The 1960 Dodge Polara D 500 felt like the closing scene of an entire Detroit chapter. This was the tail end of the late 1950s design age when cars were unapologetically huge, fins reached for the sky, ...

Introduced in 1960 as a full-size car, the Dodge Polara was downsized to intermediate level for the 1962 model year. The redesign was mostly a corporate mistake, so Dodge returned the Polara to ...

Produced from 1960 to 1973, the Dodge Polara was the company's full-size offering for all but three model years. From 1962 to 1964, the Polara competed in the intermediate market. It was part of the ...

Luis Hernandez, one of my three foster grandsons, and I pose next to this spacecraft-looking Dodge coupe in 2012. Ah, the memories! The year was 2012 and the venue was the upper Muny parking lot in ...

The 1962 Dodge Polara 500 arrived in showrooms looking like it had slipped through a wormhole. Shorter, sharper and stranger than the full-size Dodges that came before it, the car refused to blend ...