I just made a trade of vehicles. Some of you know I had a Hemi Orange 71 Challenger RT. After many years of owning it, grandchildren being invented, and general life getting in the way, I decided to post it up for a trade. I really didn’t expect it to happen so quick, but it did. I traded the project and parts and parts car for a 1968 Racing Green Metallic, or Poly, GT. Now whether or not it is the right color is unknown as it is a 20 year old restoration. It had the quarters patched up but the rest appears to have been rock solid at the time, and for the most part still is.
I call this a personalization because I’m not going to do a lot. It needs a drivers floor patch, I will eventually install disc brakes, maybe make them power, probably add shoulder belts and that is about it. At some point it may receive a 340. I would like to vinyl roof it, but that’s a maybe and a bunch of work. That is why I made the trade. I’m getting bored of working on them. Kinda! I’m thinking drive and enjoy. The 273 was replaced by a 69 318 with unknown internals, a 69/70 340 intake, an Edelbrock carb and Headman headers. It’s followed by a 904 and a 7 1/4 sure grip diff. The “two back” PO updated these to BBP so that makes it easy to do discs. It has 16” wheels that I don’t even mind too much! Anyway, blah blah blah. Here it is. That is Stacey driving it into the shop, which coincidentally was moments before a hail storm. I never mentioned I got the car from a “ paintless dent repair” guy!
I call this a personalization because I’m not going to do a lot. It needs a drivers floor patch, I will eventually install disc brakes, maybe make them power, probably add shoulder belts and that is about it. At some point it may receive a 340. I would like to vinyl roof it, but that’s a maybe and a bunch of work. That is why I made the trade. I’m getting bored of working on them. Kinda! I’m thinking drive and enjoy. The 273 was replaced by a 69 318 with unknown internals, a 69/70 340 intake, an Edelbrock carb and Headman headers. It’s followed by a 904 and a 7 1/4 sure grip diff. The “two back” PO updated these to BBP so that makes it easy to do discs. It has 16” wheels that I don’t even mind too much! Anyway, blah blah blah. Here it is. That is Stacey driving it into the shop, which coincidentally was moments before a hail storm. I never mentioned I got the car from a “ paintless dent repair” guy!
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