Welcome vidsal to FCBO!

[vidsal]

1970 Polara Conv 383 auto, buckets, red, power windows, disc brakes, am/fm

Location: Santa Fe NM

 

[LocuMob]

Hello from Minnesota, please share some pics.

 

[oliver]

Welcome.

 

[polara71]

Joel, Thats from 2001 ... damn you and I go way back brother

 

[5wndwcpe]

Greetings

 

[66sptfry]

Welcome

 

[LeBaron1973]

Hello and welcome from Christchurch NZ

 

[live4theking]

Welcome.

 

[vidsal]

Here are a few from the past five years with the most recent picture of the car as a table, unfortunately. Someday I'll get to working on my Polara. It may never be a show car, but could be a decent driver. I've owned the car since 1989.

 

[1978 NYB]

Welcome.......

 

[polara71]

She looks happy to be out of her hibernation.

 

[detmatt]

Welcome to the site from the Motor City!

 

[vidsal]

Thanks for the welcome. I've followed and joined some of the various boards for the Polara over many years. Here's the start of the picture montage. These are in reverse order when the car came from WI to NM. The top disintegrated in Iowa and we put the bows down. Our airspeed easily reached 100mph because of the strong gusty headwind.

 

[mr. fix it]

Welcome!

 

[67nykr]

Welcome

 

[65sporty]

Welcome from the Mitten

 

[ayilar]

Cool -- thank you for posting the photos. Looks like a pretty loaded car -- I see cornering lights, fender-mounted signal repeaters, and you mention PS disc brakes and PW. Do you have a photo of the fender tag?

PS: Love the deluxe hubcaps. Had been looking for a photo of a red convertible with those caps -- the red ring echoes the paint nicely.

 

[vidsal]

Cool -- thank you for posting the photos. Looks like a pretty loaded car -- I see cornering lights, fender-mounted signal repeaters, and you mention PS disc brakes and PW. Do you have a photo of the fender tag?

PS: Love the deluxe hubcaps. Had been looking for a photo of a red convertible with those caps -- the red ring echoes the paint nicely.

I don't have a picture of the tag. It may have been removed by the previous owner. He made some unusual changes to the car like adding a dual point distributor and painting over a lot of things under the hood. I did have a scan of the build sheet which I saved from it's spot inside the rear seat springs. Someone kindly decoded for it for me over a decade ago I think. I'm in the process of looking that info up again although I do have the sheet itself in my files someplace. For some reason I'm not seeing the scan I did in the yahoo group.

1578 Re: Joel's Build Sheet

• vidsal9
  Apr 20, 2004
  
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  --- In CbodyMonaco-Polara@yahoogroups.com, "Fred" <cbody70@y...> wrote:
  > A JPEG of Joel's build sheet is posted under his directory. I'm
  > going to try to pull out my old info when I did my decoding and take
  > a shot at his. Anyone else who is so inclined may wish to do the
  > same and maybe we can help him out.
  >
  > Fred

 

[polara71]

I still have a copy of your Broadcast sheet

 

[vidsal]

I still have a copy of your Broadcast sheet

Great, thanks! I found the spreadsheet with all the codes.

L6X9 TX9 383 9/11/69 DL27L0D121786 ER6 Red 26 Y14 V3X V01 R11 P31 M31 M25 L35 L31 H11 G15 C55 C21 A04 A01