Wife brought home a Challenger

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Wife took Jeep into body shop to do repairs for nice mom who hit her. Enterprise picked her up and tried to give her a Nissan Altima. She refused that, picked a Chally, loves it and now wants one. Her brother in law owns Future Tool in Romulus Mi and can get a factory direct deal so she's asking how much they are etc. Oh boy...
 
I love mine...
 

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Of all of those that I have seen, I have never seen C H A L L Y emblems on any of them.
 
The wife drives off of the island every day for work, about 45 minutes to Burlington. It would make me nervous in the snow (which is usually only a few days a year). Other concerns is the gas mileage....she's paid mileage at work but not to work and from work. BUT...happy wife, happy life right???
 
my wife loves hers too
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13.71 @ 103 with a crappy 60' time, stock daily driver. hate em all you want, i think it's awesome and it handles like it's on rails
 
I'd love to get an SRT8 challenger one of these days. I've always thought they were great looking cars.
 
71340Duster said:
Krazykuda it sounds like you don't any more, wonder what happened? Personally I don't know Larry or anything much about his business.
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I left that job.

But they were a great machine house to deal with...
 
I think they're pretty sweet too. I'd probably trade both my "vintage" rides for the right one.
 
I tried to buy a new Challenger many years ago, we stood on the showroom floor looking and talking to each other while many salesman just sat in their office and ignored us, so we walked out...

then I found a 71 convertible for sale and bought that one instead...

When I pulled my convertible into the same dealer, the salesmen came up to me asking if I was there to trade it in, NOT - I'm here to get some parts...

I've had other new Challenger owners offer to trade me even for my convert, I pass...

I'm partial to my old convert now...


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krazykuda said:
I tried to buy a new Challenger many years ago, we stood on the showroom floor looking and talking to each other while many salesman just sat in their office and ignored us, so we walked out...

then I found a 71 convertible for sale and bought that one instead...

When I pulled my convertible into the same dealer, the salesmen came up to me asking if I was there to trade it in, NOT - I'm here to get some parts...

I've had other new Challenger owners offer to trade me even for my convert, I pass...

I'm partial to my old convert now...


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Beautiful..now thats what you call a Challenger:D:D
 
fratzog lover said:
That is the best bang for the buck. In Plum Crazy of course.
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She likes Plum Crazy and Sublime, not sure if the green is available, not really even shopping yet, just talking about it. She has said she doesn't want hood scoops though : ( She also wants an auto.
 
krazykuda said:
I tried to buy a new Challenger many years ago, we stood on the showroom floor looking and talking to each other while many salesman just sat in their office and ignored us, so we walked out...

then I found a 71 convertible for sale and bought that one instead...

When I pulled my convertible into the same dealer, the salesmen came up to me asking if I was there to trade it in, NOT - I'm here to get some parts...

I've had other new Challenger owners offer to trade me even for my convert, I pass...

I'm partial to my old convert now...


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Beautiful Karl,

Out of all the Challengers 71 & 15 are my least favorite, but that is a beauty

I know a guy that bought a 1970 convertible in B5 with black top & interior 318 factory AC, last time I talked to him it had over 300,000 miles, he gets it painted every 5 years or so and it always looks good. He will not sell it, been trying for 20-25 years. Dealer tried to get him to order a RT but he said he didn't need that much power. He is an eccentric old guy with a couple of THINGS & MGA decorates them at holloween and drives around Indianapolis. Puts a coffin on top of the Thing and wears a mask with lots of bloody creatures in the car with him.
 
GRANCUDA said:
2016 they offer Plum Crazy, 2015 they offered Sublime but it's not available on 2016.
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Talked to her again about Sublime, she thinks it's cool but maybe too much "in your face". I said I think that's the point!!! She also likes the gray which is the color of her rental. I'm wondering what are (if any) the changes between the 2015 and 2016 models?
 
71340Duster said:
Talked to her again about Sublime, she thinks it's cool but maybe too much "in your face". I said I think that's the point!!! She also likes the gray which is the color of her rental. I'm wondering what are (if any) the changes between the 2015 and 2016 models?
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My ex wife loved that bright green color.
 
fratzog lover said:
That is the best bang for the buck. In Plum Crazy of course.
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To my surprise the wife has warmed up to one of these. We saw one with the Scat Pack appearance group, she likes the bumblebee stripe and the bee logos. At first she didn't think they were available in an automatic but then we found that you can get it with the 8 speed auto.
 
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