the car looks . definatly some of your best. 
Stone Souper Charger
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For any of you who don't know what the Stone Soup thing is about, this will explain it....
The basis of the Stone Soup project is to restore an American Classic Muscle car purely with donated parts and labor to support local charities. The Charger is the 5th such project. An army of volunteers built the Stone Soup Charger.
The body made it’s way from the rust free belt in the southern United States to Hamtramck, MI where its owner had planned to restore it. It sat for more than 8 years with no progress until the owner heard an on air request for a donor vehicle for the Stone Soup Project.
He called in and donated the 1968 Charger. Thus, the start of the project.
The project officially starts after the Detroit Autorama in February and is expected to be complete by the Woodward Dream Cruise in the middle of August.
The body and Paint was completed by Mark Gentile and his team at Gentile’s Collision in Shelby Twp., MI. The body was in fairly good shape but required Quarters, rockers and the tail panel replaced. All the sheet metal was supplied by Sherman’s, a sheet metal supplier in Washington, MI.
All the engine components where donated by Mopar Performance. We started with a 440-wedge block. The engine was completely built by Motor City Muscle in Clawson, MI.
The engine was stroked and bore to 494.7 cubic inches (94.7). The heads were ported and matched. I then added a Procharger Supercharger. This combination produced over 650 foot-pounds of torque at the rear wheels or 850hp at the crank. It also was measured at 70 mph an torque was 1046 foot-pounds under boost.
The transmission was donated by Tremac, OEM and aftermarket transmission suppliers.
This new technology allowed us to utilize the overdrive to provide a more user-friendly drive.
The interior was supplied by Irvin Automotive. Irvin provides sewn seat covers to the OEM’s globally. I provided them with hand picked Brazilian Leather supplied by Lynch Leather. They matched the original sew patterns and embroidered the logos on the leather. All the gauges were resorted by Bob’s Speedometer.
Kenwood supplied the sound system. There top on the line Exceleon system was used. Touch screen display, GPS, Nav, DVD, four-channel amp to drive interior speakers and 2-channel amp for the subs.
The axle assemble, 373 posi was supplied by Drive Train Specialties (DTS) in Detroit, MI.
The whole assembly of the vehicle was performed by Kustom Creations, Sterling Heights, MI. This is the most difficult part of the built. We had to marry all these aftermarket and restored components and make it drivable. Harvey Ledesma and Don Roberts, owners of Kustom Creation spend more than 400 hours building this monster. At the end of the day, it was well worth the time.
Doug Baenziger
Project Manager
The basis of the Stone Soup project is to restore an American Classic Muscle car purely with donated parts and labor to support local charities. The Charger is the 5th such project. An army of volunteers built the Stone Soup Charger.
The body made it’s way from the rust free belt in the southern United States to Hamtramck, MI where its owner had planned to restore it. It sat for more than 8 years with no progress until the owner heard an on air request for a donor vehicle for the Stone Soup Project.
He called in and donated the 1968 Charger. Thus, the start of the project.
The project officially starts after the Detroit Autorama in February and is expected to be complete by the Woodward Dream Cruise in the middle of August.
The body and Paint was completed by Mark Gentile and his team at Gentile’s Collision in Shelby Twp., MI. The body was in fairly good shape but required Quarters, rockers and the tail panel replaced. All the sheet metal was supplied by Sherman’s, a sheet metal supplier in Washington, MI.
All the engine components where donated by Mopar Performance. We started with a 440-wedge block. The engine was completely built by Motor City Muscle in Clawson, MI.
The engine was stroked and bore to 494.7 cubic inches (94.7). The heads were ported and matched. I then added a Procharger Supercharger. This combination produced over 650 foot-pounds of torque at the rear wheels or 850hp at the crank. It also was measured at 70 mph an torque was 1046 foot-pounds under boost.
The transmission was donated by Tremac, OEM and aftermarket transmission suppliers.
This new technology allowed us to utilize the overdrive to provide a more user-friendly drive.
The interior was supplied by Irvin Automotive. Irvin provides sewn seat covers to the OEM’s globally. I provided them with hand picked Brazilian Leather supplied by Lynch Leather. They matched the original sew patterns and embroidered the logos on the leather. All the gauges were resorted by Bob’s Speedometer.
Kenwood supplied the sound system. There top on the line Exceleon system was used. Touch screen display, GPS, Nav, DVD, four-channel amp to drive interior speakers and 2-channel amp for the subs.
The axle assemble, 373 posi was supplied by Drive Train Specialties (DTS) in Detroit, MI.
The whole assembly of the vehicle was performed by Kustom Creations, Sterling Heights, MI. This is the most difficult part of the built. We had to marry all these aftermarket and restored components and make it drivable. Harvey Ledesma and Don Roberts, owners of Kustom Creation spend more than 400 hours building this monster. At the end of the day, it was well worth the time.
Doug Baenziger
Project Manager
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