Western Sport Special

[blown motor]

I was at Moparfest today and there was WSS. I thought the WSS had fixed rear windows but this one had window cranks. Educate me.

[anlauto]

That car was odd to say the least, with a lot of things changed around on it.

[blown motor]

Oh but a raft of documentation to make it all ok.

[mccannix]

I believe it is the Challenger Deputy that has the fixed rear 1/4 glass.

WSS Challenger has regular fuctioning rear 1/4 glass.

[benguin]

My Challenger WSS definitely did not have fixed quarter windows.
  Ben

[cuda hunter]

Was there an A93 on the fender tag? 

[benguin]

Should have an A91 for the WSS flavor, and I am curious to see if anyone could get the A93 AND the A92, since there are some notable differences with the steering wheel and steel vs rallye wheels.

[tparker]

My rears roll down.

The wss seems just to be a dress up kit and a sticker. LOL. I love mine, but the vinyl top wasn't original, I had to repaint it, I didn't like the rubber side trim and I wanted a 340. So mine isn't a real wss anymore. But it's close.

[6bblgt]

A91 is Western Sport Special - all 4 windows function - basically a trim package.  1 of every 4 Challenger hardtops (JH23) sold in California were WSSs

A93 is DEPUTY - rear windows are fixed & interior is limited to black or white & the seat pattern and material are similar to Barracuda but "cheaper"

[anlauto]

This car Murray is wondering about was also an A66 car

[70/6chall]

With everyone here referencing the A91 WSS Challenger, I thought I'd chime in with thoughts. When I bought my 70 Slant6 Challenger in March '72. Originally after it rolled off the assy. line 8/69 and sat on dealers lot 8 mos. Before being sold April 70. When I bought as a used trade-in with 40K on the clock from that same Dodge dealership, I liked the color K2 Go-Mango right off, but it had all of this extra trim on it, can you say SE. No A91 on fender tag but all the WSS/SE trim inside and out, but no vinyl top. I ran into Govier at a Spring Fling Mopar meet and he was saying the dealership probably trimmed out the car to finally sell it off, or make a deal for the potential customer. I tend to agree but I have left all of this extra trim on the car to this day. What do you all think here? Thanks.  Al

[mccannix]

Just a interesting bit of info.
1969 Darts also had a Western Sport option as seen on this one I used to own.
Same decal was used the next year on Challengers with that option.

[tparker]

A91 is Western Sport Special - all 4 windows function - basically a trim package.  1 of every 4 Challenger hardtops (JH23) sold in California were WSSs

A93 is DEPUTY - rear windows are fixed & interior is limited to black or white & the seat pattern and material are similar to Barracuda but "cheaper"

1 out of 4? wow I didn't know there were so many. I haven't seen any others besides mine. Not even sure I've seen one at a car show. And here I thought I was special. 

[6bblgt]

here's my rationale for that "1 of 4" statement based on available numbers    none of the numbers are written in stone & account for ~90% of production

38,091 US shipped JH23 (Challenger hardtops) with V8
15.2% of those were N95 emission equipped ~ 5,790 cars built for the CA market
2.8% of the (38,091) Challengers are 318 with A91 "Western Sport Specials" ~ 1,067 cars *
1.0% of the (38,091) Challengers are 383 with A91 "Western Sport Specials" ~ 381 cars *
plus an UNKNOWN number of 340 cars
******************* quick math:    1,448 / 5,790 = 25.0% (1 of 4) **********************
&
there are an additional ~145 slant-6 225 cu.in. Western Sport Special Challengers

* Western Sport Specials were built for other western markets besides California, but the majority are CA

[tparker]

Interesting, I had no idea.