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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SgtHawkUSMC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You guys should check out my 66 Camaro. It was a prototype that came out before the 67 model year. It was a collaboration with Chrysler. It was built with a 426 Hemi and Hilborn fuel injection. </div></div>
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Original GM artwork for 70 Monte Carlo convertible.
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That Monte looks kind of cadillac-ish
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Caseys69</div><div class="ubbcode-body">That Monte looks kind of cadillac-ish </div></div>
You're right. The design looked familiar to me but I couldn't place it. I looked at the rear quarters again, then Bingo! The fender skirts and quarter panel front scallops remind me of the 1971-72 Eldorado Convertible. |
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Continuing on the theme, the 4-Door Barracuda silhouette looks almost exactly like that of a 1971 B-Body Sedan, which to my eye is the biggest distraction of the build.
I doubt the Chrysler stylists would have come up with such a clumsy roofline if this concept was ever done for real. Chrysler created some of the most beautiful flowing 4-door hardtop rooflines on their C-body Plymouths, and Chryslers of that era. Designers of that era had a full understanding of how to make a hardtop roofline flow - even on 4-door body styles. GM also built some really good examples of fluidly designed 4-door hardtops that didn't look anything like their 4-door Sedan counterparts. This Barracuda was built around a 1971 4-door Plymouth B-body and unfortunately.... it still looks like a reskined 4-door sedan with shorter deck proportion and Barracuda front and rear design elements. Sadly this 4-Door Barrcuda Project doesn't represent itself well as a "what-if" concept. Its a flop. Sure Chrysler had all type of 4-door Hardtops in their fullsize C-body line in 1970, but General Motors was building the nicest most comprehensive line of 4-door hardtops in the industry (with the obvious exception of pony cars) This photo was found on another Mopar website submitted by ECS. Source: http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...ept-car/page35 |
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If a 1970's General Motors customer wanted to buy any 4-door hardtop model, there's a good chance they were building them. In 1970, the General offered 4-door hardtop models such as: Oldsmobile Cutlass and Ninety-eight, Pontiac Lemans and Catalina, Chevrolet Chevelle, Malibu and Impala, Buick Skylark, LeSabre, Electra, and Wildcat. I may have left some out, but this proves a point. This project can't even be considered a valid "what-if concept" as the builder suggests. A 4-door Barracuda project (based on a sedan or otherwise) would have been cancelled way before it got started....which makes "prototype tribute" such a complete joke. Are we to believe that Chrysler decided it was a good marketing decision to dilute their first year pony image and create an ugly, old-man style, totally useless, 4-door sedan? |
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Beavis, I may be out of line here (in which case I will apologise) but you started this thread asking opinions about this car, and then continue to put forward your argument for it being nonsense. Sooo.... can I ask outright, are you one of the contributors on that other forum thread that had a long-running 'debate' with ECS?
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For someone that has a family to haul around it's a cool car. It's not easy stuffing 6 year old twins, their booster seats and accessories into the rear of a 2 door coupe.
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deleted my own post
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Canuck</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Monte was a counterpart to the Grand Prix, also not offered in convert form. </div></div>
...except in '67. There was a convertible available on the '67 Grand Prix. K http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af28...pg?t=1347375676
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