Jack T's JS23V0B • The Dodge Challenger Message Board

by **Jack T (Jackt)** » 23 Aug 2002 4:09

It's a work in progress, but the end is in sight. I hope to have it in the Fall Fling here in the San Fernando Valley in October.

by **Dave-R (Roppa440)** » 23 Aug 2002 7:29

I wish my paint looked like that Jack. The body looks very straight too.

by **Jack T (Jackt)** » 24 Aug 2002 4:59

Thank you! It had been sitting in the previous owner's back yard since 1986, so you can imagine the condition it was in when I bought it. Let's just say it was not exactly factory fresh when I got it.... more to come later.

by **Jack T (Jackt)** » 26 Sep 2002 5:00

This was a couple of weeks ago

but the big news is that it started today.

by **Jack T (Jackt)** » 26 Sep 2002 5:20

OK - so I'm better at the wrenches and codes than I am at the uploading.....

by **Dave-R (Roppa440)** » 26 Sep 2002 18:02

I think you either need the engine a little higher or the body a little lower and it should work a lot better!

Sorry!

by **Gerrad Friedline (Gmfried** » 26 Sep 2002 23:05

yes, better at hands on, while the younger generation is better with these infernal PC's eh?

by **Jack T (Jackt)** » 27 Sep 2002 3:32

Not to worry Dave - that was all straightened out shortly thereafter.

by **Jack T (Jackt)** » 29 Oct 2002 4:13

OK everybody, it's done!

Thanks for all the support!

by **Jack T (Jackt)** » 29 Oct 2002 4:23

As you can see, I'm still better with the car than I am with the image posting. Dave, please delete my swings and misses, would you?

by **Alex (Alex)** » 29 Oct 2002 8:18

Fantastic job Jack, that is beutiful man !

by **Dave_R (Roppa440)** » 29 Oct 2002 9:08

Brings a tear to my eye. Just like my baby but only much nicer. And without the vinyl top and silly wide wheels of course.

Alex. I think I am going to have to ask your mate Richard for a quote to do a re-spray.

Good work Jack. Enjoy!

by **Tom Charron (Tomc)** » 30 Oct 2002 0:19

Jack, Absolute perfection. As someone who has just been though this, My compliments. Hope you made it to your Fall Fling. Show those GTO and Chevelle guys what a real muscle car is.

by **Jack T (Jackt)** » 30 Oct 2002 2:58

Thanks for the kind words, guys, but it isn't perfect - just as close to it as I can get. I did get to the Fall Fling and the car was in some pretty good company. There was a hemi Challenger at the show owned by Jay Leno there that looks like Dave's car, Hemi orange, black vinyl top and bumblebee stripe..... lots of B-bodies and 67-69 A-body Barracudas also - a very nice day in the park here in the San Fernando Valley.

by **dave-r** » 10 Oct 2004 10:27

Is this YOU Jack?

Thanks to Steve Wall for putting me onto these cool photos that he took at the CWP club poker ralley. :wink:

by **mopar steve** » 11 Oct 2004 18:58

I love those shots of the car, real vanishing point location huh?

by **marco** » 13 Oct 2004 5:01

wow, thats really nice. is that a factory red color paint job. Looks more vibrant than normal maybe its just my computer screen.

by **dave-r** » 13 Oct 2004 7:23

It's HEMI ORANGE!

by **NZ440R/T** » 14 Oct 2004 7:30

ABSOLUTLEY AWESOME MATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shock:

That @#$%en rocks!!!!! I love those moving shots, makes the car look even meaner, if thats possible?

The great thing about Dodge Challenger's is that even standing still they still look like there doing 100mph.

Awesome. Only 2-3 months before my Challenger hits the streets.

by **JackT** » 10 Dec 2004 0:34

Dave these are pictures of my R/T. I've been a member of Chrysler Performance West for the past four years those shots were taken on our 2003 Poker Rally.

by **dave-r** » 10 Dec 2004 10:59

It was nice to see your shy little face enjoying itself in there Jack. :lol2:

by **Chrippa** » 10 Dec 2004 11:29

Wow! What a beuty ! If i only had a car like that :thumbsup:

Just the way it should be , with bumblebee stripe and sixpak

Wonderful job man!

Cheers Chrippa

by **JackT** » 11 May 2005 3:02

Fellow members of this message board, as of today, my 440 Six Pack Challenger is no longer mine. I have traded it and some cash for a 1968 Plymouth GTX Hemi 4-Speed car. Not to worry, I will still be around as I still have my R/T SE to finish and enjoy, but this car will belong to another collector soon. If you are intersted in buying it, I can put you in touch with the seller if you email me privately.

by **regnellahC** » 12 May 2005 2:59

by **dave-r** » 12 May 2005 10:22

Well done on your purchase of the Hemi Jack.

I am glad you still have the one Challenger though. :wink:

by **JackT** » 13 May 2005 1:27

Thanks Dave! I picked up the GTX today and really had some fun driving it on the usual errands you have to do with a newly purchased car..... Auto Club, insurance agent - you all know the drill - but I am really happy to still have a Challenger. I have built the R/T SE to my taste and it will be verrrrry fast. Thanks to all of you for your support through the restoration of the car I just traded away.