If you own a 1967 Dodge Charger.....................

[Alaskan_TA]

Hey gang,
Doug Hammer has come through for us once again, he has scanned his copy of the 1967 Dodge Data book for us. You can all view it now at this link;

http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/dealerships/1967DealershipDataBook-07.shtml

Thanks Doug!

[Ghoste]

Whoo hoo, respect!! 

[tan top]

    good  stuff !!  .. just been reading ..did not realise the standard gearing was 2:94 ....on a 440 car for the  67  model year !!
they changed it to 3:23 for 68 /69 ... with a 8 3/4   & not even had 2:94 as a factory option  wonder why ...

[Ghoste]

I was going to make a smartass comment about 1st gens and the fastback styling being all about high speed cruising but then I realized that your question deserves a better answer than that.  I find it kind of interesting, anyone know the reason for the 2:94 to 3:23 switch?

[tan top]

I was going to make a smartass comment about 1st gens and the fastback styling being all about high speed cruising but then I realized that your question deserves a better answer than that.  I find it kind of interesting, anyone know the reason for the 2:94 to 3:23 switch?

......  .......    ...... funny you say that !!  i thought something similar  at first first generation cutting through the wind better 
getting a bit side tracked now but
odd though even Daytonas & C500s were not offered  2:94 .... 2:76 ..which i would of thought  more fitting than .... having an options of  3:54 ..3:55 ...3:91 .....4:10   seeing as they were marketed towards top end , as apposed to 1/4 mile  ....... something to do with pasanger car tire technology aback in the day  .............

[Ghoste]

That makes more sense.  It's also worth remembering that Dodge was still a little unsure of how to market the Charger in 1967.  It was part luxury car, part sporty car, part family car.  They had only gotten into the "letter" supercars that same year with the Coronet RT so I think they kind of didn't understand the whole street supercar market yet.  They had race cars in showrooms for years from Chrysler so why would people want to buy cars that were more about looking fast?  That is what I think may have been the question of the day anyhow.

[tan top]

That makes more sense.  It's also worth remembering that Dodge was still a little unsure of how to market the Charger in 1967.  It was part luxury car, part sporty car, part family car.  They had only gotten into the "letter" supercars that same year with the Coronet RT so I think they kind of didn't understand the whole street supercar market yet.  They had race cars in showrooms for years from Chrysler so why would people want to buy cars that were more about looking fast?  That is what I think may have been the question of the day anyhow.

yeah i see what your saying Ghoste  !!     hmmm

[FastbackJon]

Wow, pretty neat. I wonder where this was taken?

[FastbackJon]

And on another page, speaking about the console clock, it says "The clock automatically adjusts itself whenever it becomes necessary for the hands to be reset to the correct time."

What does that mean? I never thought of it being automatically adjusting, no GPS back in those days.

[Ghoste]

Mine just automatically stays on 20 minutes to 5 all the time. 

[bordin34]

That picture looks a lot like some lake just outside of Phoenix.

[hemigeno]

And on another page, speaking about the console clock, it says "The clock automatically adjusts itself whenever it becomes necessary for the hands to be reset to the correct time."

What does that mean? I never thought of it being automatically adjusting, no GPS back in those days.

I remember reading elsewhere about the '68-70 clocks that if you adjusted the car's clock to advance the time, it would speed the car's clock up just a bit to compensate.  If you adjusted the clock to move the hands back, it would slow the car's clock up a little.  As you repeatedly adjusted the clock to the correct time it would theoretically (eventually) be internally adjusted to keep perfect time.  I guess that was their idea of "automatic".   

[FastbackJon]

Phoenix area eh? Maybe the pic was taken here? Looking Northwest?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=33.675497,-111.150227&sll=33.675497,-111.150227&sspn=0.048428,0.077248&ie=UTF8&ll=33.679568,-111.156235&spn=0.024213,0.054932&t=h&z=15