E49 Chargers

[KW XRT]

Not sure if you guys have seen the Brochures on the Hemi from the day.Looks cool.

[gofat]

Heres a link to a NZ doc on their racing Chargers http://nzbs.co.nz/ondemand/videos/series-widened-steels
The interview with Jim Little one of the NZ E49 race drivers is gold! The pictures of the E49 RDM-561 is my brothers Charger!

[bionic2006xr6t]

If anyone wants to check up there genuine E38 or E49 I have a copy of the original Chrysler archives listing every vin, engine and options of each model.

Cheers Ryan

[bionic2006xr6t]

Originally Posted by bionic2006xr6t

If anyone wants to check up there genuine E38 or E49 I have a copy of the original Chrysler archives listing every vin, engine and options of each model.

Cheers Ryan

That the E37, E38 and E49 models to be exact not every car Chrysler produced!

Cheers Ryan

[mcnews]

Me too, I have the 1300 List so all R/T including the two-barrels, I also have the more rare Pacer list around here in a box somewhere too.

[bionic2006xr6t]

Originally Posted by mcnews

Me too, I have the 1300 List so all R/T including the two-barrels, I also have the more rare Pacer list around here in a box somewhere too.

I believe my inventory includes the pacers as well, it's been a while since I looked at them.

Cheers Ryan

[2011G6E]

Originally Posted by KW XRT

Anyone know what this is.

image

It's the Holy Grail of Australian motoring...the car everyone has heard of but virtually no one has ever seen, the car that some people would walk right past a GTHO or Bathurst Monaro to get their hands on.

Probably the "best known least known" car in our performance car history...it's out there somewhere...

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

It's the Holy Grail of Australian motoring...the car everyone has heard of but virtually no one has ever seen, the car that some people would walk right past a GTHO or Bathurst Monaro to get their hands on.

Probably the "best known least known" car in our performance car history...it's out there somewhere...

Hardly. Its just a hacked up development mule, despite it's relevance. A special piece of history but IMO the Phase 4 is clearly the holy grail.

[2011G6E]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

Hardly. Its just a hacked up development mule, despite it's relevance. A special piece of history but IMO the Phase 4 is clearly the holy grail.

Oh I'd agree. Mostly.

We all know where the couple of real Phase 4's are...

[Bossxr8]

It could very well have been crushed for all we know?

[KW XRT]

On charger thing anyone see 340 charger muscle car masters quallify poll at bathurst sun morn and blitz field.they were reprting speeds of 285kph down conrod

[Blem]

340's short stroke meant they loved to rev unlike the 360.
Still prefer to own an E49 to an E55

[XW-BAXR6T]

Id be happy with just a VH 1972 and with a slick 265 hemi engine....that is all.

[Blem]

Great dash & tail lights.
Although my all time fav is XA coupe tail lights.
deep

[XBGTFGGTP]

Originally Posted by XB GS 351 Coupe

Don't think too much cruising gets done at 120-140mph, and if it did I would not really want to be in ANY 40 year old car with drum brakes and horse cart suspension

GT's were great high speed tourers. My XB no problems at 100-120mph but that was 30 years ago when we could do that. Too many cars on the road now for that sort of fun

[2011G6E]

Even in the early eighties the roads were reasonably "empty" and policing was fairly light. Yes there were hand held radar guns, but they were few and far between. There was mobile radar I think, but it was pretty sparsely used and not a widespread fitment. When I started driving in 1982 in Bundaberg, the local police used to give out "warnings" as much as they did "tickets". The highway patrol boys (who even then had a chip on their shoulders) drove "pursuit" cars...yellow painted (as opposed to white) police cars, usually Commodores. They had some suspension work and engine work done.

The roads were fairly quiet and very different to what we see today...there were semi trailers, but at the time in Queensland B-doubles only existed way out in remote outback areas and were banned from highways and roads down towards the coast...and in my mind that was a damn good idea. Triples, or road trains, didn't exist.

I vividly remember doing a run in my Charger down to Maryborough and sitting on an even 100mph when I hit the highway outside Bundy. I saw one police car down near Maryborough but I'd started to slow down by then as I was approaching town. Didn't see any on the highway.

Things were a lot different...and these days if you can maintain 100kph on the highway for more than a few minutes before having to slow down for something, you're doing well...

[KW XRT]

Originally Posted by bionic2006xr6t

If anyone wants to check up there genuine E38 or E49 I have a copy of the original Chrysler archives listing every vin, engine and options of each model.

Cheers Ryan

I have Vh pacer
All the R/T's
And the E55's


My mate Andrew has list of every charger to leave the factory.All 32 thousand of them.lol

[mcnews]

Seems to be a lot more common now those lists. I had them more than 15 years ago and wrote the articles and guides getting around on club websites etc. on how to decode all the numbers, and all the option codes etc.

[bionic2006xr6t]

Originally Posted by mcnews

Seems to be a lot more common now those lists. I had them more than 15 years ago and wrote the articles and guides getting around on club websites etc. on how to decode all the numbers, and all the option codes etc.

Sounds that way, The guy I got mine from has all the Australian Chrysler list. One of the original sets in the Chrysler binders. He also stated that he's old man actually found the pacers set when scrummaging through a bin at Chrysler when he worked there. I personally wasn't interested in the whole set I really just wanted the E49 list at the time because I was toying with the idea of buying one. He had even documented all the known stolen and written off ones for me including rebodies.

Cheers Ryan

[radar]

only one left apparently

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=784821497

[challenger73]

no e49 just a hemi orange 770 that one one day will be garaged next to a xa hardtop.One day...

[XR.1967]

One quick charger..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9xNYBHXwEo

[arronm]

2 great pics. Go the Ausy 6.

[castellan]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Even in the early eighties the roads were reasonably "empty" and policing was fairly light. Yes there were hand held radar guns, but they were few and far between. There was mobile radar I think, but it was pretty sparsely used and not a widespread fitment. When I started driving in 1982 in Bundaberg, the local police used to give out "warnings" as much as they did "tickets". The highway patrol boys (who even then had a chip on their shoulders) drove "pursuit" cars...yellow painted (as opposed to white) police cars, usually Commodores. They had some suspension work and engine work done.

The roads were fairly quiet and very different to what we see today...there were semi trailers, but at the time in Queensland B-doubles only existed way out in remote outback areas and were banned from highways and roads down towards the coast...and in my mind that was a damn good idea. Triples, or road trains, didn't exist.

I vividly remember doing a run in my Charger down to Maryborough and sitting on an even 100mph when I hit the highway outside Bundy. I saw one police car down near Maryborough but I'd started to slow down by then as I was approaching town. Didn't see any on the highway.

Things were a lot different...and these days if you can maintain 100kph on the highway for more than a few minutes before having to slow down for something, you're doing well...

There was one type of Highway Patrol VK patrol that was just a standard 5.0L and that just had the single exhaust and there was a better one that had the twin exhaust with a lumpy cam, boy that standard one was gutless but they were both gutless junk with rubbish tyres and the VL Turbo could only just make it with something like the old XB GT.