General Information
I am going to try to document my journey through the restoration of my 68 Dodge Polara - HWYCRZR. The first post is about the first 12 years of life (Mine and the car's)
This car was scheduled to be built on August 15th 1967. This car was built prior to the new emissions requirements that were regulated to start in January of 1968. Throughout the process I have discovered that some of the parts like the heater control, dash panel (although painted correctly), and steering wheel horn cover seem to be left over 67 parts to mention a few.
This Car was delivered to Power Motors, a Dodge Dealer in Fort Benton, MT. Per my Dad this car was brought in as a promotion car for the Dealer that was driven by the Dealers wife. My Dad traded in a 63 Impala 2dr for this car in August of 1970. They gave him $2,195 for the Impala and he had to add $1,400 additional for the Polara. I was 2 years old. Interestingly enough there is no mileage record on any of the paperwork.
Growing up with this car has left some good memories (and some not so good).
Pulling the boat to the lake. Me getting car sick on a hot summer day when dad would stuff a wad of Copenhagen in is mouth. To this day I cannot stand that smell. Coasting down the hospital driveway into the convent flower bed when it slipped out of park while we were waiting in the back seat. Learning to drive on the gravel roads when I was five...
Some time around 77 or 78 the transmission started acting up. It had about 40,000 miles on it. It was no longer the daily driver, but it would make it two miles on gravel roads to the school bus before the tranny heated up and started slipping. Whenever we were out of site of the house, I don't know that we were ever below 60 mph on the gravel road. It was parked when we moved to Colorado in 1980.
Below is my restore link to see my progress.
68 Polara restore back on
This car was scheduled to be built on August 15th 1967. This car was built prior to the new emissions requirements that were regulated to start in January of 1968. Throughout the process I have discovered that some of the parts like the heater control, dash panel (although painted correctly), and steering wheel horn cover seem to be left over 67 parts to mention a few.
This Car was delivered to Power Motors, a Dodge Dealer in Fort Benton, MT. Per my Dad this car was brought in as a promotion car for the Dealer that was driven by the Dealers wife. My Dad traded in a 63 Impala 2dr for this car in August of 1970. They gave him $2,195 for the Impala and he had to add $1,400 additional for the Polara. I was 2 years old. Interestingly enough there is no mileage record on any of the paperwork.
Growing up with this car has left some good memories (and some not so good).
Pulling the boat to the lake. Me getting car sick on a hot summer day when dad would stuff a wad of Copenhagen in is mouth. To this day I cannot stand that smell. Coasting down the hospital driveway into the convent flower bed when it slipped out of park while we were waiting in the back seat. Learning to drive on the gravel roads when I was five...
Some time around 77 or 78 the transmission started acting up. It had about 40,000 miles on it. It was no longer the daily driver, but it would make it two miles on gravel roads to the school bus before the tranny heated up and started slipping. Whenever we were out of site of the house, I don't know that we were ever below 60 mph on the gravel road. It was parked when we moved to Colorado in 1980.
Below is my restore link to see my progress.
68 Polara restore back on
