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71ChargerRT

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I always loved this one! I wanted one of these so bad when they were new, even test drove a couple. Problem was insurance was was almost twice the car payment...
[video=youtube;euwshCke0-s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euwshCke0-s&feature=colike[/video]


I do remember this one from my younger days :)
[video=youtube;KREmzcQSCqY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KREmzcQSCqY&feature=colike[/video]
 
I remember a lot of car commercials, particularly the jingles.

"Wouldn't you really rather have a Buuuu-ick?"

"Datsun [DatSUN!] We... are... DRIVEN!"

"Chevy Citaaaaaaaation!"

"Taur-US! Now there's an American car with a shape and style we've never seen before."

As far as test drives go, I've beaten the shit out of every used car I ever drove. I scared the ever-living shit out of a salesman in Escanaba back in the '90s test-driving a Starion ESi turbo automatic, and my friend Todd and I beat a '95 Mazda RX-7 R2 twin turbo so badly we were sure it would go home on the hook, but we didn't break it. That may have been the harshest-riding production car I've ever driven, but it was a hoot on Spaghetti Junction in ATL.

I never broke one, but a friend of mine broke a few of 'em, including leaving a Ramcharger halfway up the slope at Indiana Mine (site of the infamous Tercel hillclimb), then walked to the nearest payphone for a ride and to call the dealership where the truck was stuck. I still don't know what he broke, but between 4-speed manual transmission, clutch, and transfer case, it wouldn't find neutral and roll backward off the hill. I may be mistaken, but he also blew two gears out of a Renault Fuego Turbo pounding the shit out of it on Barton St. not far from here, but didn't tell the dealer about it when he limped it back.
 
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I remember the T.A. commercial. When that one came out I thought the part with the camera going in the hood, through the engine, then out the exhaust was pretty cool. I'm sure thats the "gear head" in me. The end with the t.a "Eating" the other car always made me think of Teddy Jacklovitz. (I'll let Jass explain):D I don't remember the truck ad. I do remember the neon ad.
 
I remember the Neon commercials, thought they were stupid then too. I do kinda like them better now though.

I scared the hell out of a salesman on a WS6/6spd test drive, had her sideways in 3 gears!:D

I also beat the hell out of every test drive I've ever taken! I drove an '02 TA salesman wasn't there for that one, I brought it back with a burnt rubber smell coming from the rear, tossed him the keys and walked away :D

I drove a ZR2 S10, 26K+ truck and I hit, well they hit me, 3 deer... luckily the saleswoman was there. They took out the entire right side of the truck, from the front bumper to the tailgate. They told they weren't going to charge me for the damage if I bought a car, I told them it was an act of God and he was telling me not to buy a Chevy! :D
 
Dr.Jass said:
...my friend Todd and I beat a '95 Mazda RX-7 R2 twin turbo so badly we were sure it would go home on the hook, but we didn't break it. That may have been the harshest-riding production car I've ever driven, but it was a hoot on Spaghetti Junction in ATL.
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For the record, if you've never been at the interchange of Interstates 75, 85, and 285 in Atlanta, here's an aerial shot. Some of those overpasses are a few hundred feet in the air. Burning through them in traffic at 100+MPH in a car you don't own is a lot of fun.

Todd never bought the car, but he later scored an Audi RS4 (twin turbo 3.2L V8, if memory serves). Man, is that car fun from an 80MPH roll... it's like catching the tailhook of a passing F-16.

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