`70 FK5 A66 Resurection

[crocha617]

I just picked up almost the exact same car a few weeks ago. 1970 340 auto A66 Challenger FK5 ext/FK5 int with Black vinyl top & AC. Mine is also matching numbers. I bought it from a guy that owned it 30 years. He rebuilt & painted the engine, redid the seats and bought a boat load of new parts for it already. He had a guy doing the body work but the quarters & drop offs were done poorly & I have them off now and am redoing them. The frame rails and floors were perfect. The cowl has a small rot spot above the master cylinder but other than that it is pretty solid. I also have a perfect build sheet for mine.

 

[DetMatt1]

Welcome to the site. I would love to see it post up some pics. LA or detroit car? Build date?

 

[crocha617]

A66

Thanks I've been lurking for awhile. The car is a detroit car I will find out the build date tomorrow. I can't remember off the top of my head. I remember seeing yours for sale awhile back and I kept going back to it but I knew it was too much of a project for me. It's ironic I ended up with the identical car. I'll get some pics up later in the week.

 

[oldcarnut]

hi detmatt , nice project youve got there , pretty amazing that the original motor was still there , not sure what you will be running for wheels when the time comes , ive got 4 original 15x7 ralley rims , if your interested shoot me a pm & id be happy to send pics & price your way . im over on the abody (same name)site mostly , got rid if my 74 barracuda & the rims arent doing me any good for my latest project. glad to see you rescued the challenger.

 

[DetMatt1]

Thanks I've been lurking for awhile. The car is a detroit car I will find out the build date tomorrow. I can't remember off the top of my head. I remember seeing yours for sale awhile back and I kept going back to it but I knew it was too much of a project for me. It's ironic I ended up with the identical car. I'll get some pics up later in the week.

I'll keep an eye open for it.

 

[crocha617]

Build date is 5/11/70. I will get some pics up this weekend. I also found mine is actually tail stripe delete. I didn't realize that before.

 

[vegas70340]

Found out my car has a 1969 date coded engine after all

 

[DetMatt1]

Found out my car has a 1969 date coded engine after all

My engine was cast on July 9th `69. So is yours #'s matching?

 

[vegas70340]

Engine was cast Aug 10,1969.The stamping is FW340P29510075.I believe it translate to being built Aug 26.The 0075 do not match the VIN of 114044.
If I read the numbers above the sequence #'s on the fender tag right,029568,the shipping order build date is Aug 31 and A22,Oct 22,is ship date.Please correct me if I am wrong.The car was built in Los angeles.

 

[DetMatt1]

Engine was cast Aug 10,1969.The stamping is FW340P29510075.I believe it translate to being built Aug 26.The 0075 do not match the VIN of 114044.
If I read the numbers above the sequence #'s on the fender tag right,029568,the shipping order build date is Aug 31 and A22,Oct 22,is ship date.Please correct me if I am wrong.The car was built in Los angeles.

Just to clarify, you are looking at the #'s on the little machined surface just below the block drain plug on the passenger side, right? Here is what mine looks like.

 

[vegas70340]

What numbers are those?I thought the engine VIN was under the driver side head.

 

[vegas70340]

Thank you DetMatt1,
Being the Mopar novice I am,I believed the person who came and looked at my car 18 years ago when I was selling it.He showed me the numbers on the front of the engine and told me it was not a numbers matching car.
The car is numbers matching.Yahoo.

 

[DetMatt1]

That's very good news, glad I could help. Now check the #'s on the trans.

 

[vegas70340]

The transmission is also numbered correctly.
Now I need to decide whether to restore the car to original or modify it a little:disc brakes,larger wheels/tires,better exhuast,Go-Wing,Black side stripe and stay with the Black interior that is in the car.Should be Orange.
Most modifications would be reversible and I could collect the factory pieces.

 

[6PKRTSE]

DETMATT1,
Now that I think about it. I may remember this car from where it used to sit back in the late 80's early 90's. It sat in a driveway surrounded by many other older non-desirable cars. (4 door 60's Pontiac Catalina), (4 door AMC Matador), (Jeep Wagoner) & other more newer daily drivers in the Livonia area. I tried to buy it for years before it looked this rusty. The old gentlemen never wanted to talk cash & always just told me its not for sale. They put in a new city street & sub which ran thru the field next door & around behind his house. I would imagine the city made him clean up the yard/driveway since the new sub was going in.

 

[DetMatt1]

Interesting 6PKRTSE, I was told that this car was located in the Richmond area for at least the past 30 years where it sat under a row of pines. Could have been a matching car running around the Detroit area back in the day.

 

[DetMatt1]

Thought I would update this thread with some parts I have been scoring over the past 6 months. A correct early `70 ralley hood without the crumplezones, a nice pair of doors even though the originals are pretty solid, passenger fender, a burnt orange console(no pic) and most recently a nice bottom piece for the original grille along with yet another really nice JH grille! Ironically the hood, fender and doors are burnt orange!

 

[spoolinhard]

NIce, I have two grills but neither bottom plates are worth a darn. I am envious

 

[a68postcar]

hey man, i'm just diggin the stuff i see sitting around the shop there!!

 

[DetMatt1]

I have no shortage of "stuff", I think the `66 Charger is sold. Picked it up a few weeks ago just to flip it and actually have had it a little longer then I thought I would. Kool car though. Once it does go I will probably start working on the A66.