How many Challenger in Europe??

by **PeO** » 18 Jan 2006 23:00

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?

by **dave-r** » 19 Jan 2006 8:36

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.

by **fbernard** » 19 Jan 2006 9:16

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!

by **PeO** » 15 Feb 2006 18:21

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.

by **fbernard** » 16 Feb 2006 10:55

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.

by **PeO** » 16 Feb 2006 19:39

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.

by **fbernard** » 17 Feb 2006 10:30

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...

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