Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "American Reacts to AUSSIE MOPAR! E49 Charger HEMI Six" video.

  1. We had 318 and 360 cube V8's but the top motor was the 340 which was a mopar performance motor. Despite the lower capacity it was significantly more powerful than the 360. The E55 Charger had the 340 cube motor.
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  2. When you write it like that I finally know what "AP" stood for. Thank you. :)
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  3. Remember that the nominal power output of the Phase III GTHO was "only" 300 hp too... but if you weren't Joe Average (or should we say Bruce Average) but a known competitive driver, then you might have got one of the better cars with a few more of the "special" homologation parts and a 350 hp output. If you were a star for a race team then the "300 hp" one you got was more like "380 hp", even before your tuners went to work. And yet the Chargers could accelerate quicker, so take that 302 hp figure with a similar grain of salt. Holden did the same with their XU1's and so too did Chrysler. Within the "production car" circles there were cars that had a smattering of the best performance parts, and some that got ALL of them in the one package.
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  4. Yep, the panelvans will freak him out too. They did have the woodies in the US which fitted with the surf culture, but the Sandman took it to a whole new level.
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  5. The Capella in Aussie parlance was the 1600cc 4 cyl, and the RX2 was it's name if it had the Rotary engine (which was the 12a rotary). I guess Mazda learnt from the Datsun Fairlady naming misadventure. With Datsun struggling to sell a sportscar with a less than masculine name in the early 60's before going to Datsun 1600 and 2000 sports nomenclature.. So we didn't get the "Savannah" nameplate on the rotary, just RX and a series model number (RX2, RX3, etc)
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  6. There was a BMW 2002 in silver a bit before the Lotus Cortinas. Didn't see if it was the 2002 turbo with the infamous backward lettering.
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  7. There was the E57 (iirc) which was the 360 engined option Charger. The E55 was better than the E57 though. Cubes aren't everything.
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  8. You found out the orange one was an Rx2, and you knew the Mach 1 and the "Pony" Mustang So, after the blue and white Mustang, we had a silver BMW 2002 (can't see if its turbo) then I think it was an EH Holden in white with blue stripes (might be an EJ I'm no old holden expert), then the blue one is a GTR XU1 Torana, then another black 'stang. Then there's a cut away, so we miss a few cars. The last 3 I think were a Valiant AP/S type and definitely two Ford Lotus Cortinas. I think the second was a Bathurst GT (couldn't really see if it had the drop tank in the driveby).
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  9. Chrysler tested it, but in the end chose the E49 because it was quicker in their testing, although not at Bathurst. Then the supercar scare hit the news, and the planned V8 Charger homologation racer, the Phase IV GT Falcon, and the LJ Torana V8 all got dropped. In the end Chrysler did put out their 340 cube v8 Charger in the 770, 770 SE and E55, but without the tuning effort that went into the E38 and E49.
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