As I drove by this driveway, my eyes did a brief sideways glance at the orange Beetle. I almost didn’t bother, given how many there are. But then I caught a glimpse of something else back there. Stopped, backed up, and peeled of a shot. You know what’s hiding back there under all that household junk. Which reminds me, we’re overdue for a CC on one of that family. I need helpful reminders like this.
Is that a 67 Dodge Dart?
Ford Cortina… I know that front end, if its a Dodge, it looks more like the 68.
could be a lot of toyota like cars.
Beetles are getting rarer here they never had the popularity they saw in the US and dead lawn ornament versions are scarce most have been rescued & revived, behind it AMC something.
The other day I ran a quick errand, and counted over six Beetles either driving or parked. I’m amazed at how many there are still at work here. I long ago stopped counting or shooting them, unless it’s a rare one.
I had the same thought the other day. Saw an early ’70s Beetle driving through downtown Melbourne and realised how long it had been since I’d seen one. Growing up in California in the ’80s it seemed half the cars on the road were Bugs.
1976 or thereabouts Dodge Colt
Bingo.
Yep. As a long-time fan of classic Mopars as well as a huge geek for Japanese Nostalgic Cars, I’m almost obligated to love these cars. The good news is, I do.
Non-US CCers will know this car as the MkII Mitsubishi Galant.
I’d place it earlier than ’76, the bumper looks like it’s chrome all the way across (’75 and later had plastic corners to cover the extra length of the 5mph shocks).
It aint no mitsi galant we have every iteration here and this aint one. Dodge Dart though the grille is wrong
Yes, it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Colt#Second_generation
Dodge changed the bumpers and grilles, so there’s not much original Galant visible there. But it is. Without a shadow of a doubt.
+1 it definitely isn’t a dart.
If it is a Dart, it’s a ’68 Dart. ’67s and ’69s had rectangular lights in the grille.
Upon closer inspection, though, I don’t think its a Dart at all…not wide enough, and those bumper over-riders look like something later…
I’m w/Googootz…mid-70’s Dodge Colt. Definitely not a Dart.
Definitely a Dodge Colt—-wonder if it’s the cool wagon?
I’m having trouble finding a Colt with the round parking lights, all the photos I find have either quad beams like in 73 or small parking lights in 74. Plymouth had a Mitsubishi Colt as the Cricket in Canada instead of the British made one.
We got both Crickets actually – first the British then the Japanese.
Plymouth Cricket?
What was an Arrow?
I cant rem That one, My Memory for some of these is fading.
Looks wide enuff to be a Dart.
My ’69, the brief time I had it, had the square park lites if my memory is right.
Extremely groovy car but no funds for restoring, upkeep etc.
Sniff.
According to an image I found through Wikipedia of a drag racing 68 Dart, that car behind the Beetle is indeed a 68 Dart.
I knew it was one the moment I looked at the photo.
The first gens had quad headlights, the 2nd gen Colts began with quad headlights but went single headlight with rectangular parking lamps and the bulbous front side marker lights existed on through 1977 before the third gen came out – again, single headlamps with rectangular parking lamps.
This gold car in the background has round parking lamps and a horizontal bar through the entire grill,piercing each lamp along the way and no obviously bulbous side marker lamps exist here.
It’s a ’68 Dart.
There’s a lot of guessing going on here. A little googling around with the quite close guesses that some has come up with tells me it’s a 74 Plymouth Cricket. There were quite a few different Mitsubishi Galant and Hillman avenger based cars built in the 70’s, with a bunch of different grilles, but this one is one of the Mitsubishi based ones, with at least a 74 Cricket grille, although that grille would fit a lot of other models and model years…
I stand corrected
You shouldn’t. You were right in the first place. 1976 – 1977 Dodge Colt it is. There was more than one kind of grille on these vintage Colts; the “Carousel” had a different one.
It may well be that the Canadian Cricket and other versions of this Mitsubishi Galant used the same grille, but this is a US spec Dodge Colt.
Doh….. a pix in the google machine fooled me. I think both the Dodge and Plymouth variants were sold here, in the NW anyway
I thought it was a Cricket too.
This is a funny photo for me, because you see which car has the stuff piled on top of it. Likely this has little to do with the relative value of the Colt vs Beetle, the fact is that you can’t pile stuff all over a Beetle because it’s all curved sloping surfaces.
When I got rid of my Triumph TR4 and got the VW that was one of the biggest adjustments. TR4 has loads or horizontal space to pile boxes on, VW has virtually none…
It’s a Mitsu-Mopar Crick-olt. It’s about the same width as the old Bug.
Checked Google images and Allpar; 1967-70 Darts had full front bumpers, no valance. And that isn’t a Dart Swinger.
I’m surprised that so many people thought it was a Dart. It is clearly no wider than the Beetle, and that eliminates the possibility of it being a Dart.
Pretty defeated-looking VeeDub, with the side mirror shoved aside so the folks can walk by it, and the name badge on the back sagged down against the handle.
“Ran when parked”
It is a 1976 – 1977 Dodge Colt (US spec), aka: Mitsubishi Galant and Plymouth Cricket in other markets.
I still think it’s a 74 Cricket, but I have no other sources than Google images, and according to that source, some Colts had the same grille, but only with the front bumpers that had plastic covers on the sides.
Colt http://px6.streetfire.net/0001/24/09/1504290_600.jpg
Cricket http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/1794/1041/4483020002_large.jpg
That Cricket picture looks like it has Canadian plates. They didn’t sell Mitsu Crickets in the US, only Dodge Colts, and that grille was used on non-Carousel Colts; at least on some of them.