Here are two fairly recent captures from the Cohort by canadiancatgreen. Both are 4 doors from the sixties, weathered and beaten, with their better days behind them. Neither is a stranger to these pages, as both have been featured on more than one occasion (links below). But any surviving one is worth a glimpse, as beaten as they may be.
I started with the Coronet, as I believe it to be the rarer of the two. And according to the remaining badges, it’s a 500 with a V8. As for the Chevy II, who didn’t know someone who owned one?
In either case, considering the expense of restoration, will anyone bother to rescue any of these two? I pretty much doubt it. But with some luck, some optimist with free time might give it a try.
Further reading:
Curbside Classic: 1966 Dodge Coronet 500 Coupe – Lean Mean Green Machine
Curbside Classic: 1966 Dodge Coronet 500 – This B-body Earns An ‘A’
Curbside Classic: 1963 Chevrolet Chevy II Nova 400 – It’s Exciting!
Curbside Classic: 1963 Chevy Nova II SS – Saved By The Stock Wheels
I like the Coronet, but she’s looking kind of rusty. I wonder what the underside looks like..
Would be a nice driver with small V8 though. Luckily canadiancatgreen is in the western part of Canada so I can be confident these are too far away for me.
Small V8?
Why not go all out, transplant a Cadillac V8 and make a Gen-U-Wine Coronet 500? 😉
Some of the most iconic cop car styling, courtesy of Chrysler Corporation.
The severe rust, and serious austerity of my dad’s old Chevy II, significantly turned me off cars for a while as a little kid.
I hate to say it, but these look like the kinds of vehicles (especially the old Coronet) someone would see sitting in the corner of a big, deserted parking lot, with the interior filled with junk and some homeless person was using as their sleeping quarters.
The only hope that these cars have is if Taylor Swift records songs called “Four Door Chevy ll” and “Four Door Coronet”. Then everyone will want one. No, I don’t think it will happen either.
I’d give that Chevy II a go were it reasonably priced .
Clearly it’d be a labor of love involving not only serious labor but more $ than the car will ever be worth .
This one has the near worthless 194 C.I. i6 engine , a 230 or 250 will slip right in easily .
-Nate
This reminds me of this ’66 Coronet Hemi 4-DOOR which sold for US$600,000 at Mecum Auctions a few years back.
Free Use of Wheelbarrows, LOL
I would not give the Chevy II a first thought, mich less a second one. I had enough of Chevy IIs in the 1960s when my Dad had one, a noisy lemon wi TV h a rod knock in its mighty 194 Six that showed up after a TB thorough warmup. After he sold it in 1967 it threw a rod for its proud new owner. He probably hates Chevy IIs, too (or II).