The last generation for the Dodge Polara, this first-year fuselage looks great in base trim and a two-door hardtop body style. You already know I’m going to mention the aftermarket rims/wheels, but it’s not uncommon for a two-door to be dressed up like this. The seller has this 1969 Dodge Polara Two-Door Hardtop listed here on eBay in Klamath Falls, Oregon, there is no reserve, and the current bid price is $4,500.

This is the only driver’s side photo, but it seems to prove the seller’s claim that this car is “straight as an arrow,” and is solid, other than at the base of the rear window. They say it’s “rusted out” there, but I’ve seen worse. Still, it’s a tricky area to fix without removing the rear window, or at least the trim. What a great design, though, in either a two-door hardtop or convertible, a four-door hardtop or sedan, or a wagon variety. Hagerty is at $7,000 for a #4 fair condition car, as a reference.

Dodge referred to this color as “White,” and their other color names weren’t much more creative: light blue, dark blue, medium blue, light green, dark green, medium greeeeeeee….zzzzzzzzz… sorry, I dozed off there. It’s hard to beat pre-5-mph bumpers, and I wish we had gotten a peek inside the trunk compartment. Dodge offered the fourth and last-generation Polara for the 1969 through 1973 model years, and then they brought the Monaco. Here’s a fun brochure on these cars.

The interior looks more like a desert southwest car than an Oregon car, but I guess even Oregon has areas that are hot and dry. It isn’t all rainforest’y. Finding a parts car for those burnt and missing interior parts may be a task, but that’s sort of what Al Gore had in mind when he invented the internet a few decades ago: finding Dodge Polara parts. Parts of the interior look like new, but other parts are in tough shape. Is that rodent or sun damage, or both?

The upgraded engine is Dodge’s 383-cu.in. OHV V8, and one of you will know whether this one has a two-barrel or four-barrel carb. Both were available, and it’s rare that an eBay seller doesn’t like a VIN to look up the engine specs. In two-barrel form, this one would have had 290 horsepower and 390 lb-ft of torque when new. More than enough for a Jay Leno-like burnout. The three-speed TorqueFlite sent power to the rear wheels, and the seller says they put gas and a battery in this car, and it ran like it was 1969 again. I sometimes wish it were 1969 again. I’d lose the wheels, clean this car up, fix the interior, and drive it. How would you bring it back?