Hi, I joined to ask your opinions.
Here is the deal. I have a basicly new 2010 Hemi
/automatic I needed to put into something.
I looked for a cheap project to swap this engine
into....ended up buying a 1974 Charger Rallye. Thing about it is...
The guy I got it from claimed to be the origional owner.
It sat in his garage sence 1986.
Has 56k miles on it.
Is blaze yellow with black stripes, top, interior.
Buckets.
318/auto.
Buldge hood without black out.
Built at Lynch Rd.
Has 2 fender tags.
It is quite rusty being a MI car
, which is why I got it, I can fix that and that made the price good. The floors and trunk are good, just all the outer panels are rusted out from the bottom up. The guy said that even though it sat, he did drive it in the winter alot before parking it. The garage was not weather tight.
So....I can find some info saying there were around 100 rallyes made that year, and fewer I am sure with the 318, but I don't know. Now if it were a survivor car with these options, I would restore it to stock... being that I have to do so much bodywork and that it has the 318, I figured on ploping the hemi in it.
What do you all think? Maybe kinda rare but it is a 74 with the 318 who cares, go with the restomod? Or does the 318/ralley make it more rare so keep it origional? BTW a restored gold 74 rallye 400/auto sold at auction for 31k last year as did a 318/auto repainted regular 74 low mile survior.
Here is the deal. I have a basicly new 2010 Hemi

I looked for a cheap project to swap this engine

The guy I got it from claimed to be the origional owner.
It sat in his garage sence 1986.
Has 56k miles on it.
Is blaze yellow with black stripes, top, interior.
Buckets.
318/auto.
Buldge hood without black out.
Built at Lynch Rd.
Has 2 fender tags.
It is quite rusty being a MI car

So....I can find some info saying there were around 100 rallyes made that year, and fewer I am sure with the 318, but I don't know. Now if it were a survivor car with these options, I would restore it to stock... being that I have to do so much bodywork and that it has the 318, I figured on ploping the hemi in it.
What do you all think? Maybe kinda rare but it is a 74 with the 318 who cares, go with the restomod? Or does the 318/ralley make it more rare so keep it origional? BTW a restored gold 74 rallye 400/auto sold at auction for 31k last year as did a 318/auto repainted regular 74 low mile survior.