I like strippers… That is going to make Google go nuts. But before you rapidly click away, hear me out for a moment.
Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the ‘Big 3′ used to produce a few cars that were heavy on the performance options and light on everything else. Sometimes they were hard to find, and at other times they were sitting on the dealer lots in big numbers… They were kind of like the ‘cop car’ versions of 2 door hardtops.
Dodge turned it into an art… There were Hemi Challengers and Coronets with rubber floor mats and no radio or AC.
I’d love to see some of those come back… and the PERFECT car to make a concept from would be a new Challenger SRT-8. This is what I would do…
- Non-descript color. Those cars weren’t Sub Lime, Plum Loco or Hemi Orange… they were dark blue or maroon. I’d go with dark blue.
- Dog Dish hubcaps on steel wheels. You know the look… think cop car. They are the little hub caps on the black steel wheel.
- I might be willing to keep the A/C, but we could dump the power seats, power windows, power door locks and even the radio.
- OK, I’m not too hip with vinyl seats… leather would be better, but that is because cloth would look wrong.
- There would HAVE to be a shaker hood…
- No chrome badges… and no badges at all on the sides. In fact, minimal brightwork inside and out.
It wouldn’t be the cheapest Challenger on the lot, but it would be the meanest…
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