In the late 1960s, Dodge offered three mid-sized muscle cars. The Charger R/T, which was a premium model with a “tunnelback” roof, the Super Bee, which was budget-minded like the Plymouth Road Runner, and the Coronet R/T, a derivative of the Dodge family car. The latter was offered between 1967 and 1970, after which there were no longer any hardtop or convertible Coronets. The seller has a freshly restored 1969 Coronet R/T, which has been upgraded to “Six-Pack” status. Located with a dealer in Worcester, Massachusetts, this hot Mopar is available here on eBay, where the current bid is $5,100 (reserve unmet).
Dodge built 6,518 R/T hardtops in 1969, plus another 437 droptops. So, it was the rarest of the company’s mid-size performance cars. This one decodes as having had the standard 440 cubic inch V8 with a single carburetor, but it now sports triple 2-barrels. This is a well-documented car supported by both its fender tag and broadcast sheet. The transmission has also been upgraded to a new TCI “Street Fighter” 727 automatic.
Freshly built, the 440 (non-matching) produces 450 horsepower compared to 375 from the factory in 1969. Power front disc brakes from Wildwood are now onboard, the power steering has been converted to Borgeson, an exhaust system with header cutouts has been added, and digital gauges for the driver are at his/her disposal. A couple of in-process restoration photos are provided, and the seller says the car runs “better than new.”
The black paint is correct, as is the white interior, white vinyl top, and the white stripe across the rear deck. This looks like one sharp combination that may have been rare when the Mopar left the assembly line 57 years ago. Considering the amount of work that has clearly been done, how far do you think the bidding will go before the reverse comes off? Thanks for the cool tip, “Curvette”!
Damn, what a beautiful car. I always heard keeping a tri power carb set up running was a pain…? Oddly I have a tri power set up since 1987 sitting in my pile somewhere… Nice find, and write up
I don’t know about the tri power setup but the six pack is no problem. You could tweak it a bit but there was very little you could do to them. Now the setup you have sitting in a pile somewhere, If it is the Holley 2400’s and not the Carters that Chevrolet used I would be interested in buying them from you. Let me know.
It’s up to $25,100 and the reserve is still not met.
just spent a pile of money to restore it to turn around and dump it. makes no sense at all.
Maybe they did it to flip
Gorgeous Coronet R/T. Mopar really churned out the street heros from that B-body. Black wasn’t as popular back then but the white really sets it off. Truly a winner.
Really beautiful car except for the white interior.
That has to be the worst interior in any muscle car.
Funny….my Uncle in 1964 bought an ordered Corvette coupe that the owner didn’t pick up – it was black with white insides and factory A/C…..traded in his 1961 Vette in on it.
Nice, but not restored. — There’s several paint scratches and at least one missing paint patch exposing the primer, and there appears to be a rust bubble under the vinyl roof on the right side. The headliner is torn and would need to be replaced, otherwise the interior appears to be in good shape. At the current bid price well over $20K, hopefully that’s all that will need work on this rather rare Mopar, and the buyer should definitely do a thorough test drive to make sure it’s powerful drive train is in as good shape as it appears, as they are often quite-abused over the years. There seems to just be something oddly “iffy” about this beauty – just a gut feeling I get…..
Front brakes are from the Jersey shore?
That’s Wildwood.
I’d have zero desire to have digital gauges in a car like this. But living near Worcester it doesn’t shock me too much.
Ended at $29,100.
Reserve Not Met.
6 bids.
Relisted, and ended at $40100, Reserve Not Met, 42 bids.
Relisted, and is at $10,100, 2 bids, 5 days left.
Looks like bidders are getting tired of the game. Those who are genuinely interested in the car have already made their bids and are not likely to go higher. Playing this game usually keeps your car right where it was when the bidding started – way back when.