The Dodge Challenger Message Board

Hi there,
Glad to se all your nice cars and the work you are doing here.
Posting photo of my two Challengers. The TA was totaled some years ago but is slowly comming back to life. The other one is a 383 R/T (originally J5 green), used to be a wellknown dragracing car in Sweden in the 80's.
I also just bought a V0B in the US that i will bring home as soon as I can.

Welcome to the board!

I might have seen the 383" R/T LIVE at Power Meet (in Norrköping?) in 1983! Did it have the same paint scheme then? Hasn´t it also been included in one issue of Power magazine (from the 80-ties)?

I love the T/A-model. Feel free to post as many pic´s of it as you like!

Nice staable you've got.

Thank you!

Yes, probably the same car, same paint. Car has been indoor for many years so no rust. Have not seen the article in Power magazine but read about it in Bilsport nr.1 1981. 440 engine at that time. 426 when i bought it, but that one didn't come with the car. got a rusty hp 383 that looks like hell

There is a youtube clip of the TA, it was the first start up. Side windows borrowed from the racecar.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwgdc29Iofw

andersss2013 wrote:Yes, probably the same car, same paint. Car has been indoor for many years so no rust. Have not seen the article in Power magazine but read about it in Bilsport nr.1 1981. 440 engine at that time. 426 when i bought it, but that one didn't come with the car. got a rusty hp 383 that looks like hell

I think it had a hi-rise intake and 2xHolleys when I saw it. A quite impressive combo at the street.

andersss2013 wrote:There is a youtube clip of the TA, it was the first start up. Side windows borrowed from the racecar. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwgdc29Iofw

Thanks for the music !

I love the look of a T/A, nothin beats it
Is it an original car or a clone? Sweet car whatever you lucky boy

It was this car I was thinking on. Is it your car or not?

(From: http://race68.com/challe.htm )

In the huge collection of old magazines I got cluttering up my loft, there is a copy of Chrom'n'Flames from about the early '90's with that exact same pic!

The TA is an original car and not a clone but the way back to life has not been easy or fast. Later on I will explain more and post more photos of the car.

The R/T is probably not the same car as the Photos you found. My registration number starts with JDK. Funny that the paint job was so similar on those two cars. according to new info the car did not have a 440 but a supercharged 383 in early days and a 426 later on. supposed to be a low 10 second car.
Anyone knows anything about it?
Thank's

Car on the picture is cool and reminds me of my teens in early 80's when cars like that were running the streets, smoking tires and racing each other and not stored in garages. Those were the days!!
Wonder if the car is still alive, anyone knows?

andersss2013 wrote:Car on the picture is cool and reminds me of my teens in early 80's when cars like that were running the streets, smoking tires and racing each other and not stored in garages. Those were the days!!
Wonder if the car is still alive, anyone knows?

Yes, it seems like it is still alive. It has not been on the streets after 1995 though. It is a six-pack car.

You've got a great taste in cars. I look forward to pictures of the V0B. I've got a picture of a red crashed T/A with Swedish plates and I hope it's yours. I really hope there aren't that many crashed T/A's around.

Thank's for your coment!
I wish my TA was in same nice shape as your car. Congratulations it looks great.
Is it Top Banana yellow?

Enclosed a picture of my car on on it's way to a Body Shop in Minnesota. There it will be dressed up with the axels, suspension, wheels, doors and much more. I was extremely impressed by the work done at some other cars at the bodyshop, will post more picture from from that place later on. I don't know much about the car, no fender tag or build sheet. It's a 727 sixpack, top banana, low vin number possibly Sept/Oct 69. Suposed to be a Mr. Norm car, no evidence of that other than rumors. Would be intresting to now more about the car.

Thanks
Anders

Lost my password to the message bord but now I'm back
Finally my car arrived during mid summer. It took me 14 months to get the car to Sweden, 7 months just for the paperwork

It doesn't look too bad to me.
Good luck with it, got your work cut out for you there

Adrian Worman wrote:It doesn't look too bad to me.
Good luck with it, got your work cut out for you there

Thanks Adrian, will probably need a lot of luck to fix it. Hoping to drag my two sons away from the computers to help me, if that is possible