Something for THE bodyman.... • The Dodge Challenger Message Board

by **christer** » 22 Aug 2008 17:45

From a sales ad:

70'S ERA VINTAGE RACE CAR! RARE 1970-72 DODGE CHALLENGER STOCKCAR! 8 3/4" REAREND WITH 3:23 POSI! BUILT 360 ENGINE WITH 3 SPEED TRANSMISSION CAR! RARE 1970'S DODGE CHALLENGER STOCKCARI

by **Eddie** » 22 Aug 2008 17:57

A little wet sanding, some clear coat and presto, nice street machine! :biggrin:

by **dave-r** » 22 Aug 2008 18:24

Im my country they quite often steal our American cars (even good restored examples) and do this to them. Usually these morons are scrap metal merchants with big families. They only survive one race meeting because they use them in demolition derbys at the end of the night and then they scrap them so even if the car was spotted the evidence has gone.

" I bought the car in good faith from a couple of guys that brought it in here for scrap" is the usual excuse they come out with. The Police never do anything. Any witnesses usually end up with their house on fire.

by **drewcrane** » 22 Aug 2008 20:13

jeeez about the only good thing left is the rallye wheel,it is amazing how stupid people really are, to just trash a nice car :disbelief:

by **christer** » 22 Aug 2008 21:22

airfuelEddie wrote:A little wet sanding, some clear coat and presto, nice street machine!

Do you really think so? :s008:

by **christer** » 22 Aug 2008 21:27

I like the instrument panel. Simple and functional. Not too much bling-bling. :nod:

by **drewcrane** » 22 Aug 2008 22:35

it looks like an old boat :s024:

by **jh27n0b** » 23 Aug 2008 9:37

This could of been an original body in white race car from the factory. Or perhaps one of the rare kit cars that Direct Connection offered in the 70's.

by **christer** » 23 Aug 2008 12:32

jh27n0b wrote:This could of been an original body in white race car from the factory. Or perhaps one of the rare kit cars that Direct Connection offered in the 70's.

You might be right. The roll cage looks a bit more advanced than I had expected of a car like this. (I do not know very much about old stock cars though.)

by **ianandjess** » 23 Aug 2008 14:12

it looks like what we call a speedway car over here & was probably just an old clunker when someone decided to take it racing thats common practice here once cars get old enough to be cheap they get turned into speedway car quite good fun but its the end of the car thats for sure
cheers ian

by **christer** » 29 Aug 2008 17:04

Sold for $1.500.

Some cuts from the ad:
I believe this is a 1970 Dodge Challenger stockcar vintage race car, but it needs to be restored.

It has some rust in floors, but what a nice car to restore.

And the Q&A-section:
Q: hi, in the ad it says, someone is going to own this vehicle. does this mean the actual high bidder actually wins this? thanks john Aug-28-08
A: High bidder wins, YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:s006:

I do not know if I am very easy to amuse but I sure got a grin on my face when I read that.