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In the swinging ’60s, Dodge unleashed the Charger, a car so cool it made the Mustang and Thunderbird sweat bullets. Built on the “B” body platform, this mid-sized marvel was a head-turner with its Fratzog logo—yes, that’s a real thing—on the grill and trunk hatch, but only in ’66 and ’67. Under the hood, it packed a 383 CID V8 muscle with a 4-speed manual, because the Charger didn’t just look fast standing still. The Charger was Dodge’s way of saying to Ford and AMC, “Eat my dust!”
The 1970 Dodge Challenger, a superstar in its debut with 76,935 units, quickly went from rockstar to retro, seeing a total of 185,437 models by the 1974 curtain call. It’s like the automotive version of a one-hit wonder! With a grill adapted from a Charger prototype that never made it past dreamland and a roaring 440 engine under the hood, the Challenger is the car equivalent of an epic mullet—business in the front, party under the hood. Thanks, Gateway Classic Cars, for capturing this muscle car’s good side!