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1972 - GONE!
Although there were still performance
engines and performance models available
from Chrysler, the general consensus is that the performance era died after
the 1971 model year. For 1972, there would be no Hemi! There would be no
440 Six Pack! No B-body
or E-body convertibles. There would be no Challenger
R/T and no big-block engines offered in any Barracuda or Challenger. Horsepower,
torque and compression ratios continued to plummet and, what the federal
government didn't legislate out of existence, the insurance industry managed
to surcharge well into the ionosphere. The flow of muscle
Mopars out of the
assembly plants as we had once known them may have been shut off, but that
didn't mean we had to bury the cars.
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