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    BEFORE THE WILD-WINGED DAYTONA THE CHARGER 500 WAS DODGE’S AERO WARRIOR

    Oct 07, 2022 2 minutes

    The news that 2023 would be the final year for the Dodge Charger and Challenger—as we know them, anyway—prompted us to go back into the archives and see what HOT ROD had to say about these muscle machines when they were new.

    Turns out, not all that much. Each car received one road test in 1969, then the fuselage-bodied Charger

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