Dodge's answer to the Monte Carlo (luxury car, coupes, buy, engines)
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You wouldn't prefer the 68-70 Charger instead? It's much more collectable and most think its' better looking.
But if you like the 73's styling, and can work around the damn awful state of tune of the stock engine, provided you can find a good one, they are way cheaper.
You wouldn't prefer the 68-70 Charger instead? It's much more collectable and most think its' better looking.
But if you like the 73's styling, and can work around the damn awful state of tune of the stock engine, provided you can find a good one, they are way cheaper.
I think most of the big early-mid 70s personal luxury coupes have really strange proportions....short tail, long hood, tons of overhang at both ends. Plus, most look like they're riding on their tippy-toes with those skinny tires. I guess the Charger was technically an "intermediate", but by '73 it was pretty hefty looking. 18 feet of car on a 115" wheelbase. That generation Ford Thunderbird probably took this strange design philosophy to it's most extreme.
Look at that snout...it's cartoonish!
1975 Ford Thunderbird
The Monte and the GM A-body coupes were some of the few exceptions....those looked very sleek and compact by comparison. That said, I wouldn't sneeze at any of these luxo-barges for the right price - and last I checked, they were still very reasonable - but if we're just dreaming here?? They don't even belong in the same sentence as the Chargers of a few short years earlier.
BTW Mitch - In '73 the 440 V8 in the Mopar B-bodies made 280HP net...that's still pretty respectable for a post-emissions V8 and probably on par with what the smaller big blocks laid down in the glory days. In fact, in 1971, the one year Chrysler issued both gross and net horsepower ratings, the 440 with a single 4bbl carb produced 305(net) HP. Considering all the clunky emissions junk this Charger had to contend with, a mere 8% dropoff was quite a feat!
I think most of the big early-mid 70s personal luxury coupes have really strange proportions....short tail, long hood, tons of overhang at both ends. Plus, most look like they're riding on their tippy-toes with those skinny tires. I guess the Charger was technically an "intermediate", but by '73 it was pretty hefty looking. 18 feet of car on a 115" wheelbase. That generation Ford Thunderbird probably took this strange design philosophy to it's most extreme.
Look at that snout...it's cartoonish!
I would wager the firewall to front bumper lengths are very close to each other for all of the V8 RWDs and certainly longer for the FWD's since the engines were still longitudinally positioned. Mechanical cooling fan assemblies, huge radiators, thick frames, dimensionally large blocks and transmissions, firewall mounted HVAC components, foot long 80lb A/C compressors, vacuum line running everywhere to control large vacuum canister valves.... it all adds up and takes up space. Look under the hood of any of those older cars that are fully accessorized and its pretty jam packed in there.
check out the pic with the guy standing almost in front of the grille split(girl on left) it looks like a cross between a 73 Coronet and a 60's Pontiac Tempest
i love these cars with the stylish trim that competes with the Monte Carlo and Gran Torino. always had a thing for that conservative, modish personal luxury car look
consumer would buy the ultra conservative blue Charger SE that I originally posted?
a family would probably go for the Coronet but would an SE be a single couple's or a young single businessman's car or a husband's car (while the wife had a bigger better car)?
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