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Originally Posted by Big Block Bill
Do you know what ever happened to the 70 Dodge Hemi Challenger from the original owner car? Do you remember what you paid for it back then? I had the opportunity to buy a Plum Crazy 70 Hemi Challenger that had the motor apart, out of the car with 5000 original miles for $3500.00 back in 1977 and I passed on it because I was a Chevy guy and had never worked internally on a Hemi, Young AND Dumb. Bill
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Bill, I paid $900 (talked him down from $1000) for it in March of 1980. It had 64000+ miles on it, it was his everyday go-to-work car. Same deal, motor out of car and apart, and radiator, air cleaner assy, and distributor had gone missing from the shop that took it apart (OO was not a DIY guy). It was triple black, no stripe, he special ordered it from Grand Spaulding Dodge in early fall of 1969. I owned it for 16 years, the first seven doing an every-nut-and-bolt restoration on it. I had never worked on a Hemi before either but I managed - not without incident! - to rebuild it and it ran strong when done. Sold it to a good friend in 1996 and he sold it 2 years later and it went to Bethesda MD to a guy who also had a black Hemi Road Runner. I could do an entire thread on all the trials and tribulations I went thru with that car.