Are you ready to live the Vanishing Point dream? Perhaps, with 225-cubic-inches of outlaw-running fury? That’s what this beater-status 1970 Dodge Challenger promises in full: “The car has all the original white paint and dings and dents and rust and patina from the last 50 years, and it looks like the Vanishing Point 1970 Challenger just before the crash at the end of the movie.”
Now, this isn’t your usual movie recreation, it just happens to look like the legendary hero car after it had traded paint with everything from the Nevada Highway Patrol to bougie Jag E-Types. Though, instead of Kowalski’s mandatory Hemi, with its pistol-gripped Hurst shifter and four-speed, this Challenger arrives with the infamous 225ci slant-six!
Backed by a three-speed Torqueflite, the meager 145hp won’t be sending you across the desert in any quick pace (you better hope the “blue, blue meanies on wheels” are equipped with bicycles and Smart Cars), but this daily-driven Challenger is one of the most honest survivors we’ve seen in some time. It’s rare enough that you find a six-cylinder Mopar that wasn’t already eviscerated for one of the hotter Chrysler-family V8s, much less one that mirrors a hero car so much. Along with the dents and scrapes, this Challenger has been gone through by the current to ensure that it stops, starts, and runs better than it looks — even with those 10-inch drums.
The price of this eternal, six-cylinder glory? $18,950 on-the-dot, with a slight discount if there’s a worthy trade. Check out the Craigslist Ad here!
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