GTP Cool Wall: 1969 Dodge Charger R/T

[Famine]

Sure, but there's a chance that you just happened to see two with Dixie horns.

Making it a common mod in the population of that vehicle - at 50%. That's higher than VW Beetles with flower decals and eyelashes put together.

I don't disagree with that.

It seems to be normal practice now in the Cool Wall not to judge a car's coolness on what it is but on what a vanishingly small percentage of people who buy them will modify them to be. Eventually.

 

[C-ZETA]

Your basic 60's muscle car, but at least it's fairly notable.
Uncool.

 

[Mikeybc]

A beautiful car and probably my favourite muscle car too, toss up between this and a 69 Camaro.

I haven't heard a Dixie horn on a car since the 80's. That's a VERY cheesy thing to put on any car these days unless its a dukes of hazard replica. It would only draw ridicule today.

 

[Joey D]

Uncool. It's owned by "car show people" and those who feel the need to make them look like the Dukes of Hazard, neither of which are cool. It's only redeeming factor is that it was in Bullitt, but it wasn't even the coolest car in the movie.

With that said, I do rather like the Charger.

 

[The Stig Farmer]

WRONG YEAR

The '68 Charger is the bad guy in Bullitt. The '69 Charger was hooned around by some dumb rednecks.

SU

 

[LivingWithGames]

WRONG YEAR

The '68 Charger is the bad guy in Bullitt. The '69 Charger was hooned around by some dumb rednecks.

SU

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Wow. You really decided to vote this to SU. Good Lord.

 

[mustang fanatic]

Your basic 60's muscle car, but at least it's fairly notable.
Uncool.

Looks far from "basic" to me.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Low cool. If it hadn't appeared in FnF1, it would be high cool.

 

[Badasp5.0]

Being in the Rust free Southwest US I have seen tons of these cars. I have yet to hear a dixie horn on one. It gets SZ for me.

 

[JMoney]

I don't see how the Dukes of Hazard makes it uncool at all. Generally if a car is used in any popular TV show, it gains coolness points.

The '69 Charger R/T wouldn't be as special without the Dukes of Hazard. Normally it would be just cool, but the show it was in makes it cooler.

And if I had one, I would definitely put a dixie horn on it. Just to see the smiles on people's faces when they hear it.

Sub-Zero.

 

[GranTurismo916]

Looks far from "basic" to me.

Compared to most of the cars today, it's pretty basic.

 

[Turtle]

Has potential to be Sub-Zero, dragged down to only cool thanks to dixie horns and Confederate flags.

 

[JMoney]

You seem to see a lot of old muscle cars "almost daily". Do you live on a freeway offramp in the 1960s?

You'll find that in America, the further you get from large cities, the more older American cars you'll see.

It's hard for visitors to notice because they usually stay in the cities.

 

[Slash]

Uncool. It's owned by "car show people"

It's owned by "car show people" alright.

 

[mustang fanatic]

Compared to most of the cars today, it's pretty basic.

I have to disagree with that.

 

[JMoney]

I cringe when I see those poor old abused muscle cars. Do that crap to a Civic, not a Charger!

 

[Doodle]

I cringe when I see those poor old abused muscle cars. Do that crap to a Civic, not a Charger!

And I cringe when I see an abused Civic!

 

[mustang fanatic]

And I cringe when I see an abused Civic!

And I cringe when I see any Civic.

 

[JMoney]

And I cringe when I see an abused Civic!

I do too, but they're still making Civics. There is a limited supply of Chargers.

EDIT: Oh, nevermind . Misread that.

 

[Turtle]

I cringe when I see those poor old abused muscle cars. Do that crap to a Civic, not a Charger!

Because abusing cars is alright as long as it's a car you don't like.

 

[Slash]

Because abusing cars is alright as long as it's a car you don't like.

Correct.


I love nothing more than to watch someone pound a Chevy pickup into the ground.

 

[JMoney]

I don't care about Civics, they're still making them. A stock Civic is just as good as a riced Civic, that is to say, garbage.

 

[Slash]

I love going to my local track and watching people beat the snot out of Civic hatchbacks that are rotted out and covered in 20 different body panels with different colors. All of them shaking furiously rattling itself apart.

 

[Turtle]

I don't care about Civics, they're still making them. A stock Civic is just as good as a riced Civic, that is to say, garbage.

I lack the patience to argue against this, since it's obvious I'll never make any ground against such a stubborn mindset, so I'll just roll my eyes instead.

 

[Downhill Dino]

Does it come in Plum Crazy?

 

[Turtle]

Does it come in Plum Crazy?

Yes, I saw one at a show yesterday.

 

[Downhill Dino]

Awesome! Uncool. I'm in agreement with JoeyD.

 

[Snorevette]

SZ, but confederate flags as even a vaguely popular modification bump it AAAAAAAALL the way down to a meh.

 

[niky]

Not totally uncool, as long as it doesn't have a confederate flag on the roof and racing numbers on the side.

I think the coolest thing about these cars is that they wrecked so many of them filming that TV show, and that Chargers are destroyed on a pretty regular basis recreating "the jump."

Whether that's enough to make the car cool or not...

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Hmmm.

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It ain't a Barracuda.

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Hmmm.

 

[lilcat89]

I hate muscle cars as a whole, but this is on my short-list. That presence...those engines...seriously cool! Bordering on SZ.