While we all have the best of intentions when we embark upon a restoration project, sometimes life gets in the way. Days turn into weeks, weeks turn into years, and, before you know it, your enthusiasm has dimmed, and the project needs to find a new home. That seems to be what has happened for this 1955 Dodge Coronet two-door sedan(s) project for sale on Facebook Marketplace in Morley, Minnesota. If you want to take up the cause, you can fork over the cash for two different Coronets for the reasonable sum of $1,500 each. Or take your pick and walk away. One is a stored outside and the arguably better of the two is an indoor car. Is the low entry price an enticement to take on the seller’s unfinished project and make it your own? Thanks go to reader Ted for this two-for-one find!

The text of the ad is as follows: “We have two (2) 1955 Dodge Coronets. One has been stored indoors, one outside. Great chrome. Red Ram Motor. Rare two-door models. Solid body. Planned to restore it but never got to it. Located in Morley, MI If you are a Dodge nut you will love these. $1500 each Red Ram engines. Extra set of seats. Title to one of the cars. No keys.”

While the text of the ad is better than average nowadays, it is rather vague as to which car is being described in each part of the ad.  To their credit, the seller has posted several pictures.  Those reveal two cars that, on the surface, look to be in about the same condition.  One would think that the Coronet that was stored indoors was the better one, and the one outside would be the parts car.  However, they are being offered for $1,500 each.

To add to the facts we know, the Coronet was the lowest of Dodge’s three lines in 1955.  Coronet, Royal, and Custom Royal were the three trim levels offered, and the two-door sedan was only available in Coronet trim.  Conversely, you could get every other body style except for a convertible in this trim.  Clear as mud yet?  The only engine options available to Coronet buyers were the venerable 230 cubic inch inline-six or the 270 cubic inch Red Ram V-8.  While we see that the seller has posted a picture of a Red Ram V-8 in what we assume is the indoor car, they do say Red Ram engines in the ad.  Interestingly, turn signals were optional on Coronets, but standard on the higher-level versions.

While the seller’s price is likely market-correct, the issue here is what to do with each of these cars.  Both seem to have solid bodies and good chrome but are far from a situation where you could just get them running and drive them.  There is work to be done on each, from tires to upholstery on top of any mechanical issues.  The harder you work on them, the more you have to weigh the pluses and minuses of fixing up a lower-level car with a two-door sedan body produced when two-door hardtops were the rage.

Still, someone on a budget could get these two cars cheap, or one even cheaper, and start doing the old Johnny Cash “One Piece at a Time” restoration.  Mopars of this era are honest cars, and a Coronet would likely be a good driver once sorted out. What would you do with this deal?  Would you be interested in adding a Coronet to your stable?  Please share your thoughts in the comments.