RE: Plymouth XNR

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From: Herb

Date: 7/18/2012 10:18:50 PM

To: 1962to1965mopars

Subject: RE: Plymouth XNR

Well, you can laugh at me all you want, I would love to have it and would drive it with pride anywhere, I love it. Virgil Exner was a styling genius, but I guess that's why most of the cars in my collection were designed by him!! You sound like a GM guy that dabbles in MoPars. But we all know what GM stands for anyway....Get a MoPar. You have to be aware of what was in style when the car was designed, the space race, indy cars, and so on, if you take the time to read the story you might get it. This was a show car to test styling ideas on the public, not a production car. Gary just touched on the style cues that were taken from that car, others are the front end is 68 Charger, and later the early 70s Plymouth B bodys, the grill is Coronet. The cross hair rear bumper is utilized to this day in every Dodge grill. The fin was incorporated into every Chrysler product from 1955 to 1961 and finally ending in 1964. I can go on and on boring you so I will cut it short and reiterate that I would be proud to drive such a historically significant car and laugh and shake my head at all the uninformed knuckle heads that have not a clue of what they are looking at!

Herb

1954 DeSoto Firedome Estate Wagon 276 HEMI

1956 Plymouth Belvedere 361 4-Sale

1959 Dodge Coronet 326 Poly

1961 Plymouth Belvedere Custom Suburban Wagon 318 Poly

1961 Dodge Dart Pioneer Wagon 318 Poly

1963 Plymouth Fury 2D/HT 7.0L

1963 Plymouth Sport Fury Convertible 361

1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst 440

1979 Dodge Aspen Sport Wagon 360

1999 Durango SLT 5.9L

2008 SRT-8 Magnum 6.1L

St. Louis, MO.

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-------Original Message-------

From: Cory Rempel

Date: 7/18/2012 7:38:15 PM

To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Plymouth XNR

Just one question. Why on earth would anybody want this ugly thing? The only way I'd even think about buying this is if A) I had the money. B) I didn't mind getting laughed at every time I drove it. And C) I wanted to pretty much guarantee I had THE butt ugliest car at any given show.

Oh and BTW, saying this car is unique isn't saying much. You can say the same thing about turds.

I now look forward to some hate mail. But you gotta admit, that was damn funny.

> From: 62to65mopar@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Plymouth XNR
> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:16:59 +0000
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> The XNR is up for auction. Very unique! You can see some styling cues that made their way into 1962 Plymouth and Dodge B body cars.
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> It is a long story about the car but worth the read if you have the time. It took some skill to restore it too, for example: "Each hubcap was comprised of 35 individual metal pieces. We had to completely scratch-build those hubcaps."
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> http://www.rmauctions.com/CarDetails.cfm?SaleCode=MO12&CarID=r180
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> Gary H.
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