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  The contestant was delineated  in an exceedingly book concerning Sixties yank cars as Dodge's "answer to the pony and Camaro."   Introduced in fall 1969 for the 1970 model year, it had been one in every of 2 Chrysler E-body cars, the opposite being the marginally smaller town acanthopterygian . "Both the contestant and acanthopterygian were accessible in an exceedingly staggering variety of trim and choice levels" and were meant "to vie against cars just like the Chevrolet Camaro and Ford pony, and to try and do it whereas giving nearly each engine in Chrysler's inventory." but, the 1970 contestant was "a rather late response to the ponycar wave the Ford pony had started" with its introduction in Apr 1964. In his book Hemi Muscle Cars, Henry Martyn Robert Genat wrote that the contestant was formed within the late Sixties as Dodge's equivalent of the town acanthopterygian, which the acanthopterygian was designed to v...