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MMissile

MMissile

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Trying to get my mom's old car finished for mopar-nats. Gotta be there next Thursday. I haven't cleaned it in years..................just constant fabbing. The idea was to keep it looking factory, with mag wheels. It's been much more difficult than a blingy or hot-rod build. I'm working hard, but won't skip any details to go. My mother is looking-down, and smiling.

Here's a thread, with a lot of the build.....
www.forebodiesonly.com

Ma's `cuda. A long time coming.

This is the start of my resto-mod project. My mother/dad bought this N-code, `cuda ragtop in Jan of 1972, from a bank repo-auction. It's an original F8/F8 car with a white top and stripe delete. The motor had been frozen[ice], and the car never ran cool. Finally, my father got into the engine...
www.forebodiesonly.com www.forebodiesonly.com

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I never wanted to. I had my own car. I drove it for the first time, 2 days ago. It's apart, again. Starting the process of debugging all the updated changes. This car would have been done YEARS ago, if I hadn't changed direction from 100% factory, and had so many other distractions in the car hobby.
 
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ORL-LLC said:
Nice job!
Too bad you couldn't have found a 426 :)
A whole lot less computers but the NEW HEMI will be more drivable

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(Now in my 2010 SRT)
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I have a 588 pump-gas hemi that I just built, and am going to sell. I hate driving old-school cars. They don't do anything well. I race them, but no thanks for driving.
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Vinz Klortho said:
Holy Crap!

Are you going to post a vid of it? I'll bet it burbbles nicely at idle.
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New cars don't sound anything like the old ones, now that they have EFI, variable cam timing, and hydraulic roller valve-trains. It's not like my minivan.....but nothing like my old-school cars, either. It has 2 more mufflers, behind the rear axle, so it's nice and quiet. I'm guessing it'll be very quick and fast, even with a stock driveline....except headers and air-filter.
It weighs 6-800 lbs less than a new Challenger.
 
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2" drop spindles, with all the Borgeson, HOTCHKIS, QA1, Bilstein, and Wilwood goodies. The steering linkage is from the larger C-body mopars, and much beefier/rigid. These parts correct geometry and are much stronger.

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I decided that patience and not rushing the attempted perfection of this build, is the plan. I'll be taking another of my exercises in mental-masterbation to the NATS. I've already taken it a couple other times, but I'm not gonna miss something or screw up the work already done to the `cuda. It's not done, and details will need to be sorted.

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☝️☝️☝️☝️Another of my HighSchool Cars, but I ran a 413
Also had a '67 383 Charger, and a '56 F100 i Installed a '56 354
Didn't get my 1st 426 until my '70 Challenger

Damn, and NONE looked like yours
 
I remember my father bought his very first new car............ 1969 BUICK WILDCAT that had a vinyl roof covering.
that thing was a gun boat, BIG and with a V-8 engine to boot. I even remember the price he paid, 5,000 bucks, which was for the time was a HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY

back then BUICK made 3 different classes of cars; economy, family and luxury........now they all seem to be luxury
 
My dad bought a set of 906 heads and a bunch of other stuff from Herb McCandless back in the early 80's. We drove to his shop to pick up the parts.
I didn't know who he was, my dad was giddy like a school girl meeting him.

Those early B-bodies are just beautiful IMHO.
 
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