70 Challenger T/A project - burnt
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Interesting category for posts. I'll add my project story. You can see from the photo above that my T/A had a very bad day back in June of 2001. Due to a spark and a electronic fuel pump a nice fire took off and took out the owner's garage as well. Up to that point the car had lived a nice life in NY and MA racing with a 440 6 pack in it (fender call outs had been modified to say 440 6 pak, know the car?). I'm told it only had 18K miles on it at the time of the fire.
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Here she is in January of 2004, shortly after I took ownership. I had removed the roof which was badly warped along with the bar that holds the courtesy light. The roof frame was fine.
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Re: 70 Challenger T/A project - burnt
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March of 2004. Lots of welding done. New roof installed with dome light support. New rear window finish panel, a couple of patches at the lower a-pillars.
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Can you please give some more info on what caused the fire?
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Re: 70 Challenger T/A project - burnt
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Summer 2004, roof bodywork completed
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Okay, big decision at this point. My T/A is actually a significant T/A. The bulk of the T/As had their production completed by Friday, April 17th 1970. My T/A is one of 4 built after that day. My car was built on Tuesday, April 21st 1970 and is the 3 highest VIN of all the T/A's registered. It also only had 18K miles on it. The car when new was FK5 Burnt orange with a black interior and a console shifted automatic. But the original drivetrain was long gone and I only had the history back to 1990. I knew I wouldn't be happy with the car restored to original so I decided to build it my way. It would be EK2 Go-mango with a H6XW black and white interior and a 4 speed. Otherwise, I would always be looking at other cars and wishing I owned that one. Besides, I'm 47 years old. How many more cars do I want to restore??? So the Orange went on.
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Engine compartment, spring 2005, had to weld the bracket on for the clutch fork. This is the only e-body I've ever restored that didn't have the rust blowout by the hinges!
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Engine compartment all cleaned and primed. I swapped out the radiator support, which was badly warped, and transfered the VIN. It came out great.
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New trunk floor in 2005
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Late 2005, patches done in the interior floors but overall they were nice. Notice that "hump" that wasn't there before.
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More late 2005, engine compartment painted and front suspension cleaned, painted, and installed.
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With the engine compartment done now I need an engine for it. Like I said, the original drivetrain was gone. I found a 1970 non-T/A 340 in Rhode Island out of a 70 'Cuda which I purchased and had rebuilt to stock specs.
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Summer 2006, after spending 2.5 years wire-wheeling, cleaning, priming, and painting without the aid of a rotisserie it was great to be bolting parts onto the car.
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