The smallest of details (something I just noticed on the new Challenger)

[Ghoste]

I don't why this completely escaped until today but I just realized today that the Challenger script on the new ones is exactly the same as the old ones.  It even looks to be the same size.  No reason of course that it shouldn't be but the Charger one evolved as did the Mustang and Camaro and any number of other old nameplates on new cars.
Just one of those little forest for the trees things maybe.

[41husk]

Never paid ant attention.  I will have to take a  look

[Ghoste]

I wonder now what the script was like on the Mitsu Challenger?

[Old Moparz]

I wonder now what the script was like on the Mitsu Challenger?

It was definitely script & very similar, but I never compared the two.    Wouldn't surprise me if it was the same.

Here is a couple of links to large pics....
http://www.amcarguide.com/wp-content/gallery/challenger-c2-ugly-one/1982-dodge-challenger-2.jpg

http://www.speeddoctor.net/media/2010/03/Dodge-Challenger-1979_01.jpg

[Ghoste]

Does look the same.  Maybe they still had stock they could use up?

[ChgrSteve67]

They are the same except there is no mounting pin on the back and are held on with double sided adhesive.

[Ghoste]

Are you meaning the newest one or the Mitsu?

[c00nhunterjoe]

This made me go look at the charger. The script is the same but the one on my 07 is slightly larger

[Ghoste]

I thought the new Chargers only had that block letter nameplate?

[Ponch ®]

I don't why this completely escaped until today but I just realized today that the Challenger script on the new ones is exactly the same as the old ones.  It even looks to be the same size. 

that emblem (if we're taking about the same one) is only on some models (the "classic", I think). Almost all others have the more modern "block" lettering.

A lot of new Chally and Charger owners who want to go for that "old school" look are putting them on their cars, but most didn't come from the factory that way, and I could be wrong, but no new Chargers came with that old school script emblem at all.

[Ghoste]

Thats what I thought, just the Challenger.  Truthfully I think the block style lettering fits the new car better, more modern looking I guess.

[c00nhunterjoe]

The back of the car has the ugly block letters but I have the old school charger rt on the grill

[Ponch ®]

this one, right?



Mrs. Ponch actually wants me to put one on the spoiler. I dunno, as much as I like the new Chargers and Challengers, I'm still somewhat of a purist when it comes to those things. It's bad enough that a lot of new Charger/Challenger owners already think and act like they're driving a 1970 HEMI Challenger. No, seriously, I actually used to know a guy who kept his '09 Challenger in a climate controlled garage, had tire protectors on it, and had it towed to shows because he wanted to keep miles off of it. As far as I'm concerned, the old cars are the old cars and the new cars are the new cars.

I did, however, put a small pentastar emblem on the lower passenger's side fender of my 08 Charger.

[Ghoste]

I like that idea Ponch, a subtle nod to the past.

[c00nhunterjoe]

But you know in 1970, when that "crazy guy" parked his brand new hemi challenger in a barn for 30 years and all his friends mocked him............      you never know what will happen years down the line.

[c00nhunterjoe]

[Ponch ®]

But you know in 1970, when that "crazy guy" parked his brand new hemi challenger in a barn for 30 years and all his friends mocked him............      you never know what will happen years down the line.

yeah, but most of those guys who parked them in the 70s weren't doing it as some sort of investment...especially considering that a few years later they couldn't give away the car. Most of those stories (on MCG and the like) are a variation of "so and so went to Vietnam, didn't come back, and mom and dad didn't have the heart to sell it or drive it" or "when gas and insurance got too expensive, he decided to put the car away and pretty much forgot about it". Besides, for every one of those stories, there are a hundred "I had one, but I got bored with it so I sold it  to a kid down the street for $500 and he wrapped it around a tree a year later"

I know a few people that went and bought the first batch of numbered SRT-8's that came out in '08 and paid $10-20K over sticker thinking they'd make a killing if/when they decided to sell...and two years later were selling the car for Kelly Blue Book value.

It's like Jersey Shore after the first season...you can't recreate the magic twice.

[Ghoste]

Are you implying the first season was magic?

[Ponch ®]

Are you implying the first season was magic?

Not implying it.



I'm asserting it.

[Ghoste]

   Somewhere just now Snookie got a warm fuzzy sensation for no apparent reason.

[Old Moparz]

  Somewhere just now Snookie got a warm fuzzy sensation for no apparent reason.

That was just her, or one of the other cast members, peeing on her in a drunken stupor.

[Ghoste]

   True enough.   

Soooo, is the Mitsu Challenger script the same size as the other cars that wore that moniker?

[41husk]

I have an 09 SRT8 with under 11k miles, should I go ahead and quit my job and just sit around on my gold mine

[BrianShaughnessy]

I have an 09 SRT8 with under 11k miles, should I go ahead and quit my job and just sit around on my gold mine

   Only if you have an actual gold mine...  and some crusty old miner types to dig up the gold for you.       Otherwise the SRT8 is just sitting there depreciating like any other car.

[Ghoste]

Did notice today that the same Challenger I was looking at from the side yesterday also has the name in block letters on the grille.  A similar looking lettering to the new Charger.  I also notice right above the grille nameplate there is a badge on the front of the hood with the old style script in it.  The two seem a little closely placed on the car to me but I suppose they don`t want you to think it`s something else.