1973 cuda, originally a 318 3 speed, but original motor and transmission were missing so I installled a 340 and a 4 speed. Car originally is JA5 silver frost metallic with black side stripes. It has been sitting since 1982 and has 81,432 miles on it. At one point in its life the car was converted to an automatic and had a sunroof installed. I have since put the 4 speed back in. It used to be my dads car, he bought it as a rolling shell back in the early eighties and parked it after he bought it and it has sat there ever since. I rebuilt the motor and put in a Comp XE268 cam, Edelbrock LD340 and ported 2.02 J heads. I plan on putting the 4" stroker kit in it down the road. Ive been restoring it since May 2006 and it is currently at the body shop to have the roof replaced, new quarters, trunk floor, extensions and to get painted. Body is pretty solid on the car, quarters were patched in the past and I only had to put a floor pan in on the drivers side.

Best wishes with your project - that will be a nice color/stripe combo!

pics,pics,pics,pics,pics

During engine install.

Interior before floor pan and hump were replaced and seats recovered.

Looks like a great project! Id reccomend keeping the slotted mags as Im kinda partial to them

Nice project! It's the right color too.

Qaurters cut off

New goodmark Quarters welded on.

Passenger side.

New AMD trunk floor

Old roof cut off

roof

Looks like your making good progress. Just make sure you fit all of the trim onto the car before it gets painted.

I bought all new wheelwell trim, tailpanel trim and side marker lights for the Challenger so they could be fitted to the new quarters before paint. The old quarter skins I had on the car were really bad in the side marker area. The side markers weren't even close to being in the right possition. The new full quarters are really good in around the markers. I hope they re-tooled the skins so yours will fit right.

Keep the pictures coming. You can never post too many.

New roof welded on.

another

one more

New motor that I had built for the car. 528 Hemi aluminum block stage V heads 2 Edelbrock 600s.

Car was moved to a new body shop. Body is back in primer and getting ready for paint.

Final patches under the hood.

I sure do admire your guys ambition and tenacity! I could never do a car that needed that much to bring back to life. See my post, that's as far as I will go!! LOL

Good luck
Diego

Door jambs and trunk finally painted.

AWSOME!!!!!!! I'm glad you decided to go back to JA5. It's a great color!

Doors back on the car.

Shot of the back.

Inside of doors all painted.

Looking good!
Did you have the motor dyno tuned yet?

Yeah the motor is dyno tuned. It made 692 hp and 620 lb ft of torque but the motor is still breaking in. On each pull it picked up another 10-15 hp but we ran out of time on the dyno. They said when the motor is fully broken in it will be a little over 700 hp.

Bigger carbs would help.

Those pictures bring back some good memories. Keep up the good work. Nice looking car!

Car finally in paint

Car finally home

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That's nice.

Sheldon

Nice work and a cool colour. it is going to be a sweet ride.

looks good. I can't wait to see it finished. your doing a nice job.

The hemi is finally in. Everything lined up perfect with the Schumacher mounts.

Looks right at home in there and that's a great color.

getting there!

VERY nice.

looks good. I can't wait to see it finished. your doing a nice job.


I agree looks great! your making great progress

thank you

Finally have the headliner installed in the car. More pictures to come soon.

Any progress?

Interior almost finished. Just little odds and ends left. I finished installing all the glass in the car, I'll try to get some pictures up soon. I've had very little time to work on the car lately.

Car was finally completely assembled awhile ago, I just haven't had time to update with any progress. I'll try to get some new pictures up soon.

Most recent picture all together although this is from a few years back

SWEET!!!!

New moser Dana 60

That's a monster addition to the car.