RE: 1969 Dodge Charger: Spotted
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Autos are much much easier for burnouts. Rather than having to dump the clutch massively thereby killing it a bit, you can simply keep the brake pedal down whilst hitting the throttle pedal until it loses traction.
Makes it incredibly easy without the worry of accidentally keeping traction and shooting off, or having to switch your feet to start braking.
Autos are much much easier for burnouts. Rather than having to dump the clutch massively thereby killing it a bit, you can simply keep the brake pedal down whilst hitting the throttle pedal until it loses traction.
Makes it incredibly easy without the worry of accidentally keeping traction and shooting off, or having to switch your feet to start braking.
The thing is for that kind of money you could build your own much better version. Buy a decent body for a few grand ($10k - $20K), stick an Art Morrison chassis under it($15k), drop $30k on a twin turbo Nelson Racing engine which would be good for 800HP - 1000HP. Throw another $30K on odds and sods and bobs your uncle. It would be silly fast and handle as well. Seems a no brainer to me...
Is the vendor aware that modifications on this sort of car makes it less valuable, not the other way. £100k does seem like a lot of beans for a non RT, non number's matching Charger even if it does have a big engine, although its hard to tell exactly given no spec list.
While we all get bleary eyed at the mereest hint of the words 'Charger', 'Mustang' and the like, back in their day these cars (at least the 'cooking' models0 sold in fairly high numbers and at some point's of their history were next to worthless. Over the years Cooking models have ended up with trim and body panels that set the more sporty versions apart, sporty verisons got written off or died of rust and so became donor cars, the lines got blurred and now the collector car market, the type of people who spend six figures on similar cars without blinking, value originality above all else. A car restored by Bruce Willis with an engine put in by Jay Kay is unlikely to get a second glance.
While we all get bleary eyed at the mereest hint of the words 'Charger', 'Mustang' and the like, back in their day these cars (at least the 'cooking' models0 sold in fairly high numbers and at some point's of their history were next to worthless. Over the years Cooking models have ended up with trim and body panels that set the more sporty versions apart, sporty verisons got written off or died of rust and so became donor cars, the lines got blurred and now the collector car market, the type of people who spend six figures on similar cars without blinking, value originality above all else. A car restored by Bruce Willis with an engine put in by Jay Kay is unlikely to get a second glance.
Streetrod said:
The thing is for that kind of money you could build your own much better version. Buy a decent body for a few grand ($10k - $20K), stick an Art Morrison chassis under it($15k), drop $30k on a twin turbo Nelson Racing engine which would be good for 800HP - 1000HP. Throw another $30K on odds and sods and bobs your uncle. It would be silly fast and handle as well. Seems a no brainer to me...
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279 said:
Is the vendor aware that modifications on this sort of car makes it less valuable, not the other way. £100k does seem like a lot of beans for a non RT, non number's matching Charger...
That's what I was thinking as well. GranCab said:
Reardy Mister said:
Article said:
It probably won't even burnout that well with an auto.
Say what? It has a £25,000 8 litre V8 in it. You will literally need to own your own tyre shop to own it. Even an original R/T would have laid 11s for fun.tut tut.
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Streetrod said:
The thing is for that kind of money you could build your own much better version. Buy a decent body for a few grand ($10k - $20K), stick an Art Morrison chassis under it($15k), drop $30k on a twin turbo Nelson Racing engine which would be good for 800HP - 1000HP. Throw another $30K on odds and sods and bobs your uncle. It would be silly fast and handle as well. Seems a no brainer to me...
Spot on. Far quicker, better built and will go round corners. I like the feature Charger, but no way is it worth the asking price even if Willis and JK have owned it.Reardy Mister said:
GranCab said:
Reardy Mister said:
Article said:
It probably won't even burnout that well with an auto.
Say what? It has a £25,000 8 litre V8 in it. You will literally need to own your own tyre shop to own it. Even an original R/T would have laid 11s for fun.tut tut.
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skyrover said:
I was going to say the same thing!much better
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