Hello, I have been following this website for The last couple months since I have acquired my ebody and I finally have decided to join. A couple months back I heard rumors from a friend of mine that he was thinking of selling his true 1970 Dodge Challenger rt convertible with its original numbers matching drive train. The car has the original 440 magnum with its original slapstick transmission and rear end. Knowing how rare these mopars are I knew I couldn’t pass up the offer so I bought it. The owner who sold me the car had owned the car since late 1970 and he basically is the original owner. The owner before me saved everything from the car including the original saddle tan interior, panels, and the original convertible boot, build sheet, and many more items. The old owner lightly restored the car but he left the dark green metallic engine bay paint original because he didn’t want to take the engine out. He lightly repsrayed the engine over but after I scraped some of the new orange engine paint off the valve covers the original orange paint from the factory is still their. I hope to learn alot more about these fascinating rare mopars. I have attached some photos below. Seems like a great bunch of people on this website.
EDIT to rotate pictures by Spikedog08 . . .
Wow! Welcome from New York.... congrats on your purchase. That Challenger looks great!!! :perfect10:
Welcome from Horsham Pa, beautiful vert! :banana:
:wrenching: :welcome: Your car is in great shape considering it being in New Jersey; I remember looking for EBodies in New Jersey and they would come up far and few in between and the ones that were available were rusted pretty bad and they wanted insane money for them. Looks like you have a car that only came out from the Garage in the summer. Congrats. :ohyeah:
:welcome: from Sylmar, Ca
:welcome: From WV
:welcome: Beautiful Challenger! :bradsthumb:
Welcome. Lots of info here. What part of Jersey?
1 of 129 built to US Specs....That's a great find....Several of the bigger collectors I've spoken to, all think big block E Body convertible are the next big investment car.. :clapping:
:wave: Welcome aboard from Ontario :canada: Congrats on your gem.
Welcome from B.C. Canada. That's a great car.
Quote from: 70challengerrt on November 08, 2018, 07:06:57 PM
@anlauto (https://forum.e-bodies.org/mlist/anlauto_19) :banana:
Freshly, correctly, restored examples of your car JS27U0's are quickly reaching the six figure mark, 4 spd versions are already there... :alan2cents:
Welcome to the site from Panama :panama: :wave:
Nice find !!
:welcome: to the site :cheers:
Welcome from Jersey! Nice Challenger - Congrats! :welcome:
Wow, you won't regret that purchase! Lovely car and welcome.
I would have been..... :takemymoney: if it were offered to me!
:welcome: from Florida! That is a great looking car. you'll have lot's of fun with it.
Welcome from South Carolina. Originally from PA.
JS27
Wow GREAT FIND
Hello and :welcome: from another New Jerseyite!
That is one special Challenger, best of luck with her.
(I am currently working on my A66 Challenger vert- owned since 1979)
:welcome: From central New York!! :bigthumb: grate find.
Welcome from Michigan! Glad you signed up! :bigthumb: Sweet looking convertible! Very cool! :yes:
Welcome to the site from Ontario, :canada: and congrats on starting out with one of the holy grails in E body land! :wave:
Welcome and thanks for joining. :bradsthumb:
Wow what a great car.
Welcome to the board
A great big warm :welcome: from West Michigan! Sweet Chally! Congrats on being so fortunate to get such a rare beauty!
:wave: Welcome to the site from Buffalo, NY. Beautiful car!
:welcome:
Welcome from Atlanta!