Not Muscle: This Basic Dodge Coronet Comes Back To Life – BangShift.com

Yes, wild and hairy cars were built between 1964 and roughly 1972. Wild colors, nuclear option engine choices, exhaust notes that could make the dead perk up and take notice…they existed. You can argue who was faster or whatever until the cows come home, but there is no denying that Chrysler had a lock on the wild and psychotic looks for the last few years of the era. You know what we’re talking about: the eye-searing colors, the cartoon characters, the inability to hide in traffic vibes. If you don’t understand what we’re talking about, just imagine a 1971 Plymouth GTX painted Sassy Grass Green driving through your town’s normal traffic and imagine how blatantly it would stand out. Got it?

Now, those machines exist, but they were not the everyday items. Cars like this 1970 Dodge Cornet sedan were. If you look only at the nose or only at the tail, you can see Dodge Super Bee. But then you see four doors and a majority of people immediately stop, feel nauseous, and walk away. Myself, I’d immediately want to build a phantom four-door Super Bee, attitude, big-block and all. But for Dylan McCool, this Slant Six-powered, three-on-the-tree B-body is inspiring a different vision. But until that car gets a fuel tank that doesn’t tear apart like you were ripping apart notebook paper, it ain’t doing squat. Click on the video below to see this old sedan get back on its feet.