Now here's something you definitely don't find every day: a 3-door Valiant!

HUH???
True. I have never heard about one before, But I like the idea.

Damn if that ain't cool! How'd that happen?!?

D/W

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If it ain't broke, fix it!

Gotta be a custom job. It's a clever one, to be sure! Reminds me of the factory full-size styling clays that often were done up as "half and half" mockups to study the 2dr and 4dr styling of a car, or look at two different sets of design options, etc. But those aren't driveable cars, and this one is!

My guess would be a testcar for a safety thing, so the passengers dont go out into the road.
Or just too much beer in the garage...

I believe '60s Mopars share most design parameters so
that it would be practical to convert a station wagon
to 2 door if you found a 2-door post donor car. I
believe the rockers and roof panel is the same on
most Mopars of this era.

With the popularity of '62-65 Max Wedge B clones
several of the four door cars have been converted
to 2 door posts.

I bet the conversation would also work with a station
wagon A-body.

Your latter guess is much more likely. Safety test cars were still a decade in the future when the cars that got cut together to make this one were new.

My folks had a 70's chev suburban like that. Well I guess it was a 5 door. driver front, pass front and rear and double back doors.

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Kaiser-Frazer did build a "true" three door sedan, called Traveller, it was more or les´s what you today might call a hatchback, trunklid upened downwards and tthe rear window and fram upwards.

To provide enough cargo space, the spare tire was located insde the left rear door, which was shut-welded, on later models, not even that was done, they simply locked the door at the plant and removed the knob!

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Signet '68 4dr, 460k miles and still rollin'

That is not too difficult to do with a 1963-66 Valiant or Dart. The rooflines are shared so it would be possible to take a 4-door sedan and convert one side to a 2-door. The 1961-62 Valiant 2-door actually used the 4-door sedan opening and welded the 2-door B pillar and quarter section in place.

Chrysler did build a Valiant in 1963 as a prototype with a V-200 4-door sedan on the passenger side and a Signet hardtop on the driver's side, as well as front and back. It was used at press introductions and updated for 1964, 1965 and 1966. They also built a Fury 4-door sedan /2-door hardtop for press time.

But this one is not a factory job. I saw photos of it a couple of years ago and the one either did it himself or bought it from the person who did.

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Bill
Vancouver, BC

That is something new, a failed experiment, or just too much time and nothing else to do.

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Mopar Muscle is well defend by Slant Six!

Valiant Duster 1971

Not a bad idea if you have kids...
At least if you want to keep them for a while.