The Dodge Challenger Message Board

Mates check this out, my wife had this wrapping paper printed for my birthday a couple of weeks back, it was better than the presents! My car, my name!

well now your wife needs to let us know where she got that?

sweet i want some

What a girl. Don't lose hold of her.

If you have any luck at all.......

She got lots so she can wear it too.

Opening presents is always good.

Very Nice Adrian!!

Alaskan_TA wrote:If you have any luck at all.......

She got lots so she can wear it too.

Opening presents is always good.

Agree!

Happy birthday afterwards Adrian! How old did you get? =)

On the 9th March I managed to get to 45, in my head I'm still Bart Simpson, aged about 10

Adrian Worman wrote:On the 9th March I managed to get to 45, in my head I'm still Bart Simpson, aged about 10

I hear ya, Adrian! I'll be 44 on the 25th. I feel like I'm 8 or 9 mentally. Physically, I feel 70+!

humm its must be when you get older you get younger i will be 49 in june and im really like 7,in a 90 year old body

I'm like Pat & Drew but not as bad as the Gaffer

LoL, I always thought that you aren't older then you feel, but now you guys make me think different.. If you feel older in the body then you actually ARE.. then you are what? LoL.. I am 30 and feel no older in my head, but i also think that my body will age faster then my date of birth on paper..

How about this....
You ain't older then the girls you are looking for?



Happy Birthday in Advance for you patrick btw!

How old were you when you bought your Challenger? I was 23 and I'd already owned several American classics by then. Strange but buying older cars made me feel older than my friends, still buzzin around in tinny rice burners or gay little fwd Fords. I've only started regressing since mid thirties but hope to acheive infant by about retirement age

Nearly forgot, happy birthday for the 25th Pat

Thanks for the birthday wishes, guys. You are only as old as you feel. Maybe this hobby will keep all of us young.

patrick wrote:May this hobby will keep all of us young.

Yeah! I agree with that!

Adrian Worman wrote:How old were you when you bought your Challenger? I was 23 and I'd already owned several American classics by then. Strange but buying older cars made me feel older than my friends, still buzzin around in tinny rice burners or gay little fwd Fords. I've only started regressing since mid thirties but hope to acheive infant by about retirement age

Have you had the same Challenger since the age of 23 Adrian?
And then other classics aswell since? =)

Why feel older driving a older car at all..?
Imagine how old you would feel driving around a -34 Ford Hot Rod then? I think you are starting to sound a bit like that movie Adrian... "The curious case of Benjamin Button"

I believe buying older cars should stop time instead!

Can't get those rice burners young guys at all...
American muscle will always rule them all!


I believe our old american muscle cars will make us all feel young for ever guys! I know there is no time, and nothing else that matters when i drive my Beast anyhow! *Harmony*

I was 25 when i bought mine... I think i will stay 25 with my Beast for ever...

Yes Jimboy, the same one for all that time I found it in a chicken farm 10 minutes from where I live. I think that because the only other people to have 70/80's Americans at the time were that bit older I ended up having a much older group of friends

Adrian Worman wrote:Yes Jimboy, the same one for all that time I found it in a chicken farm 10 minutes from where I live. I think that because the only other people to have 70/80's Americans at the time were that bit older I ended up having a much older group of friends

Yeah, i can see that... It's a bit the same over here.. Not so common to be young and have a Challenger or muscle car at all, i tell you.. I guess that is not only because lack of interest among younger people.. It's quite expensive cars.. but compared to those Supra or Skyline etc i don't know if it's true really either(?) Many younger thinks muscle cars are cool and smile when they see them pass bye on the streets, but not many have the interest enough to get one on their own... i wonder why, but still i am happy that not everybody drives the same cars.. It would not be fun at all if there where 100 black Challengers on the streets at my town... =)
Howewer.. The rest of mopar and muscle car owners here are like 50+/- years.. But that does'nt bother me at all... the age doesn't make a difference for friendship..

I think it's awesome, that you have had the same Challenger for that long, i hope you will keep it!

Do you have any more classic cars for the moment?

I turned 30 while I was waiting for my Challenger to arrive from the US. That was over 20 years ago.
But my previous Mopar I owned for 7 years before that. I was 23 when I bought that one.

dave-r wrote:I turned 30 while I was waiting for my Challenger to arrive from the US. That was over 20 years ago.
But my previous Mopar I owned for 7 years before that. I was 23 when I bought that one.

How many mopars have you had Dave?

It feels strange when people get rid of their cars after so long... There is a guy over here that have had his -70 Challenger 318sb convertible for over 20 years, and just recently sold it...

Do you got pic's of that 1st Challenger Dave? =)

I only ever had the two Mopars. It was an Australian Valiant Charger 770 with a 318. It was the first car I ever bought and I bought it when I seperated from my first wife.
I was also into fast Fords and owned a modified Mk2 Ford Escort. But not until after I had bought the Charger.

Unless you count a Hillman Imp and a couple of Jeeps as Mopars. They had Chrysler markings and parts.

I was 19 when I paid £400 for a 72 Pontiac LeMans coupe with a 400inch RamAir motor. Had'nt even passed my driving test so Carol had to sit with me on Learner plates Got some very strange looks
Carol still gets 'em now

Adrian Worman wrote:I was 19 when I paid £400 for a 72 Pontiac LeMans coupe with a 400inch RamAir motor. Had'nt even passed my driving test so Carol had to sit with me on Learner plates Got some very strange looks
Carol still gets 'em now

Cool 1st car Adrian! I had to satisfie with an European/ German Ford Granada!

Who is Carol?

dave-r wrote:I only ever had the two Mopars. It was an Australian Valiant Charger 770 with a 318. It was the first car I ever bought and I bought it when I seperated from my first wife.
I was also into fast Fords and owned a modified Mk2 Ford Escort. But not until after I had bought the Charger.

Unless you count a Hillman Imp and a couple of Jeeps as Mopars. They had Chrysler markings and parts.

Have'nt ever seen or heard about those Australian Valiants! I found some info and pics at wikipedia.. Do you still got pic's on the car Dave? =)
So cool that they had the 340sb!! I wonder if there is any 340 engines forgotten in some barns, to get at fair prices in Australia, as from cars like this i mean

I'll be 50 next month and can't imagine ever selling the Challenger. It has been been with me through both good and bad times, taught me discipline, respect, resourcefulness, and many other traits that have helped me make it to this day.

Overall a great learning experience, not the least of which all the pretty girls that sat in the seat next to me.

Those Australian Chargers are very cool cars. My best mates dad has one in Australia that has a 6cylinder motor that is either a Hemi head or has 3 little twin chokes to make some sort of 6Pak I'm not really sure,but its very collectable.
Got a 4speed and loads of goodies, runs 14's easy.
Quite a few appeared here in the 80/90's and most of what I saw had 318's and auto's. Beauty of 'em of course is they are right hand drive.

All the ones imported to the UK were 318 V8 powered but the R/T version was a straight six the Ozzys call the Hemi Six. This was the one to have as it had a 145mph top speed.

It was available with the Oz version of a six pack which was three twin-choke side draft carbs.

Jimiboy wrote:Have'nt ever seen or heard about those Australian Valiants! I found some info and pics at wikipedia.. Do you still got pic's on the car Dave? =)

Not sure if non members can acess this link or not?
Some photos of my old car.
http://www.moparuk.com/forums/viewtopic ... 827#292827

Cool car! I like the body lines.. How cool that the six cylinder engine did have hemi heads... imagine what you can learn every & each day...
How many Hp/ Nm did they have?

Jon wrote: Overall a great learning experience, not the least of which all the pretty girls that sat in the seat next to me.

I hope you haven't marked the cover of the seats for each one of those girls...

Smart pics Dave
My mates Dads is white with a blacked out hood,black stripes a bit like a T/A stripe and a black rear window louvre and deck spoiler.
Really nice looking car, I never understood why they were often looked down upon by purists

Jimiboy wrote:Cool car! I like the body lines.. How cool that the six cylinder engine did have hemi heads... imagine what you can learn every & each day...
How many Hp/ Nm did they have?

Not strictly a hemi (like the new Chysler engines) but they called them that.

All your questions are answered on Wiki I think?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valiant_Charger

Mine was a 318 VH version from the early 70s.

I am 31 so my challenger is 9 years older than me! When I was a teenager and in my early 20's the aussie and americian 70 and early 80's muscle cars were the ones to have. Even know in the country they seem more popular than the rice burners. It is a bit different now in the city with most of the younger kids drivings Jap stuff.

I test drove a 72 hemi 6 aussie charger when I first got my my licience. It was real clean and only $3500 but my dad wouldn't let me buy it because he reckoned I wouldn't afford the fuel bill. I ended up with a VL holden commodore instead.
I hope to restore a aussie charger after my challenger is finished.