What year is this?

[M5Ivan]

This was my Father's car back in the 70's but he can't remember the year. He thinks it might have been a '73. Can anyone tell me what year it is? I'd completely forgotten about the car until he mentioned it recently and I asked him to send me a picture of it.

[RallyeMike]

73 or 74, though it looks like a 74 due to what appears to be the integrated shoulder belts (first year for the three-point single system).

[moparnation74]

Looks like a 74,. Cool pic btw...

[Alaskan_TA]

That style of combined seat & shoulder belt was used starting with the 1974 models.

[EccentricMagpies]

Real hard to make out but I don't see vents in the hood which is '74 specific too

[71_Charger_R/T]

If it's '73, it'd have to be a later build date. It has the chrome based bumperettes that were introduced later in '73. Early '73 had all rubber bumperettes.
Ask him if he remembers a big hump in the trunk floor. If he does, it was a '74. 

[ACUDANUT]

 Man does that car take the cool out of Chargers 
Cool story, ugly car. 

[daveco]

To each his own I guess, I like it.