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16/01/2021 1:52 pm
When ordered with the Max Wedge engine, you could order it without windshield-wipers.
How about that ?
16/01/2021 2:52 pm
You could not drive it on Conn. roads back in the day. Law stated you had to have working wiper but A WINDSHIELD was not required.
16/01/2021 4:56 pm
Let's be honest guys....in 1962 or 2021....this is one unusual looking car!
16/01/2021 6:50 pm
@jack-d
odds, No more unusual than this one.
Having been the numerous product unveilings, I always said I'd have paid good money to be at the dealer meeting where they pulled the wraps off the '62 & '63 Dodges and Plymouths and said, "Here are our new cars!"
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
16/01/2021 8:42 pm
You know what?......I have always liked the '63 Dodge since the first time I saw it. Maybe it's just because it wasn't the '62.
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17/01/2021 2:18 am
Over the years I've gotten used to the '62 and '63 Dodges, They are unique, to say the least. I think they finally got the design right with the 1964 model.
17/01/2021 2:26 am
I love the 64 Plymouth but never cared too much for the grille on the 64 Dodge; prefer the 63 and 65.
17/01/2021 7:53 am
Gotta love the styling of '62 Dodge/Plymouth. When equipped with the 413 CI Ram Induction engine they where a force to be reckoned with on the street or strip.
John Bono
North Jersey
17/01/2021 9:31 am
@jack-dodds I have dreaded the moment I felt compelled to share this, but after Chrysler Corp.'s sublime "Forward Look" of '57 through to '59 - in my view the most attractive American cars of the 1950s - their design inexplicably fell into an abyss until the arrival of Elwood Engel, from Ford.
I am sorry to say but I believe all 1961/62 Chrysler products, from Plymouth right up to Imperial are among the most ill advised designs in the history of the automobile!
17/01/2021 11:52 am
@charles-rockett Lol....well the Chryco design statement of the early 60s certainly polarized opinion. Generally, back in the day I disliked Chryco cars from 1957 through 62, save for the 62 Chrysler and 62 Plymouth. However in recent years I have come to appreciate the changing Chryco styling through these years for the statement it made. I recall even as a child hearing and agreeing with the mostly negative comments about those outlandish, massive fins 1957 thru 61; then the very quirky styling of the 61 & 62 years. I realize now just how much I compared all cars to my beloved GM and Ford "standard", which made me rather closed minded. Now I really appreciate just how very different they were from the others and know some of the reasons why. I also now see how it makes automobile history much more interesting. I love seeing the wide range of car styling of this era on display at car shows and appreciate the controversy and debate it still creates.
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