page_title: Dodge Coronet
section_title: 1951–1952
hierarchical_section_title: Dodge Coronet / First generation (1949–1952) / 1951–1952
caption_attribution_description: 1952 Dodge Coronet Club Coupe. I had two rechargeable camera batteries with me for the MSRA excursion, Friday &amp; Saturday I used up both of them and one of them on Sunday. I resorted to using my phone camera to capture images on my trips back to the parking lot to switch out the battery. I only had one charger, so I had to wake up at 1 a.m. to switch out the battery in the charger, to get both ready for the next day. Minnesota Street Rod Association (MSRA) “BACK TO THE 50′s” 44th Annual Car Show June 23-25, 2017 Minnesota State Fairgrounds St. Paul Minnesota &lt;a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/greggjerdingen/collections/72157685505743465/"&gt;Click here for previous &quot;Back to the 50's&quot; pictures..&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/greggjerdingen/collections/72157631550277505/"&gt;Click here for more car pictures at my Flickr site.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://dvs1mn.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Or here for my Car Crazy Tumblr site.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/DVS1mn" rel="nofollow"&gt;Or on Twitter @DVS1mn.&lt;/a&gt;
context_page_description: The Coronet is an automobile that was marketed by Dodge as a full-size car in the 1950s, initially the division's highest trim line, but starting in 1955, the lowest trim line. From the 1965 to 1975 model years the name was on intermediate-sized models. A coronet is a small crown consisting of ornaments fixed on a metal ring.
context_section_description: Dodge received yet another facelift in 1951 but this time the cars remained virtually unchanged for two model years. Busy manufacturing military vehicles for use in Korea, they chose not to dedicate valuable resources to completely redesign civilian vehicles. Still divided into Wayfarer, Meadowbrook and Coronet lines through 1952, by 1953 the Wayfarer line had been discontinued. The grille of the 1951 model was similar in shape to the 1950 grille, but with the elimination of the thick vertical center bar and the addition of six vents running horizontally between the top and center bars, a whole new look was achieved. The Coronet Diplomat was Dodge's first hardtop-convertible, featuring a pillarless steel roof styled after the contemporary Chrysler Newport. The speedometer was now circular, and the other four gauges were rectangles. For 1952 the Coronet had a painted lower grille louver.
caption: 1952 Dodge Coronet Club Coupe
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