1966 Coronet 440 wagon on BaT

http://bringatrailer.com/2012/05/29/east-coast-black-plate-1966-dodge-coronet-440-wagon/

DAMN! This is beautiful! I'd love to own this beast! It would look great in the garage next to my '66 Coronet 500 hardtop.

 

That's a beauty. You gotta love California cars!

 

She sure is a beauty. Like those 'Charger' wheel covers, but I think a set of later-model (rally?) road wheels would look great on this. If I was going to do a lot of long-distance cruisin, I'd update the front to discs (should be a very easy conversion), but if not I'd leave it alone. Don't know if it will go for $40k as one B.A.T. comment states, but it will command some nice money.

This would have been the top-of-the line Coronet wagon in '66. In '67 they brought a 'woody' Coronet 500 wagon IIRC.

 

WOW ! ! !

diggin it

 

Nope, no woodgrain on the '66 or '67 Coronet or Belvedere wagons. Only the big C-bodies had a woody option. There was a woody option, beginning with the '68 model B-body cars, but not earlier. The '70-up Rallye wheels look so wrong on a '66-'67 B-body, IMO. The five-spoke Magnum 500 wheels compliment these far, far better, and were a dealer-installed '66 option available late in the model year. It was a factory option, starting in MY1967.

I've seen the chrome C-body 15" Road Wheels installed on a '66-'67 B-body, and they look OK, but no factory wheel beats a Magnum 500 (chrome, NOT the trim ring version!).

 

(Insert egg on my face here...everybody throw at the same time, OK?)

Don't know what I was thinking. Musta been before my coffee......
Well, as a mea culpa, here's a pic of the 1968 Coronet 500 wagon:

 

Decode of the fender tag below:

Bottom line - 715 = Build date July 15, 1967
08134 = Special Order Number (ALL cars have one)
WH45 = Dodge Coronet (High trim) 440 six-pass wagon
H4B = High trim level, bench seat, blue vinyl interior
DD1 = Paint code Med Lt Blue Met
D = Blue upper door paint

Next line up:
AB 41 = 361 2-bbl V8 engine
C 5= TorqueFlite Automatic transmission
D 8= Power drum brakes
E 1= California Cleaner Air package
G 1=26" radiator yoke width (HD, Hemi)
M 1=Power Steering
R 1=AM radio w/pushbuttons

Next line up:
c 4=Factory tinted windows (not the add-on tint, obviously)
d 3=unsure, could possibly be power tailgate window
p 6=Remote driver's door mirror

 

KK, I hate to say it but I believe your 1968 Coronet woody pic is actually a pic of a 1969 wagon. The '68 Dodges had round side marker lights with a chrome ring around them. Headed out to the store now to buy a dozen aigs!

 

Yup, Krash goofs again......
I'm going to bed.........

 

How do you know this? can you do it on my wagon too?

 

Sure, if you have a Dodge, Plymouth, or Chrysler. PM me your email address and I'll get back with you.