Good looking car buddy, I'm a big fan of the Chargers and the Magnum Wagons(Been eye ballin' one for a couple weeks now lol.)
Good looking car buddy, I'm a big fan of the Chargers and the Magnum Wagons(Been eye ballin' one for a couple weeks now lol.)Here you go buddy. Nothing special, but you asked.
Replacing the Ebay headlights with stockers.
Before
During
After (in my father in law's driveway)
My three year old helping me work on the exhaust.
My latest idea, remove the side trim and go wingless (cant see chit out the back window with that big thing)
Nah, hell Nick, sounds like a good idea to me. These cars are cool from the beginning, slight, tasteful modifications just add to it. Four lug is good too.Like anyone here who is potentially picking up a new to them car, you start planning things before you even possess the vehicle. I have roughly $900 worth of interior restoration parts, a shifter, firewall adjuster, quadrant, etc in my LMR cart already. Am I crazy for wanting to keep this car as close to stock as possible, with the exception of 4 lug aftermarket wheels and get as much out of the stock engine as possible?
My reasoning for asking is two fold. 1) Driving the car in stock form last week is what really took me back to my past. Being in high school, I was just thrilled to have a good running stock GT, never having $ to mod it. 2) We all know how rare it is to come across a 100% bone stock fox.
I know I will be repainting it at some point, but aside from that, I think the value could be there down the road, versus if I install an aftermarket block, different trans, etc.... I want to keep all numbers matching, and be able to make it 95% stock again without having a separate double stall garage of factory parts to reinstall if desired. So maybe some springs, shocks, struts, a 331 stroker with Thumper E7's, Tmoss ported stock intakes (if he even still does that), and upgrade to 11" (or whatever biggest I can fit) front 4 lug rotors and the better calipers... All easily reversible, minus the engine work, but that will still look stock on the outside. Spare me the corkscrew of your engine combo talk, please. I think a clean, reliable, torquey weekend cruiser I can reminisce in, and potentially toss the factory wheels on and show as an "original" type car on occasion would be pretty cool. Anybody with me? Hell, I could even start the most boring progress thread on the site!
Like anyone here who is potentially picking up a new to them car, you start planning things before you even possess the vehicle. I have roughly $900 worth of interior restoration parts, a shifter, firewall adjuster, quadrant, etc in my LMR cart already. Am I crazy for wanting to keep this car as close to stock as possible, with the exception of 4 lug aftermarket wheels and get as much out of the stock engine as possible?
My reasoning for asking is two fold. 1) Driving the car in stock form last week is what really took me back to my past. Being in high school, I was just thrilled to have a good running stock GT, never having $ to mod it. 2) We all know how rare it is to come across a 100% bone stock fox.
I know I will be repainting it at some point, but aside from that, I think the value could be there down the road, versus if I install an aftermarket block, different trans, etc.... I want to keep all numbers matching, and be able to make it 95% stock again without having a separate double stall garage of factory parts to reinstall if desired. So maybe some springs, shocks, struts, a 331 stroker with Thumper E7's, Tmoss ported stock intakes (if he even still does that), and upgrade to 11" (or whatever biggest I can fit) front 4 lug rotors and the better calipers... All easily reversible, minus the engine work, but that will still look stock on the outside. Spare me the corkscrew of your engine combo talk, please. I think a clean, reliable, torquey weekend cruiser I can reminisce in, and potentially toss the factory wheels on and show as an "original" type car on occasion would be pretty cool. Anybody with me? Hell, I could even start the most boring progress thread on the site!
Somebody get me a chisel,....I need to quote that in stone.
That is the internet you, blatantly ignoring the real you. Every car you've had since dumping the 4 eye has been molest----er---modified. The only reason that the Charger hasn't seen the aftermarket, is that you haven't had it long enough, and if you get this new to you fox, you'll have a different hole to dump money into.
Do not try to fool those who think they can fool their wives.
Part of me just feels guilty for modding a stock fox when there arent many left out there
Watch out,..he's testy. All I had to do was repeat myself, and he called me a dick.This thread did not deliver expected results.
He did say he bought it. a little ways up the thread he said he put a 500.00 "Hold" on the car till he manages to get the USS Saratoga sold to help fund his new to him fox. And don't concern yourself about his trepidation's as to modding the car.......he already has 900.00 worth of junk sitting in an LMR wish-list.This has never made sense to me. you're thinking of preserving a car for a market that doesn't care. It's just not important enough of a car. Do whatever the hell you want to it, it'll be worth more to you in sentiment than it will ever be worth on craigslist, modded or not.
FWIW, I was reading through this thread hoping I'd scroll to where you posted that you bought it
I couldn't find it in the link during the 3 seconds I looked at it. So I've not no idea what it even is lolI totally skimmed for pictures. Shamless.
Hey now, I read the whole shebang. he doesn't own it til it's in the driveway!
This thread did not deliver expected results.
That's just Dave......he's a Like machine.I feel this exact same way. Even though I forked over 5 bills, I feel like it just went poof into thin air. And secondly, ol' @Davedacarpainter , how the hell can you go liking that statement when you have gone and painted a 1/3 of a car that hasnt sat a second in your driveway???
I couldn't find it in the link during the 3 seconds I looked at it. So I've not no idea what it even is lol
Mine is paid for, you might consider it to be "in storage".I feel this exact same way. Even though I forked over 5 bills, I feel like it just went poof into thin air. And secondly, ol' @Davedacarpainter , how the hell can you go liking that statement when you have gone and painted a 1/3 of a car that hasnt sat a second in your driveway???
Mine is paid for, you might consider it to be "in storage".Besides....I'm at the half way mark now.....
Besides Nick, i'm really happy for you. Your almost back into a fox!
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