Mopar Muscle Association UK

So here we were 12 months ago; a 1970 R/T discovered about a mile from my house. The last owner ran it for a while, then thought about restoring it before ceasing work and letting it sit in his garage for around 10 years. My lad knew the owners' son; he often would say to me " my mate's got a Dodge Charger in his garage" This would be met from me with a slightly disinterested " Really ?" After a few years of this, one day he said " my mate's selling the Charger". Interest piqued, I asked what it looked like. " It's very big and it's got R/T badges on it". Well, I went and had a look and after some initial panic over where to house such a monster ( my home garage apart from being full of motorbikes was not big enough even if it were emptied of said bikes) I found an empty garage ( thanks Mum) and dragged it home. It's very complete, with only a few missing trim pieces that have been mislaid somewhere along the line. Rot- wise the front end is much better than the rear, needing new rear panel, valance, boot floor & quarters. The N/S rear corner had been imaginitively repaired at some time in the past by means of a cut & shut involving half of the rear panel and the N/S quarter from just in front of the gas filler to the rear. This measurements came up a bit short so the rear quarter extension piece was held on with a half inch wodge of bondo so it would sit flush with the decklid! All of this was covered in a quickie US paintjob in blue over the original TX9 black. I was lucky to get a lot of documentation with the car including the original build sheet along with a handbook and all of the importation paperwork. Progress so far- I've rebuilt the motor and all of the suspension, the boot floor's in and I'm partway through the rest of the rear sheet metalwork; I'm a little out of my comfort zone here, but I take advice and proceed with care.

Nice project, keep the updates coming

Love it when threads like this appear on here
Best of luck with the build , and be sure to keep us up dated

Good start and good luck with the work

Great project I'm not far from you near Eastbourne.
I'm hoping to start back on my Dart project this year.
No Mopar related, but your registration number caught my eye.
I have a Seat 850 spider, that I imported from Spain 40 years ago.
It was registered in Brighton , like your car must have been, and probably around the same time.
It's a few numbers different to my Seat.

Even closer.... Andy Robinson's 70 Charger

Not the best pic to show the reg but I cant access my photos here at work now, thanks to cyber-security Got this one off the Events gallery at the home page

Wow! - two digits away - who'da thunk it ?

There are alot of SUF *** H cars about, clearly DVLA used a batch of them for imports, quite a few Mopars with very close numbers.
The Charger looks a great project, keep the updates coming, will be a great thread to follow.

I had the same with my old Cobra rep, Mine and at least two or three others running round with 'BEW ***T' numbers, I was told they were allocated in batches.

Hi Steve. I'm also in Newhaven, and I know this car quite well, having helped Mark get it running many years ago. As you say, originally TX9 black with a white inverted C stripe, it would have been a stunner when new. Glad to hear it's still local - if I can help in any way, let me know

Yeah, I'm quite jealous, now if it were mine......

Now I am not usually a fan of big wheels n stuff , but that looks GREAT

I'm with you, 15" steelies with something nice and plump on would be my normal choice, but there's definitely something about the way this one sits......

I think the yoof call it 'stance'...

morgan wrote: Tue Jan 28, 20 8:58 pm I think the yoof call it 'stance'...

yeah, and the wheels aren't 'big 'n' little's' they're 'staggered'