Why does this Chrysler look so odd?

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Besides the wheel skirts? I think the roofline is wrong... could that be a Dodge 880 turned into a 300?
 
Fender skirts? Is there any way they're right?
*EDIT* it looks shortened... Them wheels ain't helpin.
 
1962 NY hardtop roof attached.

Yet the Google does show more '62 300 4DRHTPs with the same roof as this example.

Hmm

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1962 NY hardtop roof attached.

Yet the Google does show more '62 300 4DRHTPs with the same roof as this example.

Hmm
This isn't the same roof line, the back window has that corner in the c-pillar and a balloon roof, not as flat as the hardtop.


Alan
 
Gotta be the road wheels...

Or Canadian Saratoga with 300 dressup?
 
This isn't the same roof line, the back window has that corner in the c-pillar and a balloon roof, not as flat as the hardtop.


Alan

That was my point, to show the different '62 Chrysler htp roofline. Yet a Google search does show other 4drhtp 300s with the same bubble roof as this flesh-colored beast.

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And then there is this...

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I attribute it to Russian hacking.
That is not the same roof line, the blue one is. Ok the roof might be the same but the rear window isn't, together for me is the roof line.


Alan
 
Stock size tires and wheels?:rolleyes:
 
I posted it because of the roofline.
I cant remember ever seeing that roof line on a 62 Chrysler. A four door hdtp. at that.
But I must have because, yep, there they are on other 62 Chryslers when Googled.

Judging by the replies, I'm glad it's not just me. :p


Soooooo.
Which models got which roofline?
 
Every one of those has the same F-ing roof line, it's the angle of the shot that makes them look different and causing you guys to argue about it. Just study each pic and figure it out!
There are two distinctly different rear windows.


Alan
 
Googling has shown me that the Newport and 300's got the "notchback" roofline and the New Yorker got the "sleeker" roofline.
Check for yourself....
 
Since I was very excited about the 62 Chryslers and my dad actually bought one new, I recall that on the 4 door hardtops, you could get either the high bubble roof as an option on 300s or the smaller one that is shown in the original post that was standard. But he bought a 2 door hardtop after I complained bitterly about him wanting to get a 4 door because it was more "practical". One of the few times I was successful at convincing him of anything! And he gave me the car when it was 7 years old so I could go to Michigan for my new job. I rarely took it out in the salt though, and had my "salt car", a 1965 Fury 4 door that I got cheap to go out in the winter. That was a great car.

After I restored the non-letter 62, my first car, that was ordered with the optional 413-4 bbl in it:

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I still have it.
 
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