Vintage Charger racing

[Firetodd]

Enjoy: http://www.altdriver.com/sports-car/dodge-the-chargers-part-1/

[Firetodd]

So amazing!

[Baldwinvette77]

That was awesome 

[ws23rt]

Good stuff ----Hmm I wonder if a hellcat challenger could last 500 miles in those conditions?

[kokxville]

yeah.awesome video 
Thanks for posting 

[myk]

Great find and post. 

Just how close (or far) to a stock car are those Chargers, anyway?

[Bob T]

Neat slice of history, great find   

[Aero426]

Great find and post.  

Just how close (or far) to a stock car are those Chargers, anyway?

Heavily modified from stock.  They were made to take a pounding.     But they did start out by using a production line body.   It has a torsion bar suspension layout just like the street cars.   They use the A833 transmission and an 8 3/4 rear end like a street car.    It uses a less civilized Hemi compared to the one in the street car.    I guess the bottom line is you can still look at these cars and see their original origins.    

[Drache]

There is just something about that video that speaks to me.

Stock bodies being one of them. It's also neat seeing the tail stripes. One reading of course 500 but another reading R/T.

To me that was racing. I don't like modern Nascar. But I would watch vintage Nascar.

They need to bring back a "vintage" class where all the cars were pre 1970.

[charge69]

"They use the A833 transmission and an 8 3/4 rear end like a street car."

That really goes to show you how tough an 8 3/4" rear end really is.  Yeah, they did it for weight savings as the 8 3/4" rear is about 100 lbs. lighter than a Dana but, they could also stand up to the punishment of a NASCAR HEMI without breaking.

Of course they were not stock rear ends but ............ if they were prone to breakage, they would have stepped up to the Dana.

[projectanimal]

So cool! 

[tan top]

 great stuff , never  get tired you seeing them videos  , thanks for posting 

[303 Mopar]

[PlainfieldCharger]

Great video Love seeing vintage movies during those years. Really like that they used the actual body of the car.

[Stegs]

geesh, i dont even dare to go over 70 with my charger....something about 4 drum brakes, no air bags, only a lap belt and no collision safety


These guys going 200mph in a charger....granted they had roll bars.....but with 69 charger steering.....id pee my pants