xjken said:
I take it you sold the car years ago, if not how about some pics.
Bob Lincoln said:
And at the national speed limit of 55 mph, not 65.
I sure wish I had some pictures. There are probably are some laying around in a shoe box somewhere. Most of the pictures from that era would have been taken with a Polaroid or the (later pulled for patent infringement) Kodak Handle One, the Polaroid clone. Of course that means no negatives.
We put a ton of miles on that car in Indiana and took it to Florida in 1985 where it lasted about 6-7 more years. We traded it in on a used 87 LeBaron Coupe. My wife had the 86 min-van to haul the 3 kids around and the LeBaron was my daily driver.
The Challeger was still a running vehicle when I traded it but the paint was going and there were a few rust spots from having it up North. The AC had gone out (not good in FL) and the kicker that threw me over the edge was that the rear main seal started leaking badly. I just didn't feel like pulling the tranny in the middle of the Summer. lol
You will notice from the sticker that this car was serial #99. Had I kept in garaged, it might have been worth more than I paid for it, although I have never known these to be a big collectors items like the muscle car predecessors. They say that any car with a serial# under 100 is always a collector. We were just a young family looking for transportation and both my wife and I thought these looked really sharp when the brochures came out and with my good carreer, we could easily afford it. We pre-ordered right after the pre-production brochures came out in the Dodge showroom. At the time, I never thought about a low serial # and never paid much attention to it until years later. The last I saw that car, it was in somebody's driveway in St Petersburg, FL. I positively identified it from a cracked tail light lense that I epoxied back together. I was with a coworker on lunch break and he saw it before I did.
Bob.. yes, those were the days of 55 MPH speed limits and 40 MPG was easily attainable with no problem if you drove it on a flat road with no stops at 55 MPH. I'm sure that is how the EPA tests were conducted (probably on a dyno). Definitely different measurements back in that day.
EDIT in: Here is a copy of the brochure that is an exact copy of the vehicle we purchased.
. This was one of the early engines using the jet valve technology. The 36 mpg that we recorded was probably 80 to 85% highway. The gas mileage was actually a little better than a 1965 Opel Kadett Sport that we owned which had a 1.0 liter (I think 40 HP). Also, notice the annual costs shown on the sticker are based on gas being .70 per gallon 
