It isn't just the styling....it is much more than that.

[Xenon]

Oh how I remember those, way too well...

or the ones that had the vinyl/weighted sand bags on each side
that sat on/straddled over the transmission tunnel

I had them as well..
They didn't work out too well for me tho as I was always
"slamming" the car around.... So I stuck with the hang-on
the door type....

 

[Aarons Air]

 

[Kern Dog]

That was a cool video.

 

[Aarons Air]

Dig that blue tail stripe

 

[64BEL]

 

[Kern Dog]

I loved these cars from the moment that I saw them. Until I got closer and spent some time with them, the engineering of them never entered my mind.
The 60s and 70s were a period of development for these great cars where new features came along almost every couple years.
The 426 Hemi, the 833 4 speed, the torsion bar suspension....All great examples of Mopar engineering.

Going back to the engineering of these cars...
I had a couple of Camaros and a Chevy truck before I bought my first Charger. The Camaros had idiot lights for gauges. I had a Ford Maverick that I'm pretty sure only had a gas gauge and a speedometer...No water temp, oil pressure or alternator gauge.
Mopars had better instrumentation.
The torsion bar suspension seemed strange to me until I really looked at it. Ma Mopar had electronic ignition before the GM and Ford guys too. The leaf spring design had a stiffer forward section making traction bars UNnecessary. Some guys still put them on these cars and I don't know why...

 

[myk r sanchez]

Cup holders would be nice to have though.

A lot of us have made various modifications to these cars but NONE of us has a freaking cup holder solution. I have an idea, but it would require cutting up my console and I don't want to go there yet.

Anyway I remember in high school, around 1994, mom said that it was time for me to get my own car. I remember narrowing the choice down to a late 80's Mustang or Camaro/Firebird. I had always loved the Dukes of Hazzard growing up but figured that a car like that just wouldn't happen for me. One night, after coming home from a late shift at McDonald's, I turned on the tv and there was Bullitt. After watching that muscle car ballet I decided that a 68-70 Charger was the only way to go-I had finally found the car of my life...