Dodge Celebrates 50 Years of L-Platform Challenger Production

"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko) 05/29/2020 at 12:26 • Filed to: None

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E90M3 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/29/2020 at 12:30

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You sure it’s only 50 years? I could’ve sworn it was at least 60 by now. 

My bird IS the word > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/29/2020 at 12:30

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Very interesting as far as anniversary editions go. Not limited to a trim level , but limited production is an odd choice.

412GTI > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/29/2020 at 12:31

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I just made that joke to our inventory manager. I guess we have a Gold Rush Scat Pack Wide Body coming in. 

interstate366, now In The Industry > E90M3 05/29/2020 at 12:34

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I’m pretty sure the Allies used one at Normandy.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/29/2020 at 12:34

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I think what I was looking at a while back suggested that the bellhousing pattern for a Viper might actually mostly match up with, say, a ‘58 Imperial. Which seems like an interesting idea.

E90M3 > interstate366, now In The Industry 05/29/2020 at 12:38

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Wait, didn’t George Washington have one as well? I think I heard about it in a commercial once.

i86hotdogs > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/29/2020 at 12:40

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All of my features in one vehicle finally:

Scat Pack

F8 Green (although that Sinamon Stick color is pretty too)

Widebody

Manual Trans

Shaker Hood

Harmon Kardon Audio

I like those 50th Anniv. wheels more than the standard widebody wheels

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/29/2020 at 12:44

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50?

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > i86hotdogs 05/29/2020 at 12:48

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That’s a hefty price for a heft car.

Hefty-heft-hefty

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > E90M3 05/29/2020 at 12:49

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COVID-19 has warped the thin illusion that is time.

interstate366, now In The Industry > E90M3 05/29/2020 at 13:00

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Yeah, it was that particular car that inspired the Dodge brothers to start the company.

i86hotdogs > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/29/2020 at 13:12

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If it makes noises and burns tires I’m in

dogisbadob > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/29/2020 at 14:11

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they charge by the pound :p

BigBlock440 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/29/2020 at 16:54

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That’s not so farfetched, the 727 was built starting in 1956, I think it you could have probably optioned an Imperial with one. It lived on through the 90's as the 42RH/RE, where it was bolted to the LA engines, which the V10 is a derivative of. Sure, they could have changed the bellhousing between the poly’s and the LA’s, but I’d rate it as plausible .

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > BigBlock440 05/29/2020 at 17:01

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This is going off of my very limited memory of what I looked at, but I think the difference was literally down to just locating dowels - that the bellhousing pattern itself was “different but actually not”.

It wasn’t actually a poly in the ‘58 Imperial, I think, but an Early Hemi. Which did have a different bellhousing pattern in the industrial version, but that’s getting off-topic.