Hood pins
....and the fun thing about these cars is they were not consistent in building procedures. I have restored around ten Chrysler muscle cars to very high levels and let me tell you....they were easy compared to these LOs and BOs. The documentation on a TA Challenger is everywhere compared these cars. SSing, you have done a lot or research on these cars and I respect that and I appreciate it. You have found photos that I have never seen before and that is awesome. What I can say is this.....I have been very fortunate in my life time to have worked, talked too and even sold parts to the people that owned and built these cars when they were new and even up to modern times. My name was even on the side of Dave Rayburn’s BO for several seasons and that was a real car. No way will I ever say I know everything about these cars. No way will I say that I can restore these cars to “perfect as delivered” and to be honest with you I don’t think anybody can because they were such bastards when they were new. I have seen battery trays installed with the side mounting bolt facing the 1/4 panel and also facing the wheel well. Blue Gel coat fenders and hoods versus Black, LO wheel well cutouts and I don’t even want to talk about hood scoops.....those darn things came in all sorts of shapes and sizes. I’ll be honest with you, I have taken several liberties on both my clone LO and BO because I want to drive them and enjoy them. I not going to spend $10,000 on a set of real side glass just so it can break when you shut your door (Bill Bagshaw told me that is what happen to his side glass and the dealer could not get him a replacement.) The biggest kick I get is educating people about these cars. People just did not know that these cars ever existed in this format. Anyway I have rambled on long enough. The point I’m trying to make is maybe the hood pin hole was drilled 4” from the edge On this car and 7” from the edge on that car it’s still correct. Maybe the wheel wells were cut like “this” and maybe cut like “that” on another. No two of these cars were the same and I truly believe that. A truly interesting fact that Bob told me “I did most of the designing of the parts on these cars. But after I designed them the fabricators made them and often they were not close to what I designed”
Keep up the good work,
....and the fun thing about these cars is they were not consistent in building procedures. I have restored around ten Chrysler muscle cars to very high levels and let me tell you....they were easy compared to these LOs and BOs. The documentation on a TA Challenger is everywhere compared these cars. SSing, you have done a lot or research on these cars and I respect that and I appreciate it. You have found photos that I have never seen before and that is awesome. What I can say is this.....I have been very fortunate in my life time to have worked, talked too and even sold parts to the people that owned and built these cars when they were new and even up to modern times. My name was even on the side of Dave Rayburn’s BO for several seasons and that was a real car. No way will I ever say I know everything about these cars. No way will I say that I can restore these cars to “perfect as delivered” and to be honest with you I don’t think anybody can because they were such bastards when they were new. I have seen battery trays installed with the side mounting bolt facing the 1/4 panel and also facing the wheel well. Blue Gel coat fenders and hoods versus Black, LO wheel well cutouts and I don’t even want to talk about hood scoops.....those darn things came in all sorts of shapes and sizes. I’ll be honest with you, I have taken several liberties on both my clone LO and BO because I want to drive them and enjoy them. I not going to spend $10,000 on a set of real side glass just so it can break when you shut your door (Bill Bagshaw told me that is what happen to his side glass and the dealer could not get him a replacement.) The biggest kick I get is educating people about these cars. People just did not know that these cars ever existed in this format. Anyway I have rambled on long enough. The point I’m trying to make is maybe the hood pin hole was drilled 4” from the edge On this car and 7” from the edge on that car it’s still correct. Maybe the wheel wells were cut like “this” and maybe cut like “that” on another. No two of these cars were the same and I truly believe that. A truly interesting fact that Bob told me “I did most of the designing of the parts on these cars. But after I designed them the fabricators made them and often they were not close to what I designed”
Keep up the good work,
