I have tracked down the pervious owners of this car to st Paul MN. A small mopar family with the last name of Soto. I've spoken to the pervious owners mother and sister but am still waiting to hear from the actual owner. Anyone remember this car or the motor swap? Hopefully I can track down my original block! Time frame for previous owner was 84-85. Not sure if they did the motor swap or not. Also waiting to hear who owned it previous to him. Its originally a st Paul MN car!

OMG!?! You are going to restore that car? That car has been sitting over at his place for a long time! If I remember right, the rear springs were coming through the trunk on one side! That's a lot of metal to replace! Did he give you any of his extra sheetmtal for it?Here's a pic that I have of it still.

Crazy!

-J

Lots of work but this one needs saved

nice ride call me if you want to sell



i remember this one on the ebodies page???

its really ruff,, but at the time i was/ and still am looking for a FM3 car for my daughter...challenger that is..

Wow! How cool is that?! Someone has a pic of my car lol I seriously like this car guys. I can't see it leaving my hands anytime soon. I've tracked down who took the #s block out, just waiting for a call back to see if he still has it. I spoke with his mother and sister and they remember the car. Regardless, I've bought a virgin bore 1970 block and rotating assembly. Still a couple years away from getting going, but I'm trying to use as much original OEM sheet metal as possible on the car. It'll be a sweet ride finished for sure! And no for the record the leads still took my weight standing in the backseat area without letting go....just one torsion bar has let go so far lol I will take all the good luck thrown at me!

There isn't much left but enough to work with .. Really

My game plan is to do the rear of the car traditionally, piece by piece using NOS, super clean used and AMD parts. Then clip the entire front of the car up to the torsion bar mount, firewall, cowl and splice in the A pillars, from a donor. Ill use the original cowl and rad support with the VIN numbers tho. Then Ill do the floors and start aligning panels. I think I said it before but I'm an autobody tech by trade so looking at this from a remove/replace aspect, yes, quite obviously alot if the original metal will be replaced but ill save what little odds and ends I can. I have all the tags including the fender tag, #s trans, and the car was fairly complete and untouched when I got it. All the window regulators, trim, seats, wiring, will be restored and reused. Even the hardware. My only liberty I'm taking is adding a rallye dash and adding a bit more jam to the 340. Fingers crossed I can get the #s block back!

How are the frame rails and firewall?

If you can't find the original 340, may be kinda cool as a Hemi gen II transplant.

Some more pics...give you all an idea what I'm dealing with.

real neat car, definately the typical wi/mn/il. car thats been drivin for years! what method do you think you'll use to strip it of rust/paint? Dip it?

mark

WOW - never thought that old wreck would draw such a following! Never underestimate MOPAR lovers!! And wonderful MOPAR numbers!

History of the car was original owner that we bought it from lived just south of 52 off Concord Street in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It sat on the street! Again remember this is early 80s in a hispanic neighborhood. Pink car was nothing really strange. If I remember correctly car wasn't being driven, because it would quit while driving. We purchased the car and soon found out that the ignition switch on column was broken. Our fix was to stick a pencil between dash and ignition switch on column to drive! You really didn't need the key to start or drive if I remember correctly. Just a pencil!

Car was a terror! High stall converter in the automatic and strong 360 with manual steering and suregrip, which I think was 3.55 was a handful to drive!

The car was driven short time and parked for "we'll fix it someday"... 25 years pass -

Glad to see Evan get the car and rebuild it!!

Again sorry to all the folks that inquired about the car. It was a mess and I should have e-bay the car. Helpful hint to all those out there that say Best Offer! It got crazy dealing with everyone.

Only a few miles from where that car was sitting there was a HEMI Road Runner 4 speed car and if I remember a 440 6 pac CUDA 4 speed car sitting next to it. Cars in barns... just to get the stories going again...