71Polara383's '70 GT is going to a good home - Not Mine

[FURYGT]

Congrats and thank you again to 71Polara383 for selling this car.

I know the buyer. He bought a triple black well optioned 70 Polara Convertible from me back in the 1990's and did a fantastic job restoring that car, which he sold a few years back to a member in Italy. He has done several restoration since then including a Little Red Express Truck that he sold not to long ago.

He bought the GT. He intends on doing a correct and complete restoration on the car and given his prior work and talent, I fully expect that this GT will be stunning once he restores it.

Thought that the GT junkies like me and others that followed the story of the car would want to know that it found a very good home with someone who loves and appreciates C Body cars.

 

[polara71]

So Joe bought this car huh? I thought he was done. Given his talents on the 70 Polara this should turn out awesome also... Thanks for the heads up Bill

 

[Turboomni]

Any pics of the car? Love to see it.

 

[Wollfen]

Any pics of the car? Love to see it.

This GT? It has been listed twice with many pics.

 

[Turboomni]

Sorry,,,

 

[ayilar]

He bought a triple black, well-optioned 70 Polara Convertible from me back in the 1990's and did a fantastic job restoring that car, which he sold a few years back to a member in Italy.

Davide (the owner of 137248) is a member here?

 

[Xenon]

Any pics of the car? Love to see it.

Then look at thread:
SOLD - 1970 Plymouth Sport Fury GT

 

[71Polara383]

Thanks for the kind words. If only it was an important C body, like a Polara, I would have kept it. There are more 300Hs and GTs left then Polara Broughams it seems.

 

[FURYGT]

Davide (the owner of 137248) is a member here?

Yes, Davide has the '70 Polara Conv. now and he is pretty much putting it back to stock.
Triple black, 383-2V, buckets, console, A/C, Superlite, bumper guards, deluxe wheel covers, PW, PS, PB is what I remember. An early production car, September or October 1969 with the Dodge emblem in the rear bumper. When I sold it sometime in the 1995 - 1999 range, the trunk floor was Swiss Cheese, large dent in one quarter panel, rot in both lower quarters, some floor pan rot and the original engine was gone and had been replaced with a '73 400.

 

[ayilar]

Yes, Davide has the '70 Polara Conv. now and he is pretty much putting it back to stock.
Triple black, 383-2V, buckets, console, A/C, Superlite, bumper guards, deluxe wheel covers, PW, PS, PB is what I remember. An early production car, September or October 1969 with the Dodge emblem in the rear bumper. When I sold it sometime in the 1995 - 1999 range, the trunk floor was Swiss Cheese, large dent in one quarter panel, rot in both lower quarters, some floor pan rot and the original engine was gone and had been replaced with a '73 400.

Thank you! Yep, Dave mentioned that it is one of the original supernate cars. Do you know about the car's history before it got to you?

 

[polara71]

Thank you! Yep, Dave mentioned that it is one of the original supernate cars. Do you know about the car's history before it got to you?

Supernate?

 

[71Polara383]

Supernate?

Superlight?

 

[polara71]

Yes it is an original L36 Michel

 

[ayilar]

Thank you. I was wondering what you were talking about with "supernate", now I see it was my autocorrect acting up. Oops.

What I am wondering about is not the L36 (you'd told me about it quite a while back) but about the car's early history. Hopefully you or @FURYGT can fill in the blanks!

 

[71Polara383]

I love that Polaras overtook this conversation. It's about time!

 

[polara71]

Thank you. I was wondering what you were talking about with "supernate", now I see it was my autocorrect acting up. Oops.

What I am wondering about is not the L36 (you'd told me about it quite a while back) but about the car's early history. Hopefully you or @FURYGT can fill in the blanks!

When I was looking before my first convertible and before Joe bought this car Bill offered it to me
It was still in the barn and in sad shape. It fit all my needs and desires but too much of a project. I needed and wanted a Missouri and was holding out. Back then , 20 years ago I was being particular. I wanted a big block, disc brake , superlite car with a white interior but as time went on I realized pickings are slim and that wasn't gonna happen.
I have photos of this car through its restoration and before with the bird droppings on it in the pole barn.

 

[ayilar]

I needed and wanted a Missouri and was holding out. (...) as time went on I realized pickings are slim and that wasn't gonna happen.

As long as you don't claim that buying Missouri was "settling"...

 

[FURYGT]

Thank you! Yep, Dave mentioned that it is one of the original supernate cars. Do you know about the car's history before it got to you?

The original owner lived on Bee Street (if my memory is correct) in Meriden, Connecticut. I don't recall what dealership sold the car. The current Dodge dealer in Meriden opened in 1971 so it was not them. My guess is that the dealer who had this car ordered it to build showroom traffic or just lucked out. As mentioned, the car had the rare SuperLite option, which was illegal in New York state so it couldn't be legally used in our neighboring state.

I hooked on C Bodys in the early 1990's going to MOPAR shows with a friend who had several C Bodys and I started driving one of his cars to shows as often, he took 3 cars to shows. I spotted this Polara a few blocks from the apartment that I was living in (Middletown, CT - 2 towns from Meriden). It was in the backyard of a house on a corner at a T intersection. I lived in an apartment nearby at the time and as I came up to the traffic light on my way to work I could see this big black Dodge across the intersection. The car was sitting on slope next to an overgrown culvert and there was overgrown brush partially covering the car. I could see something, which turned out to be the SuperLite in the left side grill and didn't know what it was until I asked my friend about it. I would go by the house now and then on weekends trying to find someone outside to ask about the car and then one day the car was gone. I'll get back to that in a moment.

Two brothers, one of whom lived at this house had purchased the car non-running from I believe the original owner. They did the engine swap and then the car got parked out back and sat for several years with no car cover or protection of any type.

After I saw that the car had disappeared I kind of panicked but quickly thought where would it go and I hoped that it didn't go to one of the local junkyards. I took a ride to the large auto body shop down the street from my apartment and spied the car in their fenced in yard on the weekend when they were closed. I called the shop during the week and learned that the brothers had the car towed their and were shocked at the price the shop gave them to restore the car and I had the shop ask the brothers if they were interested in selling it and I think I got it for $400 in 1991. My friend tinkered with it and got it running, tossed the dead mice out of the car and drove it up the street to my apartment.

The Polara spent 2 winters outside at my apartment before spending time in various garages and a friends barn. I collected a lot of NOS parts for the car and found an NOS quarter panel in Pittsburgh, PA that Joe went and bought after buying the car from me. Joe basically bought a lot of NOS parts from me and got the Polara along with the parts. I had bought 3 other C Bodys before I sold the Polara.

 

[polara71]

39 Superlite polara convertibles sold.

 

[ayilar]

Thanks a lot for the write-up!