When Dodge threatened its fans with going all-electric over the next few years, it launched not one, not two, but seven “Last Call” special editions. Imagine the frustration of those who naively bought one of those only to see the EV market slide into stagnation and Dodge get quietly back to ICE car production. Some of the worst damage was dealt to those who genuinely believed their muscle cars to be “investments” – like this one.
The owner of this admittedly nice-looking Challenger coupe paid nearly $84,000 for it and then handed over another $26,000 to Florida-based Droptop Customs to have its roof chopped off. The tuner replaced the fixed roof with an automatic soft top, seen in the gallery above.
Credit where it’s due, the car does cut a striking figure with its attractive body proportions and sporty outlines. It helps that a 6.2-liter supercharged Hemi V8 drives the wheels with 717 PS (707 hp / 527 kW) while producing a gorgeous sound. In fact, if Dodge were ever to mass-produce a modern Challenger droptop, this is what it would most probably look like.
However, in buying a muscle car as an investment item, the owner failed to account for one crucial thing. Only collectors would ever be willing to pay him his $110,000 back, and then likely only decades after the end of production. As it stands, the Last Call Edition is neither exclusive enough nor even technically the last. At a recent Bring a Trailer auction, it changed hands for a measly $73,000.
Now, you may be thinking that’s still decent for a Challenger, and we are somewhat inclined to agree. Not so much the owner. He descended on the comment section minutes before the auction closed, trying to convince everyone that his car should have been valued “a lot closer to 100k!” His fiery enthusiasm wasn’t shared by anyone else.
