The Annoyed Man wrote:Previously posted here: viewtopic.php?p=584222#p584222" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A 1956 Dodge Cornet Lancer with the D-550-1 Daytona homologation special motor. The motor was a 315 cubic inch hemi with 2 giant 4 barrel carbs mounted over a cross-ram intake, with tuned race headers and dual exhaust terminating in 36" glass packs. It was homologated for Daytona. It was a truly fast car. Mine looked exactly like this one:
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The original owner was my ex-FIL's father, who drove it to church on Sundays....or something like that. When he died, my FIL inherited it with 40,000 original miles on it. My FIL worked at White Sands Missile Range, and this was the car he commuted in from El Paso to White Sands, as I recall about a 90 mile round trip. But it was all highway miles, and this car would just lope along nice and easy at highway speeds. The car had 90-some thousand miles on it when he sold it to me (for $100), and something over 100K on it when I sold it back to him a few years later. He later gave or sold it to my ex-BIL, and I have no idea what has happened to it since.
It ran tight and leaked nothing, was comfortable, and strong like a bull. I loved that car. Hard to believe that, until then, I had never actually owned my own car. I always used someone else's.
Hey Annoyed, my Dad bought the same model when they came out in late 55. His was Coral Pink and Charcoal Gray which if you lived in the 50s you know how popular those colors were. Man would that thing fly!
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