If you're looking for muscle car bargains, you can do worse than start with the Mopars. The nickname stems from Chrysler Corporation's spare parts brand. The parts were Mopar and pretty soon the cars were too. Fastback Dodge Chargers are way cool, but they're very expensive, and now that Dodge has announced a new 2008 Challenger, powered by the current, red-hot corporate Hemi V-8, old Charger prices are trending upward. Under the skin, there are a lot of similarities with other Mopar-badged cars. Think early-to-mid-1960s Dodge Polaras and Coronets. A squared-edge '67 Polara 500 Hardtop with the thundering 440/350 Wedge V-8 is $34,400. The full-size Polara was all-new in '67, with what Dodge called a semi-fastback-style roof, and discretely flared feature lines that ran straight along the sides. Polara was the base model. If you can find a nice one with a big motor, you'll be stylin', for a lot less green than you'd need for a Hemi-powered Charger. |
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