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Charger 68 road test

Started by Dany-design, April 30, 2022, 03:34:34 PM

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Dany-design


Hello guys!

i'm studyng history of Dodge Charger (my favourite car) and time ago i've seen on the web two road test about 68 Charger, one from Popular Hot Rodding magazine on december '67, and one from Motorcade in september '68.
Some of you remember about this?do you have some documents about it?
Thanks a lot!

Mike DC

           
There is the Bud Lindemann road test of a '69 Charger 500.  That's a good video with some info.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLX1h6jvWYs

Bear in mind that all the road tests back then were done with 1960s tires.  They are so different from modern tires that it skews all the data.  Those tires had terrible grip compared to modern stuff.  (Like, literally the worst car tire you can buy today is better than the best ones from the 1960s.)

You can slap modern radials onto a classic car and test it now.  But it's still not really a really a fair comparison because the rest of the car was designed around the old tires.  The gearing, wheel alignment, geometry, spring & shock & bar rates, etc.