1978 Challenger??

[Silver R/T]

Look what I've found. never knew they existed.
http://spokane.craigslist.org/cto/1330665290.html
1978 Dodge Challenger. Runs fair. Manual Transmission (5-speed). Good chrome wheels, and fairly good tires. NO TITLE Sorry

[BIRD67]

That would be a fun Pro Stock project! Drop a hemi in it like the Dodge Colt's had..

[Brock Samson]

 Yeah they were Mitsus' answer to the Toyota Celica which sold really well when the gas got iffy in the '70s - there was another version too,.. the Plymouth Sapporo,.. plus chrysler was selling the original Avenger and the Colt which was a decent car all around. all this was before chrysler got heavily involved with mitsu engineering and did the Starion/lazer and the later '80s eclipse cars... Collectable Automobile did a great feature on them earlier this year..
they're not worth much anymore...

[b5blue]

Yup I remember new ones, those were the dark years....slim picking for "real" new cars. 

[UFO]

Hot Rod or Car Craft did a comparison test between a new(for the time) challenger and a '70 hemi challenger.
I think they just wanted to play with a hemi car for a while.

[b5blue]

Yeah like the one someone did with the 70 Charger awhile back, you could see the 70's alignment was off in the photos.

[71charger_fan]

My wife bought one new. It was a very nice car for its time. Unfortunately, it was already rusting away by '82.

[greatwn73]

I bought one new in 1980, 2.6 (most were 2.0L) 5 spd and 4whl disc. Took alot of abuse because it wasn't a "real" Challenger. Entered it in a few track days and ran autocross where I consistently won my class.

[71charger_fan]

I saw a few of them still running around Cairo. I think they were badged as Galant coupes there.

[Big Sugar]

Look what I've found. never knew they existed.
http://spokane.craigslist.org/cto/1330665290.html
1978 Dodge Challenger. Runs fair. Manual Transmission (5-speed). Good chrome wheels, and fairly good tires. NO TITLE Sorry

I bought one new in 1980, 2.6 (most were 2.0L) 5 spd and 4whl disc. Took alot of abuse because it wasn't a "real" Challenger. Entered it in a few track days and ran autocross where I consistently won my class.

Funny....If you Squint your eyes hard and long enough to the point where bodily fluids start seeping from your tear ducts, and you repeatadly smash your forhead with a German ceramic beer stein.... You can start to see the similarities between the 78 Challenger and the 70 Challey.. ....And if you begin stomping hard on your other foot you'll start to see a Hemi Cuda.


Neat
Ron

[Nacho-RT74]

[greenpigs]

My computer teacher had one and we painted black/silver.

[aussiemuscle]

they're not worth much anymore...

Maybe we should start painting them orange and jumping them? 

[b5blue]

 

[lisiecki1]

that car was rated at 40 MPG highway in 1978!

What the hell is wrong with american auto makers nowadays?  Why can't they still do this....granted it wasn't a very pretty car...but it was functional!

[Ghoste]

Actually it was a Mitsubishi import being rebadged and sold through Chrysler dealers.  I'd be surprised if many of them got that kind of mileage but just the same, for the size and weight of it, the American car makers will make them if we buy them.  FWIW, the domestics get a bad rap IMO for mileage as it is.  The media insists that the only thing the AMricans build are giant gas sucking SUVs and trucks and for some bizarre reason the public believes that.

[lisiecki1]

I think the public believes it because the majority buys or wants to buy those big school bus sized gas drinkers

[Ghoste]

That is partially my point though.  The American carmakers are every bit as capable of making the high mileage vehicles the Japanese are and in fact, in vehicles within the same size class they do.  We as a buying public turn to them primarily for large vehicles so that is primarily what they offer us.  Too often I hear or read about the way the domestics only build or "force" us to buy gas guzzlers.  I have never yet witnessed an American car dealer putting a gun to anyones head to make them buy an SUV.  Yes, the Pious gets better mileage than a Caliber, it's also a helluva lot smaller.  Yet, whenever the domestics do offer a microcar or anything the size of a Hyundai Accent, we don't want it.
A Ford Focus gets comparable mileage to a Toyota Corolla but I bet if you did an informal poll most people would automatically assume the Toyota gets far superior mileage.
It's partly buyer mindset and partly media bashing of the Big 3 and partly a mystery to me. 
In any case, the Challenger and Sapporo of the late 70's never really caught on.  The Omni came on the scene shortly after the introduction of the Mitsuchallenger so that may have something to do with it too.

[lisiecki1]

i'd really like to find a turbo daytona myself....my cousin had one years ago....that was the coolest little car....

[Brock Samson]

 America has allways been known for big thirsty V-8 cars with fins and chrome and high H.P. and torque numbers while the Japanese and Europians have allways been known for much smaller 4 or 6 Cyl efficient & better handeling vehicles.
   That's a common and typical historic perception which probably wont be changing anytime soon.
All the manufacturers have been homoginized now to the point where there's not much difference anymore with the Japanese building huge V-8 trucks etc. and even Porsche builds a front engine air cooled V-8 sedan now (the Panamerica) everyone is raiding everyone elses markets for niche and larger market share,.. If you ask me I'd say it (the American Auto industry) all went to hell in 1972.
IMO. 

[Skyview69]

That looks just like a Plymouth Sapporo.  my parents had one of those...I rememer it quit well...my brother put it in a swamp!

[Ghoste]

Exactly the same, badge engineering is nothing new.