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Using the Chrysler B-body platform, the Dodge Magnum replaced the 1976-7 Charger Daytona as that Chrysler division’s mid-size performance-minded machine. The GT focused on muscle while the XE aimed at personal luxury buyers. The seller has two of these automobiles, one each from the GT/XE camps. The goal would be to make one good car out of two bad ones, with the GT being the “winner.” Located in Mount Airy, Maryland, this pair of Mopars is available together here on eBay where an opening bid of just $1,900 has yet to be cast.

With the muscle car era of American iron mostly in the rear-view mirror, cars like the Dodge Magnum were expected to suffice. After all, the baby boomers who bought hot American cars in the 1960s were growing older and starting families. So a car like the Dodge Magnum would sell, right? Well, the answer is maybe. Dodge produced 47,827 Magnums in 1978 and just 382 were the so-called hot version, the GT. While all Magnums had slick transparent headlamp covers (which lifted when the lights were switched on), the GT got exclusive fender flares that further accentuated the Magnum’s bulging wheel arches.

When you checked the A75 GT-only box on the order form, you got color-keyed polyurethane fender flares, heavy-duty shocks, GR60-15 raised white letter radial tires on 15×7 inch slotted steel rims with chromed lug nuts, trim rings, bright center caps, two-spoke leather-wrapped steering wheel, and a few more items. You could also upgrade from the ho-hum 318 V8 to one that displaced 400 cubic inches. Horsepower sounded meager at 190, but it was a far cry better than the basic engine in terms of oomph.

The seller had intended to fix up the GT here by harvesting items off the companion XE. Besides the GT having the bigger motor, it was fully loaded including a factory moonroof. The car may not be as rusty as it looks with surface rust on the roof but we’re told the floors need some work and that may be why much of the worn-out interior has been removed.

On the other hand, the XE (which has no engine or transmission) has what appears to be a largely intact and good-looking interior, so the two could be merged. That would give you something of a GT/XE if that means anything. Is this a project you would undertake or wait for a nice Magnum survivor to come along if there is such a thing?