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    British Mopar Enthusiast Earns Fame Three Seconds At A Time With Vintage Challenger
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    11/10/08

    In reply to British Mopar Enthusiast Earns Fame Three Seconds At A Time With Vintage Challenger
    I like the new Challenger until I saw the interior.
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    Image of LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard
    11/10/08

    In reply to British Mopar Enthusiast Earns Fame Three Seconds At A Time With Vintage Challenger
    Challenger in England? Well at least they never had to convert it.


    Here in Australia up until recently, nearly all left-hand-drive cars (up to 30yrs old) had to be converted to right-hand-drive. Consequently there are a lot of American muscle in right-hand-drive format.





    The main reason we can convert LHD to RHD so easily is because of the American heritage built into Aussie cars.

    We use the running gear out of our 'big three' variants into the US 'big three' variants.


    It saves doing a lot of custom work, Steering boxes, steering columns, engine mounts, suspension parts etc, they're just a mirror image of the LHD versions...



    Example...

    For a Dodge Charger or Challenger we use an Aussie Chrysler Valiant and Charger for parts.


    For a Mustang or a Cougar we use an Aussie Ford Falcon. -almost a straight swap


    For Camaro Firebird, Impala etc we use Holden Kingswoods


    A lot of these parts are inter-changeable and in some cases the only custom job is the new dash cowling. We share a lot of parts with our yank variants and end up in a unique position to build RHD yank-tanks that's as close to factory as possible.

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    11/10/08

    In reply to British Mopar Enthusiast Earns Fame Three Seconds At A Time With Vintage Challenger
    When I was in Italy last year I developed this perverse fantasy of buying a bright orange T/A and shipping it to Rome where I would dash from streetcorner to streetcorner, terrifying the locals and brazenly disrupting the traffic. Hey, if they can sell Calibers there with a straight face, why not?
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    11/10/08

    In reply to British Mopar Enthusiast Earns Fame Three Seconds At A Time With Vintage Challenger
    British Mopar Enthusiast? Somehow I can feel the fabric of Space-Time unraveling already.
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    11/10/08

    @General_Zad's_Chicken: Indeed. That 440 has a serious case of front-end rift.
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    Image of combat chuck combat chuck
    11/10/08

    In reply to British Mopar Enthusiast Earns Fame Three Seconds At A Time With Vintage Challenger
    One of my neighbors has a Challenger of similar vintage that he keeps on the front lawn (where else?). It looks nice and sounds incredible, but I think it would look much better if he got rid of the silly fat drag racing tires on the back wheels.
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    Image of Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master
    11/10/08

    In reply to British Mopar Enthusiast Earns Fame Three Seconds At A Time With Vintage Challenger
    "We'll never catch the Duke of Cornwall's boys now!"
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    11/10/08

    @Ash78: Charles is too busy riding his horse to care,or Camilla,ah it's the same thing.
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    Image of Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master
    11/10/08

    @layabout: Now that I think about it, I like the idea of William and Harry riding around in one of these, running from the police, possibly with a St. George's Cross painted on the roof (let the "historical pride" vs. "racist symbology" arguments commence!)
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    11/10/08

    @Ash78: Haha,well Harry is well known for turning up to a party dressed as a Nazi,that would just add to it.
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    11/10/08

    In reply to British Mopar Enthusiast Earns Fame Three Seconds At A Time With Vintage Challenger
    Suddenly, the urge to go shopping for a new Challenger has been quelled.


    I think the reason the older car looks so much better is because they didn't have pedestrian-collision criteria to design to. In the old days, if a car hit you, you were sliced in half. Nowadays, its almost pleasant to find ones self gently bounced off the soft, curved frontal areas of a modern car.

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    Image of Rick Astley Rick Astley
    11/10/08

    In reply to British Mopar Enthusiast Earns Fame Three Seconds At A Time With Vintage Challenger
    Correction: How, exactly, did a man of taste decide to stay in England?
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    11/10/08

    @Rick Astley: I come for the mashed peas, but I stay for the weather.
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    11/10/08

    @Mad_Science: What are mashed peas? Never heard of them.
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    11/10/08

    @layabout: Sorry, guess the term is mushy peas.
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    11/10/08

    @Mad_Science: Doesn't sound very pleasant,i don't think i'll be trying those.
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    11/10/08

    In reply to British Mopar Enthusiast Earns Fame Three Seconds At A Time With Vintage Challenger
    This is why i don't like modern retro cars,the original just looks so much better,it just looks raw. Where the newer one looks like it'd be owned by the kind of guy that owns a hairdryer.
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    11/10/08

    @layabout: Hammond owns a hairdryer?
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    11/10/08

    @combat chuck: He probably has a collection next to his teeth whitening kit.
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    11/10/08

    @layabout: I envision a hairdryer humidor of sorts. Perhaps sorted by wattage. Wait, no. That's something May would do.
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    11/10/08

    @layabout: I'm kinda with you, but mostly because of cost.


    If I want a relatively large, poor-handling vehicle to cruise around in and occasionally roast rear tires, $20-30k gets you a near-perfect classic, versus $30-40k++ for a new one.

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    11/10/08

    @Mad_Science: Actually,i'm surprised at the prices of the new ones in the U.K.,i just looked on Ebay U.K. & found four for sale,all around the £37k mark. That's a lot less than a new M3,i was fully expecting to see them for £50k+. Although i still like the classics more.

    [cgi.ebay.co.uk]
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    11/10/08

    In reply to British Mopar Enthusiast Earns Fame Three Seconds At A Time With Vintage Challenger
    Puffed-up, overly-styled, excessively attention-getting...


    What? No, sorry, I was talking about Hammond's hair.

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    11/10/08

    In reply to British Mopar Enthusiast Earns Fame Three Seconds At A Time With Vintage Challenger
    I vote caption contest! What exactly is the cameraman so curious about?
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    11/10/08

    @Ze_Ben: He thought he saw the new Camaro hiding in the bushes, but it was just another bloody special edition Mustang.
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    11/10/08

    @Ze_Ben: "Though repulsive to some, Bob knew that mother-daughter porn would be a huge seller among a very specific demographic."


    I'll apologize now and thank the internets for my anonymity.

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    11/10/08

    @Ze_Ben:


    "Though photos taken in the wild make the visual differences between the male and the female of the Challenger species obvious, the gravid female is still capable of respectable speed while in pursuit of prey..."

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    11/10/08

    @Ze_Ben: George Michael?!
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    11/10/08

    @Ze_Ben: Dead prostitutes?
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    11/10/08

    @Ze_Ben: He is so unimpressed with the cars, that he's trying to see what the other photographer is photographing.


    What the hell is he looking at? There must be something behind me.

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    Image of harumph harumph
    11/10/08

    In reply to British Mopar Enthusiast Earns Fame Three Seconds At A Time With Vintage Challenger
    Side by side the new one just looks like it has been over-inflated.
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    11/10/08

    @harumph: totally Agree, the new one looks like it weighs tons more.
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    11/10/08

    @asenna: It does, if said tons are measured in fractions.
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