The Charger is an original six pack car with all the numbers still matching, broadcast sheet and fender tags still intact. It spent all of it's life in New Brunswick until 1999 when a transmission expert from Georgetown Ontario named Dave bought it and went down east to bring it home. He immediately sold it to a well known Mopar guy from Hamilton named Les. Les put the car in storage and collected parts for about a year. I bought it with a parts car in Sept. 2000 and immediately started restoring it.
I found three previous owners who all still live in NB. The guy who sold it to Dave really misses it and had always wanted to restore the car himself, but was forced to sell it when he had marriage problems. He and I are in steady contact today and he wants to be first in line when I sell it.
The paper trail ends in 1977 when Dalbert bought the car from a used car lot. It is thought to have been sold new at Moncton Dodge NB.
If anybody has any other info I would love to hear from them.
I'm doing a complete concourse style resto with the underside left in primer/overspray with undercoating.
The original options include...
red paint
white interior
black stripes
440 six pack
auto tranny
4:10 dana super track pack
hideaway headlights
front and rear bumper guards
air grabber hood
exhaust tips
dual painted mirrors
wheel lip mouldings
tinted glass
power steering
power brakes
power windows
six-way adjustable drivers seat
rear window defrost
am radio
buckets/console
pedal dress up kit
tach
rallye dash
15x7 rallyes
That's about it. There may be some things I forgot, however everything is legit and on the broadcast sheet.
The hardest thing so far is white interior panels, and staying on budget/time.
I've had the car 15 months and hope to have it done by March 2002.
Maple Leaf Mopars is proud to bring you 1 of 98 Six Pack auto 1971 Charger R/T's. Actually the 98 is the amount of cars that were sold new in the United States; there is no known breakdown of the Canadian sold cars but this number gives you an idea of the rarity. The car has a striking colour combo FE5 Bright Red paint with black stripes and white bucket interior. The car looks great even in the pre-restoration stage. This well optioned car was obviously ordered to go fast and still look great. It is fairly uncommon to find Super Trak Pack car with the automatic tranny. I will let Alan tell you the story on his rare Charger R/T.
Lynn and Alan just informed me that as of January 20th, 2002 the Charger is back from the paint shop and ready to be assembled. It is still on its very aggressive schedule!!! Good luck and we will be looking forward to seeing some of the finished Charger pictures as well as seeing it in person later this year.
Please check out page two for the fender tag and broadcast sheet info and stay tuned for the restoration progress....just in new resto pics!!! Check out page two.
