Still haven’t gotten enough of the Broughmo-Muscle Car Era with today’s ’74 Charger? Well how about these mini ’73 Charger Special Editions, released in the late ’90s by Johnny Lightning?
The SE was an odd choice in the JL Muscle Cars series, sharing peg space at the store with a GTO Judge, Torino Cobra, AAR ‘cuda and others. But as a college-aged car guy at the time, I was completely smitten with these 1/64 scale Broughams.
Several color variations were released, and some even came with whitewalls! They were very detailed for their then-$2.99 price. The only problem was the wheels did not sit in their wheelwells very, um, well…
But I still acquired most of the releases. This dark red one was the first, then the white one with the black top. After that, I can’t really remember. Perhaps the slow release of Broughamtastic compounds were affecting my memory.
They’re certainly not the common-as-dirt 1969 Camaros and 1965 Mustangs commonly seen at your local department store. And for that reason, I still love these little SEs. Want something different? You got it!
Johnny Lightning made some great examples! I have several too.
Tom; didn’t you just write me recently to say that we should have fewer posts per day? This is #10 today, a CC record! 🙂
Well, I just had to post the mini-Charger SE the same day as the big one 🙂
A symptom of Mopar Mania, I’d say!
These quality hot wheels size cars are amazing in detail, really…I have about 300 of them. The coverage of 50s cars has gotten pretty comprehensive…wish they would start doing 60s and 70s big cars instead of yet another Mustang or Camaro or Vette or GTO…that’s about the only genre in which the coverage is truly weak.
Neo Scale Models has a great line of 1:43 “big car” models. In the US these models are called American Excellence. Very detailed resin models, which means they’re not cheap. This page of their website shows the car brands: http://neoshop.replicars.nl/models.php
I had a green 1/25 scale promo of a ’74 Charger, and sadly I lost it, sniff!
But some of my other promos survived, including a ’70 Coupe DeVille, but got ruined by getting painted. Vendors sold them Chicago Auto Show.
I do have some recent ‘Johnny Lightning’ 71-73 Chargers like in the pics. And these aren’t ‘Broughams’, even some GTO’s and Chevelle SS454’s had vinyl tops.
After reading this, I just HAD to finally buy a $3.49 Hot Wheels Chrysler Turbine in my local Ralph’s. It’s part f a Hollywod 2011 series, I’ve been waiting for it to g on clearance for at least a year, but I bit the bullit. I have a 10 pack of Mopar Johnny Lightning from this era that includes one of there.
I love these JL cars. I’ve got a Plymouth Superbird, ’55 Chrysler 300, Dart Swinger, Challenger, but I don’t have a Charger SE though.
Cool; I have that C-300. That FM3 Challenger with the white top is really sharp!