1970 DODGE CHALLENGER 4pg ROAD TEST ~ 2pg Preview W/Options ~ 8pg Mini Brochure

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1970 DODGE CHALLENGER 4pg ROAD TEST ~ 2pg Preview W/Options ~ 8pg Mini Brochure
1970 Dodge Challenger 440 Magnum 4 pgs. Road Test, 2pg. Preview article w/specifications/options  & Dodge Scat City original vintage 8 page advertisement/brochure.
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Dodge Challenger 440 Magnum -
Road Test
- 4 pages.
What
’
s puple and goes like a striped grape? Challenger styling done in wild living grapejuice generates an aroused populace.
Dodge Challenger - PREVIEW
- 2 pages w/specifications, options.
DODGE ANNOUNCES SCAT CITY.
The
’
70 Dodge Scat Pack is road ready.
It’s the day after race day . . . U.S.A.! In a small brick building in Highland Park, Michigan, a group of white-coated engineers roll a long-snooted automobile into a closed van. In the Daytona Beach airport, NASCAR winner Bobby Isaacs catches a plane for Chelsea, Michigan . . . proving ground for the Scat Pack Chargers. Monday morning
at 5 a.m., the “Wing Thing," the new Charger Daytona, goes for a shake-down run . . . flat out.
“Big Daddy" Don Garlits, king of the dragsters, hot from shutting down two dozen fuelies at a Long Island rail meet, catches a cab for Kennedy Airport. His destination — Michigan International Speedway and a date with the hot new Dodge Challenger R/T. Daddy digs it. See report inside.
From the USAC wars, former national champion Don White wings in to blast the 1970 Charger R/T around the high-bank Michigan circuit. His opinion . . . “A great muscle car for all-purpose driving ... and it’s even got a functional backseat."
Up the river, the guys in the parts de
partment are stuffing boxes with speed goodies . . . selected intakes, jugs, cams, cranks, mags, headers ... the works for the guys who won't take stock for an answer. Special show kits for those who want special styling.
California Charlie Allen, the all-American boy, world’s greatest Dodge Dart drag race artist, shows up to smoke the new version of the Swinger 340. At
Detroit Dragway the budget bomb lives up to its name.
Dandy Dick Landy, who races for loot, puts his boot in the new Super Bee Six Pack. Finds out it sizzles and gets off the line like lightning.
Scat City is where it’s taking place, where the Dodge Scat Pack cars are proving to be the toughest performance cars going. From Riverside to Race
way Park ... from Dallas drags to super speedways. And back at the shop, a group is putting the finishing touches on a thing called the Scat Pack Club. Yes, gang, you do have a friend at the factory . . . he’s waiting to talk to you.
Welcome to Scat City — where the competition is hot, hairy, and sanctioned. Be a swinger and join the Scat Pack Club. Details on the following pages. And don’t forget . . . keep the tach in the black!
DODGE SCAT PACKAGES
Scoop about our groups.
You might know that we put out a special high-performance parts catalog of some several hundred items made by Dodge. At no cost to Scat Pack Club members.
New this year are prepackaged Scat Packages. They are designed to take you from dress-up-and-show to hot-and-torrid in easy stages. And they are available for new and not-so-new Dodges. For part numbers and prices for your particular Dodge, check the catalog or see your Dealer. For example. new this year are:
1. THE SHOWBOAT... a dress-up kit that includes chromed valve covers, oil filler cap. air cleaner hood pins and locks, and chromed road wheels.
2. THE READ-OUT...
what's happening baby? Full-sweep tach, oil pressure and fuel pressure gauges will fill you in.
3. THE KRUNCHER...
Get off the
street and on the strip with a hot ring and pinion, matching speedometer pinion, and Hurst shifter.
4.
THE BEE-LIEVER... your mill will breathe a little easier with matching
high-rise manifold and carb, or streep cam and headers.
5. THE TOP ELIMINATOR… Six Pack hood and pins. Six Pack triple-manifold and carbs. Transistorized ignition. Electric fuel pump. Cool can.
Charlie Allen tests Swinger 340: Wrings it out good.
Young Californian, Charlie Allen, has been drag racing funny cars lor 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 home, provided you do it at a sanctioned meet.
"The one I tested was equipped with an optional Hurst four-speed shifter .. . same kind I used in national championship drag racing. This transmission is almost crash proof. I clocked some mighty fine ETs with the stock Swinger 340. In the show department, you can order buckets, hood pins, and lots of show goodies.
"My opinion of the Swinger 340 — if you want to put your dough into 'go' instead of mouldings, you'll like it. I do!”
Dick Landy tests ’70 Super Bee Six Pack: Won’t give it back.
Cigar chompin' Dick Landy is a national super stock drag racing champion, driving Darts and Chargers. Holder of Super Stock / F national record and countless track records.
"Let's get one thing straight first. The 70 Dodge Super Bee was designed to provide a full-sized car with a lot of performance and a minimum of gingerbread. To provide it with stuff that only effects performance. And that's why Super Bee’s standard engine is the husky 333-cubic-inch V8 with heads right oft the big 440 Magnum which has got to be the hot set up!
"Super Bee is truly the budget supercar for the man who wants a big car performance without spending a bundle for it.
"The Super Bee I tested had the swingin' SixPack setup . . . three mind-blowing two-barrel Holley carbs on a new high-rise manifold ... all bolted on the 440 Magnum engine. Biggest problem was getting off the line without smoking it. Feather foot definitely required. The engine, by the way, has had some extra care applied. Optional special cams, mains, and crank. It can take it. The hood has hinges this year, nice when you check the oil, and the scoops feed directly into the Holleys. If the marine-like exhaust rumble doesn't tell you the engine’s running, the optional tach will. By the way, I'm not going to give this Super Bee SixPack back to the factory. I’m buying it for my wife. She doesn't care if its clutch-pedal pressure is a little high. She loves the optional, full-synchro, four-speed manual. I told her so.”
Don Garlits tests Challenger R/T: Says it’s triple tough.
Don "Big Daddy" Garlits. King of the Dragsters, has driven his Dodge Hemi-powered fuel-burning rail to just about every national record and championship in the books. He is truly one of the all-time greats in American automotive competition.
"Now Dodge has gone and done the real thing. Built the pony car of all pony cars. They watched the whole pony car thing develop, then built their own super-tough version ... the Challenger R/T. Compact like a Dart. Wide like a Charger. Just the right size for anyone who likes his own personalized back yard bomb. Dodge should sell a million of 'em. Challenger, and espe
cially Challenger R/T, are young peoples' cars with young persons' price tags. The standard R/T engine is the 383-cubic-inch Magnum V8, and you can go from there to 440 Magnum and 426-inch Hemi if you want more zap.
"What turned me on is the turning radius ... it's really tight, which means you get a taut handling package in the stock Challenger.
"Another thing I like is the return to the gauges, you know, gas, oil pressure, amps. No warning lights, but true calibrated gauges on the Challenger R/T.
"Dodge told me that Challenger R/T comes in three body styles. Two-door hardtop. SE hardtop, and convertible. There’s loads of options including a four-speed full-synchro transmission and three-speed Torque-Flite automatic with stickshift. And the new colors are something else . . . really wild. The one I drove is Go-Mango".
"Fantastic performance! If I ever leave dragsters, you can be sure I'll run a super stock Challenger R/T.
"If you want to see what Dodge did to pony cars, stop by your Dodge Dealer’s and give the Scat Pack Challenger a test drive. You can challenge the world with Challenger R/T.”
Don White tests Charger R/T: “On the road… who could ask for more?”
Don White, Dodge Charger race driver. USAC stock car champ. 1963 and 1967, all-time (39 races) stock car winner in USAC history.
"You know Charger. Every race fan's idea of a real automobile. One that looks good, and seemingly drives itself at any speed, and has a feeling of complete control. That's Charger R/T for 1970. As a Midwestern driver, the thing I go for along with blazing power is the optional mechanically adjustable sixway driver's seat. It works just as good as most power adjustables. and makes those long trips between race tracks a whole lot easier.
"Charger R/T is my kind of car. Soft suspension and plenty of back seat room for the crew. I don't do too much drag racing, but at the sanctioned drag strip I topped 100 in the quarter with my street Charger R/T. It
was equipped with a 440 Magnum V8 coupled with the Torque-Flite automatic gear changer. Replace that with an optional 440 V8 SixPack — three big Holleys on high rise manifold — or the Hemi 426. and you’ll do even better.
There's a four-speed manual Hurst selector available also ... the kind I use on my USAC stocker.
"Incidentally. Charger R/T's Torque-Flite this year has a new stickshift gate that's as fast and sure and crisp as any manual shifter, but quicker.
"All in all. Charger R/T is one of the greatest buys a true performance-minded guy could find anywhere.
"As I said. Super Bee may out-drag it, but what other cars can offer Charger R/T's features? If you gotta go (quick) — go Charger R/T but remember, do it at the strip!”
Bobby Issacs tests Charger Daytona: He drives a winner.
"Well, there's one obvious thing about a Charger Daytona. Nobody, but nobody, walks by without breaking his neck to take a second look. This is the slightly civilized version of the shark-nose built specifically for the long NASCAR ovals. Old Slippery has a snout that strikes out a country mile in front, and an adjustable spoiler that looks two stories tall in the rear. Standard mill is the 440 Magnum but the one I tested packed the optional street
version of the 426 Hemi.
Now the Hemi may idle like a coffee can full of rocks, and it may need a wrench applied a little more often than usual. On the other hand, as far as acceleration is concerned, the Hemi turns on where the others shut off. The heavy-duty Rallye Suspension is firm. The test car exhibited moderate understeer under hard driving ... but there’s plenty of torque to break the rear end loose if you have the foot for it.
"Inside, the NASCAR heritage is obvious only in the full-dash equipment. The buckets fit well. Visibility is excellent in the front, not so hot to the rear due to the rear quarter fairings. The standard and heavy-duty rear drums are solid and reliable. You can put down your non-performance friends by pointing out that you have carpeting, disappearing headlights, and a car that you’ll never lose in a crowded parking lot."
SPECIFICATIONS:
Color - Black & White
Photo
Size: Road Test - Four Full Pages - Reverse Printed -
8
inches x 11 inches - 20 cm x 28 cm (each page)
Preview - Two
Full Pages -
8
inches x 11 inches - 20 cm x 28 cm (each page)
Mini Brochure: Full (8) Pages - Reverse Printed - 8
inches x 11 inches - 20 cm x 28 cm (each page)
ALL SIZES ARE APPROXIMATE DUE TO CROPPING
Country - USA
Grading - Excellent, mild age-toning (yellow-copper tint due to age) around edges.
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