2 Custom Challenger T/As at area show

[JH27N0B]

I went to a big car show in Morris IL Sunday and there were 2 Challenger T/As there.  Both were custom though.
I've seen the red one before, it's been to a number of area shows over the years.  Tag shows it was an original gator grain top car!  It was born F4 green with a green interior.  I'd never seen the yellow on before.  I was surprised when I looked at the VIN and saw it's a T/A too!  Hood was closed so I didn't get to look for a fender tag to find out any details of it.

[cuda hunter]

Cool cars! 
The green on green w/gator grain car doesn't have it's vin on it's show board. 
Did you get the pic of the fender tag on the gator grain car? V1G on the tag?

Cool original color combo.

[JH27N0B]

I took a picture of the tag but it had been painted with a fairly thick coat of paint so wasn't easy to read. It did have V1G on it, FF4 paint and the code for dark green vinyl interior.
It was originally an automatic.

[cuda hunter]

F4 ext, F8 interior and black gator grain on top.  That was a good looking car for sure!

[JH27N0B]

I haven't seen any figures from Barry's registry or any other sources, but from what I've seen watching the E body world over the decades, is that of the rare V1G option on T/As, most were on F4 cars.  Off the top of my head I can remember a guy in the northeast who used to be on Moparts had a red one, there was a B3 one that has been through the Mecum auctions off and on since 2008, and there was an unrestored FT6 one in North Carolina that last I saw he sold it and I never heard about it since.  Then I've seen 5 or 6 F4 ones either in person or online.
There is an F4 one stored in the same storage place my '71 V code resides. Sad situation, I'm told its been there around 30 years and a lot of people ask about buying it but the guy who owns it has no interest in selling so it just sits.  Automatic, converted to 4 speed as a I recall.  Original paint and gator top, though worse for wear.  Grille and bumper missing, and the hood is locked down with little padlocks installed in the hood pins so I've never been able to look under the hood to see the fender tag or if everything is there on the engine. 

[cuda hunter]

I bet the FT6 with v1G is an amazing looking car! 

[dodj]

Find it odd the owner of the yellow T/A chose to apply a non-T/A stripe. If I owned a T/A I would make sure people knew it.

[JH27N0B]

I bet the FT6 with v1G is an amazing looking car! 

The car was pretty tired looking but would certainly pop with a fresh paint job!  The owner was active on forums including cuda-Challenger.com around 10 years ago, but disappeared.  I vaguely recall he sold the car but not sure.  If so, I hope someone is doing a quality restoration on it!
https://moparconnectionmagazine.com/finders-keepers-steve-moores-1970-challenger-ta-gator-top/

Find it odd the owner of the yellow T/A chose to apply a non-T/A stripe. If I owned a T/A I would make sure people knew it.

To me the car looks like something someone repainted years ago, maybe at a time like the early to mid 80s when stripes weren't available from Mopar anymore and before they were repopped.  The gloss painted hood and painted stripes are certainly not something that anyone would do when repainting a T/A in recent decades!
I've never seen the car before, maybe it recently emerged after being stored in a dry garage under a cover for many years.  I didn't see anyone with it there to ask its story sadly but hopefully will see it again someday.

[cuda hunter]

I do remember that car from cc.com 
Wish I had kept the tag info from so many cars back then. 
Great look! thanks for finding it.

[JH27N0B]

If you're keeping track of VINs, the red one that was originally F4 green looks to be JH23J0B305474 from my picture of the thick painted FT.
I looked at the dash VIN on the yellow one but didn't take a picture.  As I recall it was 304xxx but didn't memorize the last 3 digits. The town shown on a village tax sticker in the windshield and from what I can decipher from zooming in on my picture trying to read the dash show card is a town (Burbank IL) that's in the same area as a town my friend Ron, who coincidentally owns a yellow 70 Challenger with a T/A hood, lives in.  I'll see him at our Mopar club monthly meeting in a few weeks and ask him if he knows the car and if so what he knows about it.

[cuda hunter]

I kind of track vins.  Not like some of the gurus that frequent here.
I love to decode and see the differences in the different production cars.
And I'm always looking for BH M46's which are usually cloned into aar's and hemi's.