Penton in old Dodge ad

[OhioTed]

Thanks to Rik Smits, who you may be aware is a big Mopar fan, for scaring this up.

 

[skiracer]

Very cool!  Ahhhh.... the Penton rider always gets the girl!!

1976 MC 5 Original Owner
1976 Hercules 250 GS
1982 Suzuki PE 175
2002 KTM 200 EXC
1976 Penton 175 GS

[skiracer]

Very cool!  Ahhhh.... the Penton rider always gets the girl!!

1976 MC 5 Original Owner
1976 Hercules 250 GS
1982 Suzuki PE 175
2002 KTM 200 EXC
1976 Penton 175 GS

[seanguthrie]

I saw that and was trying to guess the year of that bike.  Maybe if someone could identify the year of car or van it may help.  I guess a good question would be was there a year 6days came with yellow fenders?

74 250 Hare scramble
2 68 Six Day (projects)

[slvrbrdfxr]

The toaster tank CMF bikes had aluminum fenders on the early bikes and white plastic on the later bikes. The bike in the ad looks to have yellow fenders so they must be aftermarket. The Challenger is either a 73 or 74 model because it has the protruding 5 mph bumper guards. See the info below copied from Wikipedia.
Dave McC

Although the body style remained the same throughout the first generation Challenger's five-year run, there were two notable changes to the front grille. The 1971 models had a "split" grille, while 1972 introduced a design that extended the grille (nicknamed the "sad-mouth") beneath the front bumper. With this change to the front end, 1972 through 1974 models had little to no variation. The only way to properly distinguish them is that the 1972s had flush mounted bumpers with no bumper guards, (small bumper guards were optional), while both the 1973 and 1974 models had the protruding "5 mph (8.0 km/h)" bumpers (with a rubber type filler behind them) in conjunction with large bumper guards. The 1974 cars had larger rear bumper guards to meet the (new for 1974 and on) rear 5 mph rear impact law. These changes were made to meet U.S. regulations regarding crash test safety.
 
The 1970 taillights went all the way across the back of the car, with the backup light in the middle of the rear. In 1971, the backup lights were on the left and right instead of the middle. The taillight array also changed for 1972 onwards, with the Challenger now having four individual rectangular lamps.

[socalmx]

Those yellow fenders are called Preston Petty (s). In my neck of the woods, the stock fenders were removed and tossed away as soon as the bike got home.

[derek martin]

I live close to Eldorado, Illinois which is home to Troy Angelly Restorations. Troy is nationally known for concours level Mopar restorations (in his shop now in process are a Superbird, 71 Cuda convertible, 69 440 6bbl Roadrunner, GS Dart, 72 Charger, etc.) in addition to restoration work on the other makes and general collision. Troy just finished doing an exceptional paint job on my car and I showed him this Challenger advertisement tonight when I went to pick up my car. Troy believes the car to be a 72 model as the bumper guards were an option that year and it appears that it doesn`t have a 5MPH front bumper because there doesn`t appear to be a spacer behind the bumper. The photograph is dark around the tip of the bumper making it a little hard to tell for sure about the spacer.

[tomale]

I'm curious about the track. Where is it, what is the name and is it still around?  Any body know?

Thom Green,Still crazy after all these years!
76' 250 MC5 (orginal owner)
74' 1/2 440 maico
70' 400 maico (project)
72' cr125 Husky (project)
93' RMx 250 suzuki

[rob w]

Back in the day, in this neck of the woods, yellow fenders on a '72 Six-Day or Jackpiner were popular. Me shown here.

That track looks very much like Portland, MI.

[Mick Milakovic]

Bob, Michigan it could be, I also thought Red Bud back in the early days.

Mick

[Rain Man]

If you had that Challenger today, you could sell it an probably buy 30 Pentons with the money !!
 Great Pic !!

Raymond
 Down East Pentons