wow at what point did that seem like a good idea, fugly!!!! Im bias but no sh** I never realized how ugly mopars were early 60's
Actually the design that ended up with the '62 Plymouth started with the '60 Plymouth Valiant. The design looked kinda European and wasn't bad at all on the small Valiant. It was some genius's idea to scale the design up for the 1962 Plymouth. Sometimes something that looks good in one size doesn't in another. Another of my stories: John Muzi - the owner of Muzi Chrysler-Plymouth in Needham MA , easily visible from MA 128 (natives call it that, to non-locals it's I-95) took one look at the 1962 Plymouth and said "How am I going to sell that?" and switched to Ford. It's Muzi Ford to this day. BTW: Chrysler actually made a nice save with the 1963 and 64 Plymouths. They un-uglied the grille and put a much nicer roofline on the cars, and by '64 they weren't too bad looking. The irony of all of this is that by any objective standard, the '62 Plymouth was a much better car then the Ford and at least as good as the Chevrolet. 1962 was Plymouth's worst sales volume year from 1946 until the end of production.
I prefer the '62 Dodge to the '63.....the front end got uglier IMHO, but I understand what they were doing (somewhat of a turbine motif best demonstrated by the '63 Dart).
The irony of this is that the turbine car - styled by Pininfarina, was absolutely gorgeous. If Jay Leno offered me any one car in his collection free, I'd grab his Mopar turbine car in a second.
