Howdy all!
I'm currently working on bringing my '74 Challenger back from suspended animation. I'm doing a bit of a tribute to a car I had right after high school, which was a double-black '73 340/4-speed Challenger, non-Rallye but with all the Rallye goods. It was a total rust bucket for being only 15 years old, but such is life in Upper Michigan. There was no saving it at the time; parts availability was nil compared to now.
Anyhow, I'm doing this one the way I wanted to do the first one, starting with a very-nice Southern 318 automatic body requiring very little sheetmetal replacement other than the roof skin--'twas a vinyl top, which
won't be going back. Trunk, floors, quarters, everything on this one is original and solid! It came with a ton of spare parts so not a lot was required to hunt down; just the expensive stuff. I've already converted it to the 4-speed, replaced the roof (first panel I've ever replaced!), and gathered up everything needed to install the Rallye cluster. I'll be using a 340 block that came out of a Y1 '73 Charger Rallye automatic I owned back in '91, along with the original Pistol Grip and 340 Four Barrel emblems I saved from the first Challenger. I've still got a long, long way to go before those come into play, though.
Oh, and my username comes from my '82 Imperial, which is not actually a Frank Sinatra edition but looks the part. Besides, I have blue eyes.
