Anyone else dream of E-Body ownership?

My first new car was a 73 Challenger. :glasses7:
Back then you didn't see a lot of Challenger's around, mostly Dart's, Dusters and Cuda's on the Mopar side.
I ordered it with a 340, 4 speed, sure grip, 3.55's, no power steering, and hood scoops. If I remember correctly the 4 speed was standard and the auto was an option.
The hood scoops were a $22 option and to go from the standard 318 to a 340 which got you duels and a 4 barrel was $300. The sure grip 3.55 was somewhere around $50, maybe $80.
I never ordered the rally pack because I didn't like the louvers on the side of the front fenders.
From the factory all the cars back then had issues.
From day one the clutch shuddered so bad it would rattle your fillings out.
The dealer repainted the whole car because the paint was so bad.
They replaced a ball joint and a rear wheel bearing and all of this within the first month. That car got driven hard, shifted at 6K from day one.
Top speed was about 137 mph on the speedo at 5700 rpm and I held it there for over 20 miles before I had to slow down from it getting hot.
They never did resolve the clutch issue even after the head office got involved. About 6 months later the clutch disc came apart when I was passing someone and shifting from second to third.
I replaced the clutch myself and the real problem was the tranny sitting crooked where it mated to the bell housing because of a 1/4 inch of crap in there. You would have thought that the dealer could have found that but back then service was terrible.
Anyway no more clutch problems after that.
Back then my friends had 340 Dusters.
If I could trade my 74 Dart Sport for a Cuda or Challenger without going bankrupt I'd do it in a heart beat.