Another newb.

[HungaryBill]

Greetings everyone. My name is Bill and I'm an American living in Hungary. I've recently purchased a 1973 Charger off the local market and am 100% in over my head. I'm a regular poster over at Grassroots Motorsports and even have a build thread started there for the car but I'm quickly realizing I'm going to have a LOT of questions that will require this board's expertise (let's face it, this is going to be a steep learning curve and I'm at the bottom of it). Plus, you guys seem to have some amazing deals going on in the used-parts section

Attached is a picture of the car. It's been pretty well eaten by tin worms, so that's what I'll be working on first. The end goal is to build a "Olympia Express" clone/tribute and blast it around the local rings in some historic racing.

For anyone interested, here's a link to my GRM build thread:

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/f...3-dodge-charger-the-oly-express/188508/page1/

Cheers guys!
-Bill

 

[mr. b]

welcome to FBBO nice looking charger project keep us posted

 

[MarPar]

Welcome! A little inspiration for you...

 

[65Bel]

Welcome to FBBO Bill! Like where you're going with this one. Will stay tuned to see progress. Best to you!

 

[YY1]

Welcome.

 

[polywideblock]

G, day from Australia

 

[Jerry Hall]

Welcome from Alabama, your original neck of the woods sounds like most of our roots in Alabama. I couldn't read all of your thread on the forum you posted, but it's amazing that you made the plunge into a Mopar. Congratulations.

 

[oldbee]

Welcome aboard from Ohio.

 

[Photon440]

Hello Bill, welcome to the forum! Your build thread link sure has a sense of humour to it; your realistic observations about your recent purchase of a vaguely Charger shaped pile of sheet-metal shows that you know that a lot of work is ahead. Go ahead, start asking those questions!I'm looking forward to seeing your progress.
By the way, a Chrysler A-833 transmission would have been the four speed originally offered, if you're going that route. A strong unit.

 

[ckessel]

Welcome from the Cali coast.

 

[Fury 440]

GREETINGS FRON CANADA!!

 

[HungaryBill]

welcome to FBBO nice looking charger project keep us posted

Thanks, and will do! She's got a long way to go, but I've been wanting to do this for a good while now.

 

[HungaryBill]

Welcome! A little inspiration for you...

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Man, that thing is GIGANTIC compared to the cars around it isn't it??? I absolutely love it

 

[HungaryBill]

Welcome to FBBO Bill! Like where you're going with this one. Will stay tuned to see progress. Best to you!

Thanks man! I'm sure I'll be in here a lot with tons of questions ;)

 

[HungaryBill]

G, day from Australia

Color me jealous, I absolutely LOVE Australia. Where abouts do you live? I've spent a week or so in WA back when I was in the Navy (Freemantle/Perth), and was down there for a month near Brisbane just a few years back!

 

[MarPar]

Man, that thing is GIGANTIC compared to the cars around it isn't it??? I absolutely love it

Indeed. Gotta love a huge American car running circles around the little euro crap they were racing lol

 

[HungaryBill]

Welcome from Alabama, your original neck of the woods sounds like most of our roots in Alabama. I couldn't read all of your thread on the forum you posted, but it's amazing that you made the plunge into a Mopar. Congratulations.

Yeah, it sure took me long enough but I finally got here After tracking my RX8 a few times around here, I decided it was time to move on from the spinning triangles and into something with "torque". I'm thinking a 440 should scratch that itch quite nicely.

 

[HungaryBill]

Welcome aboard from Ohio.

Hey, I have family in Ohio! My grandfather was from near the Canton area (and was a die hard Ohio State fan)

 

[HungaryBill]

Hello Bill, welcome to the forum! Your build thread link sure has a sense of humour to it; your realistic observations about your recent purchase of a vaguely Charger shaped pile of sheet-metal shows that you know that a lot of work is ahead. Go ahead, start asking those questions!I'm looking forward to seeing your progress.
By the way, a Chrysler A-833 transmission would have been the four speed originally offered, if you're going that route. A strong unit.
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Thanks man! I've been half-looking at A-833's and think I even saw one on here for sale a while back. Boy those things command a dollar, dont they?

 

[HungaryBill]

Welcome from the Cali coast.

Hey, fellow west-coaster! Thanks, it's good to be here!