SHOWROOM RACER

You don’t have to wear a driving suit, crash helmet, or goggles in this Dodge a la NASCAR stocker — but if it makes you feel better, go ahead

BY STEVE KELLY

It’s doubtful that I’d ever want a hemi-engined Dodge Charger 500 for W my street machine, but if I did, it would be an assembly-line copy of the kind of car used in — 17.4 NASCAR action. If it was a tunnel-port 427 Torino that interested me, I’d still be searching for one. You’ve got to hand it to the Chrysler guys; if they race it, they also sell it. That really doesn’t make them heroes, but it does help promote the image of stock car racing. When you can buy your race car, or at least the basics of one, through a dealership, you’re a lot closer to racing real stock cars. Charger 500’s are specially outfitted models of Charger R/T’s. The differences lie in the same body revisions that…

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Hot Rod (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 1969

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