[Mad Mas]

Hi all

I'm a forum migrant from moparuk.com, so some of you might already "know" me.

Nice to see forum specific to Challengers

I have a 71 Challenger with 318cid and T904

Heres a pic of it when "new" last year - currently work in progress

[dave-r]

hello!

What are the plans for the car?

Engine? Colour? Vinyl?

[Mad Mas]

When I bought the car I had virtually no car skills of any sort, but I'm willing to learn and have a go and I'm enjoying working on it, so I'm going to do everything on the car myself. Plus I was on a bit of a tight budget

So...

I bought an RT bonnet from "yearone" put it on, and resprayed the whole car in HEMI orange with a black bumblebee stripe and blackout 'T' on the hood. Paints a bit ropey but its a first ever - Gonna have another go next summer maybe.

Interiors shot (Dashboard is literally like Magnum Ice cream - The moment you touch it it crackles), so its new dash (Got one from Duncan), new seat covers (71 R/T black vinyl set) new headlining, carpet door felts etc... all in black. Don't like the E-body console so I am going to fit a nice hurst shifter. To top it off I would like a tuff-style wheel.

Engine was completely stock, so I removed the aircon, bought an "airgap" style intake manifold and put a 650 holley (vac) on it, and a set of cheap headman headers. Fabricated exhaust myself (2").

I am embarrased to say that I resorted to filler on the rear quarters for now , but they are just battered from parking lot fights, and aren't rusty, plus I knew my paints not going to be too good - It was the first respray I ever did.

Idea is to have it "respectable" and drivable, and once its on the road and with a bit more experience simply improve items one at a time. Rear quarters for example - I'am only planning to put new ones in once my welding & spraying is up to reasonable standard, otherwise its a waste of time, as I'm only going to bodge it .

I will get some more recent pics soon.

[Mad Mas]

In time perhaps swap the 318 for a 360 home rebuild (Like to do stuff myself) - Nothing fancy, just a warmed over 360 to get a bit of experience, and perhaps a limited slip diff. Would like to change rear springs as mine are a bit saggy - Monoleafs maybe. Eventually would like to improve the handling a little bit all round really, maybe larger diameter torsionbars, nice 15" rims (Magnum or 'D's) and a rear sway bar.

[Eddie]

Cool car, yeah man make a road racer out of it!

[dave-r]

It sounds like you have far too much common sense to even be a MoPar owner.

Yeah it sounds like you know what you are doing and recognise your own (for now) limitations.

The skills all come with time. We all start out like this. You are doing well so far. keep going and don't be tempted to run up the credit cars as the car will be the first thing that goes if things got tight.

I don't mind saying I have struggled a few times in that respect.