My '74 Challenger

Updated  2/20/98

I am the proud owner of a '74 Dodge Challenger.

Here are the specs:

This is the condition of the car as I recieved it from the previous owner. All present modifications were done by him. The car originally had a vinyl top, but he had it removed, and the car is currently in primer. It also has ugly fiberglass fenders which I'm gonna replace with the original metal stuff. The motor runs great, did a compression test recently, looks good. Vacuum at idle is an excellent steady 18.5 inches. When I got the car, the front end was real loose. Completed an entire front end rebuild months ago with a polygraphite kit from PST. Drives pretty good now, still need to rebuild the steering box though, has a lot of play in it. I'm gonna build my Challenger to look like a '70 T/A, stripes, spoilers, side exhaust and all. It will probably not have a 6-pack though. I'm gonna completely restore the interior, adding only a Rallye instrument cluster. The interior is rough right now. But the engine will be heavily modified. I'm gonna put all the good stuff in it. My speed goal for the car is low 13s.

Current events

Well finally have the long awaited(yeah right) pics up! Also put in a brand new Modine 3-core radiator about 2 months ago. It was last on the road about a month ago, 3 days after I started driving it again it broke the driver side motor mount. Happened when I was power braking it. Luckily the only thing that got damaged was the driver side exhaust pipe, got bent up some. Oh well, this is the perfect excuse for me to put in those Hooker Super Comps and Flowmasters :) Anyway right now the car is sitting...it's gonna be a few months before it's back on the streets again. A mod I plan on doing sometime in the future is a 4spd conversion. Gonna put in a A-833 4spd. What's great is that I can use the same tranny mount, and the same driveshaft. Basically all I have to change is the flywheel and modify the tranny tunnel. What's even better is that there is an OD version of this tranny.

Mopar links

Moparts
Mopar Muscle magazine
The Dallas Mopar Web Server
Mopar Alley
Dodge Super Bee-A great site about the '71 Super Bee
Mopar or no car
The BEST Vanishing Point Site!
The Ultimate Dodge Challenger Page
The Dodge Dart Page
Excellent T/A-AAR site
Franco's '70 Swinger Page
The '66 Satellite Homepage-Excellent site

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