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[fried onions]

It's nice, but when it comes to Dodge really I'm a 330 man.

[mercrocker]

Yeah, but look at the fucking speedo! Actually, the '60 Phoenix is a tad understated compared to the full glory of a '59 Custom Royal....

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[paulplom]

Why is the guide price so low? It looks mint.

[paulplom]

That or a new pug 106? No brainer imo.

[mercrocker]

Yeah but it's just Barons drumming up interest.....All their stuff is attractively guide-priced.

[PhilA]

My word that's amazingly garish.

Just to think, they toned the styling down from the years prior, too.

[mercrocker]

Aye...the '59 front was ace though. I remember as a kid seeing a lairy peach and cream coloured one tanking through the outskirts of London on either the N. or S. Circular (I can't remember where but I've never forgotten the car) in about 1966. It looked hanging, then, too.....

[AMCrebel]

I'm sure I read somewhere that the 59's were hastily redone with those "extra stick on" fins late in the day as they had got wind of some other makers designs and they were worried that their 59's were not crazy enough.

[fried onions]

Chrysler Corporation's new 1957 models were actually the reason all other manufacturers had to re-tool and play catch-up. 1958 GM bodies were one year only they thought the threat was that bad. Bear in mind the styling cycle was three years. 1959 new bodies again. The '57 Forward Look Chryslers/Plymouth/Dodge models were billed as '1960 new'.

[mercrocker]

There is a lot of truth in the bolt-on fin theory. Word got out that GM had peaked in '59 and that the fins would be cropped on the '60 cars. Funny enough, the 1960 Plymouth actually proved to be the peak over at Chrysler, followed by a radical shearing for their '61 Fury range.

Meanwhile, over at Studebaker they were playing the velcro fin game to perfection....


1953

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1957

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1964

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Same basic structure, just bolt on/bolt off glassfibre wings to suit the fashion of the day....