Why did I buy a 73 Challenger...Started Freshening it up

traded for this, runs and drives good, DS qtr panel is BONDO so I bought a panel, and now the fun....Greengo Green with Black hood/tail.....

What is it with you and that green paint. Sell to the masses, most don't like green

I think that's why you are having a hard time with that Goat...I like the green myself but I've found it hard to sell it to others.

Greengo green is the most popular or so the mopar club says....was either that or Hemi Orange....red also came in 3rd and plum crazy

You still got the Pocncho?

oh yea....nothing sellin, just installed a new radiator in the Lemans, here is a Greengo green Challenger;

Greengo or sassy grass green. I like it just not too many others seem to like green cars.

I like the green as well as the Orange. I remember in 1970 when all the Muscle cars came out with all the bright colors. My Uncle had just bought a Duster in Plum and was drafted into the Army. It sat for two years before he drove it again.

My best buddy bought one of those plum Dusters in '74 with a slant 6. Weren't no muscle car, for sure!! Till we dropped that Hemi out of a '59 New Yorker in it. Go like Hell in a straight line. Roll like a canoe in a hurricane through a curve though. Those wimpy torsion bars (and no sway bar to speak of) coulldn't handle the weight even cranked all the way up. We learned alot about Mopar front suspension on that car.
So what is the price on the Lemans? I may know someone that would be interested.

Arieldouglas wrote:Roll like a canoe in a hurricane through a curve though. Those wimpy torsion bars (and no sway bar to speak of) coulldn't handle the weight even cranked all the way up. We learned alot about Mopar front suspension on that car.

Oh how I know that so well! HAhahAh....

Most of the guys on here have heard this story before but I'll share it again since everyone seems to think it's funny when I tell it.

I had a 6 banger Duster that someone had dropped in a souped up 360 in it. The car didn't sit level so I was going to crank up the torsion bars to fix it. One was broke so I got the stuff to fix it and headed to the garage.

I jacked the car up and slid in the jack stands. To get the rest of the broken stuff out the preasure had to come off the bar. I did this with a big pipe wrench and a 4 foot pipe as a breaker bar. I put the pipe wrend over the octigon shape on the bar and the pipe towards the wall layed at and angle across it with my weight and planted my feet into the wall for leverage. I gave it a push with all I had and I could see the car lift off the jack stand on the side I was working on. A little more and I seen the broken bolt come loose. I flicked it with my finger and it fell out. That was easy!

Now I should say that even with the leverage I had and all my weight I did think it was pretty cool that I picked a car up off the stand. Even if it was just an inch and with all the leverage.

( this is where the "what was you thinking" quote comes into play)
So with this 10' tall, He man thought of being able to do this I grabbed the new parts and laid over the pipe, planted my feet and lifted the car off the jack stand about 5 or 6 inches. Now I didn't have to do that and lift it so hi. I just thought it was cool. I let go with one hand to try to put the new stuff in and when I did I wasn't on the pipe right and the pipe wrench turned at an angle and slipped. It only went to the next spot on the torsion bar then grabbed. With the weight of the car winding the torsion bar where it wanted too it tossed me face first into the fender of the car. HARD! Face plant and knock me out cold on the garage floor. When I came too I sat up and treid to figure out what happend. My head was still spinning so I laid back down in the floor and just closed my eyes.

I don't normally do stupid stuff. That was one of my better moments. The next day I fixed the car(The same way I might add that almost killed me) and sold it! I have never owned another Mopar with a torsion bar front end and never will.
The 48 Plymouth had a GM frame under it and the old 30's cars didn't have that stupid front suspension.

never had my A$$ kicked by a car.....lol.....

Sad part it was a Mopar that did it. lol

Man up and paint it panther pink.

I like the red too but you see a ton of then that color.

You're Right!! That is too funny!

yep....the quater was a rusty POS....new one going on, almost all body work done, pulling doors off, hood off, trunk also gotta make the color change look right!

I see the 1/4 but from the pics the rest of the car doesn't look too bad for an old Mopar. My luck I'd rip into it and find the old crude slide hammer all the way down the door. I use to hate that when I uncovered stuff like that.

drivers door front edge, we are cutting it out and welding in a patch, other than that pretty good....more pics coming late today or tomorrow....

Quater installed, did find a few small areas that need attention....

Otis got all the bodywork done, all K200 epoxy primed, now gotta block sand it, otis painted the underside of the hood and trunk, also the door jams on the doors....MAN...that's GREEN....

Your definitely getting this car finished pretty quickly and I really like this color, even though it's a bright Green, I remember these when I was younger. Always liked them!

That's the kind of color that car should be.

Love it!

Otis been busy...

It's amazing watching this car come back to life.