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1970 Dodge Coronet

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1970 Dodge Coronet - $54,995 - St-Leonard, QC - An incredibly rare combination of options in one of the most sought-after colors of the musclecar era!
Since a convertible option was never offered on the Dodge Super Bee, Mr. Ronnie Busick, of Richmond, VA. decided to create the next-best thing in 1970, and went to his local dealer, Southside Dodge, to order his dream ride: A Coronet 500 convertible, to which he added the most powerful engine available for that model, the 335-horsepower 383 Magnum, along with the 727 Torqueflite column-shifted automatic transmission. He also treated himself to Air Conditioning, Rallye Wheels, bumper guards, and naturally the extra-cost FC7 Plum Crazy Hi-Impact Paint!
According to Mopar numbers guru Galen Govier, this makes it 1-of-6 known with this combination, meaning the chances are slim to none that you will see another anytime soon... The GTS report and fender tag decode sheet, along with a copy of the dealer order sheet and invoice are included, along with a copy of the article that was published in Mopar Collector's Guide from June, 2002.
Many pictures are available on our website, but if you need more, or of specific areas, please contact us by email hemmings@johnscotti.com or by phone, toll-free 1-877-275-7434.
We can also help you with financing options through our partners.
For over 40 years, John Scotti Automotive has been the reference in the field of exotic, vintage and collector cars in Montreal, Quebec and even across North America. Our exclusive inventory of classic cars has been the pride of our company for many years now. Our collection contains some of the most beautiful models of classics, including muscle cars and rare and one-off automobiles. We have Ford, Chevrolet, Plymouth, Cadillac, Mercedes, Pontiac and other makes of vehicles dating from the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s - one look at our inventory will inspire you to dream!
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No, it couldn't. The Road Runner got the option (which ultimately cost the GTX its drop-top model for 1970) but the Super Bee never did. All the Bees were tin-tops. If you wanted a Dodge convertible B-body musclecar, the R/T was the only game in town.

There was a '69 R/T 4-speed convertible behind a garage a couple of miles from my house when I was in high school. The guy had stripped the R/T emblems off during a repaint and fully badged the car as a Super Bee, stripe delete. I made multiple offers on that car, originally thinking it a Super Bee but the VIN said R/T.

Taking its rarity into account, this car's probably worth a little more than half the asking price. It can be a purple convertible all it wants, but it's still not a "package" car and it's still a column-shift pansymatic.
 
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The Coronet 500 was not a musclecar. It was just an upscale trim level on the base Coronet, just like a Coronet 440. It had no high-performance parts included in the package.
 
The Coronet 500 could be had with a 383-4 and a 4-gear, the same as a Bee........isn't that considered muscle? :confused:
 
No, it's a powerful drivetrain. A Coronet 500 is no more a musclecar than an '80 Aspen R/T with a Slant Six and a 4-speed. You have to have the whole package; neither example does.
 
You're saying that equipping a car with every option that comes on a muscle car still doesn't make it a muscle car. :confused:
 
That's exactly what I'm saying. It makes it a sleeper. Having a muscular drivetrain doesn't make it a musclecar. The first musclecar was the '64 GTO, period. It's the car that cause the word to be coined. Not the Max Wedge, not the C300, nor anything before it. A musclecar is a package performance car that was aimed at the youth market. Part of the formula was the external appearance items such as stripes and scoops. The C300 was an upmarket car aimed at the affluent buyer with a taste for speed. The Max Wedge was a flat-out race car, just built at a time when FMVSS was so slack you could register one. The GTO was the icebreaker.

'66 Satellite Hemi: Plain-jane car with a big-ass engine. Not a musclecar in the truest sense of the word.
'67 GTX Hemi: Almost the Exact same car with performance exterior additions. Musclecar.

Check the values on both. You'll find the GTX generally brings a 5-digit price increase over a similar condition prior-year Satellite. My current Challenger? Not a musclecar, lacking the HP engine and Rallye package. Same could be said of the '73 I had: it wasn't a Rallye, even though it had all the Rallye options. It just didn't have the Rallye-only fender scoops, stripes, or tail-panel treatment. Hell, it wasn't even a sleeper since it had the Rallye hood.
 
Because the R/T package was originally intended as a "muscle" package, wouldn't the before mentioned Aspen R/T with a slanty fall into the muscle group?
 
No more than a Chevy 250-powered '74 Apollo is, no matter how many GSX decals you throw at it. Those were appearance packages only, neither specific models nor performance options. By the way, you can thank Jim Wangers, the real father of the GTO, for the Road Runner, Aspen R/T, Hornet AMX, Mustang Cobra II, and other similar "imitation" musclecars of the '70s. They were all literally his idea, each on an individual basis. After he left GM he started his own consulting group, and proposing each and every one of those packages to their respective makers earned him a lot of money.
 
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