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Offline Wollfen

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My old challengers in Australia
« on: July 12, 2010 - 06:52:06 PM »
Hey mates,
                Here are a couple of pics of two of the four challengers I have owned in Australia, the red car was a 440 six pac car with a shaker hood(removed by the subsequent owner as you can see in the pic) It had the T-bar on the floor too. The blue car was an original 383 SE car non RT but with T-bar and overhead console, cloth inserts, the rallye 500's were ford units and I put 15in rallyes on after this pic.
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Re: My old challengers in Australia
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2010 - 07:25:37 PM »
Nice pics, got any of the other 2 you have?

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Re: My old challengers in Australia
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2010 - 07:29:22 PM »
This the first time I've seen a pic of a right hand drive Challenger. Very cool!  :thumbsup:
Mike    Yakima, Washington

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Re: My old challengers in Australia
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2010 - 11:13:30 PM »
The blue challenger got the RHD treatment too, if i can dig out any other pictures ill do so but they are back in Australia so will have to wait for now. Same with the pics of the other two cars, one being a white TA challenger.....Oh, who wants to see some other Mopar steel I have owned?
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Re: My old challengers in Australia
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2010 - 12:15:42 AM »
Keep the pics coming.  :clapping:
John Moorman
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Re: My old challengers in Australia
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2010 - 02:32:49 AM »
WE love  :picture:

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Re: My old challengers in Australia
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2010 - 09:37:57 AM »
Ok here goes, these arent ebody but I hope you find them interesting, the yellow dodge dart coupe is one of less than ten in Australia and I owned that one for over thirteen years, I sold it to finance my trip to the states and buy a few things, and one day before I jumped on the plane the aussie dollar went form 92cents against the US dollar down to 75cents, ugh, that hurt! its back up a bit now but still, it cut into my funds. (Seems to jump from one day to the next, grrr) As for the 63 white imperial, nice clean unrestored car. Oh yeah the sills and rear wheel arches plus some of the trunk was rusted out on the yellow car so i had to cut it all out then hand beat new sheet metal for the wheel arches, the sills were easier, I got a new set folded up and welded them in, the trunk was easy too. mostly flat metal with just some strengthening grooves to replicate. The canary yellow I originally painted it in was a whole lot better than the baby **** cream in arrived in.
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Re: My old challengers in Australia
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2010 - 10:13:04 PM »
Love the Dart! My grandparents had a 60 Dart 4 door when I was younger.
John Moorman
1971 Challenger R/T 383 4 speed (waiting it's turn)
1973 Challenger Rallye 340 4 speed (undergoing full resto)
2003 Dodge SRT-4 Stage 3 turbo daily driver-been as fast as 11.97et
1995 Dodge Neon Sport Coupe DOHC 5 speed Nitro-yellow-green (one of 527 built)

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Re: My old challengers in Australia
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2010 - 06:30:25 PM »
The Dodge Phoenix's of 1960 were sold in Australia in RHD form from new, but they were all poly 318 automatic sedans, no coupes or wagons at all let alone convertibles. By the way, did I mention I also own a World War Spitfire fighter plane in pieces? Hmm, if I posted a few pics of that it might be pushing the envelope huh?
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Re: My old challengers in Australia
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2010 - 07:10:58 AM »
The blue Challenger sure has some HUGE bumper guards on it.  I'll bet those are long gone.

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Re: My old challengers in Australia
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2010 - 12:48:29 PM »
Yeah they didn't last long at all, mind you they didn't go far, I threw them as hard as I could to get rid of them but they landed three feet from me, yup huge mothers ;) In retrospect, I think the front bumper bar came off a 74 challenger?
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