Gorgeous Black C Body

[70_NPORT]

I made this one day when I was bored...

Interesting ideas. The one thing that jumps at me is the removal of the concealed headlights (to save $$?). I've always liked those. I assume they were becoming less and less desirable by 72' and onward? My first car had hidden headlights (72' Dodge Charger) and in the dead of winter time they were total bitches to get them open by themselves. Ditto the Sport Fury I used to tool around in.

 

[Carmine]

Thanks Carmine for the creative renderings, but if these are at all close to what was planned, I am very glad they ended the series on a positive note!

I get what you're saying, but I'd call it more/less contemporay for the era. The '73s got so much

Interesting ideas. The one thing that jumps at me is the removal of the concealed headlights (to save $$?). I've always liked those. I assume they were becoming less and less desirable by 72' and onward? My first car had hidden headlights (72' Dodge Charger) and in the dead of winter time they were total bitches to get them open by themselves. Ditto the Sport Fury I used to tool around in.

I ditched them because they didn't work well with the split 72 bumper... (trying to develop a horizontal theme). Then I also realized i'd have to hit a dollar target, and those lamps are expensive. I'd have rather spent the $$$ on things to make the 300 unique, like the open wheelwells and bumper.

If anything, i'd say hidden lights hit their zenith around '72!

 

[saforwardlook]

I would wager Chrysler used up all their spare cash making the all new low production volume "home run" Monaco front end for 1972-3 along with the more formal roofline on the 2 door model that was introduced in 1972 to match what the competition was offering, and didn't have anything left for the 300. The Monaco was more of a formal luxury version of the Polara, whereas the 300 was intended to have more of a sporty image, and the formal roofline wouldn't have worked well with 300 model's sporty theme to my eyes.

And since we are talking black cars in this thread...................

 

[Carmine]

I would wager Chrysler used up all their spare cash making the all new low production volume "home run" Monaco front end for 1972-3 along with the more formal roofline on the 2 door model that was introduced in 1972 to match what the competition was offering, and didn't have anything left for the 300. The Monaco was more of a formal luxury version of the Polara, whereas the 300 was intended to have more of a sporty image, and the formal roofline wouldn't have worked well with 300 model's sporty theme to my eyes.

And since we are talking black cars in this thread...................

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Tru Dat, but the 300 was supposed to be a hot-rod wrapped in luxury, and in the 70s, upright rooflines meant Luxury.

Here's a favorite lux/sport non-mopar in that vein. Oh how I wish there had been a Mopar competior.

And when that car turned into a giant Probe-looking bar of soap in '93, it tanked.

 

[70_NPORT]

If anything, i'd say hidden lights hit their zenith around '72!

Yea, I figured as much. The other manufacturers were dumping their hidden headlight rigs around the same time apparently.

 

[commando1]

I don't think there's more than a dozen of these left in the world where the windows haven't been tinted in Limo Black.

 

[70_NPORT]

The Monaco was more of a formal luxury version of the Polara, whereas the 300 was intended to have more of a sporty image, and the formal roofline wouldn't have worked well with 300 model's sporty theme to my eyes.View attachment 128540

Get rid of some of the doodads and that Monaco is perfect.

 

[70_NPORT]

I don't think there's more than a dozen of these left in the world where the windows haven't been tinted in Limo Black.View attachment 128543

They got it closer in 93'.

 

[CanCritter]

 

[CanCritter]

one day.....

 

[pomonamissel]

thats a ht i'd have in my hoard , got rags , no h/t's . was there a rag version of the g/t sporyfury ?

 

[tallhair]

I'd love to see what a '72 300 would have looked like perhaps with a "Monaco" styled hidden headlight design.

that would be interesting. I love that front end

 

[CanCritter]

thats a ht i'd have in my hoard , got rags , no h/t's . was there a rag version of the g/t sporyfury ?

no...

 

[Dodgy Dick]

Thanks for all the pics, keep 'em coming !!, That black Monaco is reeal nice.
And say what is meant by a John Wayne hardtop?

 

[tallhair]

Thanks for all the pics, keep 'em coming !!, That black Monaco is reeal nice.
And say what is meant by a John Wayne hardtop?

John Wayne was tall. He had roof lines customized to allow for his height and cowboy hat. If memory serves usually Pontiacs though

 

[Fratzog]

Nice black cars are few and far between. Here's a nice example I came across a few years ago. Pics taken a year apart.

 

[saforwardlook]

Tru Dat, but the 300 was supposed to be a hot-rod wrapped in luxury, and in the 70s, upright rooflines meant Luxury.

Here's a favorite lux/sport non-mopar in that vein. Oh how I wish there had been a Mopar competior.

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And when that car turned into a giant Probe-looking bar of soap in '93, it tanked.

I understand your points and do actually agree with them, and I like the Lincoln as well, but with the more upright roof line on the 2 door C bodies starting in 1972, I just can't visualize a design that would work to keep the "sporty" element of the intended goal with the 300. Even the Lincoln you present has a flowing roofline that works for me.

But models such as the Pontiac Gran Prix by 1973 didn't look very sporty to me either, but that is how they marketed them as well. For me, the 1964 Gran Prix was the last good looking Pontiac, and it looked sporty to me:

I guess, for me at least, it just doesn't look all that sporty or flowing. I would never own that Pontiac, as I also consider it downright ugly, but by comparison, I love the 73 Monaco. I believe Elwood Engle knew what he was doing in discontinuing the 300 and I am glad it ended rather than carry on with this kind of a look as in the Pontiac above.

For me, the last good looking and sporty Pontiac Gran Prix was the 1964 model:

 

[Carmine]

John Wayne was tall. He had roof lines customized to allow for his height and cowboy hat. If memory serves usually Pontiacs though

Amen that somebody got it!

 

[pomonamissel]

yes , chrysler corp cars were seldom black as i remember , got two factory black ones , a 69 rrun'r and 64 barracuda , both 4spd's . 4spd's were in short supply as well . but lots of green auto ones , lol .

 

[Rwc]

Black may be beautiful, but only when standing there with a rag.