Dodge Muscle Car Colors

By Dave Ashton

Muscle cars are inherently loud and proud vehicles. A fact not just to describe the engines and overall body design, but also the color schemes.
As with all car evolution, Dodge started life with more sedate colors. By 1969, the 60s influences and styles of the day ushered in some of the loudest hues in automotive history.

High Impact Colors

The image below shows the regular colors available for Chrysler/Dodge vehicles in 1970, arguably the height of the muscle car era. The offerings show a broad palette, not too out of place in today’s world. Then, add on top the High Impact colors, which ran from 1969-1973. For only $15 extra, ten high-impact colors were available.

The high-impact colors included – FC7 Plum Crazy, EV2 Hemi Orange, F3 Panther Pink, FJ6 Sassy Grass, FJ5 Sublime, EK2 Go Mango, EL5 Butterscotch, EF6 Bright Green, FY1 Top Banana, and GY3 Citron Yella/Curious Yellow.
Some color names didn’t make the grade for being too on the nose or innuendo-based for the times. These included – Hi-Ho Silver, Well-Red, Cost of Living Rose, Fisher Body Rust and Frank Lloyd White.
By 1973, the high-impact colors were phased out.

Some of the more popular high-impact colors have been seen on Mopars down the years, such as EV2 Hemi Orange(Tor red for Plymouth/Chrysler). But, colors such as FM3 Panther Pink had to be toned down for a more modern audience in 2010 when the color was re-introduced as Furious Fuchsia for the Challenger SRT and R/T models.

In our modern world where more sedate colors rules, an injection of bright colors onto our highways would show a more individual statement.

If you want to browse the various opar colors from 1965 to 1974, these color charts from highimpactperformance.com are a great start point.

 

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