""Ryan Stewart"" <dapurplert@dakota-durango.com> wrote in message
>
> Second, are you thinking of the right car? A Charger was a 5 passenger,
> 4000lb behemoth of a car. The car YOU keep describing sounds like the
> pony car Challenger to me? Is that what you're thinking of? Because
> aside from a door or two, this new Charger is an EXACT reiteration of
> the old Charger, but not even close to a Challenger pony car.....
>
> -Ryan
> 99 DA RC R/T
Maybe I'm reading your message incorrectly, but it sounds to me that you are
mistaken about the Charger's history. Granted the Charger we're all
thinking of (late 1960's - early 1970's models) was a decently heavy car
capable of seating 5 people, the Challenger wasn't much smaller and could
also seat 5. To my knowledge, the Charger has NEVER been a 4 door vehicle
before the current iteration (even in the poor re-incarnations in the 80's
it was still a 2-door). Charger was dodge and Challenger was Plymouth, they
were sort of the same, but the Challenger shared the same [smaller] platform
as the 'Cuda, whereas the Charger/Roadrunner shared [the larger] platform.
None of these cars were lax in the performance department as a general rule,
and I think all of them were available with a hemi in them at some point.
(not sure about the Challenger)
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