david.clement@verizon.net wrote:
: I find all this hopla about the new Charger very interesting and quite amusing.
: Dodge has used the Charger name on a whole raft of very different vehicles. The
: 66-67 Charger was a Coronet with a fastback roof line (not my cup of tee at
: all), 68-70 it bacame it's own body style and carried the performance banner
: for Dodge (my favorite is 70), 71-73 it again shared it's basic sheet metal
: with the Plymouth Satellite and Dodge Sebring (nice looking cars but I would
: rather have an e-body),in 74-77 the car became Dodge's answer to the Monte
: Carlo and shared it's look with the Chrysler Cordoba (wouldn't want it even if
: it was given to me), it disappeared for awhile and in 83/84 Dodge took the Omni
: 024 and slapped sheet metal over the rear quarter windows and added a spoiler
: to the front and called it a Charger (I purchased a Daytona instead).
Agreed. Heck, for that matter, DC isn't really even "Chrysler"
(or "Dodge") any more. Its a foreign company that essentially
purchased the trademarks, patent rights, tooling and real estate
that were owned by the company formerly known as Chrysler. Since
"Chrysler" is merely a facade of the entity it once was, does it
really come as a surprise that the Charger is as well? ;-) :-(
(Yeah, I'm definitely in "crusty old codger" mode today...) ;-)
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