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I recently bought a CD from Ebay. the author had compiled hundreds of Mopar pictures of many models and put them on a CD. There are these concept cars i have never seen before. Perhaps other people have seen them before but i found them so interesting. Unfortunately there is only the pics on the CD - no information, except on pages where they were advertised production vehicles.

I used to have little "Matchbox" or "Hot Wheels" versions of the pick-up and the Charger when I was a kid.

dave-r wrote:I used to have little "Matchbox" or "Hot Wheels" versions of the pick-up and the Charger when I was a kid.

Same here, I had the Charger III concept in dark green.

IIRC, the 64 Charger concept was recreated (by a private person, starting from a 64 Dodge Polara) a few years ago. I'd say the recent pics are of this recreation.
One other guy remade a Deora too, but the original concept is still around and will be sold soon :

http://blog.cardomain.com/2009/09/10/th ... ion-block/

Thanks Steve.

I had those Hotwheels too! Nice looking concept's!

i still have my hotwheels of some of those cars ,if they would have made the dodge deora i would have bought one

Yeah, Matchbox car...me too, now i remember. Amazing! What a pity they didn't make that 64 Charger in production. SO much better looking than the 66Charger (only my opinion). Probably a bit too space-Age for the common man.

cheers for posting those pics steve some awesome design work there
cheers ian

Some of these on this link were also plastic kits and other models I had as a kid. They are all from one collection and are all going under the hammer!

http://www.rmauctions.com/search-upcomi ... e=&Model=#

I seem to remember the Deora also. A striking design for sure.

The first picture in the thread of the 64 Charger, seems to have the 1970 Cuda front end design. Gotta love the R & D department.

Great pictures, thanks!

how about the duke boys "junk i mean jump charger" for 30 k a person could buy a really nice one!

Jon wrote:I seem to remember the Deora also. A striking design for sure.

The first picture in the thread of the 64 Charger, seems to have the 1970 Cuda front end design. Gotta love the R & D department.

Great pictures, thanks!

No problems Jon, here's some more of the Deora. It seems to have been a chopped and modified production model, as from the info below. Maybe you have seen the nomal looking version from growing up? The R & D Dept must have had a lot of time on their hands to design and build the central swinging door of the Deora, but i think getting in and out would have been a little tedious.

I found out a little bit about it, here it is from a quote, "The Deora: Here is the world's second most famous Dodge A-100, the Deora. No-one is a bigger fan than Truck Trend Art Director Thomas Voehringer and we got some information on the Deora from his webside, Bonediggers.com. The idea of a custom truck to support the new '64 A-100's was initiated by Chrysler with the Alexander Brothers, famous Detroit customisers, who got the radical design from Harry Bently Bradley. It took three years and $10,000 to compoete and was unveiled in 1967 where it won the Ridler Awards. The original name of the truck was XTAB (Experimantal Truck by Alexander Bros) but a better name was needed when a scale model company decided to market a plastic kit. AMT sponsored a competition in Car Modelers Magazine and a 13 year old boy, David Hagedom, won with the name Deora. The built truck features a slant six and although sporting some Ford parts it nevertheless represents the most significant Mopar custom of its time"

Also, that gorgeous gold Charger III - the front area looks a touch similar to the early Stingray

dave-r wrote:Some of these on this link were also plastic kits and other models I had as a kid. They are all from one collection and are all going under the hammer!

http://www.rmauctions.com/search-upcomi ... e=&Model=#

I just had a look at that RM Auction site. The Deora concept car is there! Here i was spending 20 minutes copying that information and there is 10 times more info on that auction site. Expected sale price between $350-550,000. Also some General Lee Chargers from the filming. No reserve, $30-60,000. Quite cheap if not much interest.

The Supervan was on "Cut, Chop, Rebuild a couple of years ago. They did a complete restoration on it on the show.
http://www.ccr.tv/past-project.html no info or pics though

The headlights and grill in the first picture remind me a little of a 65 Dart that I once had.Thanks for the pictures.