Yeah, mebbe still EXISTING; Roger howard prompted me to check out the
resto shop's site( & yeah, its RAINING in CA, today) . Joey's says that
this car is " 1 of 12" , yeah, right. From my research w/the Historical
Society (prior to Eaton's sell-out, to Daimler; don't get me started...)
The highest D500 engine number that I've observed is 19,xxx, so there
were 18,xxx D500's built, in various appearances, in 1957.
The (former, alas) Corp, has NO record of break-outs, as to the
number/type of "individual"
models/types of cars.
Now, if you talked to them nicely, they MIGHT allow you to look @ all
237,xxx Dodge micro-fische(?) records that they DO maintain, in Auburn
Hills, to try to "count" the D500's built, in order to confirm how many
all-black CRL D500 conv's were built, with p/windows (6-WAY, tho!) &
p/seats, & red interior [ gold/black would probably have been
more-common, but red was a standard-availability] I gotta believe
that there couldn't have been less than 100 [still rare, sure, Hell,
they're ALL RARE, now!!!] such-cars which were built, in 57; throw in
dual rear antennas, & mebbe the 'number' goes down to 75; but 12 ??!! ,
for the entire year,. out of 18,xxx ? --nobody knows! NOW; if we're
talking about Coro conv's....!
BTW, back in ought-91, when Lee Smith & I visited the Histerical
Society [long story] , to
research D500s & D501's, it WAS confirmed that some D501 engines were
'stamped' KD501-xxxx & some wre stamped D501-xxxx
The 102 D501's (from D501-1001 - 1102 were NOT built in a
consecutive-order-sequence, but were built kinda sporadically, over
several months(IIRC).
Total-car-production research on the D501's would NOT be particularly
difficult to do; we just did't have their 'reserved' time, that one
day, that we were there, & we had no idea what we'd find, in their
records (virtually nada). Lee still owns the most-original/running D501
(it's @ the Garlits museum, in FL, for now, I believe) & "completely"
parted-out another one, saving its Paint/Trim plate, & VIN plate, too.
Sorry about this long message, but it's RAINING, here..
"Joey's" relatively few resto-photos show that the car was apparently
amateurishly (see overspray, on core-support) painted reddish, when they
received it. Why don't 1-of-y'all write to Joey's & ask them to send you
some extra photos, of the engine compt & interior & undercarriage;
pre-resto.
The car's "black-plate" confirms that ( probably IN 1963, when the
plate-change-over was mandatory, for ALL cars, in CA) between 1963 -1969
(? : when the "blue-plates" came into existence) the car was registered
in CA, & that the car 'stayed' (registered) in CA, until "Joey's" got
it----in Canada (right??).
One final thought: I wonder if Joey's painted the top of the dash: "
Jewel Black SEMI -GLOSS" ?
Hey, it stopped raining!
Neil
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