So was the Coronet the precursor to the Super Bee or was there just a Super Bee series of it or what?

Wikipedia is kind of bland on the subject...

 

I let somebody borrow a book that might have the answer to this question. I don't think ill ever get it back But I believe that the Super Bee is a series of it. Until the third gen. Charger came along. Don't take that to court.

 

Yeah because Ive never even heard of the Coronet and I'm already in love with it...

I mean look at her...

 

the super bee was coronet and the charger was a coronet also.

 

I had a '69 Coronet, change the dash a little and add some gauges, you got a Super Bee.

 

We had a gold one come up to the farm during the big tour. It looked mean. I wish the guy would have driven it down to the barn.

 

Basically, the Coronet was a long running series, like the Satellite. When Plymouth got the Road Runner based on the Satellite, Dodge needed their own model to compete. They took a Coronet and gave it the "road runner" treatment, and viola, you have the Super Bee. The name was kinda a play on it being a "b" body platform, plus they didn't have to pay Warner Bros for the use of the name.

 

Is that a Crown Vic in the avatar, I think I just puked a little.

That's the one thing about the Ford logo, at least they circled the problem.