If you have been itching to get into a nostalgia funny car and have some fun but did not want to put in the work to get it all together yourself, we have the perfect deal. The Motor City Charger is for sale and with it comes EVERYTHING you’d need to run the car at the strip. No, it is not swimming with spares but there’s a spare set of pistons, all the gaskets and junk you would need to pull the motor down and put it back together, some part valves, a spare magneto and coil, etc. While the ad says that the car has never been run, we found some video of it on the strip at Milan Dragway, so the thing has at least made a few passes.
The engine combo is a 500ci Keith Black hemi that has a Littlefield blower on it. The ad seems to be trying to say that it is a 14-71 huffer but it looks smaller than that to us, maybe just because it is not on a setback manifold. Who knows. In the videos we watched of the car, it sounds like it did have some fuel in the tank but not a full cackle 90-100% load. That’s just our ears talking, not gospel.
The car is radical in our opinion. Beautiful paint and it seems to have been maintained perfectly. The thing looks all but brand new and the Charger body is a nice departure from the typical Camaro that we see all over the place these days in nostalgia funny car. The asking price for the whole works is $90,000 and we think that is legit and kind of a steal, actually.
If you really wanted to life the funny car hero life, you could not build a car of this quality and come up with spares for less than $100k in our opinion. We do not know why the car was completed, used perhaps once and is now for sale but sometimes things change and plans change. We sure know how that goes!
RacingJunk.com find: The Motor City Charger is for sale – lightly used and really cool
THAT is a proper nostalgia funny car for it’s era!
Totally agree!
pretty car-it does look right
Love this car… it actually looks like a car. Even the nostalgia FC folks are leaning towards losing their identity. That would be a shame if they let that happen.
Dave Ferrin paint scheme. Was built as an alky car. DJ Johnson was original owner and it was called steel City charger. Not sure who current owner is
no skirts! nice