A D-500 option was available, which was a 383-cubic-inch engine with a single Carter 4-barrel carburetor rated at 320 horsepower and a Super D-500 engine option, a 383-cubic-inch engine with dual 4-barrel carburetors rated at 340 horsepower.

Dodge's variant was called the D-500 and produced.

1956 was the last year of this body style before the change in 1957, the only differences offered in 1956 from ' 55 were trim packages and the new D-500.

The D-500 ( named for the NASCAR requirement that 500 identical models must be produced in order to be raced ) was also available on any Dodge, including station wagons and two-door sedans.

Overall height of the D-500 was lower than its standard Dodge counterpart.

An even hotter version of the D-500, the D-500-1 was intended primarily for NASCAR competition.

The standard D-500 model included a 315 cid V8 with hemispherical heads ( unlike other Dodge V8s which used polyspherical heads ), a unique camshaft, valve lifters, pushrods, carburetor, ignition, and pistons.

The D-500 also received an upgraded suspension with very stiff front coil springs ; heavy duty Oriflow shock absorbers, with the same valving specified for Dodge police cars, were mounted in the springs.

For 1961 to 1980 arrives the trucks, like: D-400 / DP-400 D-500 / DP-500 DP600, DD900 & DD1000 ( the last two with one curiosity: the aircooled Deutz engine rather Perkins or Chrysler ).

The D-500 came standard with 15x5. 5 inch wheels with 7. 60x15 inch tubeless tires.

The most notable were Luxman's D-500 and D-500X series players, and Denon's DP-S1, both launched in 1993.

The D-500-1 had an even stiffer suspension than the D-500.

1957 saw the debut of the new D-501, which replaced the D-500 from the year before as the top Coronet.

At least 40 known examples exist of the 1955 version and over 20 for the 1956 version, including at least 3 verifiable D-500 optioned 1956 La Femmes.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

" The tagline was heard in a cameo for the Pixar film Cars, in which Tom and Ray voiced anthropomorphized vehicles ( Rusty and Dusty Rust-Eze, respectively a 1963 Dodge Dart V1. 0 and 1963 Dodge A100 van, as Lightning McQueen's racing sponsors ) with personalities similar to their own on-air personae.

Hopper was born in Dodge City, Kansas, the son of Marjorie Mae ( née Davis, July 12, 1917-January 12, 2007 ) and James Millard Hopper ( June 23, 1916 – August 7, 1982 ).

Iowa Sen. Augustus C. Dodge immediately reintroduced the same legislation to organize Nebraska that had stalled in the previous session ; it was referred to Douglas ’ s committee on December 14.

But after Dodge disappeared in late 1856, and Kendrick was transferred to another post, the raids resumed.

On March 29, 1928, a radio show was broadcast from Pickford's bungalow, featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Norma Talmadge, Gloria Swanson, John Barrymore, D. W. Griffith and Dolores del Rio, among others, to speak on the The Dodge Brothers Hour to prove they could meet the challenge of talking movies.

The Toyota Van and Dodge Caravan / Plymouth Voyager featured very different structural designs: the Dodge Caravan / Plymouth Voyager had a FF layout and unibody construction, while the Toyota Van Wagon featured a FMR layout and was built on a body-on-frame chassis.

Along with the Nixon reprints, Roger's Dodge Diary was introduced on the second half of Roger's pages, where Beano readers can send in their own dodges.

In 1966 Chrysler sold enough of the 426 Hemis to make it available again, and they put it in their new Dodge Charger which had a low-drag rear window that was radically sloped.

During the visit Lincoln was to spend 2 hours with M & M engineer Grenville M. Dodge at the Pacific House Hotel discussing the merits of starting the railroad in Council Bluffs and was to visit Cemetery Hill there to look over the proposed route.

The major investor in the Union Pacific was Thomas Clark Durant, who had made his stake money by smuggling Confederate cotton with the aid of Grenville M. Dodge.

Dodge Brothers enjoyed much success in this field, but the brothers ' growing wish to build complete vehicles was exemplified by John Dodge's 1913 exclamation that he was " tired of being carried around in Henry Ford's vest pocket.

However, the same year, tragedy struck as John Dodge was felled by pneumonia in January.

Stagnation in development was becoming apparent, however, and the public responded by dropping Dodge Brothers to fifth place in the industry by 1925.

That year, the Dodge Brothers company was sold by the widows to the well-known investment group Dillon, Read & Co. for no less than US $ 146 million ( at the time, the largest cash transaction in history ).

Dillon, Read & Co. offered non-voting stock on the market in the new Dodge Brothers, Inc., firm, and along with the sale of bonds was able to raise $ 160 million, reaping a $ 14 million ( net ) profit.

Eventually Dodge was sold to Chrysler Corporation in 1928.

To fit better in the Chrysler Corporation lineup, alongside low-priced Plymouth and medium-priced DeSoto, Dodge ’ s lineup for early 1930 was trimmed down to a core group of two lines and thirteen models ( from three lines and nineteen models just over a year previous ).

The Dodge Eight was replaced by a larger Dodge DeLuxe Six for 1934 and which was dropped for 1935.