Chrysler-badged Fusie Cop Cars?

1980-1982 Newport is an R body. As previously mentioned, R bodies used some bits from "B" bodies, but there was not a wholesale transfer or massaging of the B body platform to become an R body.

Correct in every respect except one correction 1979-81 are R bodies. There was no Newport in 82.
 
That's a '74... :poke:

raises another question though ... the literature says the formal Chrysler-badged models supposedly reappeard in 1976 only.

guess not .. subject for another thread. THe FORMAL-era Chrysler-badged cop rigs.
 
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i don't follow that particular stat .. but that might be a bigger number than we think. I mighta compared it to Sumo iceskaters :)

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Anyway, i am gonna research the Chrysler-badged cop formals .. see if there's enough there to be remotely interesting. If not, yeah, it'll quickly get lost in the the "backwoods of Threadville".
 
R was based off the B platform. 80s Newport, Cordoba, etc. were based off the basic B-body late-model Coronet, Fury, etc... updated for the new model year. 1980-1982 Newport was a B-body.

1980-1983 Cordoba and Dodge Mirada are "J" body cars.

1979 Cordoba and Magnum are "R" body cars.

1979-1982 Newport/New Yorker/St. Regis are "R" body cars.
 
Here's a few photo's of the build sheets for my 1972 Polara's. I believe the K code is a piggy back order from a small Dept. that was tacked on to a CHP order, it has a few CHP options on it. You can see the mistake on one sheet where it has the number 1 instead of the letter T for the engine code. Second build sheet is my WSP car.View attachment 110191 View attachment 110192 View attachment 110193 View attachment 110194

Photo #2 shows the poorly formed letter "T" from the word Partial. I'm thinking this is the reason for the top of the T missing from the engine character in line #1 of photo #1.
 
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I could put together a pretty good team from that list.

 
From 1973 to 1975 I owned a former state of Illinois Secretary of State police 1969 Chrysler Newport. I know this as a fact as residue of the markings, spotlight, and all the wiring for the wig wag headlights were still on the car. Man did I have fun with that thing. For the longest time I had the nickname, "Narc". Wish I still had it today
I own a 1969 Chrysler Newport 2dr hard top, all green 383 2bbl 3 on the tree manual transmission. Told it was an ex private Sheriff or Trooper car. It has a spot light towing package and indentation in the front bumper where a push bar was. This car I bought in/and from Illinois. Drove it 500 miles home about 4 years ago.
 
I own a 1969 Chrysler Newport 2dr hard top, all green 383 2bbl 3 on the tree manual transmission. Told it was an ex private Sheriff or Trooper car. It has a spot light towing package and indentation in the front bumper where a push bar was. This car I bought in/and from Illinois. Drove it 500 miles home about 4 years ago.

do you have pics and other documentation on it you could post here? :)
 
This thread lost its steam but a member sent me something via PM today that is helpful:

http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/images/PIBs/1970/1970 Plymouth pib 7 pg1.jpg

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I am gonna declare "victory" here based on a high-level of circumstantial evidence that there were Chrysler-badged Fusie cop cars, likely Newports (but could have been other models).

Hopefully, maybe, there's one or two still out there under a pile of hay/back in the corner of a salvage yard, waiting to resurface :)
 
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1980-1983 Cordoba and Dodge Mirada are "J" body cars.

1979 Cordoba and Magnum are "R" body cars.

1979-1982 Newport/New Yorker/St. Regis are "R" body cars.

Sorry, but no such thing as a 1982 "R" body. You are also missing the 1980-1981 Gran Fury "R" body.

For 1982 the "M" body Gran Fury Salon (USA), Caravelle Salon (Canada), and Diplomat Salon became the main base for the police car fleet and basically replaced the "R" body as Chrysler's full-size entry. All were "L" series. What was the LeBaron in 1981 became the New Yorker in 1982 when the LeBaron became a K car and Fifth Avenue in 1983 ("S" series) with the New Yorker shrinking to the "E" body.

The Newport came back in 1984 on the "M" body for export markets. Series was "H", same as the Diplomat Medallion.
 
A 1974-77 Newport cop car might be what it takes to force me get some greens out from under my mattress.

I hear you brother ..

I have been "secretly" (until now :)) looking for both a formal and fusie E86 cop car.

I have a 1980 M-body Chrysler LeBaron A38 rig (318-4V car, looks like this but NOT this particular one of course) they did 80-81 I think.

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I'd "dent" the PD4501 budget though for a Chrysler Fusie or Formal C-body cop rig that I could reasonably get into .. my fear is that it won't be possible tho cuz they may be piles of picked over"iron oxide" with big a** trees through the engine bays by now, or just plain gone/recycled. :(
 
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I believe this is true... but I have never seen one, nor any lit. Sort of a minor obcession of mine.
And this is why..

Cancelled Revival 1984
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The modified Chrysler grille on the Dodge Diplomat


The Newport model name nearly made a comeback in early 1984 as an addition to the M-Body (Dodge Diplomat, Plymouth Gran Fury, Chrysler Fifth Avenue) lines. Orders were taken by Chrysler-Plymouth dealers, but at the last minute, the would-be Newport was marketed as the Dodge Diplomat SE. This model used the same waterfall grille as the Chrysler Fifth Avenue with the exception of a horizontal bar running across the center to mimic the other "crosshair" grilles in the Dodge lineup.
 
And this is why..

Cancelled Revival 1984
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The modified Chrysler grille on the Dodge Diplomat


The Newport model name nearly made a comeback in early 1984 as an addition to the M-Body (Dodge Diplomat, Plymouth Gran Fury, Chrysler Fifth Avenue) lines. Orders were taken by Chrysler-Plymouth dealers, but at the last minute, the would-be Newport was marketed as the Dodge Diplomat SE. This model used the same waterfall grille as the Chrysler Fifth Avenue with the exception of a horizontal bar running across the center to mimic the other "crosshair" grilles in the Dodge lineup.

Yes, also true... In the US (and Canada). But the name carried on in service manuals and other "corporate" docs all the way till the end in '89, much like how 440+6's are covered in '72 service manuals. (Yes, I know 4-5 were built) But there is no way that mistake would continue 5 years.

Plus I always see the export reference, and it is true that Dodge models were sometimes re-branded in Europe, like the "Chrysler" Viper.

I therefore believe they exist, but the sales were microscopic-level small. I imagine going to Rome and finding an old US embassy car in il junkyardo.
 
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