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How many Challengers are there left in Europe?
I try to follow all in Sweden.
To date I have 476 cars in the register, of them are 70 scrapped or exported. 406? live and kicking in Sweden!!!
1970 324
1971 99
1972 25
1973 21
1974 7

Dave, do you have any knowledge about the numbers in UK?

I have no idea mate. But our car club chairman keeps a record of every mopar that has ever been in our club and he also records the details of cars he sees at shows.
I will ask him if he can come up with some figures.

PeO wrote:How many Challengers are there left in Europe?
I try to follow all in Sweden.
To date I have 476 cars in the register, of them are 70 scrapped or exported. 406? live and kicking in Sweden!!!
1970 324
1971 99
1972 25
1973 21
1974 7

Dave, do you have any knowledge about the numbers in UK?

406 !!!!!
I might want to emigrate some time soon...

If there's 30 or 40 in France, that's got to be the upper estimate!

Some more figures about the "swedish" Challenger's the numbers has now increased to 478 in total.
The attached file is a summery of qty. and VIN types.

PeO wrote:Some more figures about the "swedish" Challenger's the numbers has now increased to 478 in total.
The attached file is a summery of qty. and VIN types.

That's some fine print...

I have a question about those you call 'European Assembly". Do these have short VINs (missing the 5 first digits)?

We do have some in France (VINs look like "OBXXXXXX"), with the 'B' looking like an upside-down key-hole.
These are thought to have been assembled locally.

Yes it's a fine print but size it up to 200%.

Yes the European assy. cars normaly have a different VIN (see my othet tread in this section for it).

Here are a copy of a dash VIN plate.

PeO wrote:Yes it's a fine print but size it up to 200%.

Yes the European assy. cars normaly have a different VIN (see my othet tread in this section for it).

Here are a copy of a dash VIN plate.

Yes, that's exactly how the 'French-made' VINs look too.

What I know so far about the French assembled cars :

- they have no fender tag (and no one ever found a build sheet either)
- they have this funny looking tag with the '8' looking like a keyhole (never seen one with a '8' in the serial number, so I don't know if that's how they made normal '8's, or if this is a special digit).

I also guess that local assembly was probably a way to beat import taxes or simplify paperwork. That way, the cars were 'made' by Simca, not by Dodge...