Did I Just Find My Old 1973 Dodge Challenger?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- On today's episode, I went to pick up one Mopar and ended up finding one I'm very familiar with. This 1973 Dodge Challenger was originally a 340 4 speed car. At some point in its history, someone turned it into a street machine with a big block, shackles, and ridiculously wide slot mags that stuck out past the quarter panels. I bought it from the Mopar ranch some years ago, and had a lot of fun getting it cleaned up and back on the road. Of course, life happened, as it often does, and I had to sell the car to pay off taxes, credit cards, and Christmas one year. But here it is! Much better than I left it in many ways. Now I just have to figure out how to buy it back...
'Unfortunaty, now I'm going to have to buy it..."
Truer-and more Troublesome phrases are rarely spoken!
It’s awesome when someone can get reacquainted with an old ride especially a classic mopar ❤
Yay! Good to see you enjoy your old car. I hope you can work out a deal to bring it home.
Crazy how this kind of stuff happens
Looks like an amazing car, definitely buy it back!
EPIC!!!! LOVE CHALLENGERS!!!!
Whoever bought that did alot of metal work. Looks better than the last time I saw it.
Cool! I wish some of my old Mopars from the past would reemerge again, most are states away nowadays, would be cool to get to revisit one, although a friend of mine does have my old 68 GTX, but he's going to keep it. Sure hope you can get yours back!👍
Challengers and Cudas are the most awesome cars ever. You need that car back. I had a 1974 360 4 speed back in 1978. It was a real rallye car FE5 red with strobe stripe delete. I bought it from the original owner and that's the way he ordered it. I always wished that it had them. Now I have a real 1972 340 4 speed rallye hemi orange EV2 with black strobe stripes and black vinyl top. I love this car. My tail panel on the 74 was black but I like my 72 with the Argent tail panel better.
Nice! I dunno, I really like the tail panel black out with the late tail lights. And I like the late cars. Many people crap all over the frownie faces but I like them. For one thing, they’re the cheapest way to get into an E body, and all of the important parts are the same. I’m into that.
Man, you just have to love the sound of that great Mopar starter!
You know I do! I’m sorry I had to edit so much of it for time on this one. There was… a lot.
It must be nice when they come home. That hasn't happened to me yet and since the old family cars (if they still exist) were last in a city 1800 miles away...
Hope you are able to bring it back into the fold.
Very cool!!!!!!!! 👍👍
I habe been binging all your old Vids, This is exactly what i have in my garage, Currently been bringing her back to life after 27 years, It's all there except someone destroyed the original 340 and lucky me, Replaced the block with a 69 340, Moter has been rebuilt and now redoing everything else, Hopefully in a few years have a really nice driver, Oh yeah, Original cali car with A/C so it got the undercoat treatment and...NORUST!!! Lucky me!!!, My 2nd Chally, first was a 72 with all the goodies, but 318 auto and no strobe stripe, I love the 2nd gen chally's with the grille and tail lights, they just reek 70's..... In a cool way!!!
Nice! Sounds awesome. The one in this video is the only E body I’ve ever owned. I liked it, and was annoyed by the general dislike for them that people seem to have. It was a very fun car to drive. I certainly couldn’t say that it is the most attractive of the line… I liked the blackout treatment on the front a lot. That helped.
Love this bro.
And 20 bucks says i get my 74 driving just as you do.
I didn’t end to with this one back… It’s black now. That happened fast.
Hey to you and rocket restorations,they were next door at the mopar show swap😎 nice car to drive it😀
Awesome! I didn’t get to go this year. I hope to get out and do the cool Mopar shows and stuff in the future.
For some reason I thought Rallye had a gauge cluster with speed-o-meter and tach in the dash.
It’s supposed to! I meant to explain that and tell the story of how the original rallye gauges were gone, but I got too excited apparently.
Speaking of white Challengers, I finally watched the movie "Vanishing Point" this morning. Strange for a guy that really, really , really likes Challengers to have not seen that movie until now. Hell, I even have Vanishing Point diecast. Kind of like a guy that really, really, really likes Trans Ams having not seen Smokey and The Bandit, a movie which I have seen, let's say 100 times. It's my "Gone With The Wind".
I have the original movie poster hanging on the wall. I like it. I never wanted a vanishing point car, but if I bought this car back I would be really tempted by the white. For one thing, my nice cars would then be red, white and blue!
Gasser as a Christian guy I know I shouldn't say it but FROG 🐸 o m word , she was something...
You need it. Don't you have a nice 340 for it? And the steel crank 400? Had one. Came out of a '78 wrecker of all things.
Well I have the Demon’s 340 but I definitely couldn’t put that in the Challenger… I would be very tempted to go find another one.
Its got that Vanishing Point vibe regardless of the year. Since the original drivetrain is gone, I'd do it Alpine White with the blacked out grille and tail panel.
Exactly what I’m thinking… it’s wrong, but also oh so right.
@@DeadDodgeGarage 72-74 Challengers look better when the grill and tail areas are blacked out. If you ever watched the original Gone in 60 Seconds, the red Challenger that gets stolen twice is actually a 72 that looks cunningly like a 70 R/T.
@@LongIslandMoparsI think you have that backwards. It was a '70 that was supposed to look like a '73.
I'm thinking I'm correct in that they used a cheap 72, non-R/T Challenger and tarted it up to look like a 70 R/T. When it goes into the shredder, those taillights are 72-74.
Nice! You should get it back haha 😂
I’ll see what I can do 😅
Was the yellow the OG color? If so I would go yellow again . But I do like that white.
Interesting everyone thinks it’s white - I guess it’s the lighting. It’s currently in a dusty coat of primer gray. Yes, it was originally yellow. If I were to buy it again and paint it though… and I can’t believe I’m saying this… I think I would have to paint it white. Or blue. But the yellow was pretty good, and I always wanted to add a hood black out and a 71 style stripe.
White for the win. Vanishing Point tribute, then you can keep the big block in it.
@ Dead Dodge Garage That’s too bad, I would have loved to hear more! LOL
Man nice Challenger!!!
It is now!!
@@DeadDodgeGarage I agree!! If I had the money I would buy it.
The fender turn signal aren't for the driver, they are for the people in the next lane
Interesting idea, but I don’t think that was the point of them. The Charger’s outside turn signals are set into the hood where other drivers will never see them. I think they are intended as an aid to the driver.
If that was the case you would think they would have put them on the outside of the finder instead of right next to the hood
@@rustynails9659 My Fury and my satellite had them right in the middle of the fender. If someone was in my blindspot they could see the turn signal and take the appropriate action.
@@DeadDodgeGarage fender turn signals are cool. I had a 78 pickup I put them on.
Love to have that car, I was born in '73.
I'd putta 340 back in it.
Juuuust 🐀 enough for me.....and my wallet😊
That’s what I would do too. It has since been sold and I am in contact with the new owner. He has… other ideas. We should be seeing that on the channel in the coming months!
I'd like to see it come back home...
Me too!!
The car is following you 😳
They always do…
Cool 😎 great Video , just not an e body guy... 🤔 Don't get me wrong , I Know it's cool just not as cool to me cause I like Squares ! 😂 Thank God he didn't make a huge hole in center console...
I’ve never been an E body guy. I’ve said that on record. Haha. This is the only one I’ve ever owned, and I do love it. I prefer the A and B bodies.
@@DeadDodgeGarage I'm really digging coronets and even bigger c bodies too , guess it's the g m guy residual effects / Buick hand me downs ! My grandpa always gave away his old ones never traded . Invicta , Electra always Buicks ! We've got a couple old photos of 50 something two tones when on camping trips !
I wish some random dude would show up at my place and work on one of my junk vehicles.
Me too 😭
Hey, Im guessing you didnt buy it... pretty sure its sittin in my dads garage now. Im sure he'd like to talk to you more.
I sure didn’t. If there’s a now shiny black ‘73 that looks like this on the inside in your dad’s garage, he sure did. Haha. He can reach me at DeadDodgeGarage@Gmail.com
What did you do to the heads?
Nothing. Lol. They had some performance springs. I really don’t know what was done to them. I did the heads because it had a divet in one of the deck surfaces and was spewing coolant against the firewall. That was cool… I fixed it with Jb weld, copper coat and a gasket 😃
She would good sitting next to charger and demon,A,B and E. Woohoo!.
Damn right! And if I did the Vanishing Point thing, I’d have red white and blue!
You. Buy it? You don’t have enough mopers
Well I definitely don’t have enough money 😅
hello friend ! Where is your Mechanic Cars Olde ? I would like visits you ? I live in Brazil...I work productions videos too.....I have a Project movie film.....
I’m in Aberdeen, WA, US. I’m a little ways from Brazil… 🙂
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Huh. These pitches are usually e-mails. Lol.
@@DeadDodgeGarage I send an email too. Just hopefully it could be noticed:)
Vanishing point h
Lost & found!
RE- FOUNDED CARS. Are so Tar-tarian as to what to do with. Leave it hidden or dig it up and resurface it. 👍🤔
Well you should have this just because you did once. MORE CORP.
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Organized
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Expenditures
My Old Plymouth Ain't Runnun!!!