I finally was able to get in touch with the previous owner of my '71 Challenger and here is the information he gave me.
Chris,
Looks like you've done an awful lot of work so far taking the car apart. Unfortunately.. for us both.. almost all the photo's I had of the car/kids/family were lost in a move several years back.
I only have this one left. I do have a video on VCR tape of me driving it from my wedding in 1987. If I can get the conversion stuff working I'll try to get you a clip of that.
My dad bought it for me around 1982-83 for $125 from one of his friends. It was in somewhat better shape than you got it. But had all the same rust problems. It was Blue with a rotted white vinyl top, regular flat hood and seats all ripped to shreds by animals or something. Water had been collecting under the vinyl. That's were all the rot around the windows came from. At the time I thought bondo fixed everything and did some really shoddy bodywork that covered problem areas while letting them get worse. (I just didn't know any better back then.) It had a 318 with two barrel carb and I think a 904 automatic transmission. The passenger side door handle was broken of by one of my girl friends who kept yanking on it while it was locked for some reason. My uncle made the current one that's on it at a machine shop he worked at. The steering wheel and hood came of an RT I bought just for those two parts. Again, in retrospect I should have kept the original RT and fixed it up... 20/20 hindsight and all. The current transmission that is in it I'm pretty sure I pulled from a dodge Demon. The coils that are around the rear shocks are there more because of weak leaf springs than anything else.. It sags on one side.
Troy
