Nothing frightening, but that is one cool car!
We had a Valiant, we had a Charger, but I don't remember a Valiant Charger. Was it made in Australia? What was the power train?
Do I ask too many questions?
All built/produced in Aus, on the same frame as the smaller Chryslers in the US. The Charger was introduced in '71 with a shorter chassis and first of all with a 6Cyl engine. 215ci in the base model, 245ci and then 265ci. Several V8's were used, all smallblock, 318ci, 360ci and in one shortlived model a 340ci. In it's introductory year it formed 1/2 of all production. The 6cyl engines were all called "Hemi's", although they were not a true full hemi but a semi-hemi with the valves operated by pushrod and ball type rockers (no shaft) so the exhaust valve could exit on the opposite side of the combustion chamber to the inlet, which also had an angled seat, but it was not a crossflow head, but had individual inlet and exhaust ports.
The cars built for racing were all 6's of the 265ci with a nickel alloy block, steel crankshaft and triple twin choke Italian Webber carburettors and full flow headers. Rules at the time required 200+ orders to have been placed. 2 models, with 2 versions were produced. The first had a 3spd stick shift and were called R/T's, with model designation E37 for road use and E38 for track, the main difference being the fuel tank. E37 had the standard, beneath the floor and normal trunk and spare on the right. The E38 had a tank that filled almost all of the trunk, with high mounted fillers either side, behind the quarter windows and the spare was sandwiched in at the rear. The next year, had a 4 speed gearbox and became R/T4's, E48 and E49. The engine was rated the highest horsepower production 6 cyl in the world at the time.
Unfortunately it could never match the "legs" of Ford's 351ci Cleveland V8 over the Bathurst mountain, although on short tight circuits it bettered it.
Note the 4 in the black vertical stripe on the front fender and the fuel filler, showing this was a "Big Tank" E49
The triple carb 265ci
There are some of these in the US. one is or was owned by it's American designer, Ron Hubbach.