is this even a c body?

[mdh157]

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/3481401879.html

regardless, look at the condition of the body..........if its anything like it looks, it's a steal, eng or not.

Boy, do I hate the rust belt.

 

[Stormer]

I have a 440 to stuff in that bad boy. What a cool car. I would buy that thing in a heartbeat if I had someplace to put it.

 

[Bryan]

Not technically a C body, because that designation came around in 65, but a direct ancestor.:yes_no:

 

[Wollfen]

I had one similar to this and it had so much rust i had to cut away all the sheet metal eight inches up the sides from the bottom of the rear quarters and hand make all that lovely curvy metal including around the rear wheel arches, it came out pretty good, check out the pic, i ended up selling it for 12k 11 years later. s_dancing2:

 

[mdh157]

hey, that's great........I can buy a rotbox polara rag and have you do the metal work.........looks like you are pretty good at it.

 

[commando1]

I had one similar to this and it had so much rust i had to cut away all the sheet metal eight inches up the sides from the bottom of the rear quarters and hand make all that lovely curvy metal including around the rear wheel arches, it came out pretty good, check out the pic, i ended up selling it for 12k 11 years later. s_dancing2:

Damn that's nice.
Got a good buck for it, too. Nice job!.

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[polara71]

Damn I love those....

 

[Stormer]

12K seems really cheap to me for that beautifully restored car.

 

[Bryan]

I had a light blue 61 Dart Phoenix with a 318 automatic when I was a kid. typical Michigan car. It ran like a top, but was so rusted you could see what was in the trunk with it closed. It was so bad I lost the spare through the side of the quarter panel one time when I took a corner too fast. It still ran good when it literally fell apart parked in the barnyard after a torsion mount broke.

 

[mdh157]

12K seems really cheap to me for that beautifully restored car.

i agree.......

 

[mdh157]

I had a light blue 61 Dart Phoenix with a 318 automatic when I was a kid. typical Michigan car. It ran like a top, but was so rusted you could see what was in the trunk with it closed. It was so bad I lost the spare through the side of the quarter panel one time when I took a corner too fast. It still ran good when it literally fell apart parked in the barnyard after a torsion mount broke.

my buddy's father has one, a 4 dr htp, we rode in it at the carlisle chrysler show in july.......you wouldn't believe the people commenting on it before he even got it parked on the show field.

 

[Wollfen]

12K seems really cheap to me for that beautifully restored car.

The times dictated i sell it quick it got me some more cars to play with, i now own three chargers which cost me less than the yellow car and one of them is a one owner RT 1968 model that's been parked for 35yrs. Yah its got a rusty back end but its complete and very original , plus i can handle rust

 

[bluefury361]

Not technically a C body

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The 55 thru 61 Mopars fall under the heading of "The Forward Look" cars. Most designed by Virgil Exner. A really radical time in Mopar styling history.

 

[70NPORT]

Ugh, fins. Nice condition for it's age but I'll pass, thank you.

 

[70NPORT]

Not technically a C body

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The 55 thru 61 Mopars fall under the heading of "The Forward Look" cars. Most designed by Virgil Exner. A really radical time in Mopar styling history.

I think this kind of radical (eye brows?!) is the kind of radical that got him his walking papers. Definitely went off the rails.

 

[70NPORT]

Damn I love those....

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[polara71]

Gary, you are not invited to participate in "forward look conversations".

 

[70NPORT]

"Foward look"......defiantly a kind, generous and merciful description, but o.k.

 

[commando1]

Everyone still fails to see the beauty. The world suffers a little because of this....

 

[bluefury361]

I was 7 in 1953 when my dad took me with him to a Dodge dealership while shopping for his first NEW car, a 53 Coronet coupe. But A red 53 Dodge convertible on the showroom floor sparked the "car nut" in me....(Dad... get this one...!)
It was the forward look cars of the mid 50's and early 60's that firmly put me in the mopar camp.