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Dodge, Plymouth, Chrysler Historical Photo Archive
Drop your photo's of vintage Dodge, Plymouth and Chrysler vehicles into this section. Auto Show photo's, vintage drag racing shots and vintage photo's on the street are welcome in this section. No new era models after 1979 please! Click on the thumbnails below to open up the photos in full sized views on your device.
I'll start it off with some very early history in the Dodge Challenger line-up...
In 1969 the Dodge Challenger was officially introduced to the public. To enhance the introduction at the countries major auto shows, they grabbed the first Challenger produced off the assembly line in Hamtramck, MI and used it as a base for a Concept/Show Car named the Yellow Jacket. This particular car was a specially built triple-black, 4.10 axle ratio equipped four-speed Hemi Challenger that packed the full options list available at the time. The photo's below show this exact car in the promotional photo's taken at the time.
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I'll start it off with some very early history in the Dodge Challenger line-up...
In 1969 the Dodge Challenger was officially introduced to the public. To enhance the introduction at the countries major auto shows, they grabbed the first Challenger produced off the assembly line in Hamtramck, MI and used it as a base for a Concept/Show Car named the Yellow Jacket. This particular car was a specially built triple-black, 4.10 axle ratio equipped four-speed Hemi Challenger that packed the full options list available at the time. The photo's below show this exact car in the promotional photo's taken at the time.
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I saw the Plymouth X1 Concept car in person in 2005. As a refresher:
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Here it was at the now-defunct Hays, Kansas car musuem. That is my son standing with it. I kick myself not getting more and better pictures, but my head was on a stick and spinning that day due to the hundreds of Mopars in this place:
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Here is what I mean about the cars:
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Here it was at the now-defunct Hays, Kansas car musuem. That is my son standing with it. I kick myself not getting more and better pictures, but my head was on a stick and spinning that day due to the hundreds of Mopars in this place:
Here is what I mean about the cars:
That's what I was thinking, that it was manually adjusted, cool feature!
I felt that this might be fun for everyone...I know it's fun for me refreshing the car knowledge that has slowly drifted out of my memory banks. What spurred this idea up is that I found a hard drive full of old photos that I've collected over the last 10 years last night and I've decided to share them with everyone here along with some history behind each one if possible. It is a way we can easily see some of our automotive "roots" and, everyone can contribute if they want to. "A Win-Win" so to speak!
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