Steve Strope's Pure Vision custom shop has built a gorgeous 1973 Challenger resto-mod, complete with a modern 392 engine, as a golf prize for the Charles Schwab Ultimate Challenge at The Colonial- a country club in Fort Worth, Texas. The car had to be a ’73 Dodge Challenger, to play into the year Charles Schwab opened for business and the Schwab Challenge tournament name. Also, the colors needed to reflect the sponsor’s corporate medium-light-blue- and-white scheme. https://www.hemmings.com/blog/article/challenged-1973-dodge-challenger/
yeah, I posted a pic of a resto mod here locally....a '66 polara.... Car was beautiful and very well restored, and they put a SRT8 6.1 engine in it......but left the 3 speed 727 behind it. Would have been much nicer with the trans that was behind the engine me thinks.....
The whole point of a "resto-mod" is to retain the classic styling of the car but couple it with modern tech to optimize performance, comfort, safety and reliability. Leaving the original transmission makes it a rather half-assed effort IMO.
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I think that he wanted to capture that old T-handle shifter look. He could, however, have done it with a modern T-shifter.