My dad Bought a 1963 Dodge Polara 4 door from his brother in 1979. It was all stock with a 318 and was a stock blue color, he bought it and had it painted a cool metallic (chevy) dark blue. He also Built a 440 for it and put chrome traction bars and a 8 3/4 posi in it and white letter tires and chrome SST wheels.
He drove the car until 1982 when he decided that he wanted to put his money into his cuda and build that engine for it. He ended up selling it to a guy as a roller.
He never herd about it again and we both just assumed it was crushed or in a junkyard somewhere. :violent1:
Here comes the interesting part .,
A customer and former high school friend of my dads came into his shop one day and happened to mention that there was a old Polara that looks just like his old one sitting in his buddies field in Lincoln,Vt. We kind of brushed it off and forgot about it until this past winter and decided we would go take a look at it in the middle of a snowstorm, Hey, why not?..... we went to the provided address and sure enough that's his old Polara sitting in the middle of the field next to a rusty power shovel. It still had everything he sold it with except the guy threw a 318 in it and cut the rad. support for a giant radiator.
One way he recognized right away that it was his old car is a dent in the drivers side fender from one of his winter beaters rolling into it, :violent1:
The car was last registered in 1985 and has been sitting in that field until we came about it,
I ended up buying it for a whopping $200 ....
what am I going to do with it ?? I don't know.. anything but sell it, I find it awesome to find this car practically untouched from when my dad had it. if the frame is ok then I will patch the floor pans and trunk if there bad with a rivet gun and some metal and some paint and if the quarters are rusty , I will have a body shop repair it and blend the paint , I will redo the int. and all suspension,brakes. new traction bars, kinda like a cheap beater , haha anything cheap while I build my dart
These are all the pics I have now from when we looked at it, horrible pics but you get the idea, I will have to scan some old ones later , sorry for the long and most likely boring read.
He drove the car until 1982 when he decided that he wanted to put his money into his cuda and build that engine for it. He ended up selling it to a guy as a roller.
He never herd about it again and we both just assumed it was crushed or in a junkyard somewhere. :violent1:
Here comes the interesting part .,
A customer and former high school friend of my dads came into his shop one day and happened to mention that there was a old Polara that looks just like his old one sitting in his buddies field in Lincoln,Vt. We kind of brushed it off and forgot about it until this past winter and decided we would go take a look at it in the middle of a snowstorm, Hey, why not?..... we went to the provided address and sure enough that's his old Polara sitting in the middle of the field next to a rusty power shovel. It still had everything he sold it with except the guy threw a 318 in it and cut the rad. support for a giant radiator.
One way he recognized right away that it was his old car is a dent in the drivers side fender from one of his winter beaters rolling into it, :violent1:
The car was last registered in 1985 and has been sitting in that field until we came about it,
I ended up buying it for a whopping $200 ....
what am I going to do with it ?? I don't know.. anything but sell it, I find it awesome to find this car practically untouched from when my dad had it. if the frame is ok then I will patch the floor pans and trunk if there bad with a rivet gun and some metal and some paint and if the quarters are rusty , I will have a body shop repair it and blend the paint , I will redo the int. and all suspension,brakes. new traction bars, kinda like a cheap beater , haha anything cheap while I build my dart These are all the pics I have now from when we looked at it, horrible pics but you get the idea, I will have to scan some old ones later , sorry for the long and most likely boring read.
