Monday: Car of the Day! 1969 Dodge Charger [R/T]

The '69 Charger R/T so happens to be my favorite car of all time... a car that I hope to own someday. I'm a big Mopar fanatic and especially for Dodge muscle cars.

The '69 Charger was brought up from the previous '68 with a more stock-car based style. The '69 Charger Daytona with the high spoiler and unique nose cone was in a lot of stock car racing at the time. (Pictured Below)

'69 Charger Daytonas on a trailer

Example of the stock-car version

The '69 Charger had essentially the same body style as the Daytona except differing in the front nose cone. The '69 Charger boasted a 425 horsepower, Over-Head Valve V8 @ 5,000 RPM's and 490 torques for 4,000 RPM's. The standard base price at the time was around $4,641. (Gawd, I'd kill to get one that cheap now!) They typically were around 3,670 pounds in weight. The 0-60 speed was 5.7 seconds and a quarter mile was estimated at 13.48 seconds at 109 mph.

What a lot of people probably don't realize, is that the Charger was notoriously recognized from the TV show Dukes of Hazzard in which an orange '69 with a confederate flag on top was featured. The car was also known as The General Lee in the show..

The General Lee in all its glory

BONUS: Epic shot from Dukes of Hazzard

 My reasons for loving this car so much is because I enjoy the look of it. It's got a very mean looking and powerful body style. Also they come with a 425 V8, I mean c'mon.... who wouldn't want to drive something that beastly? :P I just hope to own one someday that looks much like this one except lime green or Plum Crazy Purple (A mopar signature color)

I think the first Car Of The Day post went rather successful. Hope you enjoyed it. Any questions or comments are of course appreciated. :)