My Next Car Will Be...

[Fleet 500]

I have written here before that, in addition to being a Mopar fan, I am also a Cadillac (pre-'77) fan. (I own three Caddys.)

I don't plan to buy any cars in the near future. However, I have decided that my next car will be a Mopar. The Mopar of choice being a '69 Dodge Coronet R/T 440. With auto trans, buckets and console and 3.55:1 gears. (If I find one with 3.23s, I can always change it.)

At a weekly (Friday night) car show I go to, there was a very nice '69 R/T. Here are some photos:

[Fleet 500]

Two more photos. I have a feeling that the owner wouldn't want to sell his car no matter what! (And I don't blame him.)

[4drbrnko]

I don't plan to buy any cars in the near future.

Funny, that's what I said about 4 cars ago.........

Nice pictures, excellent choice to add to the stable.

[mopar_guy333]

i agree,those cars are very nice.that one looks awesome!

[4Cruizn]

That would make a nice addition to your stable!!  SWEET!! 

[Fleet 500]

Yeah, that one in the photos is very nice. I like the extra rear seat and trunk room compared to a Charger and I figure that the Coronet R/T costs (somewhat) less than the more popular Charger.

I wonder what a typical price for a '69 Coronet R/T is? I know they are not cheap!

[Fleet 500]

Funny, that's what I said about 4 cars ago.........

Lol. That's what the guy who sold his '69 Fleetwood Brougham to me said.. "No more cars until the next year," then he bought two just a few months after he sold me his Caddy! (BTW, it may sound strange, but I plan to install a shift kit to my '69 Cad and maybe lower gears [3.15s off a limo replacing the stock 2.94s]. I figure between those two things, plus the dual exhaust it already has, the 1/4 mile time should go from the stock 16.5 seconds to low- or mid-15s.)

Do you guys think going from 2.94 to 3.15 would make much of a difference in acceleration? I don't want to go to 3.36s or 3.42s because I want to keep the engine in the torque zone (max. torque is at 3,000 rpm).

Here are two pics of another '69 Coronet R/T at the same car gathering when it was at a different location: