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Old 11-07-2003, 04:17 PM
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Help Slant 6 charger 1968

Okay it's me again.

How rare is a /6 charger 1968, I think they have made less of them then 426 Hemi Charger -68.
I can trade one for my charger -72 and get $1000 between,and my charger is also pretty rare.

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Old 11-08-2003, 05:30 PM
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They are pretty rare since either the dealer or the buyer would have to had special ordered it. The standard engine was the 383 with 3spd tranny. Anything else would have been an optioned purchase and you can bet that the dealer did not order them this way since the hp wars were going on at that time and most people wanted big block power.
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Old 11-09-2003, 05:20 AM
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I got an email from a guy from the Swedish Charger register and he said he could only find 1 with that combo 1968, I don't know if it is correct but then it should be realy rare.
Them I will keep the /6 instead of going bigblock crazy
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Old 11-09-2003, 12:27 PM
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Glad to here it. I hate to see numbers matching cars destroyed just to go racing. Might not look as good, but shoe horn that big block into an F body R/T or RoadRunner clone. Even the books say they are more areo than the Dusters and Chargers.
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Old 11-09-2003, 02:16 PM
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Yeah don't destroy a matching # car, my challenger was an original 340 T/A automatic before it was a race car.
But that was not me it was them damn Direct Connection guy's
in the early 1970, or more exact 1974.
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Is that your car in he avatar that DC cut up??
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My book shows 904 1968 Dodge Chargers built with the 225 slant six...all with automatic's.


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Old 11-09-2003, 06:44 PM
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Mr.Sixpack, yours must be really rare then since it must be the only 3spd man. out there. Even teh book missed it. Oh well, we all know how stuff got out that was not suposed to, like Hemi Sattelites and big blocks with small block vins and NZ has a fender tag on a Challenger marked for buckets, but it had a bench installed. Who knows for sure what all Dodge turned out that's not in the books. Still a nice collectors car anyway you put it.
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Old 11-10-2003, 03:37 AM
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Default Rare charger

Yes there where 904 charger's with 225 /6.
I joind the charger chattboard and they reserched for me and they had talked to Galen Govier, he said that he had papers that told that 2 where built with manuell trans.
But he had only located 1 during his years of investigations, I don't know if that one is mine or if it's the other one.

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From what I have found out, there are 904 total, out of those, how many do you think actually still have the original 6 in them?????
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They are pretty rare since either the dealer or the buyer would have to had special ordered it. The standard engine was the 383 with 3spd tranny. Anything else would have been an optioned purchase and you can bet that the dealer did not order them this way since the hp wars were going on at that time and most people wanted big block power.
The standard engine in the 1968 Charger was the 318.
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3-speed was standard? Must have been optioned up pretty much all the time then, I have only seen two 3-speeds on eBay the whole time I've been tracking down A833s.
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I thought auto was the standard transmission.

Most of the cars have auto.
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In truth, I'm sure you'll find that the 'standard transmission' is the one that will put the car into the showroom at the lowest cost. That will generally be the 3-speed manual...

For instance, if you go to the Dodge Polara site, dodgepolara.com, and look at any of the brochures there for the '64 440s, 330s, Polaras and Polara 500s, you'll find that mostly it talks of the 3-speed manual being the 'standard transmission'... and that 4-speeds and automatic are 'extra cost options.'

How many of these cars were built with 3-speeds? I suspect that there would not have been half as many manuals as had automatics, and that a good many of the manuals were 4-speeds.

Once you got to the Polara level of trim, I have little doubt that 80% or more of the buyers either optioned up to or accepted from the showroom floor the Torqueflite to go behind their 318s.
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OOPs, this thread is 4 years old.
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Welll... it will be in August...
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ive only seen one rare! desireable??
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i would love to see a picture of this car
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