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Hello Tom - 

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->> To me, the Charger/Challenger from Mopar was a significant
->> car in the late 60s to maybe mid 70s, the stuff that bore
->> that name in the 80s had absolutely no relation to it
->> whatsoever. 

TW> The one the Bad Guy's used in the Steve McQueen Movie
TW> Bullet is the picture I have when someone says Dodge
TW> Charger. That was one mean machine, And the Mustang Steve
TW> drove wasn't bad either.  And all done on the Streets of
TW> San Francisco. For you Young Kids into Hot Cars I recomend
TW> you rent it and see what REAL super Cars were like. 

Very good car-chase movie. I can't recall the name of the movie
where the guy hits a bulldozer (Gone in 60 Seconds?) at the end
but that was a Chrysler Challenger (production supercharged if
I remember correctly). Another well done car-chase using Chryslers
was "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" with Peter Fonda.

Steve McQueen raced FX go-carts and offroad motorcycles (with
Kenan Wynn of all people) then moved up to full sized race
cars. He did his own driving in the "Bullet" movie. Peter Fonda
is also a car-nut. "Gumball Rally" was a hoot. :-)

The all-time winner for nutty car-chase/crashes is still "The
first Blues Brothers" movie with Jim Belushi.  I forget the
number of cars they totalled making that movie but I think it
was a record at the time.

My Pontiac would eat Chryslers for lunch but one day I picked
on a _real_ racing 426 hemi (not the street wedge-head) and I
was never left in the dust as fast before or afterwards.
Amazing how fast the racing version of the 426 really was.
Too much even for 'muscle car' days really didn't belong on the
highway. 

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