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They never made me walk-something I can not say about The Ford products my company bought for me, new, between 19. As far as transportation, they were fanstastic values. I owned a couple of them back when I could get them for $50, or less. The 61 Dodge and Plymouth were ugly cars. The 60 Dodges were sort of OK, but the Plymouth was not my cup of tea. I really hate to demean the automotive choice of anyone, but while the quality of the 60 and later Chrysler products had actually returned to that of the pre-54 products-in other words-BULLET PROOF, IMHO, the styling hard to like. Posted 10:27 PM (#259496 - in reply to #239162) Subject: Re: A Lawrence Welk 1957 Dodge convertible still in existence?Įlite Veteran Posts: 663 Location: Oakley, Ill Welk's suit color and the similar daytime lighting conditions! Edited by d500neil 7:33 PM Note, too, that the "Royal" convertible does not have any 'distracting' outside rear view mirrors, or antennae, on itĪnd that both cars were photographed at the Proving Grounds, in Chelsea, MI-probably at the same time, too The small dog-dish hub caps on them (because so much of the wheel was exposed with those small hub caps ). They might have been painted that way, but, the body-colored wheels only appeared on production cars which had What's interesting about these two prototype models, above, is that the Custom Royal 4-dr HT has the 'plain' (Coronet/Royal ) styled lower bumpers, and the 1956 "Custom Royal" fender nameplates on it, and, the all-īlue convertible has "Royal" fender nameplates on it.īoth car's 'blue' colored wheels could have been air-brushed-on, by Dodge's advertising department/agency, or, You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19171 Location: bishop, ca Posted 7:27 PM (#259470 - in reply to #239162) Subject: Re: A Lawrence Welk 1957 Dodge convertible still in existence?Įxner Expert 19,174 posts. (!CEppe8Q!mk~$(KGrHqQOKosE0fo9,BR(BNSg+n3lpw~~_3.jpg) Attachments - !CEppeoQCWk~$(KGrHqYOKokE0fkd2Jq0BNSg+mo7Tg~~_3.jpg (24KB - 69 downloads) !CEppe8Q!mk~$(KGrHqQOKosE0fo9,BR(BNSg+n3lpw~~_3.jpg (44KB - 67 downloads) Here's an interesting item on eBay, related to Welk and Dodge. Posted 7:59 PM (#239833 - in reply to #239162) Subject: RE: A Lawrence Welk 1957 Dodge convertible still in existence?Įxpert Posts: 3472 Location: Montreal, Canada Were the cars that were turned in each year just sold on the used car lot,or did some of the cast buy theirs rather than give them up? Edited by 1960DesotoAdventurer 7:06 PM "Alright,which wunna you Lennon sisters wants to go for a ride in uncle Larrys new swept wing Dodge?,I'll bring the champagne!" I had a roomate in college who's dad was the acct exec for dodge for their ad agency,coincidentally the family lived near the welk's in pacific pallisades.the dad told a story that one year when mr welk's complimentary new dodge was being delivered,lawrence went into a frenzy to get ahold his secretary who was en route to get his 'old' dodge to the car wash,so she wouln't spend the $4 to get it washed since the dodge rep was picking it up in exchange for the new model.Īlso spoke a few years back to the son of the owner of claude short dodge in santa monica who maintained the welk show car fleet in the 50's.he said the service guys who detailed the cars after servicing them often found evidence in the back seat cushions that the 'champagne ladies' were probably not all virgins!