I want to see which Charger concept everyone prefers.
The choices are:
*the metallic red '99 Charger R/T concept car
*orange photoshopped Magnum that appeared in Popular Hotrodding
this picture
*the green Charger drawings in the new Car and Driver

Stylistically, I love the '99 concept because it looks like a Camaro or a 4 seater corvette (from the side at least).

From a historic viewpoint, the Popular Hotrodding photoshopped Magnum looks very very good and keeps with some of the Charger style perhaps.

I hate the green brick.

 

99 no doubt

 

I actually like the PHR version. The 99 concept looks too much like an Intrepid. The PHR Charger says modern day musclecar to me. The C&D Charger says sedan Magnum with a stripe kit.

I guess if its actually going to have the retro stripes, there's no further point in asking, "Say does that thang got a HEMI!?!"

 

1999 concept...still remember the first time i saw it at the Georgia World Congress Center...the fact that it did not get made then was one of the bigges crimes in the history of dcx

 

Dont call it the Popular Hotrodding version! - we all know its the Kris Horton version, featured in PHR.

 

Wert.

 

In all fairness, they contracted me to do it and some of the influence came directly from editor Johnny Hunkins, but all the work was done by me and most of the look came from my head.

I don't really know if I like mine the most though. Personally the '99 Charger concept has always looked like a disproportionate Intrepid to me, but people seem to love it and I can see why. It carries a lot of styling cues from the original Chargers but is not too retro.

My concept was built with a lot more limitations. I had to build a coupe (at the time, the 4-door model was just rumored and not made fact until 3 days before my deadline) on the LX platform and make it look like a muscle car with a similar retro/modern balance as the '99.

The Car & Drive drawings look like they took some cues from my renderings or the existing Magnum and then packaged it in a similar 300C body. It doesn't have any indication that it's a Charger and I would like to think that Chrysler/Dodge have more talent that just using a stripe package to give the car personality.

That said; from a coolness standpoint, I think I like the '99 concept. Reality-wise, I like mine because I think it does have a decent look about it that makes it read as a muscle car but is not quite as retro or swoopy as the '99. I don't really like the C&D one very much at all.

 

How did you make yours? Is it all photoshop? It looks too clean to be photoshopped, it looks like a 3D model almost. Can you share your wisdom oh great sage?

 

It is a 3D model that I made. That's how I do all of my work. Very little photochopping involved. I had about 3 weeks start to finish on that project, which is about how long it takes to start from scratch and model a car to near-completion for me.

Glad you dig it by the way.

Kris

 

Anyone which comes with a 6.1 Hemi and a T-56.

 

I am trying to learn how to do 3D models, do you use Rhino3D? Also, is there a picture of the back of the car you made that I haven't seen? I don't subscribe to Popular Hotrodding .

 

I taught myself Rhino 3D a while back. Very potent program. I also know how to use XSI, Maya, 3DC MAX, Lightwave, and Mental Ray (for renderings.)
Check out PHR's website, here are some of the features that include my work:

http://popularhotrodding.com/features/0409phr_camaro/
http://popularhotrodding.com/features/0404phr_dodge/
http://popularhotrodding.com/feature...ifth_Reloaded/
http://popularhotrodding.com/features/0309phr_5camaro/

Hope you dig them!

Kris

 

Either the 99 or the orange PHR version.

The C&D version based on the 300C (and supposedly close to to what it will look lke) looks like sh**. Bland, blunt nosed, slab sided, ugly brick and a porky one at that. And what's with those dodge intrepid tail lights... ugh. Why bother to call it Charger?

 

You're the guy I read about in the magazine about a year ago! I didn't know we had such a celebrity here!

Thanks for the links, they are all awesome, I haven't seen any of those other Charger pictures, just the one I posted (a friend emailed the link to me).

 

I prefer this one:

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-...55/charger.JPG

It's from the September 2002 MotorTrend sketchpad.