Re: [FWDLK] 58 Dodge Super D-500

[CEW <rapilje@EARTHLINK.NET>]

Dan,

I've got to say that, since reading your e-mail about this car, I've
been able to think of nothing else.  So much so that now, at 3:00 in the
morning and after having gone to bed, I've come back and turned back on
the computer to write because I woke up finding myself DREAMING about
the car.

Out of all cars made, the '58 Regal Lancer is the one I'd most like to
own.  Been staring wishing for a long, long time at whatever ads in
Hemmings list them for sale.  Never have run into one listed at a price
I might be able to afford.  Saw one once when I went to look at a '58
Coronet for sale in CT.  The guy selling that car had a Regal Lancer,
too, in his garage.  He'd found it locally, listed in one of those local
Pennysaver papers that he was reading while on line at the grocery.
Somewhere here I have his name and number.

Though you haven't decided to buy it yet, would you mind telling how you
happened to find it is now?  And that -- a car with everything -- it's
sitting abandoned in a field now, it's pretty much a riches-to-rags
story. "How in God's name did you wind up here," one would ask it if it
were alive.  What's its history, I wonder?  Got to be a good one.  Was
it someone's personal car, or maybe some special display model, and what
owners did it go through before it was left out where it is.

I think I've read that there's still a supply of Regal Lancer NOS
interiors available from one of the interiors vendors.  SMS, maybe?  And
were there ever any period Drive Reports published about these cars,
does anyone know?  Haven't found any, myself, only promotional blurbs.
I'd post it if I could find one.  And finally, just wondering, what
color combination is it?

Thanks for the good think.

Regards,
Chris
'58 Royal D500 sedan
'58 New Yorker coupe
http://home.earthlink.net/~rapilje

> From: DANIEL HESSELIUS <DHESSELIUS@WEBTV.NET>
> To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@lists.psu.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 8:40 PM
> Subject: [FWDLK] 58 Dodge Super D-500
>
> > I recently found a 58 Regal Lancer with Bendix "electrojector" fuel
> > injection.  Does anybody know where I can find a replacement throttle
> > body or injectors. It currently will not run, I know the throttle body
> > is shot and I suspect the injectors are also bad. The car has been
> > sitting in a field for about 20 years, and shows it. All the glass is
> > broke and the interior is mostly gone. It does have the Super D-500
> > intact and is mechanically all there, although it is in bad shape. The
> > engine does turn over. I don't want to buy it to take it on as a project
> > if there are no fuel injection parts available. I don't see any part
> > numbers in my 58 parts book, or info in the shop manual. Any help will
> > be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Dan
> > 58 Dodge Convertible