Used Car of the Day: 1978 Dodge Ram Charger

by Tim Healey

Published: May 26th, 2023

used car of the day 1978 dodge ram charger

Today's UCOTD is a 1978 Dodge Ram Charger that runs, has some rust, needs to be restored, and will set you back $7,000.

That's about all the ad copy tells us -- we also know it has a 360 with a four-barrel carb and four-wheel drive.

So, give it a look here and see if the pictures intrigue you enough to get you to inquire further.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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RHD on May 28, 2023

This was awesome, in 1978. Now, it's very much obsolete - thirsty, slow, ponderous, noisy, rough, and dated design even in its time. Still, someone who wants to recreate some distant memories will buy it and restore it and enjoy it, and the seller just has to find that particular individual.

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- DenverMike on May 29, 2023
  
  Yeah no doubt but the same is true of those god forsaken muscle cars, although they lack any kind of utility, towing, snow going, overlanding, etc.
  
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- DenverMike on May 29, 2023
  
  Sure you can assume the hobby will die out with the geezers but I know personally a few Gen Y’ers owning and enjoying vintage Jeeps, muscle, etc. If it’s cool it’s cool.
  
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- Lou_BC on May 29, 2023
  
  @DenverMike - my oldest kid (21) is rabid about vehicles. As long as there are kids like him around, restoration/restomod's will not die off. The only thing that might change is the cars/trucks that they chose to fix. 80's and 90's trucks and cars are really big with his age group. 60's and earlier vehicles tend to be too expensive or too sh!tty to bother to restore. 70's stuff is gaining in popularity too.
  
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- DenverMike on May 29, 2023
  
  My nephew is another one. It only seems natural to me, but it’s all of his buddies too. it doesn’t take deep pockets necessarily. He scored on a ‘72 Grande Mustang notch I had that i traded for something. So there’s some hope for the future.
  
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Joel Hansen on Nov 09, 2023

Grille must have replaced with after market, no name on it and park lights are from 77 model. 78 went to amber colored

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