It was either a case of impeccable timing, or it was one of the most ill-timed media releases in the history of the Australian motor industry. Or maybe it was both… Either way, on the Monday morning of June 26, 1972 – the very next day after the Evan Green Sun-Herald front-page ‘160mph Super Cars’ story which ignited the Supercar Scare, came a press release from Chrysler Australia proudly proclaiming that the new E49 high performance variant of its Charger R/T model was the most powerful six-cylinder car in the world.
For NSW Transport Minister Milton Morris, Chrysler’s media release was much-welcome grist to the mill in his crusade to rid our roads of these ‘bullets on wheels’. As for Chrysler, while the E49 – unlike the V8 XU-1 and XA Falcon GTHO – would be spared the ‘Supercar’ axe because it was
