Azhrael
New Member
Hi.
I'm new on this forum, and this is my first restoration thread.
This Charger is actually after restoration so I will post some pictures of the process.
He was restored by our team, RodZ Factory, and the whole process took around 2 years because we've got other our projects to work on at the same time.
I've bought him from eBay and bring to Poland in April 2008.
From factory it came as 1971 Dodge Charger baseline, blue with 318 and AT.
Column shifter, bench seat, no p/s p/b a/c and any other accessories just baseline.
I bought is as an incomplete car, many parts missing, because the last owner tried to do a drag car from this one,
but thanks to that it already has got 383HP picked up from Coronet'70 with the whole drive-line, 727AT and 8 3/4 rear end.
That's how it looked just before restoration process took place.
First steps done, car almost disassembled and put on a carrier for body work and painting.
Body was sandblasted, and it was very solid, with little body work needed.
The body preparation process took almost a year, there were some delays because of having to spend time on other projects.
After a few months it started to look better every day.
Then the time of painting came. I've chosen HemiOrange as the ultimate high impact painting for my first B-Body,
my opinion of course but after I saw it, I knew it's going to be badass.
We don't have many MuscleCars here in Poland and not so much more any other old American classics,
and the decision was made mostly by looking at the pictures from the States.
I've made decision that we're going to put a vinyl roof on it so we haven't painted roof at the same time as body.
And the never ending search for the complete and good looking set of vinyl roof molding began!
It took a few months to find one, most of the time it was waiting for the next package from States.
Assembly of the car took more time than we even could have dreamed of.
It really occured to us how many parts are missing when we started to put
the whole puzzle into a car, and the eBay researching started all over.
I bought many new parts, but some of them, mostly the rare ones had to be found used
and that was a PITA for one here in Poland.
Engine was rebuilt and slightly modded with many new parts.
New bigger camshaft was installed (274/286 488/491) with a Holley 4160 750cfm carb.
Later the MoparPerformance ignition was also installed.
Car at this stage is almost finished, need a few touches and some parts here and there.
But he's driving like a hell right now, took a trip to Swedish PowerBigMeet 2011,
and he went there and back without any problems. Here is one picture from this trip.
And some other pictures of his actual state.
Thx for reading!
I'm new on this forum, and this is my first restoration thread.
This Charger is actually after restoration so I will post some pictures of the process.
He was restored by our team, RodZ Factory, and the whole process took around 2 years because we've got other our projects to work on at the same time.
I've bought him from eBay and bring to Poland in April 2008.
From factory it came as 1971 Dodge Charger baseline, blue with 318 and AT.
Column shifter, bench seat, no p/s p/b a/c and any other accessories just baseline.
I bought is as an incomplete car, many parts missing, because the last owner tried to do a drag car from this one,
but thanks to that it already has got 383HP picked up from Coronet'70 with the whole drive-line, 727AT and 8 3/4 rear end.
That's how it looked just before restoration process took place.
First steps done, car almost disassembled and put on a carrier for body work and painting.
Body was sandblasted, and it was very solid, with little body work needed.
The body preparation process took almost a year, there were some delays because of having to spend time on other projects.
After a few months it started to look better every day.
Then the time of painting came. I've chosen HemiOrange as the ultimate high impact painting for my first B-Body,
my opinion of course but after I saw it, I knew it's going to be badass.
We don't have many MuscleCars here in Poland and not so much more any other old American classics,
and the decision was made mostly by looking at the pictures from the States.
I've made decision that we're going to put a vinyl roof on it so we haven't painted roof at the same time as body.
And the never ending search for the complete and good looking set of vinyl roof molding began!
It took a few months to find one, most of the time it was waiting for the next package from States.
Assembly of the car took more time than we even could have dreamed of.
It really occured to us how many parts are missing when we started to put
the whole puzzle into a car, and the eBay researching started all over.
I bought many new parts, but some of them, mostly the rare ones had to be found used
and that was a PITA for one here in Poland.
Engine was rebuilt and slightly modded with many new parts.
New bigger camshaft was installed (274/286 488/491) with a Holley 4160 750cfm carb.
Later the MoparPerformance ignition was also installed.
Car at this stage is almost finished, need a few touches and some parts here and there.
But he's driving like a hell right now, took a trip to Swedish PowerBigMeet 2011,
and he went there and back without any problems. Here is one picture from this trip.
And some other pictures of his actual state.
Thx for reading!
