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If you ever find yourself in the position where someone asks you to define what a muscle car is, there’s a very high chance that what you end up describing is something like this Dodge Coronet. A key defining factor of a true muscle car is a big engine backed by a manual gearbox, and of course the right look to match. This Coronet has all of those things and more, although it wasn’t always going to be that way.

Having owned a few Mopars over the years before getting sidetracked with Harleys, the car’s owner decided that 2013 was the time to get himself a B-body. He’d been a fan of the B-body shape in particular since he was a teenager when he saw a 440 six-pack car leave an event. As often was the case pre the days of digital cameras,

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