More on the 500 production numbers? Or urban myth?

[Ghoste]

I found this statement in the Dec 08 issues of Hemmings Muscle Machines.  There was a good article in there about a 69 Talladega and the owner had some comments in the end of the article mentioning the 69 Chargers and the 500 production numbers.  I thought I'd throw it up here for comments.

[nascarxx29]

Good read be nice if that original owner saved that invioce

[tan top]

intresting ,   

[Aero426]

The guy who wrote that, Jim Wells,  currently owns a really nice Talladega.   

[69CoronetRT]

What he's asserting would have been illegal and not worth the effort.
Memories fade over time.

[Ghoste]

Fade or grow from nothing, depending on your point of view.  From the same Talladega article there was this somewhat related quote from Ralph Moody.  It's often been asserted that Chrysler did this with the 500's but it seems like an urban legend thing to me.

[69_500]

I don't know if your memory has to fade or not, but if you ask Jerry Service to see the window sticker for his HEMI 500, it says charger R/T. Where as another R/T in the same area's window sticker says Charger 500.

[BROCK]

Seems most camps from all types of homologation racing have stories about actual production
numbers.

As for window stickers:  I'm curious.  Did they include the actual serial number of the car on
each one?  If so, R/T on a 500 would simply be a typo.  Also, window stickers dealer printed
or factory printed?  Sure, it was official factory paper - but, weren't dealers able to put their
own price on the sticker?

It's all interesting

[pettybird]

The guy who wrote that, Jim Wells,  currently owns a really nice Talladega.   

and he and his wife are a couple of my very favorite DSAC members

[Ghoste]

And the Talladega in the article was "really nice", I had just never run across that bit about the window sticker before and found it interesting.

[69_500]

I really wish Jerry N. would chime in here. But I'm pretty sure that his window sticker list his car as a Charger R/T, and didn't upcharge for the 500. However I have seen other 500's window stickers where it was about a $390-450 price increase over the R/T price.

[hemigeno]

Wasn't Jerry N.'s car a fairly early-production 500?

[UFO]

Early 500's have been known to have the XS vin instead of the XX.

[69_500]

yeah Jerry's car is pretty early. And it does say XS on the window sticker, as well as on the fender tag, but XX on the dash.