Interesting?! Ram Charger/Air grabber on 69..

[bakerhillpins]

Or not. Not sure how this strikes me at the moment.  

http://nwct.craigslist.org/cto/4094734763.html

[BrianShaughnessy]

I think I've seen that done to a 70 before but never a 69...    I dunno either.   

[bakerhillpins]

Looks like a nice car though. Them 69s is purty. 

[Ghoste]

I find the hood scallops on the 2nd gen to be one of their defining features myself so anytime I see one of the modifications that eliminate it I find it's not appealing.  Thats just a personal thing though.

[70 sublime]

When it looks like that and with that paint job makes me think it looks like a Camaro hood

[TUFCAT]

The car looks to be a very nice stock restoration other than that hood. Thank goodness it's an easy changeover. Yuk! 

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

Nice way to screw-up a Charger 

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

I think if they went with the '69 Charger V21 instead of the RR version it might have looked cooler some how 

[chargerboy69]

I think I like it. . . I believe it would look better without the stripes, just my opinion.

[moparstuart]

I think I like it. . . I believe it would look better without the stripes, just my opinion.

[Homerr]

The car looks to be a very nice stock restoration other than that hood. Thank goodness it's an easy changeover. Yuk! 

Except the paint on the cowl!

To me it looks well done, and yes, the car is in nice shape which helps.  However, I don't really see a need to mess with the styling of a Charger.  I  think driving a Shaker hood car is super-cool but I wouldn't ever put one on anything but an E-body.

[tan top]

 nice charger 

nice color  too   , 

I like that idea of a air grabber on a second generation
,  cooler air for the carb is the pest plan  ,  not sure if I would put one on mine though !    same as a six pack style of scoop , & a lift off hood , love the  look of the  A12 69 & a half cars  hood ,  would like / was going to put one on mine years & years ago , but would not be happy for long , cause its not factory fitted , IMO second generations  body looks best as factory intended 

I think if they went with the '69 Charger V21 instead of the RR version it might have looked cooler some how 

  I was thinking that ,  think it would look good , would be a sort of optical illusion  disguising the grabber set up sort of thing 

[70 sublime]

This one is on the 70 Charger forum

It looks more like factory

http://www.1970chargerregistry.com/mboard/index.php?topic=2461.0

[Grm2159]

You should see the underneath. As pretty as the top of the car. I found the car with this hood setup. Wasn't sure if I liked it either. Going to find an original hood just in case. The car was done up very nicely by the previous owner. Where's the pic of the engine I just dropped in? I can't post the pics.

[70 sublime]

under hood

[GOTWING]

 

[tan top]

This one is on the 70 Charger forum

It looks more like factory

http://www.1970chargerregistry.com/mboard/index.php?topic=2461.0

damn    wow  , that's awesome !!  clever idea   ,  thanks for posting  

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Wow that is interesting indeed!

[BrianShaughnessy]

This one is on the 70 Charger forum

It looks more like factory

http://www.1970chargerregistry.com/mboard/index.php?topic=2461.0

That's some clever engineering work there!   I like it! 

[moparstuart]

yes love the dual concept , thats amazing

[Brass]

I find the hood scallops on the 2nd gen to be one of their defining features myself so anytime I see one of the modifications that eliminate it I find it's not appealing.  Thats just a personal thing though.

Mine too.   

[JB400]

Kind of disappointing to see the air grabber on there and not have the functional air cleaner that is needed for it.  Otherwise, not really all that bad looking.  It fits the Plymouths more better though.

There is another 69 being built with just the cowl induction style hood from the 70 Plymouth except without the air grabber.

[Grm2159]

Have the proper air cleaner setup but it just doesn't fit perfectly. Was made for a 383 setup and I dropped in a 440.

[tan top]

 never knew all the repop stuff was avalible  , I've lost track & whats been repoped  
if I had a  spare hood , might be tempted , to make something like that    may be duel vacuum actuators one for each side,   , only thing is the parts are costly , knowing me  , would do it & then after a week prefer the stock hood sent up  , like I  said in my first post on here ! the  second generation body is perfect




http://www.pgclassic.com/advanced_search_result.php?inc_subcat=1&keywords=%20&categories_id=4&azrefine=1

[Mytur Binsdirti]

The first one was bad enough, but the 2nd one................

[Homerr]

It would be interesting to see the second one where the entire depression was a Ramcharger vent.  i.e. the hinge was back at the firewall end of the depression and it could pop up about 2" total at the leading edge.   Then it might be badass.  Now it's a little like eyebrows.   

Nice work and clean install though. 

[bill440rt]

I'm thinking the '70 RR stripe on the '69 hood kinda kills it.

Best Air Grabber I've seen on a Charger was on a black '70, not sure which thread it was pictured in but it looked good. 

[70 sublime]

Best Air Grabber I've seen on a Charger was on a black '70, not sure which thread it was pictured in but it looked good.

I have been saving pics of interesting ones when I see them

[bill440rt]

That's it! 
Looks like a Jersey car, too. 

[rt green]

I think if this stuff would've been factory installed on chargers it would've gave me more time to get used to it

[5hunert]

I think the lack of a cold air induction was a glaring omission from one of the best styled cars of the era.  Keep in mind, cold air induction was done not so much for aesthetics, but to make the car go faster (than lowly chevys and fords).  With that in mind, the black 70 RT is probably the closest to what a factory setup would have looked like had something been done.

[tan top]

I think if this stuff would've been factory installed on chargers it would've gave me more time to get used to it

im thinking that too

I think the lack of a cold air induction was a glaring omission from one of the best styled cars of the era.  Keep in mind, cold air induction was done not so much for aesthetics, but to make the car go faster (than lowly chevys and fords).  With that in mind, the black 70 RT is probably the closest to what a factory setup would have looked like had something been done.

 true  

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

That's it! 
Looks like a Jersey car, too. 

HemiDoug posted those pics...its a friend of his.  orig V code car as well

[myk]

I think the lack of a cold air induction was a glaring omission from one of the best styled cars of the era.  Keep in mind, cold air induction was done not so much for aesthetics, but to make the car go faster (than lowly chevys and fords).  With that in mind, the black 70 RT is probably the closest to what a factory setup would have looked like had something been done.

I always wondered why the 2nd Gen's didn't have hood scoop options-a-plenty from the factory.  Maybe because Chrysler felt that the 2nd Gen, leader of the "Dodge Rebellion" had such a distinctive shape and style they felt that a hood scoop would ruin it?  IMO the 2nd Gen is one of those few cars on Earth that you wouldn't change a line on the body even if you could.  

Question: did all of those scoops and things actually make cars  back-in-the-day perform better?  Most modern cars, take my '99 WS6 F-bird for example, boast fresh air induction features on their bodies but it's all a bunch of balogna from the marketing people.  In the case of the F bodies, the scooped SS and WS6 cars were no faster or powerful than their "lesser" Z28 and T/A counterparts...