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Steven Mastey is glad he was stubborn enough back when he was 20 years old to order the exact car he wanted, regardless of what anybody else thought.
Forty-nine years later he still has his black 1974 Dodge Charger SE, and he still feels the same way.
Even his uncle, who sold cars at a local dealership, tried to talk Mastey out of his purchase.
“I went to a Pulaski [Wis.] dealership, and it’s my uncle Jim [who works there] and I told him what I wanted and he said, ‘I’ve got two Chargers in the showroom, why don’t you take one of them? Is said, ‘Well, they’re not black and white.’ And he said, ‘I haven’t sold a black car in 10 years.’ I said, ‘Well, today you’re going to … And I want a four-speed.’ He said, ‘I haven’t sold a four-speed car in 10 years, either.’ He was selling 318 automatics, that’s what people told him they wanted.”
So Mastey got his ’74 SE in black with a flashy Aztec interior, white vinyl top, four-speed and 400 four-barrel V-8. The final bill was more than $4,700. He hasn’t regretted it for one day or any of the 96,400 miles the car has traveled the past 49 years.
read more: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/car-of-the-week-1974-dodge-charger-se
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