Dodge Coronet R/T, 1970
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Chassis No.: WS23U0E115189
Auction: Monterey 2017
Auction date: August 19, 2017
Lot No.: T94
$40,000 | High bid
- Exterior: Bronze
- Interior: Red
- WS23 Coronet R/T
- Delivered new to Swift Dodge in Sacramento, California
- Comprehensive restoration
- 440 CI engine
- 4-barrel carburetor
- Torqueflite automatic transmission
- FK5 Dark Burnt Orange Metallic exterior
- White Bumble Bee stripe and vinyl top
- Front end ornament package
- Burnt Orange vinyl bucket seats
- Column-mounted shifter
- H51 factory air conditioning
- Tinted glass
- Rear seat speaker
- Factory special headers and tag instructions
- Rallye wheels
- Believed to be 43,000 original miles
- Partial broadcast sheet
- Original owners manual
Delivered new to Swift Dodge in Sacramento, California, this 1970 Dodge Coronet R/T is the genuine article, its WS23 designation denoting it as a 2-door hardtop version of the high-performance Coronet equipped with the U-code 440/375 HP Magnum 4V V-8 engine with 3-speed TorqueFlite automatic transmission and rare factory air conditioning. Dodge revived the Coronet name plate in 1965, just as the muscle-car wars were beginning to heat up, returning it to the midsize B-body lineup it had occupied in the latter part of the 1950s.
In R/T trim, the Coronet was a serious contender on both street and strip, but the model lineup was completely redesigned for 1966, as stylist Elwood Engel struggled to keep up with the aesthetic advances under way at Ford and GM. After another redesign in 1968, the Coronet’s front and rear styling was subtly changed for 1969, but for 1970, it received all-new front sheet metal and an aggressively styled split front grill with chromed surrounds. The look was at its best when bedecked with all the visual cues of the R/T performance package.
R/T Coronets were adorned with rear quarter-panel imitation scoops, a blacked-out tail panel with three-segment tail lights, a bumblebee rear stripe and a special hood with dual domed intake scoops. Prominent R/T badges were added to the center section of the hood, the side scoops and the tail panel to further drive home the car’s identity as the Dodge Division’s entry in the muscle-machine marketplace. Comprehensively restored and showing 43,000 believed-original miles, it is wrapped in FK5 Dark Burnt Orange Metallic paint with a white vinyl top and stripe, and a paint-matching Burnt Orange vinyl bucket-seat interior.
Its extensive list of desirable options includes factory air conditioning, tinted glass, pushbutton radio with rear speaker, Rallye wheels and special factory headers with tag instructions.
