Lets Play A Game: Last Of The Convertibles

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@PM27G0D – thank you for posting about
PM27G0D143954

SBD of October 23, 1969. EF8 green with T VON!

 

[PM27G0D]

My 69 318 Polara has a sway bar, most likely original.


Alan

Interesting...is it mounted to some brackets welded onto the stub frame? My car doesn't even have those welded brackets.

 

[PM27G0D]

@PM27G0D – thank you for posting about
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SBD of October 23, 1969. EF8 green with T VON!

T VON? What's that?

 

[MrMoparCHP]

Interesting...is it mounted to some brackets welded onto the stub frame? My car doesn't even have those welded brackets.

Yes, it is a factory install, factory frame brackets, not welded on later.
I have a couple picture that almost show it, sold car so I can't get better.


Alan

 

[ayilar]

Thanks to @fc7_plumcrazy and @330dTA and this thread, we now have more info about one of five 1970 Polara 'verts currently registered in Sweden. DL27L0D231644 is currently for sale in Sweden.

DL27L0D231644 is DY3 yellow, which according to the records originally compiled by @polara71 is the original color. What can not be original is the rear bumper: it sports a fratzog emblem, which is not seen past Sept. 1969 builds -- whereas, based on the records that Dave posted on the Polara Monaco Yahoo board back in 2008, this car's SBD should be April 4, 1970.

According to Dave's records, this car is originally from New Jersey, and it spent time in the Carolinas before heading to Europe.

Here is a high-res photo of the car a few years back:

 

[ayilar]

The Swedish sales listing for DL27L0D231644 mentions that it is one of five (5) 1970 Polara 'verts registered in Sweden. But, there might be a sixth and perhaps a seventh ones -- see more below.

The first four to be registered in Sweden are described in this 2011 blog entry:

1. On July 9, 1975, the first Light Blue was registered in Sweden, which has been rolling in Kyrkhult since 1981;
2. Then it took until 9 February 2008 before number two came -- a Blue that rolls around in Södertälje;
3. Car number three arrived already the following year, namely Monday, August 24, 2009 at 2:15 p.m. and it is Red and is located in Svärdsjö;
(Note: That red car went up for sale in 2013 as per a 10-yr old thread of @fc7_plumcrazy here; in that same thread, @polara71 stated that it was "bought new in Somerset NJ and went to Georgia (then) was in Florida for a year or two, never did get a number from that one);
4. Scheduled for registration in end-March 2012, a teal 'vert (re-painted, obviously: @polara71 told me that it was originally FY4) would have ended up in Vilhelmina. A good friend (of the blog poster) bought it as a 50th birthday present for himself in the town of Mc Henry Maryland in 2011.

So those are the four examples that would have been in Sweden as of 2012, "and all four were equipped from the factory with a 290-horse 2-barrel 383."

5. This DY3 car, DL27L0D231644, is #5. Per @330dTA post here, she was first registered in Sweden on June 16, 2013.

--> Beside the five 1970 Polara 'verts mentioned in the sales ad, there is a sixth one -- DL27L0D293310 (yes, another 383-2 Polara 'vert). That Monaco-ized Polara moved from Colorado to Denmark less than a decade ago, and I have seen photos of it at several events in Falkenberg, Sweden -- but that is not too far from Denmark, so I thought that it might still be a DK-registry car, but thanks to @fc7_plumcrazy (see below) I've been able to check that it has been registered in Falkenberg, Sweden for the last 8 years (the last Falkenberg even where I've seen the car spotted took place in July 2019 -- here is a screen shot:

--> And then, there is the question of the 1970 Polara 'vert that has been photographed three times in 2017 and 2018, all times in south central Sweden. This car has been repainted in a "kermit" green with lots of flakes. As of 2017 it sported whiskers (seen in the first photo below) that had been removed by 2018 while swirly graphics were added to the doors (see second photo below):

2017 in Emmadoba:

2018 in Emmadoba:

--> perhaps @fc7_plumcrazy or @330dTA or @ImpJay could chime in?

EDIT: the kermit green car is actually the car from Mc Henry Maryland, registered in Wilhelmina back in 2012 -- see post below.

 

[ayilar]

@Thruxton007 just shared the fender tag of CE/7L0C231579 — a Newport ´vert that he bought from his father back in 1999. EB3 with white top, and still blue today. SBD was May 4, 1970.

 

[3175375]

As suggested that I post in this thread, here's the fender tag for my '70 Fury III convertible. I bought it on eBay around 2008 in Greenville, NC. at a small used car dealership. The guy told me it was a "one owner" car and had been in Greenville since new. It's basically a survivor and has it's original paint and interior. Not really a show car, but a great car for just cruising around in the summers. Has about 110k on it. I want to get the AC operational at some point, along with new shocks and perhaps some heavier springs. With the 318 suspension components and no front sway bar, the handling, oompared to my big block cars, is pretty scary.

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Nice!

When you get to correcting the AC, you may glean some information from what I have gone through, here:

Double Doofus - Air conditioning on a 69 Fury III vert

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

it has a swedish registration

Carsten

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

in sweden:

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

The Swedish sales listing for DL27L0D231644 mentions that it is one of five (5) 1970 Polara 'verts registered in Sweden. But, there might be a sixth and perhaps a seventh ones -- see more below.

The first four to be registered in Sweden are described in this 2011 blog entry:

1. On July 9, 1975, the first Light Blue was registered in Sweden, which has been rolling in Kyrkhult since 1981;
2. Then it took until 9 February 2008 before number two came -- a Blue that rolls around in Södertälje;
3. Car number three arrived already the following year, namely Monday, August 24, 2009 at 2:15 p.m. and it is Red and is located in Svärdsjö;
(Note: That red car went up for sale in 2013 as per a 10-yr old thread of @fc7_plumcrazy here; in that same thread, @polara71 stated that it was "bought new in Somerset NJ and went to Georgia (then) was in Florida for a year or two, never did get a number from that one);
4. Scheduled for registration in end-March 2012, a teal 'vert (re-painted, obviously: @polara71 told me that it was originally FY4) would have ended up in Vilhelmina. A good friend (of the blog poster) bought it as a 50th birthday present for himself in the town of Mc Henry Maryland in 2011.

So those are the four examples that would have been in Sweden as of 2012, "and all four were equipped from the factory with a 290-horse 2-barrel 383."

5. This DY3 car, DL27L0D231644, is #5. Per @330dTA post here, she was first registered in Sweden on June 16, 2013.

--> Beside the five 1970 Polara 'verts mentioned in the sales ad, I believe there might be a sixth one -- DL27L0D293310 (yes, another 383-2 Polara 'vert). That Monaco-ized Polara moved from Colorado to Denmark less than a decade ago, and I have seen photos of it at several events in Falkenberg, Sweden -- but that is not too far from Denmark, so that may still be a DK-registry car. I simply do not know. FWIW, the last Falkenberg even where I've seen the car spotted took place in July 2019 -- here is a screen shot:

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--> What might be a seventh 1970 Polara 'vert in Sweden has been photographed three times in 2017 and 2018, all times in south central Sweden. This car has been repainted in a "kermit" green with lots of flakes. As of 2017 it sported whiskers (seen in the first photo below) that had been removed by 2018 while swirly graphics were added to the doors (see second photo below):

2017 in Emmadoba:
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2018 in Emmadoba:
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--> perhaps @fc7_plumcrazy or @330dTA or @ImpJay could chime in?

I have seen the frog green one in the bottom some years ago. Has a swedish registration.
It was at a german show in Hannover. I think I even got a pic of the tag. But unfortunatly I do not have much time to search for the pics as I have other things do currently

Carsten

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

and here is the tag.

It was FY4

 

[ayilar]

in sweden:

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I thought that DL27G0D293351 was in Norway, as per this post? Or has it moved in the past 4 years?

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

I thought that DL27G0D293351 was in Norway, as per this post? Or has it moved in the past 4 years?

was for sale in sweden last year

Not on the road

 

[ayilar]

it has a swedish registration

--> DL27L0D293310: Thank you for the pics of the car with the plates -- thanks to them, I've been able to track the registration to Sweden back in 2013 (in Tomelilla) and again in Falkenberg (in 2015). The last registration event is dated to 2019. Have you seen the car since?

was for sale in sweden last year. Not on the road

--> DL27G0D293351: Thank you for this update!

I have seen the frog green one in the bottom some years ago. Has a swedish registration. It was at a german show in Hannover. I think I even got a pic of the tag.

--> DL27L0D221804: Thank you for the confirmation on the custom "kermit" green Polara. Turns out that you had posted the tag back in 2018, but for some reason I did not associate it with this car. Glad that you reposted it, and good thing I did find it in my Excel registry. So I will now post here, for records, what I know about that car so that we have it in a single place:

1. @Fratzog mentioned this car on Nov. 4, 2006 on the defunct Polara Monaco Yahoo board: "This car was rumored to exist a few years ago but never surfaced. Back in March, a fellow on the New Dry Dock told of the car sitting in an alley with a 8,500 price tag in the window and a phone number. I called for a week with no answer. Then the poster of that thread said the car was gone. A few weeks ago the car surfaced again at an auto auction in Illinois. I soon got in touch with Tracey since he lives in Illinois and he went to investigate. The car sold at Auction for $3,600. It had rust repair in the quarters and a 440 replaced the original 383. The car had a very nice green bench interior. It is the only FY4 (light gold metallic ) convertible I have seen so far."

2. From a discussion with @polara71 a couple of years ago, I knew that the teal green Polara 'vert that was to be registered in Sweden back in 2012 (per this blog post) was originally FY4. What I did not know, because Dave did not have the tag handy when I sent him the blog post link, was that it was one and the same car with Fred's 2006 entry, i.e., that it was DL27L0D221804 . As @polara71 has said many times, the tag is key to finding out about cars.

3. I also did not put together the fact that the kermit green car was also the teal car. Thanks to Carsten, I now have all the ducks lined up.

DL27L0D221804 was first registered in Sweden on May 3, 2012. That registration was in Vilhelmina. It was again registered in Nybro on Aug. 10, 2012 -- just three months later. AFAICT, the ownership has not changed since then. Here are photos of the car in different states in the past twelve years (I don't have photos dating back to Fred's 2006 entry, maybe he does?):

2011 in Mac Henry, MD:

2017 in Sweden (note the incorrect radio antenna, additional mirrors (previously correct driver side also replaced to match the incorrect RHS), different wheels, sparkly green paint):

2018 in Sweden (note the new swirly graphics and the whisker removal, and black convertible top -- it was brown in 2011; the tag says the original was V3W white):

The car, in all the pics, has the same bent front valance on the RHS.

 

[ayilar]

PM27L0D196220 is currently for sale in Vancouver, BC. Thanks to @boostedvan for alerting us that the car was for sale!

Canadian market car (C VON) with a SBD of Feb. 4, 1970 (the VIN tag on the door confirms it was made in February 1970). Very nicely equipped ER6 red Fury iii 'vert with V3X black top and M6XA C16 C55 black vinyl buckets and console. Front B41 power disc brakes, too.

 

[1970300vert]

Been awhile but here is my other 70 300 vert fender tag. Anyone have the ability to decode this one please. Also still looking for a drivers side lower rocker mldg and clips.

 

[marko]

 

[1970300vert]

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Thank you

 

[Samplingman]

FP6 color = Frosted Teal Metallic. That must look really good in the sunlight with the white interior. Do you have any better pics in the daylight?