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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Charger E49 - wish you'd bought one 15 years ago?

The Charger E49 is revered as the mightiest of all Australian-built Chargers, and rightly so. With a 0-100 kph time of 6.1 seconds, the E49 would impress in 2008, let alone in the 1970s when they were brand new. Not quite up to speed with your knowledge of Aussie Chargers? Never mind, the Chrysler in Australia website should fill in the blanks. As you'd expect, the second hand value of E49s has always surpassed that of common garden-variety Chargers. At the time of the photo, which I took at an "All Chrysler" day in the early 90s, I reckon E49s were selling for around the AU$30K mark. A quick check of the Australian Red Book (used car values) website demonstrates just how much the Charger E49 has appreciated over the years. Go on, take a look for yourself and prepare to be amazed. If you're anything like me, you wish you could have bought one 15 years ago and kept it in storage...

1 comment:

Liam said...

The old Charger's are a really cool car.