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76 Dodge Charger...

That was the last year of the "Fury-look" Charger (which started in '75).

In 1977 and '78, you could get a Charger but it looked nearly identical to a Cordoba. One of my best friends had a '77 Charger Daytona, 400-4v car. Most of those were blue, and most versions had a "double billboard" stripe, but his did not have that. I remember painting a stripe on one side of the car and running out of time... he ran that car for probably two years with a stripe on the passenger side only. :D
 
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I always thought of that generation as posers, but as I look at the picture of the car now, I can see shades of the fender and quarter bulges of the 71-74 B body cars. Stepping back, the car begins to look like the logical 70's evolution of the Charger. Don't hate me..:shifty:
 
No hate here. Personally, I'm a big fan of the '75 Road Runner, which was nearly identical. I missed out on a couple of cool '75 Chickens, including a manual-steering, manual-brake 400-4v car... it was the only manual-brake non-A/F-body Mopar I've ever seen built after '74.

Thinking about it more, in '75 the Charger went Cordoba here in the states, but there was a "lesser" model, known as the Charger Sport, sold in '75 and '76, with that body style. I'm not sure about '77. I think the lines of that car are cleaner and more attractive than the "Chardoba", as Kevin and I always referred to the standard '75-'78 models including his '77 Daytona.

Though the Chardoba was still available in '78, as far as I know it was wildly outsold by its more-handsome stablemate, the '78 Magnum. The Magnum continued into '79, but I'm pretty sure the Charger was dead by mid-'78.
 
I've seen the 75 chickens, and the chordoba's and chordoba daytona's but I've never seen a charger like this one....really caught me off guard.

Maybe it was a canook only car...:hmmm:
 
I had a 76 Charger Daytona, but it was the Cordoba-based body style.
Two tone blue, blue leather buckets and floor shift with a sliding sunroof. Got it with a smokin' (literally) 360 and some badly sagging rear leafs. Also came with the ever-present East Coast Metal Corrosion option.
Pulled the 360 2 bbl out of the 76 Volare Road Runner I was driving, swapped it into the Charger and got two years out of that lovely machine. :)



That 360 2bbl Runner pulled really hard - low 14's at Oyster Bed Bridge Dragway Park in P.E.I. back around '82. Good times.
 
thrashingcows said:
Maybe it was a canook only car...:hmmm:
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Re-read my previous post. It was not a Canook thing; for at least two years that style Charger was sold in the U.S. under the "Sport" moniker alongside the pricier Cordoba-style Charger. I haven't seen many of the former, though.

Listing has been removed. Too bad--it was a pretty-cool ride.
 
I have one wanna buy it? :D

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J.C. Corbett said:
Does it have the super desirable lifelike rust graphics?
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You betcha! :D

Would need alot of work to look pretty. A shame really, they only made 2,110 of them with a 318 and only 300 with manual brakes and steering. IIRC. It's a 318 bench car with no options at all.
 
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