So it's 1977...

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And so hence, 1 reason I own a Magnum....!!!!!
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Those Aussie chargers look like Gen 1 charger. I think they were A bodys too.
 
Back in 77 I got a job at a shop making motor speed controls, I drove my AAR to work and this kid comes up to me and goes nice car that is bad as hell ? Then he tells me he has a Charger Daytona ! WTF really You will have to take me and show me this and he says its in the parking lot. Lets go see and out we went to see a 1977 Charger Daytona ? I said that's not a Charger Daytona and went back inside. he was confused. That's when I told him to look it up.

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rumblefish360 said:
And so hence, 1 reason I own a Magnum....!!!!!
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I have a friend who has one. It has a 440 in it. It was a total SLUG when I first met him. I convinced him several years ago to let me have it for a week. 440 was mild, but not stock. Hp manifolds, aluminum intake Holley 750, but wouldn't get out of its own way. I pulled the front off, put a degree wheel on it, advanced the cam timing, got it back running and recurved the distributor. got the carburetor in tune. I just bet I added at least 75 LB FT. Now it will melt the back tires with very little effort. It's a damned nice car too. T-tops and all.
 
brian6pac said:
Back in 77 I got a job at a shop making motor speed controls, I drove my AAR to work and this kid comes up to me and goes nice car that is bad as hell ? Then he tells me he has a Charger Daytona ! WTF really You will have to take me and show me this and he says its in the parking lot. Lets go see and out we went to see a 1977 Charger Daytona ? I said that's not a Charger Daytona and went back inside. he was confused. That's when I told him to look it up.

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But that is a Charger Daytona. I remember those very well. While certainly not the performance car they were named after, you'd be hard pressed to find a car in another make the same year that was as nice and really sharp too. I thought they looked great.
 
Joey4speed said:
Kursplat,
That Charger looks very
"Cordoba-esque".
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Cordoba.
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Yep very cordoba-esque. My 77 charger was a dodge version of the cordoba. A hot rodded 69 440 swap, high stall converter, a shift kit, and dual exhaust with no catalytic converters, along with ditching the lean burn setup sure helped my old one out. She would definitely pull a fat chick off a bar stool after that. Of course the monster sized rotors and calipers on these things were designed to stop a 2 ton lump o lard lol. I still loved it though. It had white leather seats. Not sure if the hides were from Corinthia though. The 78-79 magnum was a nice improvement on the last of the B bodys. At the very least those big rotors and caliper are great on A body spindles for a nice bolt pattern upgrade and real responsive manual disc brakes.
 
I had a 77 charger. The 360 I'm building right now for my dart came out of it. I kinda wish I would have fixed it up now.
 
brian6pac said:
Back in 77 I got a job at a shop making motor speed controls, I drove my AAR to work and this kid comes up to me and goes nice car that is bad as hell ? Then he tells me he has a Charger Daytona ! WTF really You will have to take me and show me this and he says its in the parking lot. Lets go see and out we went to see a 1977 Charger Daytona ? I said that's not a Charger Daytona and went back inside. he was confused. That's when I told him to look it up.

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That right there is exactly what I had was a 77 Charger Daytona it was two tone like the one in the picture it was like a yellow and tan color tho. I like the blue alot better. The AAR is alot cooler tho haha
 
RustyRatRod said:
But that is a Charger Daytona. I remember those very well. While certainly not the performance car they were named after, you'd be hard pressed to find a car in another make the same year that was as nice and really sharp too. I thought they looked great.
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I agree, it is a Daytona but not the one I had a vision of.
 
Whenever I see a Cordoba I think of Bob Tarlek off of W.K.R.P. in Cincinatti.
I have driven a few that were stock, including one my oldest brother had that was a stock 400.
What a dog and gas guzzler it was.
A real piece of **** in my opinion that had no road feel and poor vision out the back.
And the interior was poorly fit and ''plastic fantastic''.
Styling wasn't too bad, but it definitely was a castrated float mobile.

On another note, I loved the looks of the Vega.
I even had a '71 station wagon when I was 17 and it was a decent looking car for a cheap throw away car.
The aluminum cylinder walls were bad on these and it got about 50 miles to a quart of oil.
It ran good otherwise, but the engine was a shitty design.
Throw a V8 in it and it was a good performer.
I wish I would have kept it and put a V8 in it, but I found a '71 Demon 318 3spd std. on the floor for cheap and bought that.
And now the rest of course is history...........
 
JDMopar said:
Hey...our Aussie mates deserve to have something we don't. They don't have guns and they're upside down all the time, so yeah....they deserve a win or 2! :D :p
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considering the number of Aussies, both here and other car places, i see buying parts from here, this might be a case of "i got mine and i'm working on yours" :lol:
 
I used to have a 79 Cordoba with the 360. It was so comfortable and plush. Like sitting in the living room
 
TF360 said:
I used to have a 79 Cordoba with the 360. It was so comfortable and plush. Like sitting in the living room
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Me too, the wife said I should get another one.
360-2bbl, Hwy. gears. No moon roof but everything else.
Brown and beige two tone beige interior. Buckets.
 
the Aussie cars may of got something else...
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At least you get a seat pocket with that one. now how to figure out where to put a cup holder.
 
Treblig said:
Nothing wrong with a Vega as long as it has a Chevy 350 under the hood like the one I used to own.
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Me too! And mine was a red '72 very similar to the one pictured above. Twisted the body, cracked the windshield and the driver's door would pop open when I hamered it and the tires would grab some pavement. Boy, has this thread gone off the rails. LOL
 
I always liked the Mirada's always wanted to make a race car out of one
 
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