Dodge Challenger · 1970

Special Edition (SE)

The 1970 luxury package for either hardtop: a vinyl roof with a smaller formal rear window, leather seat facings and an overhead console with warning lights.

The story

Dodge called it «the little limousine»: leather facings on the bucket seats, matching door trim and more room in the back.12

It could be had on the standard hardtop or the R/T hardtop, not on the convertibles. Whether it continued into 1971 is disputed.23one source

How to spot a Special Edition (SE)

A smaller, formal rear window

The roof is vinyl-covered and the rear window is smaller than on the other hardtops, with SE emblems on the sail panels.12

An overhead console

A console in the headliner holds warning lights for low fuel, a door ajar and the seat belts.12

Production by year

How many Special Edition (SE)s were built each model year.

1970
10,563
As a table, with notes
YearBuiltNote
197010,563234Our sum of 6,584 base SEs and 3,979 R/T SEs, which Consumer Guide gives and Over-Drive's table repeats. Wikipedia's uncited table gives 3,753 R/T SEs and 6,223 base SEs (our sum of its 350 six-cylinder and 5,873 V8 rows).

Where the sources disagree

Every conflict behind the figures on this page. All rulings.

Open

Was there a 1971 SE?

Our ruling: Unresolved. Consumer Guide calls the SE a package in 1971, limited to base models; Over-Drive says it was dropped as a separate model and its pieces became options; only Wikipedia calls it 1970-only, citing a 1970 brochure. A package gets no row of its own in Consumer Guide's table, so the missing row settles nothing. We list no 1971 SE.

What each source says (3)
  • «The SE package was unchanged from 1970, but it was now limited to base models»2one source
  • The SE was dropped as a model; its pieces became options5one source
  • The SE was a 1970-only model4one source

Sources

  1. 1970 Dodge Challenger sales catalog Dodge Division, Chrysler Corporation · read 2026-10-11
  2. 1970-1974 Dodge Challenger HowStuffWorks (Consumer Guide Automotive) · read 2026-10-11
  3. Dodge Challenger Production, 1970 and 1971 (two tables) Over-Drive Magazine · read 2026-10-11
  4. Dodge Challenger (1970) Wikipedia · read 2026-10-11
  5. 1971 Dodge Challenger Fact Sheet Over-Drive Magazine · read 2026-10-11

Year by year

The Special Edition (SE) in each model year.

1970Dodge ChallengerThe first Challenger: Dodge's E-body pony car, as a hardtop or convertible, with the R/T, the SE and the T/A, nine engines up to the 426 Hemi, and about 83,000 built.83,032 built (disputed)