Most '66 four doors are Deluxe models. Here are the differences -
The Deluxe has narrow side trim that ends roughly 10 inches forward the front doors, Yours has the wider full length 440 trim.
The Deluxe trunk has no trim, just the DODGE letters, and no "C" trim surrounding the tailights. Yours is 440 style.
The Deluxe has just a chrome button in the center of the steering wheel for the horn, yours has the 440(&500)full horn ring.
The Deluxe has a painted plain steel glove box door, yours has the 440 & 500 black plastic door that matches the rest of the dash.
The Deluxe does not have stainless trim around the side windows like yours does. Which interestingly the Coronet 500 SE 4-door (another rare model) has the stainless window trim.
I don't see any rocker moldings. 440 hardtops come with rocker moldings, Deluxe's do not.
Some other odd observations -
Your car has the 440 style 2-tone door panels and 440 patterned seat covers but it has cloth inserts similar to a Deluxe. A 440 hardtop has all vinyl.
Your car does not have the the chrome trim along the bottom and sides of the dash like a 440 model. This would indicate that the trim around the inside of the windshield is painted, like a Deluxe.
Lastly, I can tell that your car was built late in the year because it has the 1967 style shifter handle. Also I see that it has the light package which consists of - Glove box light, trunk light & e-brake indicator light on lower left of the dash.
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(12-31-25, 03:04 PM)kalvie Wrote: [ -> ]yea the card for the original owner was still there. I contacted Chrysler historic & they said be out of the office till January5 2026. The funny part about this i had a 2008 Hyundai Entourage minivan from Sept 2021 till Jan 2024. I bought a 83 buick lesabre sedan 3.8V6 on Dec 31 2022 that had not been legal on the road since May 2005 for $ 600 as a backup car. It became the daily driver in Jan 2024 to Dec 2024 till I bought current vehicle a 2012 Chrysler Town & Country touring L minivan. I wound up with over $3500 in a $1500 Buick Lesabre by Dec 2024. I traded it even in Feb 2025 for a 64 Chevrolet Corvair Greenbrier van that needed a ton of work an who knows when it last seen the road legally the only thing the Buick Lesabre needed then was a water pump that I had in the trunk but not installed yet due to the weather. I got the Corvair van to recoup some of the money an get a better car it wound up being a headach trying to get a windshield for it & get someone to help figure out the belt on this thing. I traded it even for the 66 Dodge Coronet 25 miles away. Only problem with the Coronet is the guy saw the 440 badge on the glovebox an thought it meant that the car was suppose to have a 440 engine in it & could not figure out why someone put a slant 6 in it. He did not know that the 440 badge was a lower trim level an the 500 badge was upper trim level. An he said there was a knocking sound from the slant 6. The car has a broken exhaust an was told to check the flywheel those 2 might be the knocking noise he was hearing so might not be nothing wrong with the motor after all an this car use to be a dail driver. the sticker on the windshield say 04 so hard to tell how long it has sat was told some previous owners drove it about a year or 2 ago.
Yea, everybody makes that "440" mistake, even some Mopar guys. Officially you could not get a 440 in a Dodge until 1967 and only in a Coronet R/T and in very few Chargers. I have heard stories of a few '66 Coronets "unofficially " getting 440's.