Hi All,

I am one of the newest guys on the block here, just joined today. My code name is SportFuryS/23383 (real name is Eric), and I am from Connecticut. I am mostly on the ForBBodiesOnly and ForCBodiesOnly Mopar Forums, and just joined 66-67Charger.com about a week ago. I and my stepfather are mainly into the big land yacht C-body Mopars but we do have one b-body Mopar, a 1966 Dodge Charger. Here is an overview of the build.....


The Car- The car is a 1966 Dodge Charger with a 383 4bbl Hi-Po engine with a red interior, power windows, full length console, floor console clock, and air conditioning. The exterior color is WW1 White.

The History- The car was originally bought new out of Santa Monica, CA on Jan 7, 1966, and still has its original certi-card. It was sitting in the previous 2nd owners garage and had not run since 1987, I have newspaper pictures from in the trunk to prove it. My stepfather who is the 3rd owner bought the car on August 14, 2015.

The Plan- The plan is to keep the red interior, paint the car silver, put a modern A/C unit in, upgrade the front brakes to disc and keep the backs original but rebuilt drums, put on Magnum 500 wheels, and maybe a tti exhaust kit on it too. (Make a clone from the 1966 Charger brochures with a bit of a twist) My "personal" plan is to hopefully document the progress, and make an album of the car being done and sharing it on here when I have time.

Hope you join me "along for the ride" along this journey.

Here are more pictures of how the car currently looks

a few more.....

Update From November 12th 2019. Unfortunately No Pictures:

November 7th- Gas tank dropped, old gas taken out and gas tank brought to get refurbished. Trunk carpet ripped out and thrown away.

November 11th- Old exhaust cut off and thrown away. Old rear bumper taken off.

November 12th- New rear shocks installed, Brake lines taken off. Discovered that the car has a 2.94 gear ratio!

First Picture "Update"-

The old exhaust. We thought it was the original 1966 exhaust but it wasn't. The exhaust had the "dip" in it so it wouldn't hit the frame, but turns out it is an exhaust from Midas. The tailpipes were rotted out and no good. The original shocks were ok but we wanted new stuff. More photos to come.....

More pictures of the exhaust. More to come.....

Final exhaust pictures.....

"Update" From 11/21/2019. Unfortunately No Photos:

No work done to the Charger lately since last update with needing brake parts and still having the gas tank worked on. However a gas tank gromment and 7 piece brake line with front right hump kit was ordered from InLine Tube today 11/21/2019. Stay tuned

Update From 12/8/2019. Unfortunately No Photos-

Gas tank back from being gone through/cleaned/rebuilt etc, and some brake work done also. Saw that on the right rear brake that I believe the return spring was missing. It was completely gone/non existent. Put on/shortened a '67 c-body (Fury) one. Otherwise not much else done sine then.

Update From February 8th, 2020. Unfortunately No Photos:

The gas tank came back from the shop cleaned out. My stepfather painted it silver and it is now back in the car. The gas tank I believe filler is being worked on as we speak as far as I know. I believe 2 rare rear bumper parts are painted as well.

And....

The rear drum brakes are now rebuilt with lines and everything, they are going to stay drums while the front is getting disc.

Soon Future Plans.... Convert front drum brakes to disc. Lastly in soon to be spring take the engine out, still not sure if we are going to use the engine that is in the car now or another rebuilt one.

Otherwise that is pretty much it for now. Stay tuned until next time. I will keep all updated....

Photo "Update" From March 3rd, 2020-

Not much done to the Charger lately. Just the gas tank piece painted and put back in the car. Here are a couple pictures of it painted

Update From March 17th, 2020-

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all the Irish members here on the forum. Tonight March 17 front brake converting begins!. Here are some pictures. Drums and backing plates taken off. Drums will no longer be used, going disc. Spindles, ball joints, calipers, u joints taken off and ordered from Rock Auto. That is all for now, nothing else can be done until parts come

A few more of the brakes, last ones.....

Update From March 18th, 2020 (318)-

Tonight 3/18..... Still working on the front brakes. Got shocks from a friend that were green and chipped so painted them black, and got new brake rotors, calipers and caliper boots from RayBesto's. Bushings, seals from RockAuto

A few more pictures of the brake parts......

Update From March 24th, 2020-

The brackets that held the car in place while being shipped were painted

Update From March 27th, 2020-

The Charger has been worked on a lot lately. Including a very exciting moment (at least for me, more on that in a bit.) The front brakes still need a few lines still hooked up but otherwise those are all set as far as I know, see pictures. I got quite a few pictures to share, here they are

Another Update From March 27th, 2020-

We now have disc brakes! Here are photos of the drivers side. All the brake work was done on March 19th, 20th, and 21st 2020

Below are the final pictures of the drivers left side

Time for the right passenger brake. More pictures to come.....