My project, Challngd 73 - Lateral-g Forums

73chally · #1 03-25-2010, 03:32 PM

I hope to make some progress this year so I guess I will start a build thread eh? I bought my 73 Challenger in July 2009. Drove from upstate NY to Boston to pick it up. Needless to say it wasnt as flawless as the owner had described, but I still figured it was a decent deal and trailered it home. Shortly after driving it, I realized I needed to make it more mine, which meant improving handling, performance, style and comfort. My previous car was a 500 horse Trans Am that handled quite well, so the 70's handling is not quite what im used too.

this is how she came home..

and a couple pics in its current state...

Now, eventually, I want to add a Hotchkis suspension, stroke the 440 to 512, back it by a tko 5 speed. Put a 6 pack fuel injection kit on it, paint it, pepper grey metallic with a flat black hood, spoiler and single t/a style stripe. The interior I will be adding some nice carpet, modern leather seats, power windows, air conditioning yada yada yada...it will be a heavy lady, but I need comfort too.

here are some of the parts I have added over the winter.

some angel eye halogen headlamps

a 950 race proform to tide me over till my fuel injection goes on...

some new black chrome exhaust tips for my new side exit exhaust

and led replacement bulbs for all taillights and parking lamps

and my new chrome gas cap...looks just a little better than that rusted cap from the first pic..

it will be slow progress, but I will post more when there is more to post

73chally · #2 03-25-2010, 03:33 PM

well, got the car lowered in the rear, led's in, proform carb on, and halo's in..too late to post too many pics, but here is a blurry shot of the halo's...gonna switch them to white lights but i like em...