Not sure if this was mentioned before.
I was watching the original Red Dawn movie from 1984, and at the 3:25 mark there is a black Mopar in the parking lot. It looks like the back half is a Charger with the roof line and the Charger script on the C pillar, but the grille appears to be a 69 Coronet/SuperBee. The back bumper appears to be the thin Charger style and the front bumper is a full Coronet bumper. Since the car is black and the lighting was not on that side of the car, I could not make out any door or quarter panel body lines. I know the Coronet fenders will not line up with Charger doors so it looks weird to me.
Not sure how to save a screenshot to post it here, but its a free movie on Amazon Prime.
Quote from: Swampwing2 on April 18, 2018, 08:46:04 PM
Not sure if this was mentioned before.
I was watching the original Red Dawn movie from 1984, and at the 3:25 mark there is a black Mopar in the parking lot. It looks like the back half is a Charger with the roof line and the Charger script on the C pillar, but the grille appears to be a 69 Coronet/SuperBee. The back bumper appears to be the thin Charger style and the front bumper is a full Coronet bumper. Since the car is black and the lighting was not on that side of the car, I could not make out any door or quarter panel body lines. I know the Coronet fenders will not line up with Charger doors so it looks weird to me.
Not sure how to save a screenshot to post it here, but its a free movie on Amazon Prime.
It's listed as a 68 charger. But the front is different. Looks like it does have a coronet front bumper. Hard to tell. Here's the pic on imcdb
https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_22088-Dodge-Charger-1968.html
Good find. :2thumbs:
Luke
I think the whole front clip is Coronet.
The 2nd-gen Charger front end sticks out farther (ahead of the unibody/radiator support) than the other B-bodies. If the owner was trying for a bolt-on swap then it would have to be all-or-nothing with the Coronet front end parts.