Dodge’s Scat Pack Swinger models pack in the retro touches

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Dodge ramped up its “Last Call” special-edition reveal schedule on September 7, delivering a one-two punch by unveiling both a Charger and Challenger wearing the brand’s new Scat Pack Swinger dress-up package, which really packs in the retro touches. Doubling down like that means there are now just three more 2023-model-year special edition Dodges left to make their debut. But let me get nostalgic about Swingers for a second first—

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I was planning to write this brief straight, but I do feel obliged to disclose these special editions – which are named after a 1969 Dodge Dart trim and play with classic-looking shades of green – do hit home for me. My first and currently only car is a 1971 Valiant Scamp, the Plymouth twin to the Dart Swinger, in an Amber Sherwood green that’s a stone’s throw from the F8 Green offered on these new Dodges.

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So I can say with some authority that, yes, Dodge got things right with these latest Last Call trims. The cars take the aforementioned F8 Green, or Sublime Green and White Knuckle, and pair it with green interior accents and rear quarter striping. That’s complemented in turn by badging and wheels in Gold School tint – Challengers will wear it on their shaker hood scoops, too – and Wide Body fender extensions.

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I will admit the Sublime Green striping shown doesn’t exactly suit the dark metallic F8 underneath, and that I would have gone with a light metallic green (like my F3 Amber Sherwood?) in the same range as the F8 instead, and wonder what the White Knuckle stripes look like. I’ll nod in agreement, too, if you argue while the ’70s were all about Earth-tones, that gold trim is a decidedly more modern touch than it is a retro one.

But if you’re more offended than I on those fronts, you will be delighted to hear that, like the Challenger Shakedown and Charger Super Bee models revealed over the past two weeks, the Challenger Scat Pack Swinger and Charger Scat Pack Swinger will be limited to 1,000 units each.

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And that leaves just two more special edition Dodges revealed between now and September 21, with the next one coming September 14. A very-last-of-its-kind seventh model will gets its reveal at the SEMA show at the beginning of November to cap it all off.

And if you still can’t get your hands on any of those, even base 2023-model-year Challengers and Chargers will get a special “Last Call” plaque under the hood, what with this being the end of the nameplates and all.