For today, a collection of images of sporty Mopars taken back in the ’60s and ’70s. I’ve generally covered these corporate siblings separately, but this time, why not bring them together?
The usual suspects show up; Chargers, Challengers, ‘Cudas, and Road Runners. Many of them wearing the fixed-up looks of the period. Some rather mildly, and others being far more brash. Regardless, none of them seem the timid type.
Awesome pictures! The 68 Charger is a clean, mean looking machine 🙂
’67 Charger (and young lady with a B-52) in 3rd photo–
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Had to scroll back to it, and confirm the ’55 Pontiac on the street.
I was 14 in ’67. By that time, remnants of stodgy, dozen-yr-old post-sedans were, mostly, long gone. A survivor here…
Wonder how much longer did the Star Chief last 😲 ⁉️
It’s a 68 Charger
Guess funds were running a little low after acquiring CUDA Car II since it only got a set of chrome reverse wheels on the back and didn’t get the fancy stripe that CUDA Car did.
That final Charger appears to be one of the rare 500 models with the flush exposed headlight grille and non-tunnel backlight. Of course what I see in that picture is the C-series 3/4 ton 4×4 IH in the background.
Good call on the 1969 Charger 500. Besides the hand-finished flush rear window, the grilled was a standard 1968 Coronet but pushed out flush with the end of the hood. The 500 is typically overshadowed by the Daytona, which is a shame since the 500 did okay against the Ford Talladega and things might have turned out differently if Chrysler had left it at that.
FWIW, I once read that there were only two drivetrains used for the 1969 500: 440-4v/TorqueFlite/ 8 3/4 rear axle, or Street Hemi/4-speed/Dana 60. I’m guessing the latter mainly went to NASCAR teams.
Nice post. I haven’t seen an Arco since I was a kid in Pittsburgh 👍
Is that little flying saucer above the hood scoop in fact a hood mounted tach on the 1969 Plymouth (GTX?). Photographed wearing an Ontario plate, but that location could have been anywhere a new industrial subdivision was springing up.
1968 Road Runner. But the hood is a puzzler. It looks like a 440-6v hood, but it’s missing the hood pins. In fact, it looks like it’s just a large Hemi-Dart style scoop on a steel, regular Belvedere hood. Likewise, I can’t feature a tach being mounted on a scoop that large and think it’s probably on the dash.
I like the Sattelite, (?) in picture # 2 .
-Nate
In the photo showing the 2 Cudas, I saw a black 1975-79 Ford Ecololine, a VW Rabbit and the brown hatchback, I thought first of a Mustang II but it could also be some Datsun. It remind me of that old Youtube video I saw years ago.
I miss when these cars had mag wheels, the overrestored trend of dog dishes and rallye IIs makes these cars takes away the spirit of them. Also better than the big wheel pro touring look but luckily I think that trend has been on the wane
The blue Plymouth is a ’68 Road Runner. I had a red one. The badge on the upper left side of the door is a ROAD RUNNER badge . Great car!
#1 MOPAR
That “70 Coronet convertible was the only one of the whole bunch still wearing white walls and factory Magnum 500’s on it.The rest all had aftermarket mag rims and fat tires.It even had door edge protectors on it.I like whitewalls and I like factory wheels.I hope that convertible also had a bench seat and column shift auto in it too.
That car is the one I liked best!
Stop photoshopping Peter’s models!
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I had a 1970 barracuda which I purchased while still in the military in 1970. Best Mopar ever made ! I seen it on the road 20 years after I sold it in 1985. Wish I still had it to this day.
I’ll bet. What color? I really liked the “69’s(and the mid “60’s”, ones.)
Great pics and quite poignant for those of us of a “certain age’.
Continuing (but not for long) almost 50 yrs of vintage auto flipping, just picked up one of this nature: a down-at-the-heels ’70 Charger R/T V-code (440 6-Pack) 4 spd from it’s 35 yr owner that will go down the road soon, a pretty rare bird. Would love to see an old pic of it similar to these of what it had once looked like way back in it’s youth.
Back in those days, most cars looked at least halfways decent looking, even AMC stuff, with a couple of exceptions. But the Mopars looked the best, from ’68 to ’74, after that, it all went to hell for a long time.