Charger/Coronet hybrid

[DTB]

Seen these pictures here: http://www.generalleefanclub.com/unique/unique.html.

Seems that somebody tried to turn a Coronet into a Charger lee replica. Anyone ever seen a creation like this before? Corarger? Charnet?

[Ghoste]

Isn't that a members car?

[Cooter]

Those pics are at least 7 years old.
with AMD, this cat woulda been done had a Charger in full dress.

[DTB]

Isn't that a members car?

Could be, I really don't know. I just stumbled across them on google. Seems like a lot of work.

[Ghoste]

Seems like it to me too.  Same with converting 68 or 70's into 69's.

[F8-4life]

I can apreciate the hard work going into it but it still looks kinda off.
Pretty much imo a waste of time & a good coronet.

[Mike DC]

 
It looks "off" because it IS off.  The 4-door Coronet donor car has a couple inches higher windshield than a Charger.

IMO it would have been better to weld the sides & roof of a rusty Charger onto the floor/frame of that car.  Like the old NASCARS used to do when they would re-body a chassis. 

[Nacho-RT74]

there is one 2 doors Coronet 69 in Venezuela TRYING to be converted into a Charger 69 too. Long time project.

[Nacho-RT74]

 
It looks "off" because it IS off.  The 4-door Coronet donor car has a couple inches higher windshield than a Charger.

I think only windshield being diff on those years was the convertible

[Mike DC]

The entire greenhouse/roof on the 4drs was taller than the 2dr models. 

A 2-door Coronet/Satellite would be a more do-able swap to make a Charger.  The unibody understructures of the other 2drs are mostly the same except for the rear window/quarters area. 

[DTB]

The entire greenhouse/roof on the 4drs was taller than the 2dr models. 

A 2-door Coronet/Satellite would be a more do-able swap to make a Charger.  The unibody understructures of the other 2drs are mostly the same except for the rear window/quarters area. 

So with enough time and devotion...someone could essential buy a nice Coronet,buy repro Charger sheet metal and do the swap? Only thing is,by the time you hunt down the rare pieces not made, you'd have a lot more in it. Just about have to have a junk Charger just to rob parts from.

[Mike DC]

Not everything is reproduced.  You'd need to get some unibody metal around the rear window area from a donor Charger.  And the outer wheelhousings would need to change.  And the trunkfloor around the fuel opening.  Etc. 

[Cooter]

The entire greenhouse/roof on the 4drs was taller than the 2dr models. 

A 2-door Coronet/Satellite would be a more do-able swap to make a Charger.  The unibody understructures of the other 2drs are mostly the same except for the rear window/quarters area. 

Yep. 2dr sedans (nothing but a 4dr body with 2drs from factory) and 4drs are taller than hd tops.

[bill440rt]

A 2-door post-coupe (aka 2-door sedan) is the same as a 2-door hardtop, with the exception of the pillar.
4-door sedans shared the same windshield frame, vent windows, etc as convertibles.

[Baldwinvette77]

Could you reuse the satellite/coronet vin, even though its been rebuilt as a charger? 

[Ghoste]

You legally have no choice.

[Baldwinvette77]

You legally have no choice.

Vins are so confusing to me 

[Ghoste]

Basically its the number assigned from the factory for legal representative purposes and you don't have the right to swap them around and alter them to suit your own private purposes.

[Baldwinvette77]

That i understand.. But wouldnt you have to swap the dashboard for a rallye version?,  then you would have to remove the vin from the base coronet dash, and slap it on the rallye dash.... eh whatever, im going to stop thinking about it 

[Ghoste]

You are correct on the dash frame.

[Mike DC]

The writers of VIN laws decades ago never expected people to be mixing & matching chunks of cars and still ending up with high-value results.

[Kern Dog]

What a mess!
The trunklid area is AFU. Is there even a trunklid or did this guy weld a panel in there? The roof slopes UP to the windshield too, surely because of the POST type windshield. What a hunk of crap!