59 Dodge Custom Royal
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08/01/21 09:34 AM
08/01/21 09:34 AM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 1,883 Northern OH
rapom
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 1,883
Northern OH
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I’ve been looking for one of these cars for 5 years, and finally found one 80 miles away, on Facebook marketplace. It is a one owner estate sale car. Engine is a 361 and one of the cool features is the swivel front seats. Paint is all original, but below the belt line has been repainted. Car surprisingly doesn’t look like it had any rust repair other than a few small areas on the floor. Came with a trunk full of extra parts including extra chrome. Also came with new seat fabric for the back seats as the front seats were redone.
Plans are to install a dual master cylinder, pull and detail the engine, and put on radial tires. Basically I want get it to be a nice driver. My plans were to put on some nice 15” aftermarket wheels and fatter meats, but the hubcaps are growing on me and I found that they sell aftermarket hubcaps in the same style for a 15” wheel.
I’ve always wanted, what I like to call a Jetson style car, bubble top with fins, and finally was able to find one. Bringing it home was an adventure, every stop ended up taking longer because of people wanting to know what the car was.
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Re: 59 Dodge Custom Royal
[Re: rapom]
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08/01/21 01:33 PM
08/01/21 01:33 PM
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Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 15,118 85086
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Lil Herman
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Lil Herman
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Car looks great enjoy!
56 Plaza 63 D100 step side 67 Coronet, 68 Roadrunner, 69 Super Bees, 69 Coronet 500 convertible, 70 Roadrunner Post, 79 D150 360, and a severe case of Mopar a,d,d
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Re: 59 Dodge Custom Royal
[Re: Mastershake340]
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08/02/21 10:52 AM
08/02/21 10:52 AM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 43,540 Round Lake Beach, Illinoisy
Rhinodart
Rhinotruck
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Rhinotruck
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 43,540
Round Lake Beach, Illinoisy
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My friend at work recently purchased a ‘59 Dodge Sierra station wagon which shares the same front end and other styling. Pretty cool! If it is red and white I saw it at the Illinois Train Museum show yesterday, my wife loved it!
The funny thing about science is that if you change one miniscule parameter you change the entire outcome to the way you want it.
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