[FWDLK] Colors and Survival rates (was Regal Lancer)

Good thought, Roger. It makes sense that racier colored cars would have a good chance being bought by a kid (or a kid-at-heart) and wrapped around a tree when it was new or a late-model used car. Same could be said about higher horsepower cars. On the other hand, those same broken cars were more likely held on to in a barn, waiting for a better day.

I was always under the impression that more fowardlooks survive today that were originally painted white (or other light colors) than black (or other dark colors). The reason being that dark color painted cars get hotter inside and were less popular in hotter, dryer climates like SoCal/AZ/NM/NV/TX. Those also happen to be the locations where cars rust away much slower and had a better chance of surviving to this day. Even if the car was AC equipped, why fight it? Just buy a light colored car so the AC doesn’t have to work so hard. I guess that is why 2-tones with a white roof stayed in vogue even after the multi-color fad of the ‘50s went away.

I recently found out my ’60 DeSoto was bought new in SoCal. It is black and is equipped with a heavy-duty AC dealer unit. The orig. owner, soon after buying it, painted the top of the roof light-light grey to help cool off the interior. I was told it made a huge difference.

So….if you go over to the postcard thread over at the forums: http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=14389&posts=1611&start=1

Do you see this same phenomena? Are the cars in the Southwest postcards more often light colored compared to the cars in the Midwest postcards? Hmmm….

Robert in KC

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jan & Roger van Hoy [mailto:vanhilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: Carbs

Umm... how do surviving cars reflect original production? Seems to me that

green cars last longer than red cars, for example, and regular cars longer

than high performance. Who's to say there weren't more black/bronze RL's

that didn't get wrapped around trees?

--Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56 Plymouth, '66

Plymouth, '41 Dodge

----- Original Message -----

From: "Eastern Sierra Adjustment Svc" <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxxxx>

To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 1:36 PM

Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Carbs

> Mr. Lejins' car is NOT an OEM Super D500 model.

> It IS a real, heavily-optioned, Single-4 D500 Regal Lancer,

> (Bronze-on-White body) which allegedly may have been a

> Florida 'Show Car', originally.

> Mr. Lejins had its current two four barrel carb set-up be installed

> on it sometime after he purchased the car.

> Although some were undoubtedly built, no known Super D500 Regals

> are known to exist, of the 1,163 which were built, in one of the

> 4-available

> color schemes, and, altho there is presently no known production

> break-outs

> between those four color combinations, I happen to believe that the rarest

> color

> combination may be the Black-on-Bronze body scheme, from my observations

> of the surviving examples of them.

> Neil Vedder

> Wayne Graefen wrote:

>> Aivar Lejins of CA has a Super D500, dual quad '58 Regal Lancer. The car

>> he purchased at least a dozen years ago is equipped with virtually every

>> factory option and is thought by some (including me) to have been the

>> Dodge show car at the 1958 Miami Auto Show. Aivar purchased the car

>> when it appeared on the cover (as I recall) of Mopar Collector's Guide.

>> It is a FABULOUS car with fantastic original interior.

>> ----- Original Message -----

>> *From:* charles nelson <mailto:modelrcer@xxxxxxxxx>

>> *Sent:* Sunday, December 05, 2010 3:57 AM

>> *Subject:* Carbs

>> I have a question about the 1958 Dodge Regal Lancer. Was it ever

>> a D500? Did it ever have the 2x4 carbs and if so on what engines?

>> Thanks

>> Mack

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