Hello all. My name is Greg and I'm addicted to Challengers. It's been about four months since my last drive in a Challenger.... Spring can't come soon enough!
The car I have here is the sixth Challenger I've owned (3 drivers, 3 parts cars) In addition I've owned over 40 other Mopars over the past 20 years. This is the only one I've kept. I've had it for about 17 years and worked on it for the previous owner for 2 years before that. When I bought it there was no sheet metal in front of the doors, a 318 that barely ran, a 904 tranny that slipped like crazy and a wiring harness that looked like it was constructed by a mad scientist. Over the years I've pieced it together mostly out of used parts I've scavenged from swap meets and friends garages. The hood (someone asked about it) is a repo glass T/A hood that I traded a pair of 73 Cuda fenders for. The front header panel was found in a junkyard underneath a 66 Mustang (someone tucked it away for later?) The 440/727 in it now is fresh out of a 75 Imperial I owned that was involved in a collision and I was unable to repair.
The car itself has a murky past. I bought it locally off a friend who got it from another guy who got it from Arizona. Seriously, that's all the history I have. That and the fact that when I bought it there were Barracuda convertible rear interior panels in it. It appears somewhere along the line someone salvaged a wrecked convertible and transferred all the goodies over to a decent hardtop and got this creation. I don't doubt it came from Arizona since it's nearly rust free, which is near impossible to find here in MA.
As for future mods, I have a 440 I'm in the process of finishing. 20 overbore, Edelbrock heads, Mopar 509 cam and a vintage Weiand six pack tunnel ram intake. I have a Keisler 5 speed conversion that will go in at the same time.
As far as the paint job goes, it's the finest rattle can job I could pull off. I get bored and buy some cans and see what color looks good on it. I think I've finally narrowed it down to either Detonator Yellow or Sublime.
Anyway, thanks for providing a great board to post on. I've been lurking for a while and decided to join the fun.
