Restoring a 1970 Dodge Hemi Challenger the owner never saw..
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- Full restoration for a Plum Crazy 1970 Dodge Hemi Challenger with one crazy car story behind it.
For its introductory model year the Challenger was available in two series, Challenger and Challenger R/T, and three models, two-door hardtop, Special Edition two-door hardtop, or convertible. The base model was the Challenger with either an inline-6 or V8 engine. The Special Edition hardtop, available on either the base Challenger or on the R/T, added a number of appearance, convenience, and comfort features. Produced for the 1970 model year only, this more luxurious SE specification included as standard a vinyl roof with a "SE" medallions on the pillars, a smaller "formal" rear window, leather and vinyl bucket seats, and an overhead interior console that contained three warning lights (door ajar, low fuel, and seatbelts). The standard engine on the base model was a 225 cu in (3.7 L) Straight-6. The standard engine on the higher trim models was a 318 cu in (5.2 L) V8 with a 2-barrel carburetor. For 1970, the optional engines included the 340 and 383 cu in (5.6 and 6.3 L), as well as the 440 and 426 cu in (7.2 and 7.0 L) V8s, all with a standard 3-speed manual transmission, except for the 290 hp (216.3 kW) 383 cu in. engine, which was available only with the TorqueFlite automatic transmission. A 4-speed manual was optional on all engines except the 225 cu in (3.7 L) Inline-6 and the 2-barrel 383 cu in (6.3 L) V8.
The performance model was the Challenger R/T (Road/Track), with a 383 cu in (6.3 L) "Magnum" V8, rated at 335 hp (250 kW); 300 hp (224 kW) for 1971, due to a drop in compression. The standard transmission was a 3-speed manual. Optional R/T engines were the 375 hp (280 kW) 440 cu in (7.2 L) Magnum, the 390 hp (291 kW) 440 cu in (7.2 L) Six-Pack and the 426 cu in (7.0 L) Hemi rated at 425 hp (431 PS; 317 kW) at 5,000 rpm and 490 lb⋅ft (664 N⋅m) of torque at 4,000 rpm. The R/T was available in either the hardtop or convertible. The Challenger R/T came with a Rallye instrument cluster that included a 150 mph (240 km/h) speedometer, an 8,000 rpm tachometer and an oil pressure gauge. The shaker hood scoop was not available after 1971.
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This is such pleasure , filmed around late 99 / early 2000 ? pre facebook , pre toxic twitter ,pre globalism , pre internet really .Glorious times.
So nice to see Tom again.. Rest in Peace Tom.
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels.
These sure bring back great memories. On a personal note, my dad retired from DeVilbiss, seeing their equipment was another great memory. Thank you, as always.
Awesome seeing all the old equipment and simple ways,no4k videos on tripods ,no iphones!
DeVilbiss is the best!
Peter is one of the few guys that can honestly tell you he's forgotten more than you'll ever know 😂
I miss Tom you guys are legendary
Your metal guy is awesome at making those patch panels. I wish I could have some training with him.
I remember watching this show years ago.
I’ve also visited and a toured your dealership. The place really is amazing.
Same here!
Plum crazy with white interior is ridiculously rare.
Crazy that you could Tick the Hemi Box Without Disc Brakes!🙈
Yes good to see Tom. Really enjoyed him.
As a youngster was always so jealous of the muscle car era. Was old enough to see them but too young to own or drive one. Never imagined years later I would have a 485Hp Challenger then a 717HP challenger that not only is much faster but can stop and turn! It will be a shame to watch them disappear again and never return. Even though the electric cars can be faster now it's just not the same without the beautiful sound and smell.
With the car being so original to start with, its a pity it just wasnt cleaned up and left as a survivor.
People have finally wisened up and realized original cars are more desirable because it's only original once. You're right. This car should've stayed as is and only fixed what needed fixing.
These guys over restore everything, car could've been left alone....Canadian clowns
@@michaelshepard9409 I think it be the owner choice to restore the car. not the shop he paying the bill and has his own budget.
@@michaelshepard9409 I believe this was the 90's. Thoughts have changed in my opinion.
@@michaelshepard9409 It had rust hole's.
Amazing car, and more amazing restoration work. Yowza!!
That car didn't need restored. It needed a good clean and an engine refreshning
It didn’t even need refreshing it just needed whatever small detail straightened out. It was probably something stupid like the points on the distributor.
@@Hipsters_N_Hippies might've been, with a '70 and a Hemi, electronic ignition. Chrysler went there before Ford or GM.
When he tells Mark, "the glass is still good. We might even try and keep one of those original stickers for you if we can't find another one..." and they pan out, I was shocked to see the R.I.T. (Rochester Institute of Technology) parking sticker! I wonder what year is on it. I was a student there in 1974-77, but don't remember this car, but the parking lots were large and spread out on the campus. Small world.
I made the front knuckles for the Dodge Demon and the hellcat. Those paint marks are where you have to put gauges or visually check something and you use that pink mark to show that you did it. I had four different marks on mine 20 different gauges I had to use on one of them.
Amazing work
Yeah that thing doesn't need to be restored. Only original once, or less than 300 of those things built. Imagine how many of them are unrestored that exist today.
I love your Videos! Thank you so much and Greetings from Augsburg, Germany.
The best a '70 Challenger can be.
The best Challenger ever!!! When I was in high school back in the 70s one of my buddies had a Plum Crazy Challenger, it only had a 6 cylinder but it was surely a cool car!!! Thanks for showcasing this beauty!! 👍👍
I agree Chris!
Gusset the K member to keep the motor from chewing up the inner panels. Nice work!
One fantastic build
Very interesting and entertaining restoration! I miss old Tom. But, as a bonus, we can once again play the "actually" drinking game! :)
I’m personally a person who would have kept that all original left alone. But this is a serious nice restoration
Same - it’s a shame to dispose of all that originality, it surely wouldn’t have cost much more to do that level of restoration on a tatty car. A car is only original once.
It was cool to see my old drag strip in this video in 1975 I was running my Gremlin X there doing mid 13,s 👀
I love how this guy goes through all the details of the car, stressing it's originality. Then he says he's going to "restore" it. WTF?
What he’s saying is that it’s a good car for restoration because it hasn’t been modified or repaired excessively during its life. Also when you restore a car you reuse what you can but often it’s better to replace parts as needed.
@@DeepseaSteve But as it now stands, every single component of the car HAS been repaired. In some ways, the car may as well be considered "Rebuilt on a salvage title." I sorta wonder what the fair market value of a low-miles, factory original car would be, compared to that of a similar car after a six-figure restoration. I'll bet that all-in, he lost a ton of money on the deal.
Also, and this is just a personal-thing with me, but the original owner was a real person, struck down in the prime of life. He had a name. It would have been nice to at least commemorate his sacrifice by knowing a little bit about the man, and whether ha had any family left.
In any case, it's his car and his money...he can do with it as he pleases. "But they're only original once"
@@jimmcmahon217 This car though had rust holes and terrible metal repairs from accidents and rot.
@@jimmcmahon217agree 100%.
And blasting always finds holes and makes corrosion look worse than it was, it’s very aggressive.
The Plymouth name for Plum Crazy was "In Violet".
My pet peeve is having the steering wheel crooked after an alignment, that's poor workmanship, the wheel should always be straight.
More of these please
Back in 1967 my buddies brother bought a GTO Muncie , Tri Power, posi . He then got sent to Vietnam so he let his 16 yo brother drive it until he got back ! So both my buddy and I had a lot of fun with it and went through 2 sets of tires but no scratches at all . Imagine how you would feel 16 yo and driving a GTO ! I moved on a year later my buddy inherited it when his brother died in Vietnam . I knew of 2 other cars that had the same scenario !
Beautiful car
Should have left it alone.. only original once... major fuck up
I agree!! Fix the engine and clean the rest!
I saw a purple Challenger in Boston.
Boston, Lincolnshire, UK.
Great vid/show!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I grew up where a local 16 year old resident was injured at the 1969 Indy Nationals, and never got to drive the Boss 302 he was given for his 16th birthday. Permanently blinded, his father drive him around in it for years afterward.
It’s crazy that this wasn’t recorded THAT long ago, but if you check out how people are dressed lol ….ahh early 2000’s …. You slay me
Like these recaps of the builds from DCG by LMC
Plum Crazy Purple , xcellent color. There's one floating around tiwn where l reside in Australia. A 440. ( without the 6 pack ) it's White Duco is nice , but wrong 4me . It's 4 sale . I unfortunately dont have the funds 4 it myself. 😢😭😭😢
My grandfather used to refer to car paint as Duco.
Wow. DeVilbiss GTi Millenium wirh the bag system. How far we've come.
LOL, I notice the people who lean on cars are the ones that are over weight. My favourite Mopar, 70 Plum Crazy 4 speed Challenger. BTW this is an old video since snow is around when today in Ontario was 21c.
Nice resto. F that cold.
Love ❤ the Car & Color . Not a fan of the Wheels. Sad Story . Glad it found a nice home 🏡 finally
Hey legendary who’s doing your motors now out of curiosity since I believe active closed in 2019
SHEEEEEEW buddy, thats probably worth a cool 5 mil by now!! o.O
Please keep the vids coming.........now how about that 275GTB/4?
Lol, today we say why would you take something that original apart. Thing is absolutely beautiful, leave that thing go with how fucking nice it is. just get it running guys.
Original upload of this video:
Was Original owner’s name noted as special mention considering his passing as a veteran ?
Restoring this car is kinda sacrilegious in my mind. I'd rather have an original survivor car that hasn't been f%#ked with. Once it's been torn apart and rebuilt, it might look like or even better than brand new, but it's no longer an "original" car. I'd pay more for it if it hadn't been screwed with. A beautiful specimen either way.
The car had been in an accident in the rear and had lots of pinholes plus some rust. This means the car had to be resprayed at some point or at least a large blend job so the paint defiantly wasn't original. Best bet would be body work, paint, mechanical rebuild and send it down the road. This was probably done in the late 90's or early 2000 and that was the peak of over restored cars.
#mopar is the best
It was a crime against humanity to restore that car!
They look so young! What year was this filmed?
Just guessing, but I'd say mid to late 90s
I think it was about 2004.
From first look it looked really good but from the close up shots like when it was getting blasted you can see the real condition and it was a good used car like it should have been from the beginning. I feel that unless a car is a super rare low mile car like the hemi cuda or challenger that had only 47 then those are garage queens but anything else is game.
I wonder where is this car now? 🤔
Australia 🇦🇺
Must been cold in the garage since their breath can be seen :D
Did they notice any extra motor wear ? Just asking with the body stress .
I have Nice Challenger 70Se clone withe 440 Grate Engine 440 Wedge Alu Heads sixpack Cnc ported Flow Nr 310 cfm 0.585 lift.727 and GV overdrive Chaker Power Windos 6 way Cheer 100% solid.Street car runns grate..Four sale No...(Californian Car) i bay this Challenger 2013.
Did this car come from Newfoundland
They said eastcoast. So, maybe.
Please, any knowledgeable person answer, why sandblast when dunking is available, and I'm guessing leaving no sand or dirt behind?
Now this is what you call a proper restoration, even recreated the factory markings. I see lots of so called restoration from these wannabe people from youtube that shotguns everything and replace stuff that doesn't even need replacing, all they are doing is unnecessary destroy history.
I love the show and always watch it on TV still love the show the story I don't think is funny seems sad to me
That really doesn't make sense to me it's not that hard to change the car back to mph from kilometers
Hey, I know you guys aren’t necessarily Americans but when you talk about a an American soldier that was killed in Vietnam. I don’t think you should take a half a breath and start chuckling about how cool it is to get this car. I’m not saying you should you should stop and play the Star-Spangled Banner but a little more respect would be appreciated.
I don't understand factory restoration. I'm close to 70 and I tell you most everyone once they got their new stock car started modifying it. As a matter of fact it was an embarrassment if you kept your car or Harley stock. It made your car individual to you just run out the clock on the warranty lol!!
Should have left it original!!!
Chrysler had the worst build quality of all manufactures
Why are these cars called restored when in actuality they were never that good from the factory?
Build back better: Reinforce those bent areas caused by engine torque! 7:40
The Globalists slogan!
It's concourse level restoration everything has to be exactly as it came from the factory.
I was thinking, it would be cool if they could add reinforcement on the inside so you can't tell it's been reinforced.
I don't get why they replaced the bucket seats, seat covers sure, but why the whole seat?
If he really wants to drive it, they should put disk brakes on the front after it's done with the show circuit.
@@bigredc222 it's a hemi car, it will have front and rear torque boxes from factory for reinforcement. That'll be fine for a stock 426. The seats would have received new foam and recovered, not replaced. In fact, it shows him recovering them I believe.
@@challengerbrant
He was talking about the covers for the rear seats, then he says the bucket seats, Year one did a good job supplying those. 42:30.
It sounds like he's saying supplying the whole seat but I guess it's just the covers.
As far as the torque boxes didn't you see them pointing the cracks on both sides of the car caused by the hemi? 7:40
@@bigredc222 Ya, year one will supply legendary seats. I did see the stress cracks, I just don't see how you could add additional structure without compromising the authenticity of the car… as you stated. I do know what you're saying though.
I have the money but can not seeing piss i t on a car that kind of money never get your return and now you have to keep it in running shape
Sounds like you haven't considered.. At the time of this airing, Tom said these cars were worth 60-70k. But in 2021, these Hemi Challengers are selling for 85k to 275k depending on the car's condition, factory options and it's provenance. The value of this particular '70 plum crazy, 4-speed, Hemi Challenger (with code V68 sport stripe delete & non vinyl top) would be valued between 195k to 225k. Because of the car's originality, the factory plum crazy paint code & the attention to detail during it's high-quality restoration.
Under 500k sounds a little low a 2005 gt40 sells for 400k that is worth buying you can drive it and it will go up in value I thought hemi cars in piss poor condition cost 400k I thought this total cost was in the 700 to million range
@@cooperparts You wouldn't be upside down with a Hemi car like this. It's when you have a 340 version of this car that you can get in over your head financially. Costs the same to restore a Hemi car as a slant-6 model.
I agree the initial cost is where things go bad like real estate you make money when you buy not when you sell I thought a hemi challenger was worth 600 k in ok shape not mint shape
Hey Peter & Gary, I keep sending you my application. I will clean toilets and make coffee for free. Haven’t heard anything back yet.
60 or 70 thousand dollar car lol......
Hate white interior.
This story about the KM is BS sorry to burst your bubble as we switched over to KM (Metric) in 1977 not even close to 1970 when this car was built. Might be an export car but was definitely not for Canada.
He said it at the beginning of the video, it was supposed to go overseas. That never happened so it was ship here in Canada later.
Canada officially adopted the metric system on April 1 1975
Its original DON'T restore it. That would ruin the authenticity and the value.
Send it to graveyard cars and be done with it ‼️
G.C. with all their grandstanding couldn't even restore a rusty Challenger convertible. They parted it out, and weren't even embarrassed by it on their TH-cam channel.
I will never understand why people spend this much money on an old car. wasting money is not something that you can do!
Better than spend it on a bloody Honda Civic
When it’s not YOUR money it’s never a waste.
He leans on everything because he is obese, his back hurts, and he is not balanced.
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