Greg Leggatt).
Other than for the above minor-discrepancies, its mechanical-condition
is, also, completely-unknown!
But, whaddaya expect, for $100,000.00 (+) !
Neil Vedder
57 D500 (Horace)
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