This was one of the few Dodge products I really liked during that time period. Seems to be along the lines of the Chrysler Cordoba. It apparently was not a hated vehicle in it's time, because Dodge brought back the nameplate in the mid 2000's with their Magnum wagon.

this car is made for road trips..put on Grand Funk..Styxx..and hit the road..

Awesome Mopar! I once owned a 78' Magnum XE with a green on green color combo. Mine, also had the 360 v8 engine. Very comfortable interior and ride. I swapped out the original rims for a set of Cragar SS wheels which really dressed it up. The car sat for a few years and I eventually sold it. I wish I still had it now. I really wanted the sportier GT model with the wheel cladding fender flares, road wheels, T-tops and stripe package, but never was lucky enough to locate one. The XE was a cool Mopar model regardless!

Oh,my... I can't tell you how happy I am to see that you met a 78 Magnum owner. This is one of my personal dream Mopars, and hopefully I can get one... one day... Thanks you Mister Costabile.

A lovely underrated malaise Mopar sports machine, will be an awesome canvas for a high speed project, street beast and a drift sleeper!

I had two of these cars. The first one was a 1978 Gloss Black Moonroof XE 400 engine. Second car was a Basic 1979 Brown, 318 engine. Both cars where headaches after 66,000 miles. One month one needed a repair, the next month the other needed a repair. It repeated many times. Took most of my income at the repair shops then. Got rid of the 1978 at 100,000miles and the 1979 at 106,000 miles . The 318 engine was still solid. The 400 engine needed work.

Wow i am really enjoying your video's you really do see a lot of different car's? I always liked the magnums never seen one up close i was excited to see this thanks again Lou keep up the great work .

Thx for posting this near perfect example of a car you just don't see now days! If I didn't have 2 '79 300s, which this car is a close cousin to, I'd be mighty tempted. Alsip is right next door to my town. I actually was looking for flaws in this car, and didn't see any aside from a couple of scratches in the interior and 1 stone mark on the driver's door. The color is Dove Gray. Optioned the way it is, it would've been an expensive car back in the day, at nearly $7k when new. Maybe more. It's nice to see an unmolested original example. I've never seen 1 better, to tell you the truth. If you're wondering, it has the 1 step up 360 CID 2bbl K code engine with Lean Burn computer controlled emission system, but this 1 has an updated p/n which means it has updated modern digital electronics, which made for a much more reliable car. It was rated at 155hp at 3600 rpm and 270 lbs ft of torque at 2400, and came with an A 904 lock up converter automatic ( some had 727s) with an 8 1/4 rear end and 2.45 to 1 gears. Std single exhaust cars had the big 26.5 gallon tank and at 8.4 to 1 compression, it will run just fine on our 87 octane no lead fuel.

Love this car! I was a teen when this car came out and wanted my folks to buy a brown one in Honolulu. Did not happen, but watching this brings back memories of the Charger and also the Cordoba, and even the Imperial. You never see these cars anymore.

That's the first time I've seen a car with a hood employing torsion bars for the spring counterbalance mechanism. Eagle-eyed Lou spots all the interesting details !

Wow I come from an automotive family, and first I hear of this vehicle. Thanks Lou for bringing it to us.

Love these Magnums? That dove gray color was popular back in 1978 and 1979. I had a 1979 Dodge Aspen same color interior loved it. The 1979 was the same except for a slight tail light change. I find these unique as I love that Cord type grill always loved these cars!

That brings back some memories.THX Lou!

Another Mopar home run Lou, Thanks.

The back window is an opera window, and the good lock was an add on aftermarket. From the drivers seat if toy looked over the hood the left light on the edge of the good visible to the driver served as a fuel indicator if you were accelerating and wasting gas. The indicator also was the left turn indicator I believe. It is a huge car. Reminiscent of a lost time when big cars were on the way out in the USA. Still live it although I never owned an American car. My favorite cars are those made in Japan, and even this are becoming tater today. Be safe driving.

I always liked that mopar body style. This was sure the first start of crude computerized engine controls, like the Chrysler "lean burn" system, there must be an engine hidden down below all that stuff somewhere! Love the headlight covers

Thanks for doing this car. I had a 78. 360 leather interior. Sure do miss her

As a self proclaimed Mopar guy, I never realized those covers moved. Who knew. Sweet Mopar, going to sub. Praying the last 2 videos aren't the only Mopar ones I can watch.

I really like the car - thanks for the video, Lou! Best regarts from Germany! :-)

It is a powerful looking car and fun to look at for sure. I saw one of few years ago.They are not collector cars yet but surely will be. Thank you for showing.

Nice Car, I have not seen one in a long time!

Actually, the die cast 'turbine' of the wheel is bolted to a steel wheel. In time it would work itself loose and they would rattle like mad and sound like you had marbles in your wheels!! They were great cars except for the 'Lean Burn' ignition system. It was sort of an early computer controlled fuel and ignition system. Part of the system, the 'brain box' was mounted to the driver's side of the air cleaner. When it worked, it was fine but when it didn't, it was a miserable sob! A lot were de-lean burned by replacing the distributor and carburetor with a conventional units. Another great episode!

One of my all time favorite cars. She looks good. Hope I can get one someday.

'79 Dodge St. Regis does the same with the headlights. Awesome find! Only time I saw one was in the Junkman movie.

That car was built in Canada at the Windsor Ontario Assembly plant right across the river from Detroit my Grandfather and uncle worked at the Chrysler Assembly during that time and beyond

Cool, Lou. I didn't know MCE is one of your sponsors. I've visited a couple times and live in the neighboring suburb of Palos Heights, right across the "picturesque" Cal-Sag Channel that runs almost right next to Tim's showroom. Thanks for another good video.

Was in High School, when this car was out, always loved the styling. Not too far from my school was a Dodge dealer, usually only had about 3-4 cars in the showroom as they had a lot somewhere else, but one of these was on display. I actually went in they were a little skeptical about a young kid coming in to look at the car but I had lied and said that my father was interested in one, and I wanted to tell him about the one they had. I think the price was close at $7.5-$8k and it had T-tops was reddish outside color and red interior.

Good job another cool Chrysler car. I own a 69chrysler Newport 2door hardtop with a 383 2bbl dual exhaust second owner with 80000 miles on it, love it. Cheers.

It's beautiful!!

That's a beautiful MOPAR! What is that a 360? Or maybe even a 400? My dad had some amazing MOPARS back in the day! Starting with a 59 New Yorker, then a 62 New Yorker. Then he ordered an Imperial in 1964, it was a Crown Coupe in Med. Metallic Blue, with a black vinyl roof with unique straight type of grain. With a blue leather interior. The engine was a dual quad 413 Wedge, that had a spider looking intake manifold with the carbs mounted over the valve covers, one in the front, the other in the rear, with big cast iron exhaust manifold that curved up along the valve covers, with big dual exhaust and huge mufflers and resonators so the car was silent! It also had push button shift! With a clear looking square type of steering wheel and these big handles you pulled back to open the huge doors!! After a new brother and sister he traded that in 1968, for a Chrysler Town&Country beach wagon! With three rows of seats. That car came with a 440 4 brl dual exhaust, with posi track. That was the first car I drove with a license! I had that car going so fast one night with a friend! The speedometer was a long horizontal gauge right in front of the driver, with a square clock just past that to the right, we were going so fast the speedo needle went passed 120, into the clock to 3 o'clock!!!!! Who knows how fast we were going!! All I know is the car got very light feeling, the doors sounded like they were going to get sucked right off and the engine was screaming, we must have covered a couple miles, and burned about 1/8th of the tank!!! Man that car was a hi way flyer! A friend wanted to race me with his dads Ford Country Squire, that had a 390, we we neck and neck till around a hundred, then that big old Chrysler shifted into third gear and just walked away! I know it would not run with the Mustang and the Camaro from a dead start, but at a kick down at 70?

Owned a 78 dodge magnum, bought it brand new in 79, $6,900. Great car. Gone a long time ago.

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I have a red 1979 GT with the E58 360. Its prob as rare as you can get! ....I get more looks and comments than my Corvette!!

that car will be worth a LOT of money in 1978

Wish I still had mine. ‘78 XE fully loaded w/o T-top, E-58 Hi Output 360. Loved that car. Want one again.

Bro. Great car.

At 2:27 you can see the 1999 Oldsmobile Intrigue 442, One-Of-A-Kind! Was listed at Kissimmee in January 2022.

Cool early 70s future design.

So similar in terms of interior, to my 79 300!

The headlight covers were there because the federal government was not yet allowing flush halogens, which is what Dodge wanted to put on there originally. The feds also did not allow permanent clear headlamp covers yet either, so they had to retract. Same is true with the St. Regis. What a beautiful car. A time capsule indeed.

My first was a 78 that exact model except the interior was gray not red. '78 was the only year you could get the Magnum with a big block and mine had a 400 in it. Changing the spark plugs was a pain because they were pointed down under the exhaust manifold. I got T-boned by a Dodge Caravan going 65 and it was totaled but i walked away from it not sure you could say the same for cars today.

I had a 78 LeBaron medallion. The girl I got it from, put a hole in the side of the 318 the size of a coffee cup.I didn't think you could blow up a 318. I took a 1970 Duster 340 727a automatic 373 posi track rear end and I turned the LeBaron into a real car instead of a smog monster. It was hard to do the exhaust because of the torsion bars on the M body. No one made headers, I had an exhaust shop make dual exhaust.

Last car my father owned before he passed. His was yellow. It was a very striking car in the day.

So cool to see such a very nice ( except for the color ) example of a rare Dodge. Sure unique for it's time. I have had probably 20 or more since I bought one in '78 (still have it too) and 3 others currently.

Reminds me of the old Kasch Motors that was on 78th just east of White Castle. There is something odd about that dash though; it's missing the tach.The XE, GT and 300 had a tach where the fuel/temp gauge is. I had a '79 Cordoba Brougham and I took the dash out of a 78 XE because it had the built-in tach. Now to correct a few things: First are the "side window braces"? Those are called window louvers and the XE and GT were a 2 bar and the Fury and Chargers were 4 bar. The Cordoba's were without the louvered inserts. The 1/2 vinyl tops were called Landau Tops, on the '79 Cordoba Brougham ONLY they were really padded and had a 2" wide piece stainless steel trim from side to side along the leading edge. The recesses on the rear sides are an "Alcove", The box on the side of the air cleaner: which the decal is missing; is the Lean Burn Control Module that came on the 3bbl 318 & 360 ci V8's. The 4bbl 360's and 400 ci didn't have it And that year (1978) was the very last year for the Big Block Mopar engines in any passenger car. The sticker is showing the vacuum lines routing for the emissions system. There were no hood springs because they looked terrible but instead they designed the Torsion Bar mechanism as seen here and it was a really smooth piece of work. Those headlight covers were a nice touch for that car. It was very common to see those either tinted a dark black or painted to match the body.

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I have one 1978 mine's got the 6.6 l big block 400 factory 4 barrel factory duals

Ginger my friend Ginger had a car just like that 1978 Dodge Magnum I think hers might have been the GT because hers had bucket seats but hers had the shift on the floor floor shift with the console and hers also had the t-tops but hers was white with red leather and I had their big engine the the 360 I think it was and it was a really nice car she had a long time bought it brand new!

I have a 1975 Chrysler Cordoba dark emerald green color, with a 360 four barrel engine. It also has hooker competition headers with dual Flowmaster 40 exhaust. You should look up my Cordoba on KZfaq. You have a very nice ride. I love the Mopars.

Unleaded fuel was first introduced in 1971, I believe and by 1975, all passenger vehicles required unleaded and by 1980, commercial vehicles up to 3/4 ton required unleaded fuel, I think it was!

At 8:15 you can clearly see the fresh air intake hose has fallen off its intake side nearest the battery. Hope that was taken care of before it was sold off. ;)

I owned the same car back in 1981 and the first thing that broke were the headlight covers. I had to stop when it got dark and open the hood and turn a knob behind the grill to make them come down. besides that It was a great car. The grey color was not the best, seems like everyone did not see you. Kind of blended in with the road. Mine had the digital radio

always liked those if i am correct that body style was a charger then magnum possibly cordoba

I think you should show some of the 1970s cars now.

Front end looks almost exactly like a '77 LeSabre!

I think that it's better than that station wagon they came up with over the last 20 years

Mid 70s charger, cordoba and similar Chrysler on B bodies like the 78 and 79 dodge magnum resemble second generation Monte Carlo and to the same extent third generation Grand Prix

the original dodge magnum, this is the one they should have brought back.

Great Eork Thank you It could use a little cleaning uder the hood Blessings Namasté 0010110-Paul

My heart breaks for Chrysler. There was a time when their products were the most badass on the road and their personal luxury cars were spot on! Fiat effing turned Chrysler into a ...joke.... With the Charger/Challenger raping of the HEMI ICONS of the past turning them into 4000lb bloated blimps I looooong for the good ole days.

t tops is a GM trademark, what you have there is T bar roof

Lou did you ask why he picked that car out of all the cars in the world?

What does xe stand for lou

Magnum Gt's are extremely rare

much like my 76 cordoba i bought in 1986 with 35k miles for $1800.00. 400 C.I.D., 727 torqueflight and the old lean burn computer. Made the 76 cutlass look sick. Ran like a raped ape...

318 ,or 360!What engine!!!!

C'mon! A landau top is a 1/2 vinyl roof? And an opera window is bracing?

Named after a prophylactic.

Chrysler was big on promoting safe sex during the swinging seventies -bravo !

Dodge was way behind GM in 1978, a generation behind in size and technalegy.

I'll mail ya $10.00 for a new radiator cap.

The Dodge Magnum was GREAT LOOKING! It's too bad the "blues" of the late 70s-early '80s (floating, bad handling, either over-boosted power or bad manual brakes) on ALL brands, ruined what really was the ONLY real SUCCESSOR to the '71-'72 Dodge Charger!

I had a three legged dog named Tripod. He could outrun this car.

Dodge pimpmobile.

chrysler just copied the monte carlo with this they look nice but these don't have near the substance the monte carlo grand prix did

Holy cow over 5600 lbs....yikes!

What a shitbox.