A Charger in a sea of Camaros
 

Man I've finally found a home. I must say a beautiful site and a TON of beautiful cars...even if they are mostly GM. Lemme introduce myself: I have a 68 Dodge Charger R/T (#'s matching so the purists hate me!!). So far the car's been gutted, chemically stripped, and the only thing stock is some of the body, the engine and the crank. Everything else is restomodded or pro-touring.
Front end is all Magnumforce with 13" Wilwoods and AE coilovers, shock tower braces from the firewall. Glass fenders, hood, and Shaker.
Rear is a Dana 60, 35 splines from Moser, QA1 coilovers, adjustable ladder bars, diagonal link, and 12.5" Wilwoods.
Interior is an 8 point cage, flaming river tilt column, fabbed aluminum dash, heavy-ass pleather seats (for the Power Tour), 5 point harnesses and AC might be in the future and power windows.
American Racing Torq-thrusts 2's are powdercoated black. Michelin Pilots on the corners. 335's in the rear and 265's on the front.
Engine is the good-old-boy 440 reinforced to make (I hope) around 750 horses with EFI and a c-fugal s-charger. A 727 converted to 6-speed auto will also be added.
Last but not least the car is going to paint as we speak. Satin black with clear on the whole car, gloss black bumblebee stripes on the ass, Shaker scoop will be gloss black to go with the gloss black rims. The only chrome will be the door handles, flip top gas cap, and the lug nuts.
Now then, don't any of you Bowtie knuckleheads steal my idea for the paint. Oh yeah, I owe this all to Mark Stielow's white 69 and of course the Gottlieb's Big Red Camaros for the inspiration. Yeah, I know, 1st Gen Camaros are kick ass. Thanks again and I'm glad to be a member.

sounds like a killer project! welcome to :lateral:

Post up some pictures

Forgive me for being so illiterate but how do you send a picture to this forum topic?

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Here's your pic.

Jody

Welcome to the site, fantastic project you have going. :thumbsup: There's A LOT of GM cars here, but I'd love to have a lot more Mopars and Fords.

welcome to the site man, sounds like a kool project.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
GOOD DEAL! Wanna see the finished product.:thumbsup: :hail:

welcome Mopar guys
 

cool another Mopar guy, post pics ASAP :hail:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y44...mopork1af9.jpg

Cool....another Mopar build !!!

I've got a '69 Camaro and I'm building a 70 Barracuda as we speak. The Mopar purists are gonna hate me too :).... my car wasnt a numbers matching, but those guys hate to see any Mopar other than bone stock.

Nice ride! When I was 10 my Dad had a 68 Charger R/T 440 triple black he had traded in to get my Mom a 69 RS Camaro. He kicks himself til this day. He would kill to find a clean Charger again, looks like you're gonna have fun with yours. :thumbsup:

Welcome from yes...another camaro guy:lol: but you've got a cool project, I like it.

welcome
 

cool
nice to see some non-typical pro-touring stuff....:thumbsup:
post more pics ....love to see this thing come together

radrambler

Mopork, that Coronet cop car...is that gonna be your next project? That thing looks wicked. I've always loved the black wheel look.
My Charger only came with a 440, 3 speed auto, heater, and 3.23's in an 8 3/4". It's still #'s matching (nothing special to me actually) but the purists still bitch. I think the Pro-Touring look will never die. Putting modern "guts" in a classic car body is just way cool. The guys at work don't understand why I'm sinking this amount of money into an old car like this. Then again, these are the same guys that bait deer all year, climb up in a tree stand with a 12 pack and shoot the dam things from a stand...and call it hunting. BS, your not hunting your sitting and waiting.

mopork
 

J-440,

yes i did the stock resto and I'm already bored to death of it. I have those 18" steel charger cop car wheels that are going on it and a switch from all white paint job to black n white. The suspension is already setup for handling well. I would love to "pull you over sometime" :unibrow:

Oh yes the credit for that rendering goes to ZVT he did a great job don't you think ?

Nice, another Mopar. I made the switch recently and jumped into a 69 RoadRunner.
Here's the car, and the rendering of where I'm going with the car. Welcome to Lateral-G!

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...gWheels015.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...nerConcept.jpg

badass runner
 

WOW that is a nice Runner :hail: What's it going to have for power ? :bow: :willy: :bow:

I would love to someday get myself a charger like you have.
welcome to the board and I am envious.

very nice 68. I know about the purists, I work at a mopar restoration shop. But i agree 100% with what you are doing with your car. Nice work!

Nice rendering and I really like the new wheels you posted earlier. I need more money:wow:

Welcome aboard, oh, and screw the purist. I have already upset the Pontiac crowd, and now I am working on the Charger guys too. Mine is a 72 with a new 6.4/TKO600/XV Motorsports combo.
Mo Mopars is a good thing.:thumbsup:

Cool car
 

I bet there are more chargers than Torinos here........