Bill Watson
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I checked my spreadsheet, and it is 117,141. Can't figure out where 78,996 came from. No such number anywhere on the sheet.
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I checked my spreadsheet, and it is 117,141. Can't figure out where 78,996 came from. No such number anywhere on the sheet.
Rwc
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I think it's fair to say that most cars, especially in the 60's and 70's were never designed or intended to live much more than 5 to 7 years with proper maintenance and good treatment. They only got to sell them once, and hopefully get it back once as a good used car.
71Polara383
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I'm wondering if different assembly plants had different methods of corrosion protection/quality control. Seems like the really nasty rotted cars I've come across all came from Belvidere Assembly. Not saying Windsor and Newark cars don't rust, just seems like the D vins are almost always rotted...
polara71
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71Polara383
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Is there a total number of cars built out of each of the plants for each model year?
Moparwilks
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Yeah , your absolutely right. just like 1st gen Durango’s. That heater core job was the last straw for a lot of familys budgets. I just do the cruise night circuit & ice cream runs with the kids/ take her to work on weather friendly fridays. That’s the only way You can put up with a lot of crucial daily driver things not working.
Moparwilks
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There’s nothing like feeling like you just got your license at 16 again. Even if it’s just for a little while.
Moparwilks
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My 72 Newport is a 4 door hardtop, with some interesting options considering it was an entry level model. Power windows telescope/tilt wheel power seat & cornering lamps front fender like higher models I have yet to see another royal with them. Back in the good ol days when you checked of from a lit of options I suppose.
Bill Watson
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The nice thing about being given the choice between cheap and expensive models is being able to order the options you want. The car buyer could get the car he/she wanted within their budget. My father purchased the base 1970 Polara sedan, 6 cylinder, with Torqueflite, engine block heater, vinyl side mouldings, rims in body colour (W55), exterior in dark tan metallic, interior in tan cloth & vinyl (think Fury I with fratzogs instead of Plymouth sails). The father of a friend had ordered a 1967 Dodge Polara sedan, 6 cylinder, with Torqueflite, engine block heater, power steering, power brakes, radio, wheel covers, exterior black with interior in blue cloth & vinyl. Again, Fury I interiors with fratzogs instead of sails.
In the case of your Newport Royal, if it was ordered by a customer, the base price may have been low enough that they could afford to order those options. And if it has a radio you can add the radio to the options list.
In 1972 and 1973 all Chrysler Corporation cars had radios as an option. A car was not radio delete, just no optional radio. Of the 16,729 1973 Imperials built 99.7% had one of the radio options available- AM/FM, stereo, or stereo tape deck. Which meant that 0.3%, or roughly 50 cars, were built with no radio or tape deck. The Imperial did not have a radio cover plate but had a different lower instrument cluster bezel (3592 120) with no holes for a radio. Imagine spending thousands of dollars to tool up moulds for a piece that was used on 50 cars in 1973 and probably a similar number in 1972.
rapidtrans
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Maybe it’s just me but the slab side cars seem to be more stout. Perhaps over engineered compared to late big cars where mopar started looking at weight savings. I know Dad was often told by vendors that “you don’t need to use that gauge. Brand “x” only uses this thickness”.
Bill Watson
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Are you looking for the total numbers of cars produced at the assembly plants each model year, or the number of Fury, Polara/Monaco, Chrysler and Imperial cars produced at each assembly plant by model year.
If so, I do have production broken down by car line and assembly plant.
71Polara383
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Say a number telling how many 71 Dodge Polaras and Monacos came out of Belvidere alone and etc with other years and models.
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I’ll buy that, they had to start the decline somewhere.
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Bill,
if you have all those type of information it would be great if you share them with the public.
Pages like Hamtramck-historical.com (run by Barry Washington) are a big help for the classic Mopar Community. So copies of your documents could be published there and saved for the long term future.
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thanks bill for the great info on options. and yes detmatt I think there are few more rust friendly areas on fuselages but a small price to pay for the low curvy look. I was born & raised a formal guy but I have fallen in love with my 72. makes me wanna make a bumper sticker that says (who saved who?) with a Chrysler emblem instead of the rescue dog paw. lol!
Bill Watson
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Hope the attached is okay. It lists all the C body makes built at the Belvidere plant from the opening of the plant to the end of the C body. Production numbers are for the model years
polara71
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I've known you 20 years now Bill, you never fail to impress
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Bill, do you have any information on the 70/71 Challengers?
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polara71
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Aren't those numbers all all out there already?
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Probably, but on checking I asked the wrong question.
A friend of mine Ola Nilsson is into Dodge Challenger's and Plymouth Barracudas of the 70, 71and 72 years and recently wrote a book on 'Cudas.
He notes a code on the build tag "V26" which appeared on early 71 Challengers then disappeared and nobody has been able to discover the significance of this.
I was hoping that Bill may have some idea of its meaning and/or documents in his archives clarifying the issue as the search for the answer has proven elusive.
A friend of mine Ola Nilsson is into Dodge Challenger's and Plymouth Barracudas of the 70, 71and 72 years and recently wrote a book on 'Cudas.
He notes a code on the build tag "V26" which appeared on early 71 Challengers then disappeared and nobody has been able to discover the significance of this.
I was hoping that Bill may have some idea of its meaning and/or documents in his archives clarifying the issue as the search for the answer has proven elusive.
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