STORY AND PHOTOS BY BRIAN EARNEST
Steven Mastey is glad he was stubborn enough back when he was 20 years old to order the exact car he wanted, regardless of what anybody else thought. Forty-nine years later, he still has his black 1974 Dodge Charger SE, and he still feels the same way.
“I was 20 and I saw a ’73 [Charger] in the area — black and white — so that’s what I wanted. It wasn’t decked out like this one. It was the only one I’ve seen since then — his and this one. I even went to MoPar Nationals and there were no black-and-white ones.”
Even his uncle, who sold cars at a local dealership, tried to talk Mastey out of his purchase.
“I went to a Pulaski [Wis.] dealership, and it’s my uncle Jim [who works there], and I told him what I wanted and he said, ‘I’ve got two Chargers in the showroom,
