BB_MUC
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Hello everybody,
friendly greetings from Munich/Germany!
Bought my 1973 Charger already 5 years ago.
73 Charger with a retrofitted 440 (that was butchered out of a 1966 Imperial in about 2005)
The car had an odysee through Europe to get into may hands. A guy from Holland imported her in 2013, drove it for a year and wanted to sell it. That was when I first saw his advertising. Before I made up my mind, he sold it to a guy in Romania (!). This guy lost the fun about a year later and asked the dutch guy to help him sell it again, as there is no real market for american muscles in Romania. So I noticed the same car ad a year later and took a look.
Guess what, I fell in love with that car, not having the slightest idea of what I had in front of me.
Registration of classic cars in Germany is real pain, there is a technical inspection that is really going into details. I am a car guy, but always Mercedes until then. So I had the safety relevant stuff like brakes and steering checked and done by Oliver Zinn's Moparshop in Olfen, which is half way between Rotterdam, where I bought the Charger and Munich, where I live. Oliver is a great guy and he was kind enough to let me work together with his mechanics on my Charger. I learned so much valuable stuff from him. Priceless for a newbie in Mopars.
Now every winter I do some work to get the car into a rock solid reliable condition and enjoy riding it in summer. I like to keep the car in a mostly factory condition, I am not too much into restomods. Besides, you can't get restomods registered as a historic car in Germany.
Now, with all these Corona restrictions, I am using the time to work on the steering and that is the point where I became from a "passive" reader of this forum to an active member as I have some questions to ask, where I can't find the answers already in existing threads.
Anybody from Germany out there?
Regards from Bernhard.
friendly greetings from Munich/Germany!
Bought my 1973 Charger already 5 years ago.
73 Charger with a retrofitted 440 (that was butchered out of a 1966 Imperial in about 2005)
The car had an odysee through Europe to get into may hands. A guy from Holland imported her in 2013, drove it for a year and wanted to sell it. That was when I first saw his advertising. Before I made up my mind, he sold it to a guy in Romania (!). This guy lost the fun about a year later and asked the dutch guy to help him sell it again, as there is no real market for american muscles in Romania. So I noticed the same car ad a year later and took a look.
Guess what, I fell in love with that car, not having the slightest idea of what I had in front of me.
Registration of classic cars in Germany is real pain, there is a technical inspection that is really going into details. I am a car guy, but always Mercedes until then. So I had the safety relevant stuff like brakes and steering checked and done by Oliver Zinn's Moparshop in Olfen, which is half way between Rotterdam, where I bought the Charger and Munich, where I live. Oliver is a great guy and he was kind enough to let me work together with his mechanics on my Charger. I learned so much valuable stuff from him. Priceless for a newbie in Mopars.
Now every winter I do some work to get the car into a rock solid reliable condition and enjoy riding it in summer. I like to keep the car in a mostly factory condition, I am not too much into restomods. Besides, you can't get restomods registered as a historic car in Germany.
Now, with all these Corona restrictions, I am using the time to work on the steering and that is the point where I became from a "passive" reader of this forum to an active member as I have some questions to ask, where I can't find the answers already in existing threads.
Anybody from Germany out there?
Regards from Bernhard.
She's a beauty!
