Re: [FWDLK] The Real D500-1 was [FWDLK] '56 D-500 2x4 Air Cleaners

Neil, Mainly I have seen literature provided by Dodge that list the entire Dual Four-Barrel Carburetor Group as an option with a total price. The exception is a Danny Eames internal document for Daytona that does list the intake package separately or as just the intake assembly and he had 20 such packages available to racers, I don't have the document handy but I think it was around 110.00 (a wholesale figure I believe). At the same time Dodge and Plymouth dealers most certainly could get the parts list and see the upgraded performance pieces being introduced and it's not a stretch to think they could purchase and install the parts. That being said I believe that a telling Plymouth document dated March 6 1956, a J4 supplement, states that Plymouth was announcing a FACTORY installed High Performance Group available on Fury only. It retailed for 694.10 and included a long list of parts including Dual Quads and a low restriction 2.5 in exhaust manifold set, pipes, and mufflers. This would coincide with Dodges release of the DFBCG and while better documents exist for the Plymouth including the actual option code to use, the Dodge Group was in the same mold, and these High Performance Groups were better done as the car was built. retrofitting and replacing so many parts after the fact would be a big waist of assembly time and generate a lot of expensive extra parts. Furthermore according to the IBM card when the car I own was built it was coded for new car prep and customer pickup at the factory, It would be hard to believe that they would do new car prep to a car that would require extensive retrofitting, it just wouldn't be ordered that way. The high prices for the performance groups may have contributed to the practice of creating many "Dealer jobs" that would cut back on some of the upgrades and lower the high price to a more reasonable figure, after all we are talking Dodges and Plymouths not Imperials or 300's. Tim in Golden 56 D500-1