1974 Dodge Charger

Dodge

Charger

1974

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2 liter 7-Up fuel cell...zip tied to the radiator...that is held on the car via ratchet strap.
Custom shortened driveshaft...built behind a friend’s shop so the car could be driven home.
Brake components off 4 vehicles sitting in the yard; so pretty much vintage everything.
Questionable 2 AM. rattle can numbering/lettering.
Fuse box strategically disguised to appear as melted playdough.
Extensive weight reduction including but not limited to an interior half eat by a mob of squirrels, only having capacity for 2 liters of fuel at all times, complete lack of a door handle on the passenger side which has proven to be a huge pain in the...
Oh yeah, also swapped a motor/trans into the hulk over a 3-day span of chaos...out of a "perfectly" running vehicle that had 244,000 miles on the clock.
Custom windshield ventilation.

Build story

I bought the Charger sometime in fall of 2018 after it had sat in various yards for around 30 years. After dragging it home and wondering why in God's name I spent a grand on the hulk, it ended up sitting well into spring the following year. Attempted to do the whole revival deal but the original 318 evidently spent some time chilling with the Titanic and was well beyond being a runner again without extensive work. So it sat on the backburner once again. At some point I lost my mind and was talked into tearing apart my perfectly fine-ish '73 Satellite sedan and transplanting its organs into the Charger. So that's what we did with the car club over a period of 3 days. At the end of that 3 days we were ripping burnouts while parading the car home on it's first 4 mile trip in 30 years. Not two weeks later we drove the car about 25 miles round trip to a local show. That was after rattle canning the number on the side doors at 2 AM. in a carport...because someone had to paint over the original dark green in the'80s and I had no intention of painting the car anytime soon. We even took it by a burnout contest happening at a local dealership, as you do when your vehicle is held together by, well not a lot. I might have put 300 miles max on the clock over 2020 due to, well, 2020. The hope is to road trip with it as much as possible this summer around Alaska. Currently the Charger is sitting under 2 feet of snow and hasn't been fired up in probably half a year so a video showcasing how everything is currently likely will not happen unless it warms up a good 30 degrees. Attached is a clip taken of one burnout done that night in 2019.
Decades of neglect can be undone by concerning levels of stupidity.

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