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So a friend knows these rural mechanics that are said to do some serious high-performance hacking and he gives me their number. I call them and they tell me "sure, we have some good cars here, come check out our Charger" -"Charger? What year?" -1969" -"OK I'm coming".
69 Chargers are big business here because they are incredibly rare and sought after. I get there and I'm then tretaed by a long gravel road that leads to this small ranch and there, in the middle of nowhere, out of a red barn comes out a very cool 1969 orange Dodge Charger with fat meats outback and a nasty small block. It's one of "those"stories.
This was all the way back in 2006. I had just begun taking pictures for the magazine and had not even bought the XTI I now work with. I did this entire photoshoot with a very limited Canon S2 IS, the same camera that I now carry everywhere with me once served me to do some work in my very humble beginings. It was it's lack of quality (only 5mpx) that got me into getting a DSLR, even the most basic one (if I could get a S/Sx series Canon with more than 15 mpx, I'd throw out the DSLR out the window, these freaking cameras do it all, and do it well!). I'm posting this because, even with all the limitations the little camera implied, I think the pictures came out pretty damn good. Judge for yourself.
As usual, a little bit on the car per each picture.
Would you believe this car has never been restored? the damn thing has never been trough body work, it was this clean when they snagged it.
Not an R/T Charger and no original paint, but that orange was apllied in the mid 80s, so you could tell it has held up fine.
I really liked the mood the slight mist gave to some of these:
peek
then blam, full eye-searing sun:
I really like that no fake R/Tor anything else emblems have been put on, just the Scat Pack-type trunk stripe, but I can live with that. some detail shots of the car:
mwehehe:
Weld Draglite wheels give it an undeniable dragstrip persona...
Which is backed up by 12.5:1, .60 over 360 small block with who-nows-how-much-stuff and a .600+ lift cam. The thing makes an astonishing 560 hp and rips off 13 flats AT ALMOST THREE KILOMETERS ABOVE SEA LEVEL, which is the alttiude of the zone the car lives in.
Interior needed a redo, indeed, that is why this is the only interior pic I got. Ah, yeah, I forgot. it's column-shifted.
Owners are three brothers, all of them drag-car mechanics with a lot of fast cars in their curriculum:
some car-to-car stuff and the obligatory burnout:
and there we go, what a blast from the past, these pictures. they reminded me of how far I've come and also how much I stillneed to learn.
And, heh, i just recently saw the car again. it sits engineless awaiting for a new 440 transplant.
Cheers all (:
69 Chargers are big business here because they are incredibly rare and sought after. I get there and I'm then tretaed by a long gravel road that leads to this small ranch and there, in the middle of nowhere, out of a red barn comes out a very cool 1969 orange Dodge Charger with fat meats outback and a nasty small block. It's one of "those"stories.
This was all the way back in 2006. I had just begun taking pictures for the magazine and had not even bought the XTI I now work with. I did this entire photoshoot with a very limited Canon S2 IS, the same camera that I now carry everywhere with me once served me to do some work in my very humble beginings. It was it's lack of quality (only 5mpx) that got me into getting a DSLR, even the most basic one (if I could get a S/Sx series Canon with more than 15 mpx, I'd throw out the DSLR out the window, these freaking cameras do it all, and do it well!). I'm posting this because, even with all the limitations the little camera implied, I think the pictures came out pretty damn good. Judge for yourself.
As usual, a little bit on the car per each picture.
Would you believe this car has never been restored? the damn thing has never been trough body work, it was this clean when they snagged it.
Not an R/T Charger and no original paint, but that orange was apllied in the mid 80s, so you could tell it has held up fine.
I really liked the mood the slight mist gave to some of these:
peek
then blam, full eye-searing sun:
I really like that no fake R/Tor anything else emblems have been put on, just the Scat Pack-type trunk stripe, but I can live with that. some detail shots of the car:
mwehehe:
Weld Draglite wheels give it an undeniable dragstrip persona...
Which is backed up by 12.5:1, .60 over 360 small block with who-nows-how-much-stuff and a .600+ lift cam. The thing makes an astonishing 560 hp and rips off 13 flats AT ALMOST THREE KILOMETERS ABOVE SEA LEVEL, which is the alttiude of the zone the car lives in.
Interior needed a redo, indeed, that is why this is the only interior pic I got. Ah, yeah, I forgot. it's column-shifted.
Owners are three brothers, all of them drag-car mechanics with a lot of fast cars in their curriculum:
some car-to-car stuff and the obligatory burnout:
and there we go, what a blast from the past, these pictures. they reminded me of how far I've come and also how much I stillneed to learn.
And, heh, i just recently saw the car again. it sits engineless awaiting for a new 440 transplant.
Cheers all (:
For the equipment used they turned out great! 👍 That car is in really good condition too.. I like it a lot 
