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Location: Alberta Canada | Was the Spring Special promotion confined to the States or was there a similar program in Canada for the Plodges? Thanks |
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Location: The Centennial State | Good question! Since the Plodges used the Plymouth trim and the Dodge front clip, I would suspect not. However, I would assume that Canadian dealerships had access to all the parts and supplies that the U.S. dealerships had, so they might be able to get SS trim for a customer - especially for the Custom Royals and Regents. Still, it would be difficult to substitute the Plymouth trim for the SS trim and they would have to fill trim holes as opposed to covering them up. I cannot recall ever seeing images of an SS Plodge!
Edited by Lancer Mike 2025-07-15 8:30 PM
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While many of the 55-58 Canadian Dodges were indeed based on Plymouths, I am very sure that the Custom Royals were NOT plodges. For example, a 58 Canadian Plodges would run in a 118 in
Plymouth wheelbase, whereas the 1958 Canadian Custom Royal would run on the American Dodge 122 in wheelbase with probably 100% American Dodge sheet metal, etc.
The engines were likely different than their US counterparts and made in Windsor Ontario. Like the 1956 Canadian Dodge Custom Royal than ran the 303 precusor to the 318, not the US 315s.
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Location: The Centennial State | The Canadian built Custom Royals were definitely not Plodges, but that's where the Canadian dealers might get and apply the Spring Special trim. However, I doubt they would install the SS trim on Regents and Mayfairs. A Silver Special Plodge might be more likely, although I have neither seen nor heard of one!
Edited by Lancer Mike 2025-07-16 11:33 PM
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | Lancer Mike - 2025-07-16 8:31 PM
The Canadian built Custom Royals were definitely not Plodges, but that's where the Canadian dealers might get and apply the Spring Special trim. However, I doubt they would install the SS trim on Regents and Mayfairs. A Silver Special Plodge might be more likely, although I have neither seen nor heard of one!
My first car, in the summer of 1974 was a 1958 Custom Royal 2 door hardtop sold new at a dealership in Chilliwack, BC with Spring Special Trim. I wondered why the body side trim and other trim items were different from other 58 Custom Royals that were scooting around town. I later found out that it was a US built Custom Royal, as there was apparently a Canadian Auto Workers strike happening, and some dealers near the US border were going over the border and bringing cars in for customers if they didn't have something on the lot that the customer wanted, and could not obviously factory order one. My CRL had the B-block 350 Wedge engine with a 2 barrel carb. I was told at the time that it was a 361 engine....... The Canadian 1958 Custom Royals had the 354 Poly engine, and the upholstery was the same as what you got in a US built Royal. Royals weren't built or sold in Canada. A friend of my Dad's had a Canadian built 58 Custom Royal that I remember when I was a kid that had the standard trim. I doubt that any of the Canadian built cars had Spring Special trim, but who knows. At the time I owned mine, there was another guy a block over who also owned a 58 CRL, with standard trim, but it must have also been a US built model as it also had the B block engine. I learned all of this stuff years later once I got into the Forward Look era cars.
Edited by imopar380 2025-07-18 12:54 AM
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