I'm not old enough to remember when these cars were originally made, but
the only "designed for NASCAR" Charger I know of was the '69 Daytona
Charger. It had a 14" wedge nose on the front and a 24" spoiler on the
back. Only 503 were made (at the time a production run of 500 was the
min. requirement for NASCAR). About 15 years ago a mint condition one
went for around $50,000. I recently saw one that was pretty banged up
that was only $9,000. If you're in to tacky vehicles, I know where you
can get a couple of General Lee replicas for about $12,000 each.
Glenn
frank theriault wrote:
--- Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks Frank. Yes, it's a 72 Charger RT, an original
hemi car.
Wow! I'm almost never right when it comes to old car
stuff. It was the black stripe on the back that made
me guess R/T though.
So, tell me, Paul, since you're a car guy. You've got
me thinking about Chargers now, and I recall that
Dodge made a Charger back around then with a flush
backlight (as opposed to the usual concave one). They
only made a small amount of them (like maybe a couple
thousand or less), basically the minimum so that
they'd comply with NASCAR (or whatever the stock car
governing body was called then) regulations, so they
could race that car. Seems that having the backlight
flush was aerodynamically superior, and allowed them
to get a few more mph out of it.
It was pretty successful racing, IIRC. Apparently,
they're ~real~ rare and expensive now (if you can find
one).
Do you (or anyone else) remember which Charger that
was?
cheers,
frank
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