Drag Package Challenger!

[ZTwentyAteU]

Has anyone seen the commercial for the Drag Package Challengers? I barely caught it, Don Garlits is in it with a mopar painted front engine dragster, and then the last few seconds show a white challenger with huge meats on it and it says something about drag race prepared!

[Coupe Devil]

Big daddy made pass in it at the Denver race. 11.24 @ 121. Problem is.. NOT STREET LEGAL!!! Factory track car only FTL!!!

[Bob-E]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XKKxoUpNcw

[Hellion'01]

I heard these things are going to run in the 75k price range. At that price, not even being street legal and an 11 sec. car, my guess is that 95% of these will be bought by rich collectors and never even see a drag strip. Can you say "Garage Queen"? Hell, it seems that a whole lot of the GT500's are just sitting in someones garage in hopes that it will be worth big money some day and they are street legal and not that expensive. I know Brodie has mentioned before that he catches hell quite often for modding his and driving it all the time. I give props to him for that. It's a car, drive the damn thing and enjoy it!

[warsurfer]

dumb, these new cars will NEVER be worth what the originals are selling for.

[Hellion'01]

dumb, these new cars will NEVER be worth what the originals are selling for.
I agree. The originals are worth a lot and collectors items now because they are rare due to the fact that people did not just put them up in a garage. Back then, people never thought about them being worth a lot of money in the future. 30 years from now it will not be a rare occasion to find extremely low mileage cars from today because so many people are putting them back with the mentality that they will be worth so much money. It's kind of like baseball cards when I was a kid (Mid-late 80's). We looked at all the cards from the 70's and older and saw that they were worth so much money. So, a lot of people (myself included) stockpiled baseball cards thinking that they would be extremely valuable in the future. But the cards I have from when I was a kid aren't worth any more now than they were then, if anything they're worth less. This is due to the fact that the market is flooded with them because so many people saved them.

[mustangdave]

so what it draggin....other than its 4400lb carkass...down the track?

[warsurfer]

I agree. The originals are worth a lot and collectors items now because they are rare due to the fact that people did not just put them up in a garage. Back then, people never thought about them being worth a lot of money in the future. 30 years from now it will not be a rare occasion to find extremely low mileage cars from today because so many people are putting them back with the mentality that they will be worth so much money. It's kind of like baseball cards when I was a kid (Mid-late 80's). We looked at all the cards from the 70's and older and saw that they were worth so much money. So, a lot of people (myself included) stockpiled baseball cards thinking that they would be extremely valuable in the future. But the cards I have from when I was a kid aren't worth any more now than they were then, if anything they're worth less. This is due to the fact that the market is flooded with them because so many people saved them.


the oldies also have sentimental value to people - they were 4 grand (give or take) new, lots of young people drove the piss out of them and long to relive their youth. Now those folks are grown up and are spending their fortunes getting back into that 'hemi cuda' or whatever they lost their virginity in. now the new cars are selling for WAY more than young kids can afford so the sentimental value won't be there since the people that can afford them now will be old in 30 years (like 60 or 70years old).

[ZTwentyAteU]

I just thought it was cool to at least see them do something like that. Not street legal FTL. Buy a regular challenger with a nitrous kit and run faster than that.

I'm sure its gonna be worthless, but still neat.

[warsurfer]

I just thought it was cool to at least see them do something like that. Not street legal FTL. Buy a regular challenger with a nitrous kit and run faster than that.

I'm sure its gonna be worthless, but still neat.

you are right, it is cool - we highjacked your thread, sorry :)

i don't think the new stuff will be worthless, just think that buying the new challenger/gt500/camaro and ziplocking it thinking it's an investment is stupid.

[jamtoy]

http://www.leftlanenews.com/mopar-unveils-drag-race-packages-for-challenger.html#more-8072

Looks like prices will start around 30grand. For a near turn key class legal car that probably isn't out of line. Neat car.

[suicideblonde]

Yeahhh so history lesson. Factories have long produced "track cars only" or factory "collector cars" or shipped them off to dealerships for special performance packaging...perhaps this is a stab at people who were warming benches back in the day watching A/FX cars. The kind of people who don't have to Google "swiss cheese frame" or Nicky Chevrolet to know what that means.

I don't think this car was exactly catered for know-it-all Car and Driver Fans. I wouldn't be sad if it were mine.

[suicideblonde]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XKKxoUpNcw


I've raced @ that track a few times. NSCA/NMCA and PSMCD. Teh sun. It killz u in teh afternoonz.