I learned something today.

[commando1]

Chrysler had "four door pillered hardtops".
Thought I saw every bastardization of "hardtop" until this one.

 

[cm23uoc]

Well, at least you can't deny the top just isn't soft.

 

[commando1]

 

[Clover]

"Hardtop" doesn't mean the same thing as "no vinyl top"? Gee...

 

[Bryan]

Just a fancy salesman way of saying sedan...

 

[Wollfen]

So Im looking at all the little pictures there, if i buy a Newport i get to have a wife with three kids and sit in a meadow constantly smiling? or is it the wife and two kids frolicking by the water? No no wait, its the sail boat sailing across a bay and a seagull flying over, oh hang on no the mistress in my arms looking out off a porch arm in arm, oh there's the explanation it says so quite clearly, "You can have it all" and the last picture a crowd of people sitting around a campfire getting high. Yes Newport does it all....

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Sounds like a great sedan...oops I mean pillared hard top Lol

 

[Mr C]

It was the only way you could get an R body. They had pillars like sedans, but no metal surrounding the door glass like on a hardtop....hence, pillared hardtop.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Still sounds like a play on words

 

[Mr C]

It is, but no worse than "Torqueflite, Sure Brake, Sure grip, TNT, Magnum" etc.

 

[70NPORT]

I kinda like that body style and I don't know why.

 

[commando1]

Still on the fantasy list is an '80 Gran Fury cop car.

 

[70NPORT]

Sad thing, there are no BB versions of this car are there? (and 360's don't count -- you know who you are.)

 

[commando1]

No BB's in any car from 79 and up.
Been trying to find on Google for a long time one of these with a BB swap but have come up with zilch so far.
In these cars, I think I'd just just go with a monster SB and let it literally drop into place without all the BS. I'm tired of attempting the impossible.

 

[70NPORT]

Too much hassle trying to shoehorn a BB in between those frame rails.

 

[cm23uoc]

Nothing a sledge hammer couldn't fix, just ask the Hurst "engineers" who developed the Hemi Dart Super Stock.

 

[commando1]

Too much hassle trying to shoehorn a BB in between those frame rails.

Its roots are a B-body. It can be done. Don't make me prove it. LMFAO.

 

[70NPORT]

When I was a kid I think there used to be some cop show on TV that had ton's of these cars.

 

[cm23uoc]

Could it be T.J. Hooker ?

 

[70NPORT]

I seem to recall the show residing in a big city like NYC or maybe it was Chicago. Anyways it took place in some skanky part of some city here in the US.