Let's see, lower compression, most of the cool '71 options gone, no super track pak, ugly side markers, etc... Sorry, the Mopar masses have spoken in spades since these cars were new and the fuselage B-bodies just aren't the bees knees;-). Btw- having owned plenty of both style fresh air hoods, I love them both! But give me the A12 LOH over either one anyday of the week
FYI although it doesn't matter much. 72 6 pack Compression was the same as 71. They didn't get reduced it like everything else. Unfortunately that's what caused what we have today. The engine couldn't pass new emission laws and was pulled from the lineup.
Larry
As a bit of an aside, Mopar deserves some cudo's for extending the life of the musclecar. Now, much of this was because Chrysler was the smallest of the Big Three, but after GM slashed it's compression ratios across the board for 1971, Mopars soldiered on maintaining all the hi perf engines in the lineup. For 1972, the V code cars (extremely rare as they are) stand out as the lone survivors of the coming automotive dark ages. Sure Pontiac 455 HO's and the soon-to-be released 455SD cars were still plenty strong, but they were still low compression engines. From a styling perspective look how much better Mopar faired compared the the colonade GM cars (sorry LT. Dan) and 5ph bumpers. E bodies still looked more or less like themselves until there death in 1974......compared to the like of 1974 Mustang II's.
Any way you slice it, Larry's '72 V code RR has all the styling and power of the earlier models....sort of the "last man standing".
