Brazil's rare barn find !
Jim,
The bright yellow color was offered in the 73 till 76 on all Darts & Chargers, and in my humble opinion they fit perfectly for the body, specially when matched to a black vinyl roof like the R/T's...
Here are some samples I took from my personal image bank collection:
A friend's 1976 Charger R/T, Tenerife Yellow
A 1973 Charger R/T, Sulphur Citric Yellow
We also had a special version called "SE"and based on the cheaper Dart with an sport accent, and Chrysler made it focusing on the young public. This is our local "Muscle Car" concept plentifully applied here...As they were very rare and most were destroyed or even "upgraded" with extra-installed accessories, not much left on the streets and they're valuable collector's item nowadays...
Here's a pristine friend's all original 1973 Dodge SE, belongs to his family since brand new:
By 1974 the SE model had a slight change on the side stripes, and still carried the yellow color:
The orange was only offered as a 1971 Charger color, and exclusive to him alone. This one marked the launch of the model in our market with this color on the ads:
This one says: "Make some criticism on the american way of life...Inside this car !!" LOL !!!
Here's a friend's 1971 R/T photo recreation on the same car:
And The 71 bright orange Charger was very famous here too because of a local film made in the same year with a very famous brazilian singer called Roberto Carlos, he played a role as a Chrysler dealer's local mechanic that dreamed of being a racing pilot...Imagine what car he used for the plot:
You may find a sample of the film in this link at YouTube(sorry about the bad images):
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTXDclL6Khw"]YouTube - ROBERTO CARLOS A 300 KM POR HORA[/ame]
Some more images on these beautifully Chargers:
And of course the orange returned in 1972 when the SE model came to us...Here are some shots of this rare gem:
And about the book, you can buy it online direct from the editors. I strongly reccomend it, because this one brings lots of pictures on our local cars & production...
The link for buying is:
http://www.alaude.com.br/alaude/pro...D7881%2D053%2D5&dept%5Fname=Rogerio+de+Simone
Jim,
The bright yellow color was offered in the 73 till 76 on all Darts & Chargers, and in my humble opinion they fit perfectly for the body, specially when matched to a black vinyl roof like the R/T's...
Here are some samples I took from my personal image bank collection:
A friend's 1976 Charger R/T, Tenerife Yellow
A 1973 Charger R/T, Sulphur Citric Yellow
We also had a special version called "SE"and based on the cheaper Dart with an sport accent, and Chrysler made it focusing on the young public. This is our local "Muscle Car" concept plentifully applied here...As they were very rare and most were destroyed or even "upgraded" with extra-installed accessories, not much left on the streets and they're valuable collector's item nowadays...
Here's a pristine friend's all original 1973 Dodge SE, belongs to his family since brand new:
By 1974 the SE model had a slight change on the side stripes, and still carried the yellow color:
The orange was only offered as a 1971 Charger color, and exclusive to him alone. This one marked the launch of the model in our market with this color on the ads:
This one says: "Make some criticism on the american way of life...Inside this car !!" LOL !!!
Here's a friend's 1971 R/T photo recreation on the same car:
And The 71 bright orange Charger was very famous here too because of a local film made in the same year with a very famous brazilian singer called Roberto Carlos, he played a role as a Chrysler dealer's local mechanic that dreamed of being a racing pilot...Imagine what car he used for the plot:
You may find a sample of the film in this link at YouTube(sorry about the bad images):
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTXDclL6Khw"]YouTube - ROBERTO CARLOS A 300 KM POR HORA[/ame]
Some more images on these beautifully Chargers:
And of course the orange returned in 1972 when the SE model came to us...Here are some shots of this rare gem:
And about the book, you can buy it online direct from the editors. I strongly reccomend it, because this one brings lots of pictures on our local cars & production...
The link for buying is:
http://www.alaude.com.br/alaude/pro...D7881%2D053%2D5&dept%5Fname=Rogerio+de+Simone
