Here is a bar bet that you could easily win. How many car models had the Challenger name prior to the advent of the iconic 1970 muscle car? Answer: Two Details: The first time the name was used was in 1959 for the "value version" of the Silver Coronet. Five years later, in 1964, Studebaker applied it to a 1964 model in its lineup, as it was phasing out the Lark name. The brand was gone two years later.
Wow. What a beauty. Not. '59 may have been a good year for some things... (I was born that year )... but it was not a good year for automobiles. Case in point: '59 Edsel Ewww. '59 Impala Yuck. '59 ElCamino ouch! '59 Oldsmobile Bad ass. No, I mean literally, a bad ass end. '59 Plymouth and I'm a Mopar lover, but those fins gotta go!
