I wish they still made cars like this today. Base model no frills and super reliable. No plastic junk, real steel bumpers and no TV screen in the dash. These cars are nothing but reliable
110% agree! New cars are bland, computerized, and plastic. No one can say that older cars didn't have style. Bench seats were so much better for so many reasons, yet today, even trucks, come with lame buckets.
@gregorylyon1004 It just dawned on me the other day that today's new cars are likely to be very costly to run in 10-15 years time. They'll be no such thing as a cheap old used car.
Any car made today is infinitely better that this is. If someone sold you something this poor in quality, reliability, driveability and economy today, you would sue them. Looks is an entirely different matter though...
Definitely reminds me of a detectives car from the countless police shows mom watched in the 70's. I appreciate the thorough walk throughs showing all the details of your cars
Those three-on-the-tree shifters were very common in the 1930s, thru the 1950s...many of those shifters seemed a little bit clunky, but they worked very well. Some folks would modify that situation, and move the shifter to the floor! That slant six is legendary for it's durability...many people would get well over 200 thousand miles before having to overhaul the engine. That was considered amazing, back in the day. Simpler times, simpler vehicles!
The slant six 225 is probably one of the most reliable engines ever made. They go forever. I had a dodge dart and Plymouth volare with that engine and they never left me stranded
I love base model cars from that era - rubber flooring covering, stick shifts, and if you are lucky, a 6-cylinder engine. The torque of the six cylinders of that era is no joke - had a 1969 Mustang with a stick and a 250 cid engine and that thing pulled off the line. These era cars are so basic and easy to work on. Thanks for sharing this one! My family when I was growing up had a 1971 Plymouth Satellite station wagon with a 318 cid engine / auto and it was a nice car even if it was a stripper. Those are really nice intermediate sized cars and very durable.
@ObsoleteAutomotive there's one near me but so far the dude isn't willing to sell it yet. 71 Coronet 9 pass 383 white with wood sides. Last licensed in 1982. Very Cool piece....
Growing up my parents had a 74 Coronet wagon beige with the woody sides. They weren’t exactly popular in their day but super rare and hard to find one now.
That car is in great shape. I drove many slant-six models over the years with three-on-the-tree, and always enjoyed the powertrain as primitive as it seemed. The slant-six is a very smooth engine, rivaling any BMW straight-six. Pity it didn't get more respect over the years. If you can quiet down the exhaust with a muffler, the engine sounds will be a treat.
@@PatricioGarcia1973 Watch the Power Nation build on a slant 6. That is basically adding compression and cam to compete with BMW with modern fuel injection and cam profile for 220 horse.
I love this car! I would drive this to work every day if I owned it, love a slant six and a 3 on the tree. ‘71-72 were such great years for this body style!
After 1972....the increasing emission requirements seriously impacted the drivability of American cars. I owned a 1972 Buick Electra, with the huge 455 V8...In 1970, it had been rated at 375hp...two years later, just over 300. And the mpg was tragic...around 11mpg in general!
This is a NEWSPAPER car. In order to have a low ad price to bring in customers, dealer had to have a low-option car to match the ad. It had PS and radio because dealer wanted to say in the ad it had them. Most time it would not sell till the end of the model year, when it would sell for a song. But if if sold during the year, dealer would have to order another.
I call these the "bait cars" but yeah, same thing. I bought a Subaru bait car once (the base manual that's just there so they can put a low price in the ad).
What a beautiful piece of automotive history she is. I know it is probably annoyingly loud while driving but on your video she sounds fantastic mowing through the gears...👍🏁
We never thought back then that a such a mundane car would become so cool. Congratulations, the video opening is a work of art, I does feel like I was watching a 1970s cop movie.
Cool car. Back in 1986 I bought a 1968 Dodge Coronet 2dr Coupe from the original owner for $400. It had a slant 6 automatic trans. It only had power steering. It even had a radio delete plate. Trans went out a year later and I let it go. I should have fixed it but at the time I was putting my money in my 1969 Roadrunner. Sold that 10 years ago. Please keep posting cool videos like this.
Loved the pretty obvious "Driver" intro. This is pretty bare bones, and I really like that. First truck I owned was an '81 F-100 with the 300 I6 and a 3 on the tree. As a young buck, this was the best way to learn to drive stick. Kids these days (im only in my late 30s) don't know shit about manual-everything cars. It's truly a lost art. Anyways, excellent vid, subbed for more!
I did like the Driver games haha. I’ve driven some of the old Ford straight six trucks and cars. Great engines! Thanks for commenting and glad you enjoyed the video. Today at noon (EST) the video of my first truck will be released.
That car is FN Awesome! I have to admit, I love your appreciation for the 1970's boats. Keep doing what you do, these cars bring back memories for sure.
I love it. Nice car. My dad had a 71 Coronet with a 318. The frame rotted from the New York salt. Made it to 300,000 miles before he drove it to the junkyard. I learned to drive in it.
Kind of amazed at the condition of the car considering where it came from. The slant sixes were very good engines, surprisingly peppy for their displacement. Drum brakes weren't as bad as people make them out to be nowadays. The really biggest problem with them was brake fade due to overheating if used heavily or getting wet if you drove through water. Keep them adjusted, and they gave good service. Drove many cars with manual drum brakes for more years than I want to think about and didn't run into anything. Just need to understand the limits of what you are working with.
@ErikDB6 didn't say they were better, said they worked well enough to get the job done at the time. Of course, power disc brakes are superior. Not a question. Everybody knows that.
My Dad had a new 73 Satellite for a company car and it had those same crazy two piece shoulder belts. Federal Law required shoulder belts starting in 68 but not sure what they were like before these belts. Believe it was 74 where a one piece retracting lap/shoulder belt was required and finally there was a decent belt. Cool car Austin, love it! 😎
Interesting combination for your car. Definitely rarer that most. A good friend had a 72 in high school given to him from his parents when he started to drive. His was a 318 automatic with power steering and power front disc brakes. It ran well, only needed basic maintenance but due to Pennsylvania winters had rust issues. It was a great value for their money.
This car, having stated been from WI and MN is a real unicorn. Tinworm got the vast majority of cars from that region. Must have been owned by a particular old guy who took it off the road every October.
My folks bought this same car in 1973. It was an ex police plainclothes car, dark green. It had a 440 magnum and was hands down the fastest, scariest car I ever drove.
I was waiting for this video! To answer your question about the seat inserts, they are definitely original. As for the “Dodge” emblem found in the glovebox, that is a 1970 or early badge because the font was no longer script by 1971. Does the fender tag have any Y codes indicating it was a special order vehicle? It certainly is uniquely optioned to have the custom trim interior, the R11 AM two-watt radio and power steering. Yet it’s an E24 Slant Six with a D14 three-on-tree manual transmission. As for the “fasten seat belt” light, all Chrysler Corporation vehicles built after January 1, 1972 have such a reminder. Early build 1972 model year vehicles produced between between August-December 1971 do not have such a feature. Beautiful car, great TH-cam channel and excellent Instragram account. Let me know if you have any further questions.😮
My first car was a 1965 Plymouth Valiant 4 door with a 225 ci. Slant 6 and 3 speed automatic. No not the push button, but the traditional column shifter. That car ran great. The slant 6 is near bullet proof. Mine never had any real rust either. It still had the clear plastic covering on the front and rear bench seats. It had the stock AM radio. I did put in a good am/fm/ cassette stereo with rear deck 6x9 speakers. I got the car in 1982 so it was 17 y.o. at the time but it was a great car for the $500 my dad paid for it for my 17th. Birthday. I at times wish I kept it and put on a real nice paint job and just enjoyed it for the classic it was to become.🤔
My first cross country trip was in a 1964 Valiant 2dr sedan. 225 Slant 6 with 3 speed on the column. Bought it sight unseen in CA. Flew out. Got it roadworthy in a junkyard and then drove it 5000 miles the long way back home to NC. Lost the ability to use the clutch pedal near the beginning of the trip and had to drive most of the way without it!
I love your Coronet. Our neighbors had one, also a Custom model, but had lots of options. It was a nice medium reddish brown color with a tan vinyl interior and vinyl roof. I believe it had the 318 engine and I know for sure it was automatic. I used to love the sound of the starter!
Super nice car. I can picture Leslie Nielsen chasing bad guys in that car. I drove many Aspen and Volare slant 6 cars and they were pretty much indestructible. Excellent video, Thank you.
It’s a beauty, and very unusually optioned too, I’d love to be driving a 3 speed, very cool. I wouldn’t be surprised if the cruise control turned out to be an aftermarket add on, they were readily available. I think a new muffler would be on my list of things to address though.
Had a similar '73 model 225 shift-it-yourself, disc power brakes, no power steering, after-market A/C. Mine was "dark yellow green metallic" paint code JF8 and on a good day gas mileage might break the 10mpg mark. Plenty of room, not a bad ride, but Spielberg could have made seven more movies about the electrical and suspension alignment gremlins. And the starting procedure: flood the living elkhound-crap out of it and then follow the flooded carb procedure was the easiest and most reliable.
@@5610winston I think something was wrong with your carburetor 🤔 Squeezing 15mpg out of the thing isn’t unreasonable, and a Slant usually starts with ease
@@5610winston Guarantee your vacuum advance is dead. That's guaranteed to kill fuel economy. Wouldn't be surprised to find the centrifugal advance is stuck as well. Send your distributor out for a rebuild and your fuel economy will increase big time. Your carb is due for a rebuild as well. Your car should be getting in the high teens mpg with no problem.
I remember seeing these cars back in the day and they weren't anything I would look twice at. The slant six with a three in the tree makes this car so much cooler!
That squeak when you opened the hood. Yep, my Darts and Valiant had it as well as my 1980 Diplomat. Just loved them. Always so reliable and reached my destination as the result of many slant six's.
Love your production and filming angles - 🙌🏼 Sears Auto Center ✨ Sure Grip might be aka Positraction? God that 6 exhaust sounds like a ‘50 Chevy lol. Great logical overview and talk! New sub!
Had a 74 custom back in the day that my Grandfather gave me with about 70,000 miles ran it till little over 100,000. Frame got rusted out but the 318 was still running Strong! Took time but the styling grew on me.😊
@@gerry-p9x ; I thought Kojak had a bare bones 73' Potiac Lemans, or something like that. I'm likely to be off by a little bit as it's been decades since I've seen the TV show, even in repeats. On the other hand, he may have been assigned more than one cop car over the length of the show.
@jyeager2881. I loved the firing order on the 383 engine. It was supposed to simplify things but confused mechanics everywhere. Usually MOPAR engines used the same firing order as Chevys. If the mechanics weren’t careful the engine they were servicing during tuneups didn’t fire up so they’d try Ford’s firing order. The actual firing order that MOPAR tried out on the 383?was 12345678. If they were sharp they’d go straight to the Miller Repair Manual
Very cool car, the slant 6 and 3 speed won't win any races but they'll last until the end of time if maintained. As far as the 3.21 and 3.23 axle ratios you mentioned about 9:00, it's because there were 2 different axles offered in the car, the Chrysler 8 1/4 (with 3.21 ratio) and Chrysler 8 3/4 (With 3.23 ratio) so upgrading to the alternative axle ratio gave you the stronger axle, but the standard 8 1/4 is really quite tough.
Seemed kinda funny that the standard ratio and optional ratio was so close. It doesn’t differentiate a different rear type Though a sure grip 3.23 ratio is offered as well. They’re so close that I don’t see much benefit of choosing one over the other unless you wanted the sure grip rear.
@@ObsoleteAutomotive Right, the factory literature never explained that by choosing an alternative (but a nearly identical axle ratio) you were actually upgrading to a different axle. Both axles had different number of pinion and ring gear teeth, so the available ratios were close but never matched.
The Sure Grip (locking differential) was always worth the upgrade. If only Detroit had equipped all cars with locking differentials and rear stabilizing bars as well as better shocks and transmission coolers all as standard equipment they would probably have done a lot better at retaining their market share when it was shrinking
You're correct about the '71 cars having a separate buckle for the shoulder belt. I had a 1971 Oldsmobile Delta 88, and the lap belt and shoulder belt did not connect and had their own buckles. It's wild to see a 3-on-the-tree still going in 2024. Thanks for sharing!
Since I was born in 1951 I remember cars that had the three speed column shift transmission, that was common in the 1950s and 1960s. Because there was a lot mechanical linkage going from the lever on the steering column to the transmission, the shift lever would have a considerable amount of free play movement. Also as the linkage became worn with age, it would become difficult to shift gears, with the gearshift lever binding. I also noticed that the seat belt and lap belt set up on this 1972 Dodge Coronet was the same as my parents 1971 Ford Country Sedan station wagon. So it is true that seat belts were set up this way in that early 1970s time period.
Absolutely love survivor basic models, they shouldn't exist anymore, but they give you a glimpse of what most people actually drove. I'd install power brakes though, it just feels better in this kind of cars. By the way, you should check your audio recording, I'm listening on headphones and only hearing your voice on the left side.
My father had a Dodge Coronet 1972, I remember the first time he pick me up in this car ! I part of the my childhood! He had this car for 10 years and sold 1982 !
When I was a kid my mom drove a 1953 Plymouth Belvedere. It had 3 on the tree. I must have made her angry chirping/lipping off from the backseat because after she parked the car, the gear lever was wrapped partly around the steering column towards the driver's door. Dad had to weld up a new shift lever... sorry mom...
All of the dashboard controls can be adjusted intuitively, without taking your eyes off the road. Makes me wonder if the touchscreens of today are a step backwards. My parents had a 1969 Plymouth Gran Fury, a very similar design. The Chrysler styling theme from this era was billed as "fuselage" , owing to the aircraft-inspired rounded sides.
Agree it's a cost saving measure being marketed as a cool feature to the modern IPhone generation. I love my VF Holden commodore made in Australia you still have intuitive knows for climate control. Then infotainment features can be done with know, touchscreen or voice command. Shame about the demise of car manufacturing in Australia as we had some great cars just like the Americans
Great review. I remember these cars when I was a kid. They were very common and so was the "puck green" 1970's color which was very popular at the time. This video brought back a lot of memories, thanks!
16:35 Yes, the _FASTEN SEAT BELTS_ warning does light up, along with an annoying buzzer. You could disable the buzzer, but only by pulling the buzzer out of the fuse panel. The horn relay also feeds through that plug.
Hi mate I'm joe from Australia I'm 62 so remember most mopars American and Australia our base valiants had 3 on the tree as there called the reverse thing to remove key was common plus from 1970 no more slant six had our own hemi six thanks for your show show some cool cars ashame younger people don't like or understand them cheers
Love your car! A suggestion would be to be a little gentler with it, especially the shift linkage. My opinion only, but I felt you were a little rough with it...
The marker lights and shoulder belts were a federal requirement starting in 1968. From 1968 through 1971, all solid-roof Mopar cars had the separate shoulder belt buckle that was identical to the lap belt buckle. It was easy to confuse except the webbing with the shoulder belt buckle was MUCH shorter. The front seat (with seating for three) was a rat's nest of webbing in our family's 1970 Fury base Suburban. When I was driving our Fury with the shoulder belt on, I could reach everything but the brake release.
@@bradparris99 We lost that car in 1986 when someone in opposing traffic turned left in the rain, and I T-boned him. I was the only one in the family who did more than lap belts. The ironic rest of the story is that I now belong to a 1970 Fury III convertible (i.e., no shoulder belts).
@@OnkelPHMagee As a 16 year old in the mid 70s I had my grandfather's 1970 Buick Electra to drive. After about a week of driving and sliding on that big bench seat and seeing "Fasten Seat Belts" printed above the steering column I buckled up the lap and separate shoulder belts, mainly out of curiosity. Aside from the obvious safety aspect of wearing both belts, I was amazed at how much better the car seemed to drive and handle while being securely strapped in the driver's seat. I was soon in the habit of automatically buckling up every time I drove. I was probably the first one to use the lap belt and I am sure I was the first one to use the shoulder belt. My grandfather thought seat belts were a nuisance and crammed the belts into the crevasse between the seats. Then one night in 1982 I was coming home from college when a drunk driver crossed the center line and hit me head on. Because of the size and quality of the Electra along with the fact that I was wearing both the lap and shoulder belts, I walked away with only minor cuts, scrapes and bruises from the belts. With just a lap belt, my face and chest. would have definitely slammed into the steering wheel and my injuries would have been severe if not fatal. Oddly, the drunk driver was wearing a 3 point seat belt but had the shoulder belt under his left arm- a 3 point lap belt- and had massive head and chest injuries. Yes, those old style belts were a bit awkward to adjust and buckle, and definitely confining to wear, but after being in a head on collision, were well worth the effort and hassle.
@@bradparris99 When I was in the wreck in 1986, the guy at fault was unbelted in a 1976 Century sedan. He left in a stretcher. I was walking (but heartbroken). The 1970 Electra convertible is my all-time favorite GM product; a neighbor had one when I was young. We borrowed it a couple of times around 1980. The front passenger's lap belt didn't work, so I vividly remember sliding on the vinyl. The only grandparents whom I knew were my mother's and father's father. They shared your grandfather's attitude on ANY seat belts. (I still have dreams involving Mrs. E.'s Electra every few months; that car did get to me. 🤩 )
What a beautiful Coronet it makes me miss my 71 scamp. I'm curious on the hubcaps usually Chrysler would paint the rims the same color as the car when they came with the little dog dish hubcaps so I'm kind of curious if that car originally came with them little poverty caps and not the full wheel covers being that the rims are not the same color as the car maybe if you ever get the build sheet it will say?
The last manual three speed on the column I saw in a car and drove was around 1979. I was taking Driver’s Ed and the cars were new and loaned or leased from local dealers. It was a two door Nova, straight six with the do it yourself transmission. Your running through the gears reminds me of my dad blowing the cobs out of his 1967 and later 1974 Ford F100 customs with 240/3 speeds. Anyway great video. You’ve got a really unique sedan.
Great car, but back then, we called "stick shifts" any floor shifter. On the column was a "manual" or "three on the tree." My Uncle almost bought a new 71 Satellite with a manual. Last minute decided to by a Fury II with torque flite. Thanks for the memories.
Seems many folks getting up in arms about the “stick shift” term. Maybe it’s regional. Where I’m from a stick shift is any manual trans car. Both use a “stick” to shift with and have the same H pattern. It’s slang. On the column was also referred to as “3 on the tree” as well. I’ve also heard people say “3 speed column on the stick” so people say a lot of different things it seems.
Thanks for the reply. As I said "back then" when I had my used 61 Ford Falcon in college it was a standard shift car. When "four on the floors" came along, they were called stick shift cars, because of the stick sticking through the floor. I think that trend began with the GTO/other muscle cars and maybe earlier MGs. By the way, I have seen articles about Mopar wagons with four speed stick shifts (on the floor). Quite the rare cars. Three speed column manual wagons were more common. @@ObsoleteAutomotive
Thanks again for sharing this with me Austin and I will be happy to show this to my elderly parents in their mid +80's because way back when they had one.
My grandparents really enjoyed their "leaning tower of power" 65 Dodge Dart. They had it for twelve years. Grandpa traded it in for a Phymourh Valent 318 with auto matic. Grandma hated it. 😢
…the background music is from 1973’s “Shift”, a cheap knock-off of the iconic 1971 Richard Rountree / 2019 reboot “Shaft”, where the oil crisis forces our main character to economize, trading in his gas guzzling muscle car for a slant-six three-on-the-tree Dodge Coronet
I like that you seem to enjoy driving the car. A lot of people DON"T like an manual trans. It makes a nice difference when you have an inline 6. Better control over the torque.
True for the engine...but the shift linkage on those cars would break/wear out by 100 thousand miles or so. The slant 6, if maintained, could last at least 200 thousand miles.
I actually prefer column shift manuals to floor shift. It’s just more comfortable to me and you don’t have to grab peoples legs if you got a full car load!
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. I have a '72 Coronet 318/Auto. I will have to do a driving video of it in the spring. It is a cream puff for sure. I did a few things to it since buying it from the original owner like upgrading the exhaust from the factory single to a dual exhaust. Everything else is factory original. Mine has the factory Front Disc brakes / Rear Drums, Cruise Control and A/C. THe factory steels with hibcaps are with the car, but it currently rides on the Chrysler Rallye Wheels with blackwalls. Here's a short video of it after I had the Rallye Wheels powder coated and n ew set of Hankook Blackwalls installed: th-cam.com/users/shortsbkES-bMXwXE
Yay, another Coronet owner! I have a '71, also 318/auto. Looking at your driving video they might even be the same color, mine is F3 Medium Green with a green interior but originally a black top.
Very cool. I have an unrestored low mileage 74 Charger. 318 2bbl, similarly equipped to your Coronet. I did dual exhaust and added 15 Mopar police rims. It's on my channel, too. 😎
Awesome car. Slow down your shifting. Let the syncromesh have time to do its thing. Moving the shifter to the next gear should almost effortless, Neutral to 1st should be palm facing you. First to 2nd, and 2nd to 3rd, should be palm facing forward.
The 225 was superbly reliable. I grew up with a 1987 Dodge 150, last year you could get a 225, that was mated to a 3 speed auto. That beautiful blue truck went for 675,000 miles. We were the second owners, and we had that truck from when I was 3 to when I was 20. I learned to drive in that truck, took my first serious girlfriend on a date in that truck. Floorboards were rusted all to crap; a seal broke on the windshield from something hitting it and it just leaked water down one the floor. I miss that old truck so much I keep looking for one like it.
What a beautiful survivor! I love the three-on-the-tree Slant-6 setup! Even the color is great! That could definitely star in movies as an undercover police car. Please take good care of it.
Love the car, can imagine Mum, Dad and a couple of kids going around in that. My Dad had a VE valiant (RHD here in Aus) and the motor was pretty well bulletproof. Three speed column shifter as well, but on the left of the wheel.
The wiper motor had to reverse when you turned the switch off, in order to pull the wiper arms down below the bottom of the windshield. I had a 75 Cordoba with that feature, and the wiper motor was weak and couldn’t pull them down. So you’d have to get out of the car, push down on the driver’s side wiper arm while flipping the switch on and off. Incidentally, my dad had a 74 Dart when I was a kid, and it didn’t have the opening for the wipers to hide behind, but it still had the same parking mechanism that pulled the arms down when you turned them off.
Same steering column was in the Dodge Dart-we had a '72 four door with the 318 and Torqueflite. Color was pale yellow and the roof was green vinyl, green interior. Perfect car to learn to drive on.
yep had me a 73 coronet back in the day and it had the 318. your 72 is definitely a cool ride with the leaning tower of power and the 3 on the tree transmission. them 225’s are good engines. love to get me another coronet someday. Mopar performance 👍
I wish they still made cars like this today. Base model no frills and super reliable. No plastic junk, real steel bumpers and no TV screen in the dash. These cars are nothing but reliable
110% agree! New cars are bland, computerized, and plastic. No one can say that older cars didn't have style. Bench seats were so much better for so many reasons, yet today, even trucks, come with lame buckets.
@gregorylyon1004 It just dawned on me the other day that today's new cars are likely to be very costly to run in 10-15 years time. They'll be no such thing as a cheap old used car.
Totally agree with you and you could usually fix them yourself. Plus the replacement parts would have still been made in the US.
Any car made today is infinitely better that this is. If someone sold you something this poor in quality, reliability, driveability and economy today, you would sue them.
Looks is an entirely different matter though...
Yea no kidding now there all computer
Definitely reminds me of a detectives car from the countless police shows mom watched in the 70's. I appreciate the thorough walk throughs showing all the details of your cars
Hawaii 5-0. Lol
@@gregorylyon10045-0 used Fords exclusively.
He repeats himself quite a bit, but he seems like a nice person!
Except the detectives would have had the 440 engine and an automatic transmission
The music goes good with it too!
Very cool! I really like column-mounted manuals. They baffle a lot of people and it’s a good deterrent to keep people from asking to borrow it.
And stealing it, too.
Those three-on-the-tree shifters were very common in the 1930s, thru the 1950s...many of those shifters seemed a little bit clunky, but they worked very well. Some folks would modify that situation, and move the shifter to the floor! That slant six is legendary for it's durability...many people would get well over 200 thousand miles before having to overhaul the engine. That was considered amazing, back in the day. Simpler times, simpler vehicles!
Although someone who actually knows would *never* call a column shifter a stick.
Even more so if you dont have synchro on first and have to double clutch to find first when rolling
About borrowing, I would just simply use the word "no".
My father had a '76 Coronet 318 auto. It was rusted all to heck after six years. It's a miracle this car is in such good condition!
Buen día Todo lo que se cuidad dura en el tiempo con buen mantenimiento 😊
The slant six 225 is probably one of the most reliable engines ever made. They go forever. I had a dodge dart and Plymouth volare with that engine and they never left me stranded
I love base model cars from that era - rubber flooring covering, stick shifts, and if you are lucky, a 6-cylinder engine. The torque of the six cylinders of that era is no joke - had a 1969 Mustang with a stick and a 250 cid engine and that thing pulled off the line. These era cars are so basic and easy to work on. Thanks for sharing this one! My family when I was growing up had a 1971 Plymouth Satellite station wagon with a 318 cid engine / auto and it was a nice car even if it was a stripper. Those are really nice intermediate sized cars and very durable.
I’d love to find a station wagon version!
@ObsoleteAutomotive there's one near me but so far the dude isn't willing to sell it yet. 71 Coronet 9 pass 383 white with wood sides. Last licensed in 1982. Very Cool piece....
@@patrickwayne3701 Woodgrain 9 passenger is what in really wanting!
@@ObsoleteAutomotive How much did you pick it up for?
Growing up my parents had a 74 Coronet wagon beige with the woody sides. They weren’t exactly popular in their day but super rare and hard to find one now.
That car is in great shape. I drove many slant-six models over the years with three-on-the-tree, and always enjoyed the powertrain as primitive as it seemed. The slant-six is a very smooth engine, rivaling any BMW straight-six. Pity it didn't get more respect over the years. If you can quiet down the exhaust with a muffler, the engine sounds will be a treat.
the straight 6 from BMW, with 2.5 liter and just 2 valves per cylinder makes 168hp, the slant 6 100…..
Easy.... he said smooth, not powerful. And actually,,, I think my 82 slant six is noticeably smoother than my buddies 90 M3 convertible.
Leaning tower of power. One of Chryslers' best.
@@PatricioGarcia1973 Watch the Power Nation build on a slant 6. That is basically adding compression and cam to compete with BMW with modern fuel injection and cam profile for 220 horse.
@@PatricioGarcia1973Was this BMW sedans in the 70s?
I love this car! I would drive this to work every day if I owned it, love a slant six and a 3 on the tree. ‘71-72 were such great years for this body style!
I like these sedans. They were popular with police and taxi fleets
After 1972....the increasing emission requirements seriously impacted the drivability of American cars. I owned a 1972 Buick Electra, with the huge 455 V8...In 1970, it had been rated at 375hp...two years later, just over 300. And the mpg was tragic...around 11mpg in general!
It’s got a sporty look to it in an economic manner. 😄
I always loved the looped bumper models best!
@@curbozerboomer1773Horsepower and torque figures were net, not gross, rated from 1972.
This is a NEWSPAPER car.
In order to have a low ad price to bring in customers, dealer had to have a low-option car to match the ad. It had PS and radio because dealer wanted to say in the ad it had them.
Most time it would not sell till the end of the model year, when it would sell for a song. But if if sold during the year, dealer would have to order another.
I call these the "bait cars" but yeah, same thing. I bought a Subaru bait car once (the base manual that's just there so they can put a low price in the ad).
Great video, great music and save the manuals, three on the tree or four on the floor 😊
What a beautiful piece of automotive history she is.
I know it is probably annoyingly loud while driving but on your video she sounds fantastic mowing through the gears...👍🏁
Love that three on the tree action!
Gotta love rowing gears!
We never thought back then that a such a mundane car would become so cool.
Congratulations, the video opening is a work of art, I does feel like I was watching a 1970s cop movie.
Thanks!
Cool car. Back in 1986 I bought a 1968 Dodge Coronet 2dr Coupe from the original owner for $400. It had a slant 6 automatic trans. It only had power steering. It even had a radio delete plate. Trans went out a year later and I let it go. I should have fixed it but at the time I was putting my money in my 1969 Roadrunner. Sold that 10 years ago. Please keep posting cool videos like this.
How it goes sometimes… Thanks for following. Have plans for plenty more content on these old rides.
Loved the pretty obvious "Driver" intro. This is pretty bare bones, and I really like that. First truck I owned was an '81 F-100 with the 300 I6 and a 3 on the tree. As a young buck, this was the best way to learn to drive stick. Kids these days (im only in my late 30s) don't know shit about manual-everything cars. It's truly a lost art.
Anyways, excellent vid, subbed for more!
I did like the Driver games haha. I’ve driven some of the old Ford straight six trucks and cars. Great engines!
Thanks for commenting and glad you enjoyed the video. Today at noon (EST) the video of my first truck will be released.
That car is FN Awesome! I have to admit, I love your appreciation for the 1970's boats. Keep doing what you do, these cars bring back memories for sure.
Gotta love these 70s cars! Thanks for the comment!
This was my Dad car till he passed away God rest his soul. So reliable and i loved the car so much. But our car was more quiet and had custom trim.
I love it. Nice car. My dad had a 71 Coronet with a 318. The frame rotted from the New York salt. Made it to 300,000 miles before he drove it to the junkyard. I learned to drive in it.
Kind of amazed at the condition of the car considering where it came from. The slant sixes were very good engines, surprisingly peppy for their displacement. Drum brakes weren't as bad as people make them out to be nowadays. The really biggest problem with them was brake fade due to overheating if used heavily or getting wet if you drove through water. Keep them adjusted, and they gave good service. Drove many cars with manual drum brakes for more years than I want to think about and didn't run into anything. Just need to understand the limits of what you are working with.
In other words, dramatically worse than discs.
@ErikDB6 didn't say they were better, said they worked well enough to get the job done at the time. Of course, power disc brakes are superior. Not a question. Everybody knows that.
I'm amazed because it's such an undesirable model and that someone kept it and cared for it all these years.
@wb6162 different strokes for different folks, I guess. Who knows?
@@christownsend7602 No doubt!
My Dad had a new 73 Satellite for a company car and it had those same crazy two piece shoulder belts. Federal Law required shoulder belts starting in 68 but not sure what they were like before these belts. Believe it was 74 where a one piece retracting lap/shoulder belt was required and finally there was a decent belt.
Cool car Austin, love it! 😎
Interesting combination for your car. Definitely rarer that most. A good friend had a 72 in high school given to him from his parents when he started to drive. His was a 318 automatic with power steering and power front disc brakes. It ran well, only needed basic maintenance but due to Pennsylvania winters had rust issues. It was a great value for their money.
This car, having stated been from WI and MN is a real unicorn. Tinworm got the vast majority of cars from that region. Must have been owned by a particular old guy who took it off the road every October.
My folks bought this same car in 1973. It was an ex police plainclothes car, dark green. It had a 440 magnum and was hands down the fastest, scariest car I ever drove.
Awesome!
I was waiting for this video! To answer your question about the seat inserts, they are definitely original. As for the “Dodge” emblem found in the glovebox, that is a 1970 or early badge because the font was no longer script by 1971. Does the fender tag have any Y codes indicating it was a special order vehicle? It certainly is uniquely optioned to have the custom trim interior, the R11 AM two-watt radio and power steering. Yet it’s an E24 Slant Six with a D14 three-on-tree manual transmission. As for the “fasten seat belt” light, all Chrysler Corporation vehicles built after January 1, 1972 have such a reminder. Early build 1972 model year vehicles produced between between August-December 1971 do not have such a feature. Beautiful car, great TH-cam channel and excellent Instragram account. Let me know if you have any further questions.😮
Spoken with authority 👍
Beautiful car!! Excellent key lock system. Slant six is a great machine!!!
My first car was a 1965 Plymouth Valiant 4 door with a 225 ci. Slant 6 and 3 speed automatic. No not the push button, but the traditional column shifter. That car ran great. The slant 6 is near bullet proof. Mine never had any real rust either. It still had the clear plastic covering on the front and rear bench seats.
It had the stock AM radio. I did put in a good am/fm/ cassette stereo with rear deck 6x9 speakers.
I got the car in 1982 so it was 17 y.o. at the time but it was a great car for the $500 my dad paid for it for my 17th. Birthday. I at times wish I kept it and put on a real nice paint job and just enjoyed it for the classic it was to become.🤔
My first cross country trip was in a 1964 Valiant 2dr sedan. 225 Slant 6 with 3 speed on the column. Bought it sight unseen in CA. Flew out. Got it roadworthy in a junkyard and then drove it 5000 miles the long way back home to NC. Lost the ability to use the clutch pedal near the beginning of the trip and had to drive most of the way without it!
Absolutely brilliant car , we owned one and my husband did over 250,000 miles in it from state to state, and never once did it let him down .
I believe it!
@@ObsoleteAutomotive yeah think of it kojack had a 74. 4 door Buick century. Yours were more mannix or MI. AND DUKES CARS. DETECTIVES. ONES
That car with a Slant 6 and 3 on the tree is very cool
The algorithm brought me to this video and I’m glad it did, happy to subscribe. Keep up the awesome content 👍
I’m glad it did. Thanks for watching and thanks for the kind words!
Bonus points for the "70s cop show" music! Perfection!
I tried to emulate a 1970s police flick. Haha
@@ObsoleteAutomotiveso you did the music yourself? Cuz I was gonna say what is this cool music
The Chrysler fusilage style front end..... a sweet Mopar..... good thoughtful discussion too.
I love your Coronet. Our neighbors had one, also a Custom model, but had lots of options. It was a nice medium reddish brown color with a tan vinyl interior and vinyl roof. I believe it had the 318 engine and I know for sure it was automatic. I used to love the sound of the starter!
@tomb7382. The starters on that era of Chryslers announced that you put the key in the ignition. “ key key key key key”
The starters are unmistakable!
Super nice car. I can picture Leslie Nielsen chasing bad guys in that car. I drove many Aspen and Volare slant 6 cars and they were pretty much indestructible. Excellent video, Thank you.
I’ve had many Darts, Valiants, Aspens and Volares with the slant six. They are great cars.
Lol they went through all this trouble with all the anti-theft features and now a manual transmission is basically an anti-theft feature by itself
I always liked Column Shift, it just feels more natural. Incredible find.
Columb shift is OK, but you can't hurry the shifts like you can a floor shift.
which is important when you are driving a mid sized, six cylinder Dodge
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It’s a beauty, and very unusually optioned too, I’d love to be driving a 3 speed, very cool. I wouldn’t be surprised if the cruise control turned out to be an aftermarket add on, they were readily available. I think a new muffler would be on my list of things to address though.
Had a similar '73 model 225 shift-it-yourself, disc power brakes, no power steering, after-market A/C. Mine was "dark yellow green metallic" paint code JF8 and on a good day gas mileage might break the 10mpg mark. Plenty of room, not a bad ride, but Spielberg could have made seven more movies about the electrical and suspension alignment gremlins. And the starting procedure: flood the living elkhound-crap out of it and then follow the flooded carb procedure was the easiest and most reliable.
Adding a muffler is on the to do list for sure!
@@5610winston I think something was wrong with your carburetor 🤔 Squeezing 15mpg out of the thing isn’t unreasonable, and a Slant usually starts with ease
My brother bought a 1971 Satellite Plain Jane, 318,auto,and PS and AM radio. I got to drive it , loved the power steering!
@@5610winston Guarantee your vacuum advance is dead. That's guaranteed to kill fuel economy. Wouldn't be surprised to find the centrifugal advance is stuck as well. Send your distributor out for a rebuild and your fuel economy will increase big time.
Your carb is due for a rebuild as well. Your car should be getting in the high teens mpg with no problem.
I remember seeing these cars back in the day and they weren't anything I would look twice at. The slant six with a three in the tree makes this car so much cooler!
Nice score! 😊. These things were usually driven into the ground and thrown away
That squeak when you opened the hood. Yep, my Darts and Valiant had it as well as my 1980 Diplomat. Just loved them. Always so reliable and reached my destination as the result of many slant six's.
Love your production and filming angles - 🙌🏼 Sears Auto Center ✨
Sure Grip might be aka Positraction?
God that 6 exhaust sounds like a ‘50 Chevy lol.
Great logical overview and talk! New sub!
Tried to up the production value at least at the beginning. And Sure Grip was MoPar’s “positraction” essentially. Thanks for subscribing.
Had a 74 custom back in the day that my Grandfather gave me with about 70,000 miles ran it till little over 100,000. Frame got rusted out but the 318 was still running Strong! Took time but the styling grew on me.😊
Uncle Tony would love this.
Yep, it’s just like Bottle Rocket!
Kojaks kop car
@@gerry-p9x ; I thought Kojak had a bare bones 73' Potiac Lemans, or something like that.
I'm likely to be off by a little bit as it's been decades since I've seen the TV show, even in repeats.
On the other hand, he may have been assigned more than one cop car over the length of the show.
What a RARE and unique piece of automotive history... FANTASTIC !
Thx for sharing !
Glad you enjoyed it
My dad had a 71 coronet custom with the 383 2bbl, power brakes and steering with A/C. The color was butterscotch.
@jyeager2881. I loved the firing order on the 383 engine. It was supposed to simplify things but confused mechanics everywhere. Usually MOPAR engines used the same firing order as Chevys. If the mechanics weren’t careful the engine they were servicing during tuneups didn’t fire up so they’d try Ford’s firing order. The actual firing order that MOPAR tried out on the 383?was 12345678. If they were sharp they’d go straight to the Miller Repair Manual
@@LlyleHunter ^^ LOLOLOL …
Driver made me love all those late 60s and early 70s american cars. The chrome and styling. 70s chase movie vibes these exude.
Always loved the chase scenes from old movies featuring these cars.
Very cool car, the slant 6 and 3 speed won't win any races but they'll last until the end of time if maintained. As far as the 3.21 and 3.23 axle ratios you mentioned about 9:00, it's because there were 2 different axles offered in the car, the Chrysler 8 1/4 (with 3.21 ratio) and Chrysler 8 3/4 (With 3.23 ratio) so upgrading to the alternative axle ratio gave you the stronger axle, but the standard 8 1/4 is really quite tough.
Seemed kinda funny that the standard ratio and optional ratio was so close. It doesn’t differentiate a different rear type Though a sure grip 3.23 ratio is offered as well. They’re so close that I don’t see much benefit of choosing one over the other unless you wanted the sure grip rear.
@@ObsoleteAutomotive Right, the factory literature never explained that by choosing an alternative (but a nearly identical axle ratio) you were actually upgrading to a different axle. Both axles had different number of pinion and ring gear teeth, so the available ratios were close but never matched.
The Sure Grip (locking differential) was always worth the upgrade. If only Detroit had equipped all cars with locking differentials and rear stabilizing bars as well as better shocks and transmission coolers all as standard equipment they would probably have done a lot better at retaining their market share when it was shrinking
You're correct about the '71 cars having a separate buckle for the shoulder belt. I had a 1971 Oldsmobile Delta 88, and the lap belt and shoulder belt did not connect and had their own buckles. It's wild to see a 3-on-the-tree still going in 2024. Thanks for sharing!
Since I was born in 1951 I remember cars that had the three speed column shift transmission, that was common in the 1950s and 1960s. Because there was a lot mechanical linkage going from the lever on the steering column to the transmission, the shift lever would have a considerable amount of free play movement. Also as the linkage became worn with age, it would become difficult to shift gears, with the gearshift lever binding. I also noticed that the seat belt and lap belt set up on this 1972 Dodge Coronet was the same as my parents 1971 Ford Country Sedan station wagon. So it is true that seat belts were set up this way in that early 1970s time period.
Just found your channel, excellent subject! Old cars are a blast to drive.
Hope you will enjoy future content!
Absolutely love survivor basic models, they shouldn't exist anymore, but they give you a glimpse of what most people actually drove. I'd install power brakes though, it just feels better in this kind of cars.
By the way, you should check your audio recording, I'm listening on headphones and only hearing your voice on the left side.
I discovered that the microphone only recorded in mono. I’ll try to rectify that in future videos. Sorry about that!
My father had a Dodge Coronet 1972, I remember the first time he pick me up in this car ! I part of the my childhood! He had this car for 10 years and sold 1982 !
Very hard if not impossible to get replacement parts for that shift collar / lever. Treat it very nicely. They're well known to wear out / break.
When I was a kid my mom drove a 1953 Plymouth Belvedere. It had 3 on the tree. I must have made her angry chirping/lipping off from the backseat because after she parked the car, the gear lever was wrapped partly around the steering column towards the driver's door. Dad had to weld up a new shift lever... sorry mom...
I don't know who saved this car, but I'm delighted that they did. Scott at Cold War Motors would lose his mind for this thing. Cheers!
That’s got to be a very very rare survivor car , so much character lovely 👍👍👍
I saw this on FB when you bought it. Glad to see a video. I LOVE oddballs like this. Definitely needs a muffler but a super cool car. Great find!
The oddballs are always a favorite of mine. Definitely will be getting a muffler on this thing! A bit too obnoxious for me.
All of the dashboard controls can be adjusted intuitively, without taking your eyes off the road. Makes me wonder if the touchscreens of today are a step backwards. My parents had a 1969 Plymouth Gran Fury, a very similar design. The Chrysler styling theme from this era was billed as "fuselage" , owing to the aircraft-inspired rounded sides.
I hate touchscreens. I like being able to use controls without looking. It is going backwards and less safe in my opinion.
Agree it's a cost saving measure being marketed as a cool feature to the modern IPhone generation.
I love my VF Holden commodore made in Australia you still have intuitive knows for climate control. Then infotainment features can be done with know, touchscreen or voice command. Shame about the demise of car manufacturing in Australia as we had some great cars just like the Americans
Hey this car just a masterpiece 😊
I think so too!
What a pristine survivor in a 1970's vibe color. Seems with new carpet added, the car is near perfect.
plus fine out what is causing the headliner bulge
Great review. I remember these cars when I was a kid. They were very common and so was the "puck green" 1970's color which was very popular at the time. This video brought back a lot of memories, thanks!
Thanks for watching!
16:35 Yes, the _FASTEN SEAT BELTS_ warning does light up, along with an annoying buzzer. You could disable the buzzer, but only by pulling the buzzer out of the fuse panel. The horn relay also feeds through that plug.
Hi mate I'm joe from Australia I'm 62 so remember most mopars American and Australia our base valiants had 3 on the tree as there called the reverse thing to remove key was common plus from 1970 no more slant six had our own hemi six thanks for your show show some cool cars ashame younger people don't like or understand them cheers
I actually have a 1959 Chrysler Ute that someone put a Hemi 6 into. A future video will showcase that one.
Love your car! A suggestion would be to be a little gentler with it, especially the shift linkage. My opinion only, but I felt you were a little rough with it...
the column shift is really cool
The marker lights and shoulder belts were a federal requirement starting in 1968. From 1968 through 1971, all solid-roof Mopar cars had the separate shoulder belt buckle that was identical to the lap belt buckle. It was easy to confuse except the webbing with the shoulder belt buckle was MUCH shorter. The front seat (with seating for three) was a rat's nest of webbing in our family's 1970 Fury base Suburban. When I was driving our Fury with the shoulder belt on, I could reach everything but the brake release.
You were very smart to have buckled up back then. Most people that buckled up back then usually just wore the lap belt.
@@bradparris99 We lost that car in 1986 when someone in opposing traffic turned left in the rain, and I T-boned him. I was the only one in the family who did more than lap belts. The ironic rest of the story is that I now belong to a 1970 Fury III convertible (i.e., no shoulder belts).
@@OnkelPHMagee As a 16 year old in the mid 70s I had my grandfather's 1970 Buick Electra to drive. After about a week of driving and sliding on that big bench seat and seeing "Fasten Seat Belts" printed above the steering column I buckled up the lap and separate shoulder belts, mainly out of curiosity. Aside from the obvious safety aspect of wearing both belts, I was amazed at how much better the car seemed to drive and handle while being securely strapped in the driver's seat. I was soon in the habit of automatically buckling up every time I drove. I was probably the first one to use the lap belt and I am sure I was the first one to use the shoulder belt. My grandfather thought seat belts were a nuisance and crammed the belts into the crevasse between the seats. Then one night in 1982 I was coming home from college when a drunk driver crossed the center line and hit me head on. Because of the size and quality of the Electra along with the fact that I was wearing both the lap and shoulder belts, I walked away with only minor cuts, scrapes and bruises from the belts. With just a lap belt, my face and chest. would have definitely slammed into the steering wheel and my injuries would have been severe if not fatal. Oddly, the drunk driver was wearing a 3 point seat belt but had the shoulder belt under his left arm- a 3 point lap belt- and had massive head and chest injuries. Yes, those old style belts were a bit awkward to adjust and buckle, and definitely confining to wear, but after being in a head on collision, were well worth the effort and hassle.
@@bradparris99 When I was in the wreck in 1986, the guy at fault was unbelted in a 1976 Century sedan. He left in a stretcher. I was walking (but heartbroken). The 1970 Electra convertible is my all-time favorite GM product; a neighbor had one when I was young. We borrowed it a couple of times around 1980. The front passenger's lap belt didn't work, so I vividly remember sliding on the vinyl. The only grandparents whom I knew were my mother's and father's father. They shared your grandfather's attitude on ANY seat belts. (I still have dreams involving Mrs. E.'s Electra every few months; that car did get to me. 🤩 )
The 1970 Electras were awesome cars. Be safe and enjoy your convertible.
Austin, I remember these Coronets when I was a kid.Slant 6,sticks were used as taxis,state vehicles,DOT vehicles etc.Mike the Greek
Man, screw those hellcat trashbag Chargers and Challengers pieces of garbage. Now this car is the ultimate cars and coffee neck breaker.
Reminds me of THE best car chase movie ever made , 1978 the driver …. Had a bunch of similar cars and awesome scenes that blew my teen mind !!
Driver is a great one
Hell yeah I love a Slant 6 four door
A three on the tree manual is definitely a rarity in this era of Dodge! Very cool car! 👍
What a beautiful Coronet it makes me miss my 71 scamp. I'm curious on the hubcaps usually Chrysler would paint the rims the same color as the car when they came with the little dog dish hubcaps so I'm kind of curious if that car originally came with them little poverty caps and not the full wheel covers being that the rims are not the same color as the car maybe if you ever get the build sheet it will say?
Chrysler stopped painting the steelies body color sometime during the 1971 model year.👨🔧
The dogdish hubcaps were standard on this vehicle. As far as I know they are original.
The last manual three speed on the column I saw in a car and drove was around 1979. I was taking Driver’s Ed and the cars were new and loaned or leased from local dealers. It was a two door Nova, straight six with the do it yourself transmission. Your running through the gears reminds me of my dad blowing the cobs out of his 1967 and later 1974 Ford F100 customs with 240/3 speeds. Anyway great video. You’ve got a really unique sedan.
Cheapest of the cheap! That’s usually what got loaned/leased. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Back in 73 I had a 69 Charger with a slant six and 3 on the tree. Very rare.
Great car, but back then, we called "stick shifts" any floor shifter. On the column was a "manual" or "three on the tree." My Uncle almost bought a new 71 Satellite with a manual. Last minute decided to by a Fury II with torque flite. Thanks for the memories.
Seems many folks getting up in arms about the “stick shift” term. Maybe it’s regional. Where I’m from a stick shift is any manual trans car. Both use a “stick” to shift with and have the same H pattern. It’s slang. On the column was also referred to as “3 on the tree” as well. I’ve also heard people say “3 speed column on the stick” so people say a lot of different things it seems.
Thanks for the reply. As I said "back then" when I had my used 61 Ford Falcon in college it was a standard shift car. When "four on the floors" came along, they were called stick shift cars, because of the stick sticking through the floor. I think that trend began with the GTO/other muscle cars and maybe earlier MGs. By the way, I have seen articles about Mopar wagons with four speed stick shifts (on the floor). Quite the rare cars. Three speed column manual wagons were more common. @@ObsoleteAutomotive
The torque flite was the best choice...very durable, just like that slant six.
My 1965 Plymouth Belvedere II was a slant six with torque flite. A great car to begin my driving career.@@curbozerboomer1773
Thanks again for sharing this with me Austin and I will be happy to show this to my elderly parents in their mid +80's because way back when they had one.
nice "Driver"style intro
I have bought 1972 Dodge Coronet 318 yesterday. Mint condition. Original 25,000 miles. Very rare cars
Dats Shaft!! John Shaft! They say that cat Shaft is a bad Bad Mutha...f. I'm talkin about Shaft!!! We can dig it!!!
More like….”Shift!”
Richard Roundtree
I owned a yellow 70 Duster 3sp manual on the floor 225 Slant.
Loved that car.
I grew up seeing these chase and be chased in a lot of cop shows as a kid back in the 70s. That slant 6 sounds rough though, needs servicing.
My grandparents really enjoyed their "leaning tower of power" 65 Dodge Dart. They had it for twelve years. Grandpa traded it in for a Phymourh Valent 318 with auto matic. Grandma hated it. 😢
My Mom drove her '66 Valiant slant 6 as her only car for 30 years! Till someone rear-ended it.
Sears Auto Center .
A relic of the past. It’s been closed for a while now.
A friend has a 72 Coronet 2dr 318 three on the column. WAY COOL car !
…the background music is from 1973’s “Shift”, a cheap knock-off of the iconic 1971 Richard Rountree / 2019 reboot “Shaft”, where the oil crisis forces our main character to economize, trading in his gas guzzling muscle car for a slant-six three-on-the-tree Dodge Coronet
I like that you seem to enjoy driving the car. A lot of people DON"T like an manual trans. It makes a nice difference when you have an inline 6. Better control over the torque.
It’s a blast to drive. That’s why I own so many manual transmission vehicles.
81k miles on a slant 6 is just broken in.
True for the engine...but the shift linkage on those cars would break/wear out by 100 thousand miles or so. The slant 6, if maintained, could last at least 200 thousand miles.
I have a 1972 Duster with slant 6 and 3 on the tree. Thanks for the shifting lesson. My car will soon be on the road.
I actually prefer column shift manuals to floor shift. It’s just more comfortable to me and you don’t have to grab peoples legs if you got a full car load!
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. I have a '72 Coronet 318/Auto. I will have to do a driving video of it in the spring. It is a cream puff for sure. I did a few things to it since buying it from the original owner like upgrading the exhaust from the factory single to a dual exhaust. Everything else is factory original. Mine has the factory Front Disc brakes / Rear Drums, Cruise Control and A/C. THe factory steels with hibcaps are with the car, but it currently rides on the Chrysler Rallye Wheels with blackwalls.
Here's a short video of it after I had the Rallye Wheels powder coated and n ew set of Hankook Blackwalls installed:
th-cam.com/users/shortsbkES-bMXwXE
Yay, another Coronet owner! I have a '71, also 318/auto. Looking at your driving video they might even be the same color, mine is F3 Medium Green with a green interior but originally a black top.
Very cool. I have an unrestored low mileage 74 Charger. 318 2bbl, similarly equipped to your Coronet. I did dual exhaust and added 15 Mopar police rims. It's on my channel, too. 😎
I caught the Night of the living dead clip! 👍
Seems not many people have caught it! Haha
Awesome car. Slow down your shifting. Let the syncromesh have time to do its thing. Moving the shifter to the next gear should almost effortless, Neutral to 1st should be palm facing you. First to 2nd, and 2nd to 3rd, should be palm facing forward.
That was my observation too. "Speed shifting" is a no no
@@loumontcalm3500 Yeah...I was cringing when he was shifting that poor old car!. The linkage on those MOPAR three speeds were rather weak anyway!
The 225 was superbly reliable. I grew up with a 1987 Dodge 150, last year you could get a 225, that was mated to a 3 speed auto. That beautiful blue truck went for 675,000 miles. We were the second owners, and we had that truck from when I was 3 to when I was 20. I learned to drive in that truck, took my first serious girlfriend on a date in that truck. Floorboards were rusted all to crap; a seal broke on the windshield from something hitting it and it just leaked water down one the floor.
I miss that old truck so much I keep looking for one like it.
Wow that’s a lot of miles! Good luck in the search! Hope you find one!
Gr auto gallery on you tube has a gorgeous slant 6 1986 d150 for sale there is a video of it on yiu tube
What a beautiful survivor! I love the three-on-the-tree Slant-6 setup! Even the color is great! That could definitely star in movies as an undercover police car. Please take good care of it.
Very rare!!!! Even the Dodge Dart produced here in Brazil was only V-8 (318)!!!!!
Love that intro! Thanks for introducing me to this car I’ve heard about over the years
Thanks! Glad you liked the video.
We had the 225 slant 6 here in Australia also - what a great engine they were!
Unbeatable!
Love the car, can imagine Mum, Dad and a couple of kids going around in that. My Dad had a VE valiant (RHD here in Aus) and the motor was pretty well bulletproof. Three speed column shifter as well, but on the left of the wheel.
Definitely a family car. I have a 1959 Chrysler Wayfarer Ute that I’ll do a video on in the future.
The wiper motor had to reverse when you turned the switch off, in order to pull the wiper arms down below the bottom of the windshield. I had a 75 Cordoba with that feature, and the wiper motor was weak and couldn’t pull them down. So you’d have to get out of the car, push down on the driver’s side wiper arm while flipping the switch on and off.
Incidentally, my dad had a 74 Dart when I was a kid, and it didn’t have the opening for the wipers to hide behind, but it still had the same parking mechanism that pulled the arms down when you turned them off.
I've had three '72 Coronets over the years. All good cars. If I get the chance, I'll buy another one or two. Thanks for the vid.
Hidden wipers give a cleaner look to the whole car all around
I had a 1969 plymouth fury 4door with a 225cu slant 6 and a 3speed on the colum . I was 16 in 1976 when i bought it. It drove very well
Same steering column was in the Dodge Dart-we had a '72 four door with the 318 and Torqueflite. Color
was pale yellow and the roof was green vinyl, green interior. Perfect car to learn to drive on.
yep had me a 73 coronet back in the day and it had the 318. your 72 is definitely a cool ride with the leaning tower of power and the 3 on the tree transmission. them 225’s are good engines. love to get me another coronet someday. Mopar performance 👍
Thanks! Why don’t ya go ahead and find you another?