My Dads Challenger Got Overhauled!

This thread contains an interesting twist to the old purist, numbers-matching resto crowd vs. the anything goes resto-mod racer/wrenchers. I find it even more interesting to see it here on a forum that seems populated by people who tend to work on their own rides, doing quite a bit of "non-factory" modification, by all accounts.

Over the years in the high-buck auction circles, Barret-Jackson, whatever, we've seen alot of what I would characterize as snobbery, like demostrated by Rumblefish and Kraby WRT the originality thing. The only real reason for this I have ever been able to figure out is to drive up the prices for number-matching original survivors and their carefully restored cousins. That is fine FWIW, but unfortunately it also drives up the prices for eveyone in the hobby WRT parts, etc.

OTOH, you poo-poo a killer resto mod like this that could run circles around anything more "original" in the same class in terms of performance, economy, comfort, reliability, almost by any measure you could imagine.

That just defies logic, to me. Oh well, to each his own. IMHO, this car totally rocks. If you can't see that you must be in denial.