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66s have the best dash, but the Best Charger award goes to... 1970.
The Best Year for the Charger?
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According to the title of this thread, best year of the Charger would be the year of the highest sales volume.
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The most valuable hi performance Mopar cars are the ones they sold the least amount of! For the record though 1973 was the highest production numbers and sales of the 66-74 era. 123,000 total production in 1973!
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Let's end it once and for all. 1970, 1970, 1970...
I like them in this order. 70, 69, 68, 71, 66, 67, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, anything newer doesn't count.
I like them in this order. 70, 69, 68, 71, 66, 67, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, anything newer doesn't count.
I already claimed victory when the other guy said that 70 wins the award! Lol
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That's 3 votes.
I have never owned a first generation Charger, and it took me a long time to want third generation Chargers, but now I have more of them than any of them. I currently have a 68,two 69s,four 70s,six 71s,a 72,and a 73. I like looking at the first generation Chargers, but I have never had the desire to own one. The people who are into them are all in on them though. They were cheap for years but like the third generation Chargers, the second generation Chargers are pulling up the value of them on their ride to the stratosphere!
Then the 67 is the clear winner!!
After the 66 model Charger came out,they couldn't give the 67 Chargers away. Everyone who wanted them already had one! GM cars did complete sheetmetal changes every year,and most Fords did too. The 67 Chargers were virtually unchanged from the year before,buyers wanted a fresh new model every year.
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And they sure made up for it with the new design in 68.
You don't know how close that design was to being scrapped and never seeing the light of day. Had the head of Dodge styling not taken a vacation that design would have been gone forever!
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The Charger mafia says it ain't a Charger.
The Ford mafia says it ain't a Shelby.
Bag the Ford crowd - Carroll's personal driver was his 86 Omni GLHS, Cosworth 16v head, and 60 trim VNT turbo. His wife's? 89 Shelby Dakota.
86 Omni GLHS; 87 Charger GLHS; 87 Lancer; 87-89 CSX; and 89 Dakota were all built by Carroll Shelby. Titled as Shelby's. My last '89 CSX was autographed by him, at VIR during a Shelby day. 2001, I believe.
"Parade lap" - Carroll in a Series 1. Cobras behind him. Mustangs behind them. Dodges behind them. "NO PASSING" was the 'rule'. Back straight, about 90 mph...he blows my freakin' DOORS off in the Series 1. Followed by a bunch of my Dodge buddies. I fall in line, and hammer-down. Turned into a 3 or 4 lap free-for-all. Finish? Carroll. Every. Single. Dodge. Then the Mustangs and Cobras...because they didn't want to "hurt" their cars. Us Dodge boys? Turned up the boost and let 'er rip. Tires be damned!
110 in the shade. Carroll (no spring chicken) jumps out of the Series 1, unzips his fire suit to his waist, grabs a water, hops in a golf kart, and heads to the Dodge pits (they had us outside the main gate, since we're the "redhead stepchild") to hang out with us.
For THREE HOURS.
Signed all our cars. Talked with all of us. Had his engineer look under my hood, asking him "we didn't put that in there, did we??" My car - which he built with a VNT25 turbo - had a 60-trim TEC VNT on it along with some other goodies like a ported/ceramic coated intake, larger intercooler, bigger injectors..... the turbo size difference was comparable to a tennis ball...to a softball.
I sent him to my guy, and that's where he got the one on his personal Omni. (My guy called me 2 days after the event - "DUDE. You'll never believe who just called me....").
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68 was clean and mean,69 was looking fine and 70 was loaded with goodies! There is no bad choice with second generation Chargers!
That's why you have to have a '70 Charger 500!...it has the black krinkle finish instead of that genuine, simulated woodgrain finish.
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The last thing Crainum touched pressed charges! Lol
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