How do you like your Charger?

[Bad B-rad]

I have been a car/ motor cycle/Atv guy my whole life(as my father before me).
And I have loved Mopars starting at age 15 and now am 37 almost 38.
And I have noticed how things have changed, for me, as far as what I thought was cool and would want in my charger, at age 18, have changed a bit as I get older.
So my DREAM Charger at age 18 would look very different then what I would want today.
Have you guys noticed that?
What you would build as your dream Charger today, is it the same or different then years ago?
(I am mostly refering to looks/option wise, not so much brake/suspention wise, just looks, colors, eng and trans options)

As for me, at age 37/38, my Charger, would have a vinyl top, and be column shifted(or a console delete if it was a manual trans)It would have plain steel wheels with the deep dish wheel covers.
And it would prob rock the "buddy seat".
It would def, NOT be orange with a big "01" on the door,LOL!!(as it may have had if I had my way
at age 15)

how would you build/option your Charger?

[6pkrtse]

I have had my red 70 since High school (going on 28 years) . I still wouldn't change a thing. I like it just the way it is. I bought it the way it looks & just keep it maintained to keep it on the road. The only thing I change up once in a while is I go back & forth between the Rallye wheels & Cragars once in a while.

[Bad B-rad]

Way to go 6pkrtse, when you have what you like, why mess with it!!!!!


As a younger man, there is NO WAY I would have a vinyl top, and I would have to have a console in the car, they look so cool!!!
But today, after having the full console in my 66, or 15+ years, I am digging the "grandpa" look of the column shifted, auto with no console, and the buddy seat!(in my 69)

I still need a big block!!Maybe with just a little more "street" in the cam and a bit less "strip"

[70 sublime]

First Charger I had on the road was back in early 1980s
It was a 1968
It came with big back wheels and to this day I will always have the biggest back tire that will fit with out cutting anything up
Like the back end up a little from stock also

Always thought and still do , Chargers look funny with stock factory skinny back tires 

[Bad B-rad]

I also like the rear up a bit higher, don't they call that the east coast stance?
The last two Mopars muscle cars I owned had air shocks to correct sagging springs, and I loved to pump them up, I had two PSI settings, on for nice ride, and one for sweet cornering and jacked up look!

[Kern Dog]

Me?
I am in the process of adding A/C and a functional heater. Maybe with those 2 things, I will have fewer excuses to leave it sitting so much. Life is running out while I make all these excuses.   

[JB400]

Well done

[Bad B-rad]

Yeah Kern Dog!! Way to upgrade! The heat is almost a must have(depending on where you live), and A/C is almost as important.
I have been there before!! Drove my 66 Charger for 10-14 years with out heat!!
Anything that gets people in these car and driving them again, I am ALL FOR THAT!!!!!
The lack of heat, and the days of the non working fuel gauges (my 68 Coronet)
Again, things I would do, or deal with in  my younger days that, I would not do now!!!!LOL

[green69rt]

I've always liked the 2 generation.  Yeah, add something here and there but I like them all.  Working on my second one and wouldn't give it up for a lot.  I really don't know how to describe the car...it's sexy, wild, and it's not a modern car.  Modern cars really don't inspire me, they all seem to look the same.  The second gen are so unique.  Now i'm starting to wander off into la-la land. 

[69rtse4spd]

Me?
I am in the process of adding A/C and a functional heater. Maybe with those 2 things, I will have fewer excuses to leave it sitting so much. Life is running out while I make all these excuses.   

Well said about life running out, brother in law just passed on the first at 47. Then my buddy's mom just passed & my other buddy is fighting stage 4 colon cancer. Really makes you stop & think about stuff at any age. 

[JR]

I've had my car for 20 years. Back then, I used to dream of making it a vintage grand national/Trans Am race series inspired street car, that was capable of handling, stopping, and performing well.

Then Steve Strope went and built pretty much the exact car I was after.



So, then I thought maybe I'd take on a more European inspired build. Something that evoked inspiration from classic Ferrari Daytona's, Miuras, and Espadas. Then, he went and did this.



Which while I never had the budget to build something to that level, that was the look I wanted.

So then it felt like I was ripping off someone else's style if I tried either of those.

So for the last few years, I've been working towards the idea of what if someone wanted to build a pro touring car, in 1970, using styling from the period. With the exception of modern wheels and tires, that's the plan now. I've always planned to add a fiberglass Six Pack hood, but I am thinking of adding a "440" call out on the side of the scoop in that popular 60's font. And maybe an aluminum spoiler similar to the 68 above. But leave the rest of the body alone. I want a car that could have been seen racing through the canyons in southern California in 1970, if that were a thing then.

That's the current direction, anyways.

So I guess, no, the overall plan for the car really hasn't changed that much in 20 years. Only a few details.

[Bad B-rad]

Very nice vision!! Way to stick to a plan and see it threw!

Even now I still like to dream.
I am doing my 69 as it came from the factory(3X green, with 383 4Bbl/727/)
So it will look as  it was ordered, BUT  I dream about  down the road, after the car is done and enjoyed for a few years, doing a Dayclona!!!
Same F5 Green, with white Daytona stripe.
I guess at that point I would also need a 440 or Hemi!!!!
The only major issue is I am a huge fan of the 2nd gen flying buttress rear window, and not sure I would be able to live with the flush rear window plug.
Ahhh dare to dream.

[Dino]

At 21 I had a bright yellow and black '68 with headers and cherry bombs, hopped up rear and fat tires. It was a blast!

These days I have a '69 with a nice rumble but nothing that would tick me off at my advanced age.   

It has functional heat and a/c, and I have added power door locks, trunk lock, power windows (all remote controlled), alarm, tracker devices, remote start, and the vinyl interior will be replaced for real leather. The front seats will get some extra support but they will look pretty much stock. In other words, I've gone the luxury route. Nobody said I couldn't have my cake and eat it!

[6pkrtse]

Way to go 6pkrtse, when you have what you like, why mess with it!!!!!


As a younger man, there is NO WAY I would have a vinyl top, and I would have to have a console in the car, they look so cool!!!
But today, after having the full console in my 66, or 15+ years, I am digging the "grandpa" look of the column shifted, auto with no console, and the buddy seat!(in my 69)

I still need a big block!!Maybe with just a little more "street" in the cam and a bit less "strip"

I agree on the vinyl tops. I was never a fan of them or the 70 R/T door scoops but this car came with them & were on the car when I bought it so they stay. They have grown on me over the years. It also came with the original deck lid that has the luggage rack, that option is ugly as hell but I may put it back on someday.

[Bad B-rad]

OH I LOVE THE LUGGAGE RACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think/know it looks so strange,with a huge trunk like the chargers have, Like why would you ever really need it? But I still dig it!!!
I would totally rock one!!
My buddy has a 1968 Plymouth wagon and we found a super clean roof rack at the Mopar nats 5-6 years ago.By the time I finally talked him in to how coo it would look on his car, we went back and it had been sold!
But I would so rock my 3X green 69 with a luggage rack.

[Nacho-RT74]

I like the way it is mine at this moment ( well, if it was assembled ).

I think only options missed on my car at this moment ( valid for 74, not added from earliers options ) could be sunroof, Powered windows, Cassette Player, and front and rear moldings ( the ones on body, around bumpers ). Can't recall if 6 ways seats were an option on 74s. From those, I think just could take the powered windows as a new add and 6 way seat. The rest will be nice but doesn't kill me.

Need to say I already have added LOT of options out of the Venezuelan Chargers versions.

EDITING:
OH!!! missed this... electric heater rear glass, brad new option for 74s! I'd like that to remove the rear deffog blower and install dual rear speakers.

[Bad B-rad]

On the rear window defrost blower, does it just blow air over the rear window, to defog/defrost or is hot/warm air ducted from the front to the rear blower?
I remember I had one on my 74 Charger, but honestly, I never used it, and do not remember a duct being hooked to the blower.

I dig the manual windows, in my Charger, that's just me.

[6pkrtse]

I have the rear defrost option on my red 70'. It is just a blower that blows air on the window. It is not hot air but it does a hell of a job defrosting the rear window in the fall or colder spring days. I can feel the air up all the way up front when it is on.

[Bad B-rad]

Good to know, 20 years later, I wish I would have saved that blower from my 74!
I remember having to use the old, RainX-ANTI FOG stuff on an 74 Duster.
Those were the days before that electric stick on grid/ rear defroster thing.

[CDN72SE]

My dream Charger as a child is what I saw on TV, the Y8 Gold 72 Charger on the Mod Squad and Petty's 3rd Gen Chargers. At 20 I bought coincidentally a Y8 72. It had Western Turbine rims, air shocks jacked up in the back, fat tires and underhood chrome, threw on headers and a dual exhaust. Treated it as a car, drove to work, used it as a delivery car for fast food, drove it in the winter with snow tires. Jacked it up using the jack that came with the car in the dented bumper slots, loved it.

31 years later still have the car, to make it the way I want it added stock bucket seats, floor mounted shifter, gull wing spoiler, front spoiler, 71 hideaways, machine gun tips and a ramcharger hood. Still my dream car with some additions.

[6pkrtse]

My dream Charger as a child is what I saw on TV, the Y8 Gold 72 Charger on the Mod Squad and Petty's 3rd Gen Chargers. At 20 I bought coincidentally a Y8 72. It had Western Turbine rims, air shocks jacked up in the back, fat tires and underhood chrome, threw on headers and a dual exhaust. Treated it as a car, drove to work, used it as a delivery car for fast food, drove it in the winter with snow tires. Jacked it up using the jack that came with the car in the dented bumper slots, loved it.

31 years later still have the car, to make it the way I want it added stock bucket seats, floor mounted shifter, gull wing spoiler, front spoiler, 71 hideaways, machine gun tips and a ramcharger hood. Still my dream car with some additions.

That is what this hobby is all about right there. making them what you want, driving them & enjoying them. Way too many people have lost sight of this as they continue to just price them out of this stratosphere.

[CDN72SE]

  6pkrtse

[Nacho-RT74]

On the rear window defrost blower, does it just blow air over the rear window, to defog/defrost or is hot/warm air ducted from the front to the rear blower?

Just the air taken from the cab, whatever the temp it is. Actually the blower works, but the heating element on glass is way more efficient. And is correct for 74 which is my case, not for earliers. The blower was still an option thought

[VegasCharger]

I agree on the vinyl tops. I was never a fan of them or the 70 R/T door scoops but this car came with them & were on the car car when I bought it so they stay. They have grown on me over the years. It also came with the original deck lid that has the luggage rack, that option is ugly as hell but I may put it back on someday.

I agree!!! No vinyl tops for me.

I also agree!! Epic fail by Chrysler.

I rather have a luggage rack than a spoiler any day of the week. Speaking of 70s of course.

[pipeliner]

I've had my factory delete vinyl top 70 Charger RT for 14 years now. It's what I was looking for. I absolutely love everything about them. The only thing I didn't like about my car was the woodgrain console. I took that POS and tossed it in the dump. I'm serious, I hate consoles. When me and my wife would cruise she was always wanting to slide over next to me but couldn't. So one year I got laid off and tossed it and installed a buddy seat and my wife was one happy lady and so was I lol. I like old shool Muscle under the hood but everything else upgraded. I have borgeson steering, Vintage air, Dakota Gauges, BeCool Rad and electric fans and a 130 amp Alt with Nachos wiring upgrades and a close ratio T-56 Magnum with hydraulic clutch with 3.91 gears out the back. My car also has racing mirrors, G-36, hood paint, V-21, and hood pins J-45. Maybe this year when I get time I plan on upgrading the TB,s and UCA,s, LCA,s, SA and go to a bigger brake up front.

[Ghoste]

Mine is pretty close to being my dream Charger just as it is.  Maybe a Hemi and factory silver but those can be done later.  I love my vinyl top.

[moparstuart]

Mine is pretty close to being my dream Charger just as it is.  Maybe a Hemi and factory silver but those can be done later.  I love my vinyl top.

me too on the vinyl tops   love them  my 69 Road runner had one and my 70 rr has one and my 68 charger does too  
both are original to the cars and perfect 

[HeavyFuel]

Years ago, mine came with a little two-legged helper.   That feature is no longer with the car, but I'd bring it back if I could.