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You all seem to like C pillars, so let’s do another one. This time, the vinyl roof grain historians are going to have a big advantage as compared to the chrome window surround experts this past Monday. Congratulations to rev, who called out the 635 coupe; but then he had a head start, given that he owns one just like it. Does anyone own an example of today’s mystery car?
1976-1980 Plymouth Volare/Dodge Aspen sedan?
Just from the color alone my born-in-1969 brain yelled DODGE, though I have no idea how I built that pathway.
Without question owing to the body color and vinyl roof grain this is a 70’s Chrysler product, the question is which one as they used the combo on virtually everything. I seem to remember the larger grain vinyl roof was used on the larger cars so my guess is a 75 Plymouth Fury.
On second thought I don’t remember the Fury having the sheet metal indention at the top, I’ll change my guess to a 72 Chrysler Newport. They did use this color in the late sixties but I don’t think the large grain vinyl roofs were available then.
The color did it for me too.. I’m guessing Dodge Dart.
I am also thinking Chrysler product, likely Dodge Dart, but I thought maybe the very late ’60’s.
1972/73/74 Dodge Dart/Plymouth Valiant 4-door sedan
We had a ’74, in maroon, with the matching vinyl top, matching wheelcovers and matching velour upholstery. Maroon was bad enough, but the example’s green colour scheme is putrid.
Plymouth Satellite? ’68-’70 maybe.
Couldn’t be a Dart. This CC has 4 doors.
Another opportunity to embarrass myself: a 1969 Chrysler New Yorker.
Looks like a Mopar color to me too. 1968 Chrysler Newport Hardtop. Just a guess.
First-generation Ford Granada or Mercury Monarch?
Mid 70’s LTD?
I had one about that color.
1975-76 Plymouth Valiant Special Edition 4-door sedan, the overdecorated last of the line. (Basically the same car as the new-for-’67 Valiant sedan, like the 2-door owned by a girlfriend during 1983-84 when I lived in Minneapolis – I changed the heater core on that thing, parked on the street, in Minneapolis, in midwinter.)
Wild-arse guess: 1968 Dodge Polara
I have to agree with Steve-O. It is a Volare or Aspen. I’m going to go out on a limb and say a 76-78. The roof grain, the color, the shape of the C-pillar and the contour under the window all fits.
It is not a Dart or a Chrysler, nor is it a Granada/Monarch.
C’mon Paul, you can’t toss up a photo of fake vomit and expect us to ID it as a car!
It screams 70’s Dart
Volare/ Aspen just as Steve-O said in the first post. I’d say a ’77 or ’78.
I’ll vote for an early 70’s Plymouth Fury
1970’s Chrysler product is the first thing I thought of too. The trouble for me is that they all looked alike at that spot. I think a mid-70’s Valiant/Dart.
I agree it’s probably (but not necessarily) a Chrysler product, probably one made between ’69 and ’73, but I’ll eat my separate-nobody-ever-used-them shoulder harness if it’s an A-body (Dart, Valiant, Duster, Demon); the beltline concavity at the top of the visible sheetmetal is wrong for an A-body.
If it’s an F-body (Aspen, Volaré), it’s likely a 1976 model in J5 green (PPG #2853, “Tropic Green Poly”), though I’m not entirely confident in this guess.
I’m having trouble getting a fix on the angle from which we’re viewing this car. I almost think we’re looking at a door seam, but it looks too narrow and even to be a Mopar, and much too narrow and even to be an F-body.
@ Boff:
Couldn’t be a Dart. This CC has 4 doors.
How’s that? They made zillions of 4-door Darts and Valiants.
Im going with AMC ambassador.
Daniel J. Stern: I almost think we’re looking at a door seam, but it looks too narrow and even to be a Mopar, and much too narrow and even to be an F-body.
Door alignment problems and bad build quality can work both ways!
What else could it possibly be besides a door seam below the end of the window?
Door alignment problems and bad build quality can work both ways!
Touché!
(Yeah, I’m thinkin’ it’s probably a 4-door ’76 F-body…)
Too much side sculpting below the belt line to be a Dart or Volare.
68 Full Size Dodge Polara or Monaco
1969 or 1970 Ford LTD/Galaxie.
Here’s another good shot of a 78 Volare:
http://www.hyts.hu/autok/plymouth/volare-1978/plymouth_volare-1978_r3.jpg
But, the thing that throws me off is that the trim piece at the base of the c-pillar looks to be “chrome,” not top-colored, like our specimen.
Another vote for Volare. Look closely at Joe Chiaramonte’s picture–I think he nailed it.
Chrysler something or another from the 70’s perhaps?
late ’60s Chrysler.
I can’t seem to find a matching mopar, amc, ford or olds. Between the molding and the body contour, nothing seems to match. I am stumped.
Dodge Coronet
I think there is a larger distance from the belt line to the upper sheet metal feature line in the clue picture than in the 78 Volare picture. The rear side window chrome molding does look the same though.
Dodge Dart or Coronet
I’m with Steve-O too.
Looks just like the ’79 Volare my parents had when I was a kid. We hated that car. So they bought a Chevette. Which was worse. I still have nightmares about their automotive choices…
Is that the hyde of the endangered nauga?
How’d you get a picture of my grandma’s fridge?
Dodge Dart Or Variant. definetly
I’m a regular CC reader, but this is my first attempt to guess.
I’ve tried my best to make this a MOPAR vehicle. I can’t.
For those who say Dart/Valiant…no way. The roofline on those vehicles from the “green” period never were flat with the body panel. The “C” pillar always stepped back from the body panel.
Not an Aspen/Volare either.
That’s also why I say it is not MOPAR because the “green” period was basically late 60’s/early 70’s (for this color) and most MOPARS from this period, except the “Fuselage” models had “C” pillars stepped back from the body panel.
Not a “Fuselage” Mopar either.
My guess goes with a full sized Ford product.
Ford Maverick
late ’60’s T-bird.