70chall440
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Hello all... I will say up front that this is preemptive of me actually building the car because I am currently building a 73 Cuda, that said I have been thinking about this car for some time and I feel this will be a good outlet for me to talk about it.
I acquired this car about 5 years ago; actually a friend of mine bought it off of EBay for $5K. He lives in ND and the car was in OR, I live in WA so he called me and asked if I would go and get it it. The ca was located in Medford OR which is about 6 hours from me, but as a good Mopar guy off I went. My friend had sent me some pictures of it and told me that the car had recently been painted. His plan was to dump a 440 in it and go racing. When I got there, I discovered that the car was sitting in what at one point was a garage, but at that time was little more than a shed. The guy I picked the car up from talked as though he was the king of muscle cars and what a deal this one was. Since it wasn't mine, I wasn't too concerned and loaded it up.
On the way back I pulled into a rest area and took stock of what was on my trailer. While it looked good from the outside, it was basically a painted shell. My "theory" is that the car was found in a field by someone who saw big $$. The car had/has some oddities about it, first of is the tilt front end which is actually pretty well done, then there is the roll cage which is not well done at all, finally there is the Charge like quarter panel fuel filler system which is partly well done (the quarter panel part is good but getting the filler to the tank is another story). In short, the car needed about everything other than paint, so when I told my buddy he immediately said "dump it". Well I had been looking for a 70 Satellite or RR to build a Superbird clone, so I said I would take it.
The car originally was a 383, AT, manual steering, manual brake car; brown inside and out. It has a 68 Charger instrument cluster and steering wheel in it (probably one of those sitting in the same field as this one came from). It is currently painted Hemi orange and the boddy appears pretty straight but we will see.
I acquired this car about 5 years ago; actually a friend of mine bought it off of EBay for $5K. He lives in ND and the car was in OR, I live in WA so he called me and asked if I would go and get it it. The ca was located in Medford OR which is about 6 hours from me, but as a good Mopar guy off I went. My friend had sent me some pictures of it and told me that the car had recently been painted. His plan was to dump a 440 in it and go racing. When I got there, I discovered that the car was sitting in what at one point was a garage, but at that time was little more than a shed. The guy I picked the car up from talked as though he was the king of muscle cars and what a deal this one was. Since it wasn't mine, I wasn't too concerned and loaded it up.
On the way back I pulled into a rest area and took stock of what was on my trailer. While it looked good from the outside, it was basically a painted shell. My "theory" is that the car was found in a field by someone who saw big $$. The car had/has some oddities about it, first of is the tilt front end which is actually pretty well done, then there is the roll cage which is not well done at all, finally there is the Charge like quarter panel fuel filler system which is partly well done (the quarter panel part is good but getting the filler to the tank is another story). In short, the car needed about everything other than paint, so when I told my buddy he immediately said "dump it". Well I had been looking for a 70 Satellite or RR to build a Superbird clone, so I said I would take it.
The car originally was a 383, AT, manual steering, manual brake car; brown inside and out. It has a 68 Charger instrument cluster and steering wheel in it (probably one of those sitting in the same field as this one came from). It is currently painted Hemi orange and the boddy appears pretty straight but we will see.