The post-FEB (pre-production D501's) had relatively many options, as
the factory had apparently decided to get-back as much of their
investment, as possible, in the cars' design, since the factory, AFTER
Kiekaefer's withdrawl from NASCAR racing, around JAN, 1957---THERE'S THE
ANSWER, as to why there was no factory support, DOD/CHY had been
sitting back, relying upon K. to do all their racing-work, for them
(now, I gotta go post this to the List!) and they were not anticipating
K.'s withdrawl from racing, so, they just threw-up their hands & said:
"who needs that regionalized southern-interest-only minor racing league,
anyway?" We're up HERE.
Chrysler assisted K., during the 1956 season, but never provided any
real monetary assistance, and even made K. pay for his own cars (or,
some/most of them, anyway), and CHY never (extensively) advertised their
(K's) circle-track racing successes.
Dodge did allude to 'Stop Light' street racing, in one '56
advertisement, though, with the D500.
Neil Vedder
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- From: "David Homstad" <dhomstad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 03:09:11 -0600
My guess is most D500-1 cars were ordered without options. Tim's CRL with
overdrive is an exception, but the fact it was not intended to be a race car
is why it survived. They were purchased for racing, so why weigh them down?
There are cars out there with few options. Heater delete, manual trans, 6
cyl, radio delete. I have seen a few. I have heater delete firewall plates
for my project car, and I sent another set to Bill Allen for his NASCAR
replicar.
The only D501 I have seen was in Chicago. It was a 2 door sedan. Manual
trans. I don't remember what other options, if any.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:22 AM
To: David Homstad; L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [FWDLK] Weight of the World...
Hopefully, NASCAR will have records on the as-run weights of the various
cars.
And, as I mentioned, the lighter the D500-1's, the BETTER the D501's
performed, in comparison, as the D501's certainly had undercoating on
them, and full OEM equipment, whereas I can only imagine that every
conceivable short-coming/weight- reduction effort was taken
advantage-of, on the factory-campaigned D500-1's.
So, are you saying that the '56 Coro D500-1 would be the ONLY-known car
which would weigh about what its "shipping weight" would be for the
Poly engine, and not(-even) with the Hemi heads?
The answer might just come from NASCAR's records.......
Neil Vedder
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