1974 Rallye challenger Personality disorder

Dubs Chops, post: 75938, member: 7467"]Disclaimer, I am going to tell a little bit of a story here at the front. if your only interested in pictures skip down below.


Well guys and gals, Last night I was able to bring home one of my dream cars. An E body challenger! Ever since I watched Kowalski Haul across the US as a kid I wanted a Dodge Challenger. To me it encompasses a sportier side of the muscle car genera.

3 days ago a 1974 challenger popped up on craigslist. I called the guy and talked to him for a bit and decided to go look and see if it was really "Rust Free". I drove the 30 minutes and when I arrived and saw the car I couldn't believe how clean it was. The car was supposedly in a garage since 1983 (The year I was born, Its a sign!) The vinyl top doesn't even show any fading or wear!

It Has a Dana 60 rear and 4link setup with Strange axles. Also has an 8pt cage but I may ditch it to be able to run full front interior. Also it is mini tubbed in the rear.







I didn't have the money that night and I asked if he would hold it for me for $1,000. I got a swift "NO" so that night I listed my pontoon boat and luck have it, I sold it the next day. I swiftly went home and got the car hauler and headed to his house.

here it is on the trailer coming home forever =]

Congrats on bringing home one of your dream cars. What's the original color?

no fender tag unfortunately. another way to tell? i'm going to say its that green color since all the jambs and under the door. not sure on the code.

Congrats

That looks just like a 74 Challenger I used to own. I blew the motor up the same day the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up! It was a triple green car, and very nice! If it's the same car, I've got your original 318.....lol.

Cool grab. Good luck with it. Keep us posted.

nice find!

I'm glad the timing worked out for you and you were able to bring it home.

No this was a 360 rallye car.

The EFI tank and fuel pump from tanks inc, came in. Too bad I forgot to order the sending unit lol.

Ok so tonight I tackled the fuel sending unit install, directions are a little confusing but I'll do my best to describe it here.

1st take out the 4 bolts holding the upper and lower portions and remove the lower metal bar.


Next measure the tank depth and devide by 2 then add 1/8" for the gasket. Make the center of the pivot on the reostat to the bottom of the gasket that measurement.

Then install the float rod to where the top of the float is equal to the bottom of the gasket.

(Here is a handy tip, The directions say to then cut the rod to length amd cut off the two ears on the bottom of the reostat. However with a pair of dikes you can snip off the remainder of the arm and bend the ears back and forth until theu break off without putting amy stress on the reostat. This will minimize metal shavings associated with a cutoff disc.)
Next I tested it with an ohm meter as per the directions. My son helped with the pictures since he happened to walk in the garage to tell me we were about to finish the Karate kid 2. He is 9 and I hope some of this runs off on him.


Last but not least. Pay attention to the bolt hole setup as it will only install 1 way. The holes are not evenly spaced. This had me scratching my head for a bit.


Hope to tackle the fuel pump soon and get this bad boy installed but I had to go finish the Karate kid with the fam tonight!

Got the front part of the cage cut out so I could actually remove the dash and instruments. Cleaned up the guage cluster some and highlighted the faded redline numbers. Keep in mind this is not a concours restoration.

Well Over the past couple of weeks I have been working on the trunk. I decided to clean it up before I installed the EFI tank. There was some surface rust underneath the trunk pan above the gas tank. I treated it with Eastwood Rust treatment that is supposed to turn rust into a paintable surface. I then undercoated it.


Then I went on to the trunk itself. Many hours with a wire wheel and I got to here.


Then hit it with self etching primer and new seam sealer


Then finished it off with Duplicolor Bed liner in a can


I have spent more time inside this Dang trunk then I ever thought I would.

That looks great though. From the first pic to the primer pic, it doesn't look like the same pan.

Looks like it was worth the time and effort...
Nice Work

Why cant I see pics??