1964 Polara 426

White 1964 Dodge Polara 500 hardtop with a red side spear and red interior, front three-quarter at a show — 1964 Dodge Polara 500 two-door hardtop in white with red interior Photo: Greg Gjerdingen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Factory statusFactory configuration

Body styletwo-door-hardtop

Trim / packagePolara 500

Engine426 cid engine

Inductionone four-barrel

Published power365 hp · Dodge advertised hp; basis not further identified

Published torque470 lb-ft · Dodge advertised hp torque

Forward gears4

Transmissionfour-speed floor shift

Matched period road testUnknown

What this record proves

The badge is only the beginning.

The single-four-barrel 426 at 365 advertised horsepower is the street configuration a Polara 500 buyer could actually order. It shares a displacement with the most famous engine of the 1964 season and almost nothing else.

Keeping the street 426 and the race Hemi in separate records is the difference between a catalog fact and a racing result. A reader who conflates them ends up believing a showroom Polara was a Daytona winner, which no source here supports.

The advertised rating carries no stated basis and no matched instrumented test, and availability does not authenticate an individual car. Those limits are the same across all ten 1964 configurations and are stated rather than assumed.