Right now it's the 2 tone yellow over black for safety reasons. I had it painted flat black with my bad attempt at yellow 71 R/T stripes for a while. I saw a black Challenger with orange stripes at Carlisle and really liked the look so I went with yellow. Unfortunately most of the time when coming home from cruise nights it's dark and I've had a few near misses so I'm trying to make the car as visible as possible. I think OSHA yellow is a good choice! I'm also leaning toward some combination of black/yellow in memory of a friend of mine who shared a love of Mopars. My buddy Dave had a 70 Super Bee that was yellow with black stripes. We worked on each others cars while sharing a rented garage. Dave succumbed to a faulty heart valve and died a few years ago, so I'd like to keep the "team colors" alive.
The scheme it has now is an attempt to make it more visible, but I could only find 4 cans of OSHA yellow at the hardware store, so the rest was black. Unfortunately it now looks like a poor mans Foose rip off. Therefore back to the drawing board. At the time, money was being dumped into the new 440, so I only had pocket money for paint.
Future plans: I would LOVE an all black Challenger with the yellow 71 stripes, but again, I'm afraid some knucklehead will T-bone me at night. The car is not original and never will be so I'm not leaning towards stock colors. My big picture plan for the car is "1976". I want to build the car as it would have looked when it was a few years old, as they were actually USED. Aftermarket 8 track player, mag wheels, barefoot gas pedal etc. Most cars I see in shows have been restored to show room condition. I think it would be interesting to build a car that would have fit in the scene I remember as a child. So far it's been pretty easy, most people are discarding their vintage parts in favor of NOS so I pick some stuff up pretty cheap. I have some original Direct Connection parts socked away including a hood tach. Not sure what will actually make it on the car but hey, it's still under construction.
I don't have many pics on this comp but I'll scour my hard drives and see what I have socked away somewhere. Thanks for the interest!
