The Challenge

[Whiteboy™]

This will be my build thread for the 1973 Dodge Challenger my father, friend (drmcivicsi), and I just picked up in Louisville, Kenkucky. The car currently doesn't run, has oddles of rust, no brakes, fucked interior, and other piddly shit. Oh by the way, I really need Summit Racing and YearOne hook ups!!!!

Powertrain:
340ci engine with a 4 barrel carb
727 Torqueflite automatic transmission
63,197.9 original miles

Louisville!!!
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White Castle sucks really bad, lol
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[GuessWho]

Good... Luck!!!!

[Mr.Big]

Yea! thats wuz up keep this thread
updated!!

[mushroom_toy]

IM gonna go watch Vanishing Point now....XD

[Evil Goat]

white castle>krystals

good luck man, keep us updated for sure, old builds are my weakness

[BKgen®]

plus one

[MachNU]

dam nice car, never was a fan on the soft tops, but none the less that car should look good with a modern spin on it!

also :lmao; at the year one hook up, they dont even hook up there employees!

[jr4mny]

goodluck, if yah eva need another hand you know the celly! lol

and white castle is betta than krystals, it was just the white castle you went to.
those little burgers are lik instant heart burn tablets!

[Whiteboy™]

found some new emblems, lug nuts, and battery tie downs in the glove box
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AND
we washed it, lol
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WTF is there a tow hitch on it for!?
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[SLOWR/T]

you have a loooooooong road ahead of you if your gonna make look good. great project! good luck!!!

[Whiteboy™]

yeah we estimate 5 years and $20k+

[WalkS]

sweet! nice find, especially complete car with 340 number matching also? im thinking im going to be watching this thread for a while. Im a big Mopar fan, dont let my name fool you.
+1!

[Evil Goat]

found some new emblems, lug nuts, and battery tie downs in the glove box
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well...you got those to check off the list...i've never understood why people always buy the finishing touches first when restoring a car....my dad did the same thing with his impala, first purchase, other than $1400 in new suspension, were decals, orig. trunk weather stripping, and taillight seals...needless to say they sat in the closet for years

[b16ftw]

looks like you've got your work cut out for ya. good luck though!

[silversol]

looks like a solid car to start with. it will take a lot of time and money but it will be worth it in the end! also you are a long way from stickers and emblems dont get ahead of your self!

[Stormhammer]

www.cuda-challenger.com will be your friend :D

I have a '71 Barracuda that I'm learning how to cut and weld on to restore, being taught by a friend who has one 426 Plum Crazy '69 Charger with a supercharger and one 546ci plum crazy '69, a 44 '68, and his wife has a '73 cuda :D


Check out Goodmark Industries here in Lawrenceville, GA - they should have SOME mopar parts

Also, I recommend the North Georgia Mopar Club, very great club, lots of contacts and people willing to help ( they meet monthly in Lawrenceville )

[Stormhammer]

also, btw, thats a rare color combo ;)

[RUFFIAN]

sweet find. Good luck and please don't get discouraged. zzthat is a marathon kind of restoration. do it right the first time.

[Whiteboy™]

well if you people would read :)

you could tell that i typed that we FOUND the emblems in the glove box.

[thepolecat]

Great find- looks like a fine house of cool rusted cars you got it from. cant wait to see where you go with this. Def +1

[Mr. Clean]

also :lmao; at the year one hook up, they dont even hook up there employees!

shi-ot... i beg to differ BUT they are a bunch of nazi's when it comes to sharing the wealth. the only thing i could do for you is give you 10-15% disc. but you'll have to come to the counter on a sat.

and as much as i hate to bash ourselves, we usually dont have too much stuff in stock unless your looking for fairly universal parts. when you have 18 carlines in 18 different catalogs it gets hard to keep everything in stock and most of the stuff we offer is fairly hard to find so it takes a little while to get in.

if you dont have one of our catalogs yet let me know with your address and i'll send you whichever one you need. or just get online... just let me know.

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and hahaha! those are from yearone!... thats about $200 worth of plastic and decals.

[.:Stirfry:.]

wow man good find,..looks like a great project::
keep us updated.

[Whiteboy™]

thanks guys, and i will definately have to hit you up clean_sol

[Mr. Clean]

thanks guys, and i will definately have to hit you up clean_sol

lemme know mang

[takume]

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.

[Whiteboy™]

THE ENGINE TURNED OVER!!!!!
Cleaned the interior a little bit, removed all of the white vinyl top, and blew off all the rust and dust with an air chuck

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[mushroom_toy]

Man thats a lot of cancer. Hope ya can bring her back to life. GO watch Vanishing Point if you have never seen it. I had to watch it last night because of this thread.

[Whiteboy™]

she is going to go through some serious kemo treatments

[Stormhammer]

haha turned over eh? reminds me when I got my first car - '72 Dodge Charger - guy selling said it wouldn't run. Pour paint thinner down the carburator, waiting 5 minutes, pumped the accelerator, and started the car up :lmao:

[Stormhammer]

You should watch both the original and the Fox remake of Vanishing Point. As well as the original Gone In 60 Seconds. Death Proof is good too :D

[Mr. Clean]

yeah man that thing is pretty rough. i gotta take a picture of this mustang we got in the back of the warehouse. it makes your challenger look like an '08.

[thepolecat]

Wow thats alot of rust, but ive seen worse

[IndianStig]

looks like your got your work cut out bro. you got the civic back man?

[odie22]

gl with it man... would love to see more pic on down the line

[WalkS]

man there is more rust than it appears. It had to been a northern car. But there is tons of replacement panels from restoring companies.

[Whiteboy™]

looks like your got your work cut out bro. you got the civic back man?

that thing was in my garage the same night lol

[drmcivicsi]

it was fun towing back to ga. alot of looks going down the highway. it is alot of work. but i know it will turn out great. his dad wont let him **** this up. like he did with the civic

[drmcivicsi]

lol just playing ^^^^

[chrisdohck]

nice project good luck hope to see more progress man keep it up

[juanito]

good luck

[SpooL'DGsR]

good luck with this restore !!!!

[Revmaynard]

Thats gonna be some work, good luck!

I had a 73 black on black buckets with a 340 4speed pistol grip. Was faded to hell but not a hole of rust. Good luck! Let me know if you're looking for any parts, my dad and I are nothing but Mopar fans.

[Oz10]

Hey I think I saw you hauling that car on 85 two Sundays ago. Was that you?

[Whiteboy™]

we would have been on 85 on a monday

[Revmaynard]

This is my dads 340 in his 71 Cuda, somewhere around 93,xxx original miles. He's got about 350hp at the crank instead of the roughly 290 (under rated) stock.

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[Whiteboy™]

shaker hood, nice

[Oz10]

Yeah it was Monday. I forgot that was new years eve.

[Whiteboy™]

UPDATE!!!

-My dad was bored so we started to knock some of the bondo off the 1/4 panel

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[Alan®]

damn

[Revmaynard]

Oh ****! That rust is bad, do you plan on replacing the panels or what? I only had a little surface rust in my qtr panels and we cut/welded new ones.

[MistaCee]

Thats a lot of cancer you have to deal with! Good luck with the therapy thou

[Sammich]

donate that to powerblock

[Whiteboy™]

we are getting new panels

[KidSaru]

That looks like a pain, should be fun though. Lot of potential. I can talk to my uncle for you, he does a lot of business with people at YearOne and gets pretty good discounts.