Dodge To charge

The Dodge Charger is a mythical vehicle of the time of the Muscle bus . Rival of the Ford Mustang, it is venerated today like traditional of the car and an esthetic reference.

Arrived on the market in 1966, he was aesthetically dared and its interior was revolutionist; the back seats were type-bucket and could be folded up forwards increasing the space-cargo liner. But it is only with the year-model 1966 (and until 1971) that To charge it is been driven by an engine worthy of its reputation, V8 HEMI 426 inch cubic (7 liters) developing 425 horses with 5000 tr/min and 67.8 mkg of couple with 4000 tr/min allowing him to pass from 0 to 100 km/h into 5,5 second, which will make of it a serious candidate for the races of accelerations.

The most required models are the 67 equipped with the famous HEMI: the year 1968, the traditional shape of bottle of Coca-Cola with headlights hidden and double rear lights rounds (pointing out a certain Corvette). The model of 1969 with the divided grill and stylized fires of braking. That of 1970, with the grill with prominent chrome contour.

To charge 1968 was made famous for its presence (in company of Ford Mustang fastback of Steve McQueen) in the famous urban whodunnit Bullitt , of Peter Yates. It is the vehicle of “malicious” during the legendary and revolutionary continuation in the streets of San Francisco. It should be stressed that the actors, Steve McQueen and Bill Hickman led themselves their cars. In its delivered black, it became the symbol of the muscle because démoniaque, wild and dangerous.

The model 1969 was popularized by the comic series The Dukes Of Hazzard , in which young carefree Southerners have fun with narguer the police force with their orange Charger whose roof is flanked of a confederated flag accompanied by the mention General Lee .

But they is the models “birds” of 1969 which are snuffed: to charge Daytona 1969. Their history is as enthralling as the car itself. To fight against the Ford in Nascar, Dodge falsified aérodynamisme by lengthening the nose by the addition of a “nozzle” and changed the glass-in-withdrawal by levelling glasses. One also improved stability at high-speed in llui adding a functional aileron on the back trunk. For the Nascar homologation, Dodge needed to put on the market a quota of cars (because point out it: Nascar is a series adverse of the vehicles copied on mass-production cars). But on the mass-production car, the aileron prevented the opening of the trunk: that's no problem, one circumvents the problem with a very high aileron. This aileron created a turbulence at high-speed with a its characteristic which increased the intoxication speed considerably. A number very limited these Charger Daytona left the factories. Some ran in races of amateurs, others were stripped of their nozzle broken by parking the vehicle, if they were quite simply not standardized because the levelling glasses are single with this model and the parts of replacement impossible to find.

With the passing of years, To charge it evolved/moved until metamorphosing itself in a large half-compartment sport lump into 1975 that even the unconditional ones try to disavow. Worse still, the company still adjusted the shooting in the other direction by naming Charger Omni vitaminized whose power unit is risée (traction before moult by an engine four-cylinder on line).

In 1978, Dodge To charge cease with being produced, until 2006, year of exit of a new model To only charge it, founded on platform LX (Chrysler 300, Dodge Magnum) and available in the four-door truck. In version R/T (provided with a V8 engine of 5.7 340 Ch. Liters), it is the reincanation of the muscle because with the road behavior without reproach and the performances without limits. Dodge also put on the market a survitaminée version, To charge it SRT-8 with 425 Ch.

Catalog of films

Speedway (1968): 1967 To charge - IMDB
Bullitt (1968): 1968 To charge R/T - IMDB
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974): 1969 To charge R/T - IMDB
Truck Turner (1974): 1974 To charge - IMDB
Cannonball (1976): 1968 To charge - IMDB
Bad Georgia Road (1977): 1970 To charge - IMDB
Christine (1983): 1968 To charge - IMDB
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984): 1968 To charge - IMDB
Blue Velvet (1986): 1968 To charge - IMDB
Forever Young (1992): 1968/69 To charge - IMDB
Unlawful Entry (1992): 1971 To charge - IMDB
The Vampire in Brooklyn (1995): 1971 To charge Superbee - IMDB
Spy Hardware (1996): 1968 To charge - IMDB
Vanishing Not Remake (1997): 1968 To charge R/T - IMDB
Blade (1998): 1968 To charge - IMDB
ED TV (1999): 1966 To charge - IMDB
Ugly Best Plans (1999): 1968 To charge - IMDB
Payback (1999): 1974 To charge - IMDB
The Fast and the Furious (2001): 1970 To charge - IMDB
The Forsaken (2001): 1969 To charge - IMDB
The Mexican (2001): 1972? To charge - IMDB
Blade II (2002): 1968 To charge - IMDB
Big Fish (2003): 1966 To charge - IMDB
Blade: Trinity (2004): 1968 To charge - IMDB
Man one Fire (2004): 1971? To charge - IMDB
Dukes off Hazzard (2005): 1969 To charge - IMDB
House off Wax (2005): 1968 To charge - IMDB
Banshee (2006): 1966 To charge - IMDB
Death Proof (Boulevard of dead) (2007): 1970 To charge - IMDB

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