restomods vs restorations

[phantom]

Restomod is a wide perception. That is what makes it so beautiful for us that are building one. Mine is originally a 383 4bbl, it was pretty shabby when i started on it too. So i have no problem building my car after my own taste.

Many confuse Restomod to Pro Touring also. Some would say its almost the same thing, but Pro Touring does have some ground rules. They are mostly built to go fast around an autocross track, and almost always feature a newer engine, top notch suspension and big brakes. But if you are building a Restomod, you can do what ever you want My car will never hit the autocross (its never arranged in Norway anyway). But it will feature a rebuilt 440, Ridetech suspension, Wilwood big brakes and big wheels.

I love looking at well preserved stock Chargers and also restored ones, but Restomods are always cooler IMO 

[G-man]

I don't think many of us pro restromod folk meant we would be happy to mod a matching numbers RT or Hemi......but then most of us prob could not afford to buy one to mod anyway!

I would modify a 440 as well, in fact, i would prefer to buy an already 440 car for mod purposes as the 440 is a good platform. As long as it is not an R/T. R/T stays original, everything else no point spending money on out dated parts to keep it original (slow and handle bad).

Silly question as i took it as a given...

Resto mod would be anything restored in a modified fassion?

Whether that is big brakes and big wheels with rubber band tires (not built as a purpose pro-tourer... to that level of handling/refinement... as it would be a pro-tourer then) or 15x12s and a lot of power (not built as a purpose pro-street car that cant turn corners at all safely and a pig to drive as then it would be a pro-street car)?

Or is resto mod just a generic term for either pro touring or prostreet or whatever else?

[Kern Dog]

Technically speaking, only R/T models were fitted with the 440.

[G-man]

Technically speaking, only R/T models were fitted with the 440.

Ah thanks. So the 440s im looking at were probably 383s fitted with 440s later in life.

[darbgnik]

Technically speaking, only R/T models were fitted with the 440.

Ah thanks. So the 440s im looking at were probably 383s fitted with 440s later in life.

Or 318s fitted with 440s like mine.......

[Kern Dog]

Well, yeah....How many guys have done the same?
My point was that when someone speaks of how they prefer 440 cars because they have HD equipment, that is only true in original R/T cars, not in otherwise unmodified cars that had a 440 swapped in.

[darbgnik]

Well, yeah....How many guys have done the same?
My point was that when someone speaks of how they prefer 440 cars because they have HD equipment, that is only true in original R/T cars, not in otherwise unmodified cars that had a 440 swapped in.

Absolutely. I thought I was pretty lucky when they guy who did my car did all the upgrades while he owned it, like HD suspension, as well as the 440. Saves me having to do it, which I would have.

[Mike DC]

  
It's common advice in the hobby:  Get a nicely preserved smallblock car without a valuable VIN, and add your own R/T equipment for a fun cruiser.

But people were saying that in the early 1990s.  It's been going on for 25 years.  A whole lot of those nice surviving smallblock cars have had the upgrades done already.
 

[NCMopar]

For our project, we knew what we were looking to do and haven't deviated. It just so happened that our car is a real R/T car, with a good bit of the body work done. That said, it was completely gutted (no drivetrain or interior). We chose to do what many in this thread said they would do, which is to build a 440 and modify it for performance, reliability and convenience (TF heads, decent cam, FAST EFI) and installed an A41, with lockup converter, from Silver State to make for an excellent cruiser and to not wind the piss out of the motor @ highway speeds. We kept the K member and just upgraded all of the existing suspension parts and paired it to a Borgeson unit and added 4 wheel discs and a Hydroboost.

The car was built the way we wanted, because we were paying for it. Would I take a survivor HEMI Charger, gut it, and drop in a TT Viper motor, no I would not. That said, if someone chose to do it, it's their car and they can do as they please. I'll just stand there and giggle like a school girl when it drives by and lights up the tires. At the end of the day, most of our cars have gone through many configurations over the past 45+ years and very few, if any, of the modifications can't be undone if desired. We intend to put several thousand miles a year on our car, so it had to be able to coexist with the incredible traffic as it is today. I love seeing "1 of 6" Charger Daytonas and "1 of 4" HEMI Cudas, but lets face it, those are not the project cars most of us started out with.


Regards,
John

[crj1968]

 
It's common advice in the hobby:  Get a nicely preserved smallblock car without a valuable VIN, and add your own R/T equipment for a fun cruiser.

But people were saying that in the early 1990s.  It's been going on for 25 years.  A whole lot of those nice surviving smallblock cars have had the upgrades done already.
 

It's been happening since the 70's- get the small block VIN for insurance purposes... and drop in the 440. Most cars with big blocks I bought in the 80's were original 318 cars...

[alfaitalia]

Would not work over here....as soon as that bog block went in you would have to tell the insurance company and be charged the same as if it had always been a 440. Luckily though classic car insurance is about the cheapest form of car insurance in the UK....so its not all bad.

[odcics2]

mpg is not worth the gain yes, but when selling a car and claiming it gets 20mpg and still 700hp...thats a huge selling point

Just buy a Hellcat with a warranty!