Charlie Allen tests Swinger 340: Wrings it out good.

Young Californian, Charlie Allen, has been drag racing funny cars for five years and is already shutting down many of the big names in the game. In his Dodge Dart last year he took 10 major championship wins. “Save your cash fellas. The giant killer is here. Dart Swinger 340 doesn’t have crazy foreign names or cartoon animals plastered all over the side, but that doesn’t seem to slow it down much. What it has got is a high revving 340-cubic-inch V8 that nears the 6000 rpm mark. And that’s in stock form. The standard job comes with the new MoPar full-synchro, three-speed, floor-mounted gear box. What you get for your dough is a sleek, stiff-sus pended mini bomb that can show a lot of the high rollers the short way…

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Hot Rod (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 1969

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