People from L.A. : who has ever seen this 71 383 Challenger ?

[Sly_drums]

Hello, I'm Sly from France, I bought a 71 383 Challenger in 2013. I'm intrducing the car here (pics are inside) :

http://www.cuda-challenger.com/cc/index.php?topic=103440.msg1016870#msg1016870

What I'm trying to do is to recover as much info as possible about my car, I wonder if you can help me out maybe ?

Let me explain :
The guy who sold it to me imported the car from USA to Germany in 2010 or 2011. He told me that he bought it in south CA, Santa Ana/Anaheim. He bought the car to an asian guy but couldn't get much info about it. He told me that man had the car for 3 years.

I'm pretty sure that car has been doing 1/4 mile runs, maybe with another motor ? : when I bought the Challenger, it had a big Shelby scoop on the hood with small holes drilled in it, a really short gear ratio (4.29:1 from what we found), velvet bucket seats, rallye dash, broken grill, rust under the vinyl roof, 383 motor from 67. The car looks like it has had numerous paint jobs (violet and white mostly), but was "dark gold metallic" from the factory.
It's quite rare : it is a real 383 car with tons of luxury options, (that vanished through the years unfortunately) you can check them out in the introduction topic). It has the A78 "formal roof package" option with the small rear window and overhead consolette (not there anymore).
From what I gathered, it's one of 250 in this setup or so, can't remember exactly.
This Challenger looked a bit special with that big scoop, small rear window like the 70's SE, black vinyl with rust underneath, Vanishing Pointesque white paint job, rallye wheels... Maybe some of you will come across this topic and say something about the car, maybe you saw it in the streets or at the dragstrip, or in a garage pathway... I'd love to know more about its history 

Here a few pics of the car when I bought it.



















And a video of the car :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFkFubcVYyU

If anyone saw my car or has any info/pic to share, please let me know 

Thanks 

[1 Wild R/T]

FWIW the biggest Mopar car club in the LA area is CPW, Steve Wall has been the president of that club for many years.. You might want to email him & see what he knows....   His email is stevewall68ATgmail.com     Replace the AT with @

[Sly_drums]

Hey thank you for the input, I'm going to drop him a message 

[AARTA340]

Very nice car!! Let us know what you find out about.

[Sly_drums]

Hello guys, I couldn't find any infos about my Challenger's life in the USA before it came to Europe.

But I found a pic of the former California plate wich is 5ZFW014.
Do you know how to proceed to ask DMV if they can give me the names of the former owners ?

Thanks ! 

[1 Wild R/T]

Unfortunately the prior history can't be accessed through California DMV, Law enforcement has access but using the info for non work related purposes is a easy way to lose your job.....

In the 80's the info was available but naturally a physco named Robert John Bardo had to screw that up....  Info at the link below...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schaeffer

[blown motor]

Your link is for Rebecca Schaeffer

[YellowThumper]

Your link is for Rebecca Schaeffer

You are correct. Better a link about her instead of the mother @$!#er that ended her life.

[67vertman]

The plate (Tag) on the car is for newer model cars (1982 and later).  See if you can find the old Tag number, the plate should be blue and yellow).  Then it will be easier to trace.

[Sly_drums]

Well, I guess I'm screwed if it's impossible to get info from the DMV
I think this car has been a drag car years ago so maybe it didn't ride on the streets that much... It can explain why no one saw it.