Did you know that the word coupé comes from the French to cut? Did you further know that the traditional triangular martini glass is also known as a coupé? Oh the things you learn from basic cable.
Here’s a car that’s a coupe -the car version, not the cocktail glass. It has two doors and a long hood, and it has a particular styling feature that should give its origins away immediately, but I’m not telling what that is because it wouldn’t be fun otherwise. This shouldn’t be too brain taxing, and I expect that y’all will have the appropriate answers to this mystery car – make, model, years of production and engine range – in a blink of the eye.
Oops, I blinked.
Go forth and be impressive!
Mystery Car!
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I have no idea. But it looks like an '80s Alfa made sweet love to an early Mazda rotary.
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It's like a Challenger, badly translated from 1973 to the early 80s.
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Im going to go with a Toyota Celica notch back. '76?
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Looks like a Barreiros-built Dodge 3700:
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010/08/02/bou…-
Oops, make that a Serra-built 3700 Dodge Boulevard.
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Yup, but this version is the 1972/3 Serra 3700 GT Boulevard or some such. It apparently goes by a couple of names.
http://javierrucabado.blogspot.com/2007/06/boulev…
The photo above is an altered version of this one:
http://www.vehiculoclasico.es/images/galerias/fer…
(Edit: You caught it in your own reply, which wasn't there when I started typing this. Nicely done!)-
http://javierrucabado.blogspot.com/2007/06/dodge-…
This is a link to the restoration of the one in the mystery photo. Thanks to you and Dan for teaching me about a car I had no prior knowledge of, and I used to be a serious Mopar head. This car conjures images of a slant-6 powered Lamborghini, which is pretty appealing to me.-
Dan deserves solo credit for this one– I didn't think "Dodge Boulevard" until he mentioned the 3700. I was stuck in a rut of thinking it was some sort of completely rebodied AMC (the 'American ….S' on the front plate didn't help with that) even though the wrap-around bumpers looked vaguely familiar from somewhere else.
In the first two restoration photos, the sanded-through-several-layers-of-paint look really works on this car. Almost a shame they painted over it.
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I think you've nailed it.
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We have a winner. Is the styling cue the tacky white interior that tells the world, "I may look exotic but inside I'm all American (in this case Dodge"?
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If only more dodge coupes of that vintage looked like this. I would consider one if there were available and I was in the market for a detroit cruiser.
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Jensen Interceptor?
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My initial-est thought.
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Looks Longchamp-y.
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I got fooled by the Japanese. Their prolific design appropriation made me think it was something like an older Galant or a Mazda RX-4. I'm sure this will happen in the future with the Kia Opirus.