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Prettiest Fandragon Above You x1



So my family computer died and now I'm forced to play this game on mobile~ and hoo boys it it finicky! The autocorrect is nice, until it tries to misspell a car name and suddenly I got a hekkin Dodger Challenge instead of a Dodge Challenger~

"Vietnam War hero Kowalski (Barry Newman) has become a ****-addicted driver for hire. Transporting a car from Colorado to California, he enlivens the journey by making a wager with his drug dealer: If the trip takes under 15 hours, Kowalski's latest amphetamine purchase is free. But Kowalski's recklessness on the road results in a much-publicized police chase. Radio jock Super Soul (Cleavon Little) covers the pursuit and turns Kowalski, who refuses to pull over, into a martyr for freedom."

While the car can be spotted doing some pretty incredible stunts, very few components had to be changed from stock. Apart from the heavy-duty shock absorbers, the cars could handle everything the producers threw at them with largely stock internals. Among the vehicles used in the film were five Alpine white Challengers, all of the R/T trim. While four of the five cars used came with the 440ci equipped with a 4-speed manual, number five packed a 383ci under the hood which was controlled with an automatic transmission. The automatic was likely the car used for particularly difficult stunts in which the driver had to have complete focus instead of thinking about shifting.

The studio never had any need to add power, in fact, Newman even stated that the vehicle's 390 horsepower was almost too much even going as far as to say “it was almost as if there was too much power for the body. You’d put it in first and it would almost rear back!”

Carey Loftin was in charge of the stunts, he was a highly respected stunt driver and tended to make cars jump off the ground at high speeds. This man knew a good car when he saw it, his vehicle of choice was the Challenger due to the advanced suspension and massive horsepower numbers for the time."


I'm never going to be able to financially recover from this ~

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1970 Dodge Challenger R/T
Vanishing Point

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